{"id":57195,"date":"2020-01-13T13:45:55","date_gmt":"2020-01-13T21:45:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/?page_id=57195"},"modified":"2020-01-13T13:45:55","modified_gmt":"2020-01-13T21:45:55","slug":"legal-code-defined","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/legal-code-defined\/","title":{"rendered":"Legal Code Defined"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Every Creative Commons license has three layers: the lawyer-readable legal code, the human-readable deed, and the machine-readable code. As the only legally-operative layer, the legal code is the primary layer of the CC licenses. It consists of the text of the licenses, as well as any meaningful formatting and other inseparable elements listed below. The English-language, HTML-format version of the legal code is the canonical version.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"toc\" class=\"toc\">\n<h3><span class=\"mw-headline\" id=\"Elements_of_the_legal_code\">Elements of the legal code<\/span><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Text of the license (excluding \u201cUsing Creative Commons licenses\u201d, the CC notice at bottom and disclaimer at the top, as delineated below)<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Title of the license (including version number)<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ordering of text in the license<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Emphasis of text\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Numbering scheme<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 23px; font-weight: 900;\">Elements of the license page that are <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">not<\/span> part of the legal code<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Anything not specifically named as legal code above, including:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cCC is not a law firm\u201d disclaimer at top<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Creative Commons notice at bottom<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cUsing Creative Commons licenses\u201d text and formatting<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Particular method of textual emphasis within the license<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Navigational links (including internal navigation links within the license text)<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Link color<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Text color<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Coloring or design of background, including headers and footers and links they may include, pop-ups (if any), and flags<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">HTML and other coding that does not change the user\u2019s view of legal code elements<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 23px; font-weight: 900;\">Maintenance of the legal code<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As part of our stewardship responsibilities, Creative Commons ensures that once published, our licenses remain unchanged and are located at a stable, canonical URL. In the course of creating official translations, some adjustments are made based on language practices, such as capitalization, section numbering schemes, punctuation, and whether the text reads from right-to left or left-to right. Additionally, we provide our licenses in various formats, including plain text. As a result, some changes are necessary depending on the style or format because some formatting from the original and official translations are not supported.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Pre-4.0 licenses:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> CC maintains the legal code of its licenses completely unchanged after publication for all versions of our licenses prior to the 4.0 license suite, including ports. For all of these legal tools, licensors and licensees can depend on the text remaining static, and do not have to check back to see if anything has changed, although minor errors will continue to be documented on the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/legal-code-errata\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">errata page<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. Any change other than minor errata requires CC to release a new version.\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 23px; font-weight: 900;\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Version 4.0 license suite, CC0 1.0, and the PDM 1.0* in English:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> As with the pre-4.0 licenses, CC will not change the legal code of these legal tools as originally published in English. This means that CC will note minor errors in the original English of the 4.0 license suite, CC0 1.0, and PDM 1.0 on the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/legal-code-errata\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">errata page<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. Any change other than minor errata requires CC to release a new version.<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 23px; font-weight: 900;\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Official translations of the 4.0 licenses, CC0 1.0 and the PDM 1.0*:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> CC may amend the translated legal code when any errors are identified, whether or not minor. All errors and any corrections made will be documented on the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/legal-code-errata\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">errata page<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. This policy is intended to help minimize potential conflicts between licensor and licensee expectations that might result from inaccuracies in a published official translation. Official translations are intended as legal equivalents.\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 23px; font-weight: 900;\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">*Note that PDM 1.0 does not technically have a legal code layer given the nature of the tool. However, the text of the PDM and its official translations are treated as such for the purposes of this policy.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 23px; font-weight: 900;\">Maintenance of the non-legal code elements<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Elements of the license page that are not legal code may be changed by CC in its discretion. For example, the disclaimer text may be altered, inter-language links included, or explanatory non-license text added. See above for more information about what is and is not considered legal code.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">On 27 June 2018, CC updated some of the design elements of the 4.0 legal code pages, but did not change the legal code.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every Creative Commons license has three layers: the lawyer-readable legal code, the human-readable deed, and the machine-readable code. As the only legally-operative layer, the legal code is the primary layer of the CC licenses. It consists of the text of the licenses, as well as any meaningful formatting and other inseparable elements listed below. 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