CREATIVE COMMONS LICENSES: THE HISTORY OF THEIR APPEARANCE AND USE IN RUSSIA AND ABROAD
The article presents a detailed analysis of the current Creative Commons licenses and their impact on the development of the copyright. The issues of correlation of the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons licenses with the provisions of the Russian civil law are considered. The author comes to the conclusion that the Creative Commons licenses have formed a new approach to the interpretation of the exclusive rights of the author: they are now considered not as a ban on any use, apart from minor exceptions from the scope of exclusive rights, but as a legally secured opportunity to allow the widespread use of works in the digital environment.