Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 2.0 Generic

Also known as Attribution NoDerivatives 2.0 Generic, Attribution-NoDerivatives 2.0, Attribution-NoDerivatives 2.0 Generic, CC BY ND 2.0, CC BY-ND 2.0, CC-BY-ND 2.0, CC-BY-ND-2.0, Creative Commons Attribution No Derivatives 2.0 Generic, Creative Commons BY-ND 2.0.

Commercial use: allowed
Share alike: not required
Attribution: required (keep the copyright and license notices)

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Write this as a license text (needs an account) DALICC reads the model above and writes what it permits, requires and prohibits in plain English. Without an account, the Text download above writes the model out from the vocabulary.

Canonical URI https://dalicc.net/licenselibrary/CC-BY-ND-2.0

Permissions

Charge distribution fee from the text
Commercial use from the text
Display from the text
Distribute from the text
Duties
- Attribution from the text
- Notice from the text
Present from the text
Reproduce from the text

Prohibitions

Change license from the text
Derive from the text
Sublicense from the text

License-wide duties

This license states no duties that apply to the work as a whole.

What applies by default

The statements above are the library's reading of this license: each is marked with the sentence it rests on, or as a library convention where the text is not explicit. The statements below are the ones the DALICC reasoner supplies for acts the license says nothing about, from the default rules of the dependency graph it reasons with. Each one names the legal source it rests on. None of it is in the record.

Promote by default rule (adopted)

This license says nothing about Promote, and the graph applies this reading in all jurisdictions it covers: it is not permitted unless the license permits it.

A licence that says nothing about endorsement is read as not allowing it: the licence gives the licensee no right to use the licensor's name or marks in a way that states or implies that the licensor endorses the licensee or its product, while stating truthfully that a work is based on or uses the licensed work is a different act that this rule does not decide. A copyright licence grants rights in the work, and the right to use a name or a trademark is a separate right under trademark law and the protection of names, which a silent copyright licence does not pass on. Combining a licence that is silent about endorsement with one that permits it shows a conflict marked as coming from this rule.

Basis Trademark and name rights are separate from copyright: Regulation (EU) 2017/1001 article 9 lets the proprietor of an EU trade mark prevent all third parties not having his consent from using the sign in the course of trade, and Directive (EU) 2015/2436 article 10, 15 U.S.C. 1114 and 1125(a), section 12 BGB and section 43 ABGB protect marks and names in the same way. The library's evidence is Creative Commons 4.0 section 2(b)(2): Patent and trademark rights are not licensed under this Public License. A copyright licence that is silent grants no right to use the licensor's name or marks to suggest endorsement (Worldwide)

Further terms

These are the things the license says about itself beyond the acts it permits, forbids and requires: when it ends, how long there is to put a breach right, which law governs it, and so on. A term that comes from the DALICC vocabulary links to its definition.

Terminates on breach: Yes

Clauses

Warranty disclaimer

UNLESS OTHERWISE MUTUALLY AGREED TO BY THE PARTIES IN WRITING, LICENSOR OFFERS THE WORK AS-IS AND MAKES NO REPRESENTATIONS OR WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND CONCERNING THE MATERIALS, EXPRESS, IMPLIED, STATUTORY OR OTHERWISE, INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, WARRANTIES OF TITLE, MERCHANTIBILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, NONINFRINGEMENT, OR THE ABSENCE OF LATENT OR OTHER DEFECTS, ACCURACY, OR THE PRESENCE OF ABSENCE OF ERRORS, WHETHER OR NOT DISCOVERABLE. SOME JURISDICTIONS DO NOT ALLOW THE EXCLUSION OF IMPLIED WARRANTIES, SO SUCH EXCLUSION MAY NOT APPLY TO YOU.

Limitation of liability

EXCEPT TO THE EXTENT REQUIRED BY APPLICABLE LAW, IN NO EVENT WILL LICENSOR BE LIABLE TO YOU ON ANY LEGAL THEORY FOR ANY SPECIAL, INCIDENTAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, PUNITIVE OR EXEMPLARY DAMAGES ARISING OUT OF THIS LICENSE OR THE USE OF THE WORK, EVEN IF LICENSOR HAS BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES.

Additional clauses

For the avoidance of doubt, where the work is a musical composition: i. Performance Royalties Under Blanket Licenses. Licensor waives the exclusive right to collect, whether individually or via a performance rights society (e.g. ASCAP, BMI, SESAC), royalties for the public performance or public digital performance (e.g. webcast) of the Work. ii. Mechanical Rights and Statutory Royalties. Licensor waives the exclusive right to collect, whether individually or via a music rights society or designated agent (e.g. Harry Fox Agency), royalties for any phonorecord You create from the Work ("cover version") and distribute, subject to the compulsory license created by 17 USC Section 115 of the US Copyright Act (or the equivalent in other jurisdictions).

Info

Target asset types: Creative work (i.e. text, picture, sound, movie)
Region / jurisdiction: Worldwide
Validity: Perpetual
Source: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/2.0/
Legal code: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/2.0/legalcode
This description is published under: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
Publisher: Creative Commons
SPDX identifier: CC-BY-ND-2.0 on the SPDX license list
Version: 2.0
DALICC identifier: CC-BY-ND-2.0

This record is published under CC BY 4.0. Credit it as: DALICC License Library, DALICC - Verein zur Förderung der Rechtssicherheit in der Datenbewirtschaftung, https://dalicc.net, CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). The license it describes belongs to its publisher.

Use this license

Everything below is generated from this record. Replace the example address with the address of your own work.

JSON sidecar

{
  "license-uri": "https://dalicc.net/licenselibrary/CC-BY-ND-2.0",
  "license-title": "Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 2.0 Generic",
  "spdx-id": "CC-BY-ND-2.0",
  "attribution": "Copyright (c) [year] [copyright holder]",
  "asset": null,
  "generated-by": "DALICC"
}

RDF, Turtle

@prefix cc: <http://creativecommons.org/ns#> .

<https://example.org/my-work>
    cc:license <https://dalicc.net/licenselibrary/CC-BY-ND-2.0> .

RDF, JSON-LD

{
  "@context": {
    "cc": "http://creativecommons.org/ns#"
  },
  "@id": "https://example.org/my-work",
  "cc:license": {
    "@id": "https://dalicc.net/licenselibrary/CC-BY-ND-2.0"
  }
}

HTML attribution

<p>This work is licensed under <a href="https://dalicc.net/licenselibrary/CC-BY-ND-2.0" rel="license">Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 2.0 Generic</a>.</p>

This license asks for attribution, so the credit line is part of it.

Badge

Markdown

[![License: Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 2.0 Generic](https://dalicc.net/license-library/CC-BY-ND-2.0/badge.svg)](https://dalicc.net/license-library/CC-BY-ND-2.0)

HTML

<a href="https://dalicc.net/license-library/CC-BY-ND-2.0"><img src="https://dalicc.net/license-library/CC-BY-ND-2.0/badge.svg" alt="License: Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 2.0 Generic"></a>

Review

Written from the license text by: Giray Havur
Written on: 2026-09-22
Second review: not yet done
Record changed since this review: yes (version 2, 2026-09-24)
Findings: 16 recorded, 12 applied to the record, 0 proposed

The record models the generic text of Attribution-NoDerivatives 2.0, the original that the Creative Commons jurisdiction ports of this version were adapted from. It copies the model of CC-BY-ND-4.0, the 4.0 record of the same element set, and departs from it only where the 2.0 text departs from the 4.0 text. Version 2.0 added the musical and webcasting royalty clauses and the file-sharing sentence, and both are in the record.

16 findings

info Rubric 1 spdx:licenseId applied

File name, identifier, SPDX identifier and IRI agree. The record models the generic original of version 2.0, which the library did not hold: it held the 4.0 International record of this element set and the jurisdiction ports adapted from version 2.0. The record is not a port, so it carries no dalicc:jurisdictionPortOf and no country; cc:jurisdiction is dalicc:worldwide and dalicc:variantKind is "version", the kind docs/DATA.md gives a record that is an earlier version of a text the library holds.
info Rubric 2 odrl:target applied

One odrl:AssetCollection of dct:type dalicc:CreativeWork. dcmitype:Dataset is left out: the words "database" and "sui generis" do not occur anywhere in this legal code, so the text neither licenses nor waives a database right. CC-BY-ND-4.0 carries dcmitype:Dataset because Section 4 of the 4.0 text licenses the sui generis database right, and the German 3.0 ports carry it because their adapted text does. This record differs from both on that point, and the difference is in the texts.
major Rubric 3 odrl:permission applied

Section 3 grants a license "to reproduce the Work, to incorporate the Work into one or more Collective Works, and to reproduce the Work as incorporated in the Collective Works" and to "distribute copies or phonorecords of, display publicly, perform publicly, and perform publicly by means of a digital audio transmission the Work including as incorporated in Collective Works". There is no grant to create a derivative work at all, so the permissions are odrl:reproduce, odrl:distribute, odrl:display and odrl:present, and nothing else. The section ends "All rights not expressly granted by Licensor are hereby reserved."
minor Rubric 3 odrl:permission applied

There is no NonCommercial element, so cc:CommercialUse is a permission and dalicc:chargeDistributionFee stands beside it. The grant is "worldwide, royalty-free, non-exclusive, perpetual (for the duration of the applicable copyright)" and names no field of use.
major Rubric 4 odrl:prohibition applied

Review decision 2 of 2026-09-15 for a NoDerivatives record: neither odrl:modify nor dalicc:ModifiedWorks is permitted and odrl:derive is prohibited. The text supports it directly, because Section 3 grants no right to create a derivative work and closes "All rights not expressly granted by Licensor are hereby reserved." the data checks (docs/LICENSE_REVIEW.md section 10) enforces the same shape.
major Rubric 4 odrl:prohibition applied

Section 4(a) reads: "You may not offer or impose any terms on the Work that alter or restrict the terms of this License or the recipients' exercise of the rights granted hereunder. You may not sublicense the Work." That is dalicc:sublicense prohibited, which review decision 1 of 2026-09-15 requires of every Creative Commons record except the CC0 dedication, and dalicc:ChangeLicense prohibited, which library convention 15 expressly keeps for this family because the no-downstream-restrictions clause is the bar the rule otherwise denies.
minor Rubric 4 odrl:prohibition applied

dalicc:promote is prohibited, as it is on CC-BY-ND-4.0 and on the ports of this element set. Version 2.0 has no endorsement sentence in its restrictions: the nearest text is the paragraph that closes the document, "Except for the limited purpose of indicating to the public that the Work is licensed under the CCPL, neither party will use the trademark "Creative Commons" or any related trademark or logo of Creative Commons without the prior written consent of Creative Commons". Unlike the 3.0 text, this version does not say that the paragraph falls outside the License. The paragraph is quoted in dalicc:additionalClauses so a reader can judge it.
info Rubric 4 dalicc:additionalClauses none

The licence waives the royalty collection rather than reserving it: "Licensor waives the exclusive right to collect, whether individually or via a performance rights society (e.g. ASCAP, BMI, SESAC), royalties for the public performance or public digital performance (e.g. webcast) of the Work." The comment on dalicc:royaltyCollectionReserved says the statement is absent where the licence waives the right, so no prohibition is written and the clause is quoted instead. The NonCommercial texts of the same version reserve it, and their records carry the term.
major Rubric 5 odrl:duty applied

Section 4(a) reads: "You must include a copy of, or the Uniform Resource Identifier for, this License with every copy or phonorecord of the Work" and the attribution clause asks You to "keep intact all copyright notices for the Work" and to name the Original Author and the title. cc:Attribution and cc:Notice therefore hang on odrl:distribute. The duties hang on the acts that trigger them, not on the odrl:Set.
gap Rubric 8 dalicc:additionalClauses none

Two clauses the record quotes rather than models, because CC-BY-ND-4.0 and the 287 ports do not model them either and a single set of records should not change the family on its own. The first is the technological measures sentence: "You may not distribute, publicly display, publicly perform, or publicly digitally perform the Work with any technological measures that control access or use of the Work in a manner inconsistent with the terms of this License Agreement." dalicc:applyTechnicalProtectionMeasures exists and would carry it as a prohibition. The second is Section 8: "the Licensor offers to the recipient a license to the Work on the same terms and conditions as the license granted to You under this License", which dalicc:downstreamOffer describes exactly; odrl:grantUse cannot carry it, because the dependency graph makes odrl:grantUse the same action as dalicc:sublicense and this licence prohibits sublicensing. Both are proposals for the whole Creative Commons family rather than for this record.
major Rubric 7 dalicc:terminatesOnBreach applied

Section 7(a) reads: "This License and the rights granted hereunder will terminate automatically upon any breach by You of the terms of this License." dalicc:terminatesOnBreach is true and no dalicc:curePeriod is written, because this generation of the licence has no reinstatement clause: once the licence ends, it ends. The 4.0 text added the 30-day reinstatement, and CC-BY-ND-4.0 carries neither property today. Section 7(b) says "the license granted here is perpetual (for the duration of the applicable copyright in the Work)", so dalicc:validityType is dalicc:perpetual, and the text names no legal system, so cc:jurisdiction is dalicc:worldwide.
minor Rubric 6 dalicc:WarrantyDisclaimer applied

The warranty disclaimer and the limitation of liability are separate sections and are quoted into separate properties, which is family rule 10. Both are quoted verbatim, including the spelling of the source text ("MERCHANTIBILITY", "THE PRESENCE OF ABSENCE OF ERRORS", "CONCERNING THE MATERIALS"). The text of CC-BY-ND-2.0 carries no long dash, so no quotation needed a hyphen in place of one. Line breaks inside a quoted clause are collapsed to single spaces, the way CC-BY-ND-4.0 writes its clauses; the ports keep the line breaks of their own source.
info Rubric 9 record none

The consistency check of app.services.composer against the axioms of licensedata/dependencygraph/dg_default.ttl returned no conflicts.
info Rubric 10 record none

The nearest sibling is CC-BY-ND-4.0, and the nearest port is the 2.0 port of this element set. The record carries the same permissions, duties and prohibitions as CC-BY-ND-4.0 and differs from it in five things, all of them differences between the two texts: no dcmitype:Dataset on the target, dalicc:terminatesOnBreach with no cure period, dalicc:licenseVersion "2.0" with dalicc:variantKind "version", the clause quotes of this generation of the text, and the statements this version adds (dalicc:royaltyCollectionReserved, dalicc:moralRightsRestriction, dalicc:shareAlikeVersionQualifier and dalicc:reciprocityScope where the text has them).
minor Rubric 10 dalicc:additionalClauses applied

The six records of this version quote the same passages of the version's text, each literal a single verbatim run of this record's own legal code, in the order the text states them. A passage the element set does not have is absent, which is a difference between the texts and not between two readings.
minor Rubric 4 odrl:prohibition applied

dalicc:promote was prohibited and no sentence of this text supports it. The statement was the library's reading of a legal default, that a copyright licence which says nothing about endorsement grants no right to it, and it sat in 519 of 581 records as a house convention. That reading is now an adopted dalicc:DefaultRule of the core dependency graph, which supplies it to every licence that is silent about the action, so a compatibility check reaches the same answer and the record states only what the text states. Removed on 2026-09-23; see section 13 of docs/LICENSE_REVIEW.md.

Report an issue The review record as JSON The review checks the model against the license text. It is not legal advice.

History

This license model has 2 versions. Version 2 is the one served today; every earlier version keeps its own address, so a conclusion drawn from one of them can still be checked against it.

Version 2 current2026-09-24 Giray Havur

The changes since version 1 left endorsement to the default rule of the core dependency graph, recorded which sentence of the text each statement rests on and named the license the record itself is published under.

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4 changes
- removed prohibition dalicc:promote
  
  Manual edit The endorsement prohibition rested on no sentence of the text; the default rule for endorsement now supplies it.
- changed permission odrl:distribute with duties [cc:Attribution, cc:Notice]
  
  was permission odrl:distribute with duties [cc:Attribution, cc:Notice]
  
  Manual edit Its duty cc:Attribution quotes "If you distribute, publicly display, publicly perform, or publicly digitally perform the Work or Collective Works, You must keep intact all copyright notices for the Work and give the Original Author credit reasonable to the medium or means You are utilizing by conveying the name (or pseudonym if applicable) of the Original Author if supplied; the title of the Work if supplied; and to the extent reasonably practicable, the Uniform Resource Identifier, if any, that Licensor specifies to be associated with the Work, unless such URI does not refer to the copyright notice or licensing information for the Work."
- changed prohibition dalicc:sublicense
  
  was prohibition dalicc:sublicense
  
  Manual edit The statement now quotes the sentence of the licence text it rests on: "You may not offer or impose any terms on the Work that alter or restrict the terms of this License or the recipients' exercise of the rights granted hereunder. You may not sublicense the Work."
- added dct:license <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/>
  
  Manual edit Every record is published under CC BY 4.0. cc:license names the record DALICC keeps of that licence; dct:license now names it by the address Creative Commons publishes it at, so that a consumer matching the canonical IRI finds it.
Version 1

Created from the license text on 2026-09-22 (Creative Commons 2.0 Generic).

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Every change names the reason behind it: a finding of the content review, one of its library-wide decisions, the metadata that review wrote onto every record, or a hand edit. None of it is legal advice.

Nothing on this page is legal advice. What a license means is decided by its text; ask a legal advisor before you rely on it.