Can work licensed under a Creative Commons license WITHOUT ShareAlike attribute be republished UNADAPTED without the CC license?
<p>If I license a work under Creative Commons and do not apply the ShareAlike (SA) attribute, can someone else re-publish the UNADAPTED work without the license or with another license?  All I find about the ShareAlike (SA) attribute is about adaptations. But what about re-publishing a work unadapted?  </p>

<p>For instance if I publish a work on my site (site 'A') under CC BY license -(only 'attribution') - <em>without</em> ShareAlike (SA) attribute, someone who re-publishes the work on a site 'B' should credit me and notify that the original work (on site 'A') is under CC BY license, but he or she need <em>not share it alike</em>. That gives the impression that the re-publisher could apply any license to the copy of the work on site 'B', e.g. open domain, or a copyright under own name. Then, what is the value of the original CC license?</p>

<p>The Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license (and all versions) is explicitly &quot;non-sublicensable&quot;. If you receive a copy of the work under that license, you cannot place the work under a new license. The license grants you only the rights to</p>
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<p>A. reproduce and Share the Licensed Material, in whole or in part; and<br />
B. produce, reproduce, and Share Adapted Material.</p>
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<p>When you give copies of someone else's CC-licensed work to downstream recipients, they do not receive a license grant for the original work from <em>you</em>; they receive it from the original author/licensor:</p>
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<li>Downstream recipients.<br />
A. Offer from the Licensor – Licensed Material. Every recipient of the Licensed Material automatically receives an offer from the Licensor to exercise the Licensed Rights under the terms and conditions of this Public License.</li>
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<p>When you include someone else's CC-licensed work in an adaptation, you may license the adaptation under other terms, but the underlying CC-licensed work remains under its CC license. From the <a href="https://wiki.creativecommons.org/index.php/Frequently_Asked_Questions#If_I_derive_or_adapt_material_offered_under_a_Creative_Commons_license.2C_which_CC_license.28s.29_can_I_use.3F" rel="nofollow noreferrer">CC FAQ</a>:</p>
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<p>If I derive or adapt material offered under a Creative Commons license, which CC license(s) can I use?</p>
<p>If you make adaptations of material under a CC license (i.e. &quot;remix&quot;), the original CC license always applies to the material you are adapting even once adapted. The license you may choose for your own contribution (called your &quot;adapter's license&quot;) depends on which license applies to the original material. Recipients of the adaptation must comply with both the CC license on the original and your adapter’s license.</p>
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<p>When sharing <em>someone else's work</em>, the original CC-licensed work always remains under its original license. By contrast, the &quot;ShareAlike&quot; condition means that <em>your own work</em> used in an adaptation of a CC-BY-SA work must be placed under CC-BY-SA terms as well. ShakeAlike does not refer to the requirement to preserve the license on existing CC-licensed material (which is always present), but rather it refers to the requirement to include it on <em>new</em> material.</p>

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