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"law#English"
],
[
"Creative Commons",
"Creative Commons#English"
]
],
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"(law) Initialism of Creative Commons."
],
"tags": [
"abbreviation",
"alt-of",
"initialism"
],
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"law"
]
}
],
"wikipedia": [
"en:CC"
],
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}
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