Have you heard of openly copyrighted materials and wondered if they are something you can use? This post provides a basic introduction to what open copyright is, and what photography, music and other ...

REDMOND, Wash., and SAN FRANCISCO — June 20, 2006 — Microsoft Corp. and Creative Commons, a nonprofit organization that offers flexible copyright licenses for creative works, have teamed up to release ...

Creative Commons has officially launched a Web tool to aid content creators who want to publish material under the highly permissive CC0 license. The tool, which has been under development for over a ...

Creative Commons Licenses work within the boundaries of traditional copyright by allowing copyright holders to maintain their inherent copyright while at the same time sharing the content in various ...

Have you heard of Creative Commons? If not, you may soon. Creative Commons consists of a U.S. charitable corporation and a not-for-profit company in the United Kingdom. It believes that all-out ...

Creative Commons (or “CC”) licenses empower authors to share their work openly while maintaining copyright and some basic control of downstream reuse. While the logos have become a familiar part of ...

I was in a meeting today about an after-school program where students are creating a lot of digital content. As much of this content is being tagged, students need to identify the copyright holder for ...

This is Celia Hirschman with On the Beat for KCRW. Creativity is the lifeblood of American life. Our national output of ideas generates huge sums of wealth. In fact, with the exception of the military ...

This article forms part of Wired.co.uk's Creative Commons Week, which sees a range of articles published on the topics of CC licensing, as well as the past, present ...