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Until 2021, Ubiquity Press published all of our books under the Creative Commons Attribution license (CC BY). This was the default option…
Last week I wrote about data ownership, and how focusing on “ownership” might drive you nuts without actually answering important questions about what can be done with data. In that context, I mentioned a couple of times that you (or your funder) might want data to be shared under CC0, but I didn’t clarify what CC0 actually means. This week, I’m back to dig into the topic of Creative Commons (CC) licenses and public domain tools — and how they work with data. People often refer to everything with a CC in front of it as a “Creative Commons license.” […]
Below is a list of exemplary music communities that utilize our tools, typically by enabling users to upload content under one of our free licenses. If there is a community we are missing, please add it to our wiki as this page is periodically updated. For more information, see our related page on Creative Commons … Read More "Music Communities"
Was the open knowledge commons idea a curse in disguise? Towards sovereign institutions of knowledge
Talks about reenclosure and other threats to open.
In February, the Metropolitan Museum of Art went Open Access, sharing hi-res images. Six months later, the initiative has been a success.
Discover the most beautiful free pictures and images of the week curated by the Unsplash community. All images are free to download and free to use.
Yes, you can outsource photocopying under a CC-NC license.
Commercial v. noncommercial use of CC licenses. Where's the line of demarcation?
Last week I wrote about data ownership, and how focusing on “ownership” might drive you nuts without actually answering important questions about what can be done with data. In that context, I mentioned a couple of times that you (or your funder) might want data to be shared under CC0, but I didn’t clarify what CC0 actually means. This week, I’m back to dig into the topic of Creative Commons (CC) licenses and public domain tools — and how they work with data. People often refer to everything with a CC in front of it as a “Creative Commons license.” […]
Creative Commons has requested permission to file an amicus brief in litigation between Great Minds and FedEx Office and Print Services, Inc. At the center of the litigation is the proper interpretation of the CC Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 license, known as BY-NC-SA.
Lessons learned from two recent open-content projects.
Firm demanded $120 from Carol Highsmith for alleged copyright violation of her own photo.
Free stuff released under permissive licences is not in the public domain.
Keynote given at ELAG2016 (European Library Automation Group) EXIT conference 7 June 2016, The Royal Library, Copenhagen http://elag2016.org/ #elag2016
Gage Skidmore has photographed nearly every presidential candidate since 2008 — and by giving away all of his images for free, he has quickly become the Internet's most prominent political photographer.
During the last decade, a common attack against open source licenses from their opponents stated that the documents were invalid because they had not been tested in court. This type of FUD (Fear, U…
This guide will help you find and correctly attribute public domain and Creative Commons media for your project or presentation.