Creative Commons

The Creative Commons (CC) is a non-profit organization devoted to expanding the range of creative work available for others to legally build upon and share. ==Aim== The Creative Commons website enables copyright holders to grant some of their rights to the public while retaining others, through a variety of licensing and contract schemes, which may include dedication to the public domain or open content licensing terms. The intention is to avoid the problems which current copyright laws create for the sharing of information. The project provides several free licenses that copyright holders can use when they release their works on the web. They also provide Resource Description Framework/XML Metadata (computing) that describes the license and the work to make it easier to automatically process and locate licensed works. They also provide a 'Founder's Copyright' [http://creativecommons.org/projects/founderscopyright/] contract, intended to re-create the effects of the original United States Copyright created by the founders of the U.S. Constitution. ==History== The Creative Commons licenses were predated by the Open Publication License (OPL) and the GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL). The GFDL was intended mainly as a license for software documentation, but is also in active use by non-software projects such as Wikipedia. The OPL is now largely defunct, and its creator suggests that new projects not use it. Both the OPL and the GFDL contained optional parts that, in the opinions of critics, made them less "free." The GFDL differs from the CC licenses in its requirement that the licensed work be distributed in a form which is "transparent," i.e., editable using open-source software. Creative Commons was officially launched in 2001. Lawrence Lessig, the founder and chairman of Creative Commons, started the organization as an additional method of achieving the goals of his Supreme Court case, ''Eldred v. Ashcroft''. The initial set of Creative Commons licenses was published on December 16, 2002. [http://creativecommons.org/press-releases/archive/2002/12/] The project was honored with the Golden Nica Award at the Prix Ars Electronica in the category "Net Vision" in 2004. ==Localization== The main Creative Commons licenses are written with the U.S. legal model in mind, and therefore the wording may not mesh perfectly with existing law in other countries. Using the U.S. model without regard to local law could render the licenses unenforceable, so the ''iCommons'' (International Commons) project intends to fine-tune the Creative Commons legal wording to the specifics of individual countries. As of August 24, As of 2004, representatives from 21 countries and regions have joined this [http://www.creativecommons.org/projects/international initiative]. ==Projects and works using Creative Commons licenses== Several million pages of web content use Creative Commons licenses. For some time, [http://www.commoncontent.org Common Content] attempted to maintain a catalog, but it is no longer actively maintained. Some of the best-known CC-licensed projects and works include: * The fiction of Cory Doctorow * Professor Lessig's 2004 book, ''Free Culture'' (the first CC-licensed book released by a major mainstream publisher, Penguin_Group) * Groklaw * MIT OpenCourseWare - academic course syllabi * Three of Eric S. Raymond's books, ''The Cathedral and the Bazaar'' (the first complete and commercially released book under a CC license, published by O'Reilly Media), ''Jargon file'', and ''The Art of Unix Programming'' (all three with added proviso) * Public Library of Science ===Record labels=== * LOCA Records * Magnatune * Opsound * Krayola Records * Fading Ways Music * [http://www.thinnerism.com Thinner/Autoplate] == Tools for discovering CC-licensed content == * iRATE radio * Gnomoradio * [http://search.yahoo.com/cc Yahoo! Creative Commons Search] ==See also== * Copyleft * Creative Commons License * Share-alike * Science Commons ==External links== *[http://creativecommons.org/ The creativecommons.org website] *[http://mirrors.creativecommons.org/ A short Flash animation describing Creative Commons] *[http://www.creativecommons.org/projects/international International Commons: Creative Commons initiatives outside the United States] *[http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com/free_issues/issue_01/commons_as_ideas The Commons: The Commons as an Idea - Ideas as a Commons] Article by David M. Berry about the commons and ideas *[http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,63857,00.html?tw=wn_tophead_4 ''BBC to Open Content Floodgates'' The BBC's Creative Archive project] *[http://www.framasoft.net/article2389.html Creative Commons: Let’s be creative together (Framasoft)] *[http://www.flickr.com/groups/remix/ Remix Group on Flickr] - imaginative reuses of Creative Commons images *[http://search.yahoo.com/cc Yahoo Creative Commons Search] ==References== Ardito, Stephanie C. "Public-Domain Advocacy Flourishes." ''Information Today'' 20, no. 7 (2003): 17,19. Asschenfeldt, Christiane. "Copyright and Licensing Issues�The International Commons." In ''CERN Workshop Series on Innovations in Scholarly Communication: Implementing the Benefits of OAI (OAI3), 12-14th February 2004 at CERN, Geneva, Switzerland''. Geneva: CERN, 2004. http://agenda.cern.ch/askArchive.php?base=agenda&categ=a035925&id=a035925s5t6/ video Brown, Glenn Otis. "Academic Digital Rights: A Walk on the Creative Commons." ''Syllabus Magazine'' (April 2003). http://www.syllabus.com/article.asp?id=7475 ��. "Out of the Way: How the Next Copyright Revolution Can Help the Next Scientific Revolution." ''PLoS Biology'' 1, no. 1 (2003): 30-31. http://www.plosbiology.org/plosonline/?request=get-document&doi=10.1371%2Fjournal. pbio.0000009 Chillingworth, Mark. "Creative Commons Attracts BBC's Attention." ''Information World Review'', 11 June 2004. http://www.iwr.co.uk/iwreview/1155821 Conhaim, Wallys W. "Creative Commons Nurtures the Public Domain." ''Information Today'' 19, no. 7 (2002): 52, 54. http://www.infotoday.com/newsbreaks/nb020603-2.htm "Delivering Classics Resources with TEI-XML, Open Source, and Creative Commons Licenses." ''Cover Pages'', 28 April 2004. http://xml.coverpages.org/ni2004-04-28-a.html Denison, D.C. "For Creators, An Argument for Alienable Rights." ''Boston Globe'', 22 December 2002, E2. Ermert, Monika. "Germany Debuts Creative Commons." ''The Register'', 15 June 2004. http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/06/15/german_creative_commons/ Fitzgerald, Brian, and Ian Oi. "Free Culture: Cultivating the Creative Commons." (2004). http://eprints.qut.edu.au/archive/00000122/ Johnstone, Sally M. "Sharing Educational Materials Without Losing Rights." ''Change'' 35, no. 6 (2003): 49-51. Plotkin, Hal. "All Hail Creative Commons: Stanford Professor and Author Lawrence Lessig Plans a Legal Insurrection." ''SFGate.com'', 11 February 2002. http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/gate/archive/2002/02/11/creatcom.DTL Schloman, Barbara F. "Creative Commons: An Opportunity to Extend the Public Domain." ''Online Journal of Issues in Nursing'', 13 October 2003. http://www.nursingworld.org/ojin/infocol/info_12.htm Stix, Gary. "Some Rights Reserved." ''Scientific American'' 288, no. 3 (2003): 46. http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?chanID=sa006&colID=7&articleID=000C2691-4F88-1 E40-89E0809EC588EEDF Weitzman, Jonathan B., and Lawrence Lessig. "Open Access and Creative Common Sense." ''Open Access Now'', 10 May 2004. http://www.biomedcentral.com/openaccess/archive/?page=features&issue=16 Computer law Copyright licenses simple:Creative Commons zh-cn:创作共用

Creative Commons

Is this just an advertisement for a start-up company, or is something genuinely worth mentioning? CC was founded in 2001, but it arguably was "launched" in 2002. : Creative Commons is a non-profit organisation, funded entirely by grants and donations from the public. : It's not an ad, it is genuinely worth mentioning. == Which book was published first? == I added comment on Prof. Lessig's ''Free Culture'' and ESR's ''The Cathedral And the Bazaar'' to see if anyone can confirm which one was published commercially first, and also if Tim O'Reilly's book publisher is considered a 'major publisher' or not. :I'd say they certainly are. -- User:Antaeus Feldspar 18:05, 29 Dec 2004 (UTC) == pictures == How come the pictures are missing? User:Bawolff 00:24, 5 Feb 2005 (UTC) == Differences between version 1 and 2 == Does anyone know what the differences between version 1 and 2 are? == CC: partnership with spammers ;((== I just don't know how to tell [http://www.metafilter.com/mefi/41672 this] without using words like fuck. So, excuse me that I didn't change the article in response to this. == Criticism == Like the arguments [http://zesty.ca/cc.html here] and the above posters link. - User:Omegatron 19:33, May 24, 2005 (UTC) ==Shortening list== The long list of CC-licensed content seemed kind of silly to me. Some of it was pretty obscure, and may have been link spam. I've drastically shortened it. If other people disagree with me, please feel free to add back in any entries that they feel are really well known and important.--User:Bcrowell 04:12, 16 Jun 2005 (UTC)

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