Creative Commons (CC) is a non-profit organization devoted to expanding the range of creative works available for others to build upon legally and to share. The organization has released several copyright licenses known as Creative Commons licenses. These licenses allow creators to communicate which rights they reserve, and which rights they waive for the benefit of recipients or other creators.
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Creative Commons licenses provide a flexible range of protections and freedoms for authors, artists, and educators. ... at the Davos World Economic Forum blog: ...creativecommons.org/weblog/Creative Commons
Encourages authors and other creative people to donate selected writings, music, video, and other works for free exchange in the public domain.www.creativecommons.org/Lessig Blog
Blog by a professor at Stanford Law School.www.lessig.org/blog/Creative Commons South Africa
New Lead for Creative Commons South Africa. 07/05/2007 ... in government and on the web (there's a bit more on this over at Lessig's blog) ...za.creativecommons.org/Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media: creativecommons
The First Giving Blog has a post "Riffing On Creative Commons License" ... Ari Herzog, Using Blog Photos With Creative Commons ...beth.typepad.com/beths_blog/creativecommons/Creative Commons (CC) is a non-profit organization devoted to expanding the range of creative works available for others to build upon legally and to share. The organization has released several copyright licenses known as Creative Commons licenses. These licenses allow creators to communicate which rights they reserve, and which rights they waive for the benefit of recipients or other creators.
Aim and influence
Creative Commons has been described as being at the forefront of the copyleft movement, which seeks to support the building of a richer public domain by providing an alternative to the automatic "all rights reserved" copyright, dubbed "some rights reserved." David Berry and Giles Moss have credited Creative Commons with generating interest in the issue of intellectual property and contributing to the re-thinking of the role of the "commons" in the "information age". Beyond that Creative Commons has provided "institutional, practical and legal support for individuals and groups wishing to experiment and communicate with culture more freely".
Creative Commons works to counter what the organization considers to be a dominant and increasingly restrictive permission culture. According to Lawrence Lessig, founder of Creative Commons, it is "a culture in which creators get to create only with the permission of the powerful, or of creators from the past". Lessig maintains that modern culture is dominated by traditional content distributors in order to maintain and strengthen their monopolies on cultural products such as popular music and popular cinema, and that Creative Commons can provide alternatives to these restrictions.
Creative Commons governance
Board
The current Creative Commons Board includes: Hal Abelson, James Boyle (Chair), Michael W. Carroll, Davis Guggenheim, Joi Ito, Lawrence Lessig, Laurie Racine, Eric Saltzman, Molly Shaffer Van Houweling, Jimmy Wales, and Esther Wojcicki.[http://creativecommons.org/about/people/ People - Creative Commons ]
Technical Advisory Board
The Technical Advisory Board includes five members: Hal Abelson, Ben Adida, Barbara Fox, Don McGovern and Eric Miller. Hal Abelson also serves on the Creative Commons Board.
Audit Committee
Creative Commons also has an Audit Committee, with two members: Molly Shaffer Van Houweling and Lawrence Lessig. Both serve on the Creative Commons Board.
Types of Creative Commons Licenses
Mayer and Bettle explain what Creative Commons is main: Creative Commons licenses
Creative Commons licenses contain four major permissions:
- Attribution (by) requires users to attribute a work's original author. All Creative Commons licenses contain this option, but some now-deprecated licenses did not contain this component.
- Authors can either not restrict modification, or use Share-alike (sa), which is a copyleft requirement that requires that any derived works be licensed under the same license, or No derivatives (nd), which requires that the work not be modified.
- Non-commercial (nc) requires that the work not be used for commercial purposes.
