Here at Ars we’re big fans of Creative Commons, both the idea behind it and the work that gets produced. As publishers, we benefit from Creative Commons in a number of ways—we look things up in ...

Open Attribute is a new tool that helps you identify and attribute Creative-Commons licensed content. And while it is still in active development, and even though at present it is only available for ...

Your business revolves around producing creative works, and you use the Internet to market those works. Considering how quickly and easily such material can be disseminated around the world without ...

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 and future of the Creative Commons ...

A Creative Commons (CC) license is a type of copyright license that grants permission for others to use copyrighted works without obtaining prior approval from the copyright owner. However, the usage ...

Heather VanMouwerik is a Ph.D. candidate in Russian History at the University of California, Riverside. You can follow her on Twitter, @hvanmouwerik, or check out her website. Summers in North ...

You can't copyright a fact. But that doesn't mean that data and databases are exempt from legal discussions and licensing requirements, even if the intention is to share the data openly. Such is the ...

Create PDF documents from almost any application and then attach a Creative Commons license. With Creative Commons licenses, you can distribute your creative work for free and specify the conditions ...

A court in the Netherlands has ruled that a Creative Commons license is binding, in a case brought against a Dutch gossip magazine by an ex-MTV star. This is one of the first times that the ...

A court in the Netherlands has ruled that a Creative Commons license is binding, in a case brought against a Dutch gossip magazine by an ex-MTV star. This is one of the first times that the ...