As of October 2011, 200 million images bore the CC-licensed photo mark. Flickr keeps tabs of which of the six CC licences its photographers are opting for and, at last glance, it was one demanding ...

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 ...

No one is forcing anyone to put their work into the public commons. But, once you do, you need to accept that you no longer can wholly control how it is used. Gordon Haff is Red Hat's cloud evangelist ...

A company sells a printed or digital product. And give away a simple version of the copy under creative commons, right? Here's how I would interpret it. * A single licensee (teacher, school, etc) ...

Quirky, charming, twice-weekly webcomic Cat and Girl has officially joined the Creative Commons, specifically the "BY-NC-SA" portion of the Creative Commons, meaning you can republish and remix the ...

Summary: Standardization of contractual terms is key for digital rights management, something that the Creative Commons organization figured out in the open licensing context almost 15 years ago. Two ...

A few days back, I posted about the difficulty of distinguishing commercial from noncommercial usage with respect to the Creative Commons license. There's an ongoing legal case that concerns another ...

Courtesy of the Metropolitan Museum of Art (Gift of Adele R. Levy, 1958) Art fans enjoyed a win Thursday morning when the Metropolitan Museum of Art announced it will place 375,000 works of art in its ...

Need images for your company website or blog–but can’t afford (or don’t want) to pay for them? Chelsea Blacker, head of client delivery at digital marketing agency BlueGlass UK, put together the ...

Creative Commons is a public charity dedicated to reducing barriers to the free exchange of knowledge and culture by making it easy and efficient to obtain legal permission to reuse creative, ...