Creative Commons
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The Creative Commons is a not-for-profit organization devoted to expanding the range of creative work available for others to legally build upon and share.
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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 RDF/XML metadata 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' [1] contract, intended to re-create the effects of the original U.S. Copyright created by the founders of the U.S. Constitution.
History
Creative Commons was officially launched in 2001. Lawrence Lessig is the founder and chairman of Creative Commons and 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. [2] The project was honored with the Golden Nica Award at the Prix Ars Electronica in the category "Net Vision" in 2004.
Localization
Among the Creative Commons projects, the iCommons (International Commons) intends to fine-tune the Creative Commons legal wording to the specifics of individual countries. This is because the main Creative Commons licenses are written with the US legal model in mind, thus the wording may not be perfect for other countries. As of 24 August, 2004, the following countries and regions have joined this initiative [3].
- Australia
- Austria
- Brazil
- Canada
- Catalonia
- the People's Republic of China
- Croatia
- Estonia
- Finland
- France
- Germany
- Ireland
- Israel
- Italy
- Japan
- Jordan
- the Netherlands
- Spain
- Sweden
- Taiwan
- the United Kingdom
See also
Projects and works using Creative Commons licenses
- LOCA Records
- Magnatune
- Linuxquestions.org wiki [4]
- Opsound [5]
- Opcopy
- Wikitravel
- World66
- The fiction of Cory Doctorow
- Professor Lessig's 2004 book, Free Culture
- MoveOn.org's Bush In 30 Seconds contest (See History of MoveOn.org)
- Groklaw [6]
- MIT OpenCourseWare [7]
- Telltale Weekly
- The Oyez Project - Supreme Court MP3 Files [8]
- Bob Powell Anthology
- Memory Alpha
- Olde English Sketch Comedy [9]
Tools for discovering CC-licensed content
External links
- The creativecommons.org website
- A short Flash animation describing Creative Commons
- International Commons: Creative Commons initiatives outside the United States
- BBC to Open Content Floodgates The BBC's Creative Archive project
- Creative Commons: Let’s be creative together (Framasoft)
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