A court in the Netherlands has ruled that a Creative Commons (CC) licence 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 ...

Yahoo's photo-sharing site, Flickr, has been an early and enthusiastic supporter of Creative Commons licenses. But there's one aspect of the licenses that Flickr doesn't respect: Users can remove the ...

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 ...

Creative Commons is preparing to draft a new version of its eponymous suite of copyleft licenses. The aim of the update is to deliver improvements in key areas such as database rights and the ...

CC BY 4.0 offers six licence variations, as follows: CC BY: This licence type allows others to redistribute and adapt licensed works on the condition that attribution is given to the author. CC BY-SA: ...

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 ...

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 ...

Windows only: Microsoft's Creative Commons Add-in for Office licenses your Word, Excel and PowerPoint documents with an easy drop-drop menu—so you can set the appropriate license in a couple of clicks ...

How news organizations can embrace Creative Commons, encrypting your smartphone and more in this week's Digital Media Mash Up, produced by the Center for International Media Assistance. It's time for ...

The digital age has presented many and diverse challenges for copyright law. The rapid uptake of digital, networked technologies led to widespread online distribution of content, as well as the ...