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	Frequently Asked Questions - CcWiki
		Creative Commons licenses are designed to be applied to your work and to be binding upon people who use your work based on their notice of the Creative Commons “Some Rights Reserved” (or “No Rights Reserved” in the case of the public domain dedication) button and the statement that the work is Creative Commons-licensed.
		Creative Commons is reaching out to collecting societies in those jurisdictions where this problem arises to try to find a solution that enables creators to enjoy the benefits both systems offer.
		Creative Commons International and the volunteer project leads are independent and separate entities although both work in collaboration to promote the adoption of Creative Commons licenses and tools.
	wiki.creativecommons.org /FAQ (8020 words)

	Creative Commons - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		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 including dedication to the public domain or open content licensing terms.
		Common Content was set up by Jeff Kramer with cooperation from Creative Commons, and is currently maintained by volunteers.
		Lawrence Lessig on Creative Commons and the Remix Culture.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Creative_commons (1827 words)

	Encyclopedia :: encyclopedia : Creative Commons License (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The Creative Commons License refers to the name of several copyright licenses released on December 16, 2002 by Creative Commons, a U.S. non-profit corporation founded in 2001.
		Of the five invalid combinations, four include both the "nd" and "sa" clauses, which are mutually exclusive; and one includes none of the clauses, which is equivalent to releasing one's work into the public domain.
		Creative Commons licenses are currently available under twenty different juristictions worldwide, with eleven others under development.
	www.hallencyclopedia.com /Creative_Commons_License (344 words)

	BrainDex the knowledge source - Free Online Encyclopedia - Creative Commons (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		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 main Creative Commons licenses are written with the U.S. legal model in mind, and therefore the wording may not mesh perfectly with existing law in other countries.
		A collection of essays, in English, French and German, on the use of Creative Commons licenses in Europe is available from the French project.
	www.braindex.com /encyclopedia/index.php/Creative_Commons (612 words)

	Creative Commons - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		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.
		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.
		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.
	www.encyclopedia-online.info /Creative_Commons (329 words)

	Creative Commons - Encyclopedia Dramatica (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Creative Commons is part of the series on Internet Law.
		"Purple-lilacs.com" uses a creative commons licence, as indicated by the note at the footer, however the main image on every single page is a picture from the film Revenge of the Sith.
		Particularly ironic is her rallying against frienditto, where she whines about copyright yet simueltaneously steals a copyrighted image from New Line Cinema and also releases her entire original content under the creative commons.
	www.encyclopediadramatica.com /index.php/Creative_Commons (328 words)

	Creative Commons
		Creative Commons is a nonprofit organization that allows artists, authors, publishers and musicians the option of creating and defining a flexible copyright for their creative works.
		Assigning a Creative Commons license does not mean that the copyright holder is relinquishing rights to a piece of art, it merely means some conditions could be placed on the use of creative works.
		Ultimately, a Creative Commons license enables copyright holders to grant some of their rights to the public while retaining others; with Creative Commons the copyright holder retains the flexibility to control the rights to their creative works.
	www.feedforall.com /creative-commons.htm (443 words)

	Creative Commons Australia
		Creative Commons Australia’s parent organisation, the Queensland University of Technology, recently hosted a visit by Terry Fisher, Hale Dorr Professor of Intellectual Property from Harvard Law School and Director of the Berkman Center for Internet and Society.
		it is for this reason that creative commons australia and cbd gallery have tag-teamed to bring you up to speed with copyright, how it works in the digital age and new ways you can use your copyright to further your art practice.
		On 29 November, Creative Commons Australia (CCau), in conjunction with Queensland University of Technology, the Australian Research Centre of Excellence for Creative Industries and Innovation (CCi) and the Institute for Creative Industries and Innovation (iCi), held the first Australian ccSalon, a live showcase of Creative Commons art, music, film and text in Australia.
	www.creativecommons.org.au (1652 words)

	Alex Bosworth's Weblog: Creative Commons Is Broken (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Creative Commons has taken over the world of online publishing, in two years generating over 20 million linkbacks to the Creative Commons license pages.
		In this sense, "Creative Commons" is a misnomer, for the definition of a "Commons" is "mutual good, shared by more than one", not "an entanglement of vaguely defined rights and restrictions".
		In the Creative Commons' simplest description of itself, "Creative Commons is a nonprofit organization that offers flexible copyright licenses for creative works", there's nothing about creating a commons, merely a reference to what Creative Commons sees as their one and only goal: low cost legal templates.
	www.sourcelabs.com /blogs/ajb/2006/02/creative_commons_is_broken.html (1897 words)

	O'Reilly Network -- Returning Creativity to the Commons
		Creative Commons' XML maven Lisa Rein was buzzing excitedly about the outlook for the Elcomsoft trial (they were acquitted the next day).
		Creative Commons also provides code for you to link to their RDF for your license.
		Part of the Creative Commons site is devoted to highlighting some of the works and Web sites that have signed on to the CC license.
	www.oreillynet.com /pub/a/policy/2003/01/03/cc.html (2038 words)

	Graphics.com: The shared resource for creative design - Creative Commons
		Creative Commons was formed by a coalition of academics from a broad range of institutions, including Duke, Harvard, MIT, Stanford, and Villanova.
		Creative Commons was founded upon the idea that creativity and innovation rely on a rich heritage of prior intellectual endeavor.
		Creative Commons was founded in 2001 with the generous support of the Center for the Public Domain.
	www.graphicsnews.com /modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=742 (727 words)

	Microsoft and Creative Commons Release Tool for Copyright Licensing: The organizations announce availability of ...
		The goal of the Creative Commons licenses is to give an author a clearer ability to express his or her intentions regarding the use of the work.
		Creative Commons is a not-for-profit organization, founded in 2001, that promotes the creative re-use of intellectual and artistic works — whether owned or in the public domain.
		Creative Commons licenses provide a flexible range of protections and freedoms for authors, artists and educators that build upon the “all rights reserved” concept of traditional copyright to offer a voluntary “some rights reserved” approach.
	www.microsoft.com /presspass/press/2006/jun06/06-20MSCreativeCommonsPR.mspx (880 words)

	Application Development Trends - Creative Commons: The boundaries of intellectual property
		However, at Creative Commons: "We believe there is an unmet demand for an easy yet reliable way to tell the world 'Some rights reserved' or even 'No rights reserved.' Many people have long since concluded that all-out copyright doesn't help them gain the exposure and widespread distribution they want.
		Creative Commons wants to provide tools that solve both problems: a set of free public licenses strong enough to withstand a court's scrutiny and simple enough for non-lawyers to use, but yet sophisticated enough to be identified by various Web applications.
		Creative Commons will help you dedicate your work to the pool of unregulated creativity known as the public domain, where nothing is owned and all is permitted.
	www.adtmag.com /article.asp?id=8778 (1353 words)

	Creative Commons Licenses - Public Domain Music from Royalty Free Music.com
		The Creative Commons (CC) is a non-profit organization whose purpose is to expand the available number of creative works, including music, available to the public so that they can both share them and allow them to evolve through interpretations and re-arrangements.
		The Creative Commons website allows artists and musicians to give some of their rights to the public to enable sharing, but also helps them maintain control over and ownership of their works.
		The Creative Commons license joins the initiatives of royalty free music companies nd others trying to provide alternatives for artists, musicians and writers that wish to rebel against the expensive and all-pervasive practices of popular music companies and popular film companies, among other entities with a stronghold on creative industries.
	www.royaltyfreemusic.com /public-domain/creative-commons.html (719 words)

	Creative Commons (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Creative Commons provides free tools that let authors, scientists, artists, and educators easily mark their creative work with the freedoms they want it to carry.
		OER Commons provides open educational resources for teaching and learning that are freely available on-line for everyone to use, whether you are an instructor, student, or self-learner.
		OER Commons is a project of ISKME, and it encourages users to use any Creative Commons license except No Derivatives.
	www.creativecommons.cn /licenses/by-nc-sa/1.0 (1000 words)

	iCommons
		Producing and distributing creative content under Creative Commons is an amazing means to facilitate access to human culture and promote sharing and creative development by “standing on the shoulders of giants.” The Creative Commons philosophy counters the increasingly powerful copyright regimes and legislation that is restricting access to intellectual and artistic content.
		Peter Barnes, author of Capitalism 3.0: a guide to reclaiming the commons, is a successful businessman who believes capitalism in its present form is gravely flawed, yet he does not look to the state for correction.
		These images are donated to the commons by Loftwork, under a CC Attribution licence, so please feel free to reuse and remix them.
	icommons.org (895 words)

	Reprint Our Articles Without Asking. Seriously. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Developed by a nonprofit group of technologists and legal experts, Creative Commons licensing is a free and legal way for copyright holders to automatically grant certain permissions on their works.
		In other words, Creative Commons licensing allows TechSoup to create a simple but powerful partnership with any organization that reprints our content -- one that will have a profound effect on nonprofits and the way they use technology, no matter where they are on the globe.
		Creative Commons marks an incredible shift from those days -- one that especially benefits nonprofits -- and TechSoup is glad to be working with the community to help support the movement.
	www.techsoup.org /learningcenter/internet/page4817.cfm (1882 words)

	Cover Pages: Creative Commons Project
		Creative Commons licenses "allow copyright holders to easily inform others that their works are free for copying and other uses under specific conditions.
		The Creative Commons Project has announced the January 1, 2005 launch of the Science Commons as an exploratory project to "apply the philosophies and activities of Creative Commons in the realm of science." Creative Commons is a nonprofit organization building technical and legal tools that that offer a flexible copyright for creative work.
		Creative Commons, which Uche Ogbuji introduces in this article, seeks to address this need by providing a way to express copyright license terms that are both human-readable and machine-readable.
	xml.coverpages.org /creativeCommons.html (6829 words)

	MediaShift . Digging Deeper::Creative Commons + Flickr = 22 Million Sharable Photos \| PBS
		Krug says it’s sometimes difficult to explain the concept of Creative Commons to friends, who are used to holding onto their work and not giving it away.
		Eric Steuer, creative director at Creative Commons, told me that Google found 200 million “link-backs” to Creative Commons licenses online — meaning that there are probably 200 million pieces of content on the Net that are under various CC licenses.
		Creative Commons’ Steuer says that there are a lot of success stories to tell from the various people who have opened up their content through CC licenses.
	www.pbs.org /mediashift/2006/10/digging_deepercreative_commons.html (2561 words)

	Lawrence Lessig (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The photo must be of CC Swag (t-shirts, buttons, stickers, etc. â” all available from the Support the Commons store) and the winners will have their photos used on Creative Commons’ informational postcards, which will be distributed internationally to promote CC and the winning photographers.
		Creative Commons’ free software project, ccHost, a project that “provides web-based infrastructure to support collaboration, sharing, and storage of multi-media using the Creative Commons licenses and metadata,”; has been named the “Best Open Source Solution” at LinuxWorld 2006.
		At an event for potential donors to Creative Commons last night, a representative from Google announced that Google’s “advanced search” would now allow results to be filtered by Creative Commons licenses.
	www.lessig.org /blog/archives/cat_creative_commons.shtml (10379 words)

	SSRN-Creative Commons: A Skeptical View of a Worthy Pursuit by Niva Elkin-Koren
		The paper examines the legal strategy of Creative Commons and analyzes its potential for enhancing the sharing, distribution and reuse of creative works.
		The legal strategy which empowers owners to govern their creative works facilitates a far-reaching coalition among libertarians and anarchists, anti-market activists and free-market advocates.
		Furthermore, absent a commitment to a comprehensive standard of 'freedom in information', Creative Commons's defining principles are reduced to empowering authors to govern their own work.
	papers.ssrn.com /sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=885466 (365 words)

	Flickr: Creative Commons
		Many Flickr users have chosen to offer their work under a Creative Commons license, and you can browse or search through photos under each type of license.
		"Creative Commons is a non-profit that offers an alternative to full copyright."
		Add a Creative Commons license to your Flickr photos.
	www.flickr.com /creativecommons (177 words)

	Creative Commons Canada - Creative Commons 101
		However, there are only two of the Creative Commons licences which would, in fact, qualify as open-source if they were applied to software; namely, Attribution (non-copyleft in its lack of restrictions) and Attribution-ShareAlike (copyleft).
		It is interesting to note that the Creative Commons licences are broader in scope than FLOSS licences in that they allow for peer-distribution without the accompany requirement of authorizing peer-production, ie.
		As such, when used in connection to the Creative Commons licences, the term open-source more correctly refers to a methodology used to encourage innovation through the sharing of resources.
	creativecommons.ca /index.php?p=cc101 (1662 words)

	All Hail Creative Commons / Stanford professor and author Lawrence Lessig plans a legal insurrection
		In an interview last week, Lessig confirmed the basic details about his latest venture, Creative Commons, which is slated to be formally unveiled in a few months.
		The first set of licensing options Creative Commons plans to make available are designed mostly for people looking for some protections as they move their wares into the public domain.
		The Creative Commons conservancy service is intended to extend that approach to as many other areas as possible.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/gate/archive/2002/02/11/creatcom.DTL (1666 words)

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