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When Creative Commons appeared to tacitly endorse the NFT boom, it set off a conversation about the future of ownership and techno-utopian ideals.
While Creative Commons announced the development of CC Signals on June 25, the format isn’t yet ready for launch. Instead, the organization is looking for public feedback ahead of a proposed ...
Creative Commons has officially launched a Web tool to aid content creators who want to publish material under the highly permissive CC0 license. The tool, which has been under development for ...
Nonprofit Creative Commons, which spearheaded the licensing movement that allows creators to share their works while retaining copyright, is now preparing for the AI era. On Wednesday, the ...
That essentially means that even if someone invents a brand-new technology tomorrow, many Creative Commons photos would still be fair game (if they weren’t already fair game because of fair use).
Longer-term, Creative Commons plans to grow the engine to index more than just photos. Later this year, it plans to begin indexing other CC-licensed works, like open textbooks and audio.
Fiction platform Wattpad includes Creative Commons licensing as an option for its writers. Several other sites, like Wikipedia, have also incorporated the Creative Commons framework.
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.
Creative Commons isn't just some arbitrary legalese: it was a way the world could build on creatives’ work. Re-use it. Re-mix it. It’s what made the web a place where individuals were not just ...
Creative Commons prevents the licence holder from restricting use and controlling their own work, and that has to be a bad thing. What does CC mean for: Science, Software, Music ...
Creative Commons licensing also helps end users understand exactly what they can and can’t do with your work, thus resolving a major point of confusion. In fact, ...