An organization that, according to its website, "offers a flexible range of protections and freedoms for authors and artists. We have built upon the "all rights reserved" of traditional copyright to create a voluntary "some rights reserved" copyright." Public Library of Science is one prominent open access publisher that makes use of the Creative Commons Attribution License for the work it publishes.
A non-profit organisation founded on the notion that some authors may not want to exercise all of the intellectual property rights the law affords them. Creative Commons has developed a set of free public licences to enable authors to share their work with others ( http://creativecommons.org/).
a new way of making digital resources available to the public using straightforward, online licences
http://www.creativecommons.org An organisation dedicated to the development and promotion of their own licenses for distributing content. The Creative Commons licenses allow more refined control over the way in which content is distributed.
The Creative Commons are a suite of licenses that extend rights from the author of a work to potential users. Based on the GNU General Public License, Creative Commons Licenses enable others to copy, alter and redistribute a ‘work’ as long as the source is acknowledged, and as long as those rights (to copy, alter and redistribute) are extended to others. Extending these rights to others (share-alike) is the core of Copyleft ideology. See: http://www.creativecommons.org
Creative Commons's current and future projects aim to build a layer of reasonable, flexible copyright in the face of increasingly restrictive default rules. Creative Commons was founded in 2001 with the support of the Center for the Public Domain. It is led by a Board of Directors that includes cyberlaw and intellectual property experts James Boyle, Michael Carroll, Molly Shaffer Van Houweling, and Lawrence Lessig, MIT computer science professor Hal Abelson, lawyer-turned-documentary filmmaker-turned-cyberlaw expert Eric Saltzman, documentary filmmaker Davis Guggenheim, Japanese entrepreneur Joi Ito, and public domain web publisher Eric Eldred. Creative Commons is now housed at and receives support from Stanford Law School, and is sustained by the contributions of supporters. (Based on Creative Commons website: www.creativecommons.org/)
An organization offering easy-to-use copyright licenses that encourage distribution of works, while preserving other copyright holder rights. It was founded in the belief that current copyright law in the U.S. is too restrictive and thus harms creative expression and the free exchange of information and ideas. Creative Commons licenses are available at CreativeCommons.org.
A non-profit organization that promotes the creative reuse of intellectual works, whether owned or in the public domain, through the use of licenses that define the rights copyright holders choose to retain and those uses that may be made of copyrighted works without the prior permission of the copyright holder. Back to the Top
A non-profit organization that offers more flexible licenses compared to traditional copyright protection.
The Creative Commons (CC) is a non-profit organization devoted to expanding the range of creative work available for others legally to build upon and share. The organization has released several copyright licenses known as Creative Commons licenses. These licences, depending on the one chosen, restrict only certain rights (or none) of the work.
