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 ...

Have you heard of Creative Commons? If not, you may soon. Creative Commons consists of a U.S. charitable corporation and a not-for-profit company in the United Kingdom. It believes that all-out ...

Attorneys have to navigate copyright issues on a daily basis: whenever marketing materials are made, videos get recorded, client websites get updated. Although the term open licensing might seem ...

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 ...

PALO ALTO, Calif. -- When Chuck D and the Fine Arts Militia released their latest single, "No Meaning No," several months ago, they didn't try to stop people from circulating free copies on the ...

The signals that indicate how to use a Creative Commons photograph could soon serve as inspiration for enabling creators to flag how an AI is allowed to use that image in training datasets. The ...

Creative Commons (or “CC”) licenses empower authors to share their work openly while maintaining copyright and some basic control of downstream reuse. While the logos have become a familiar part of ...

If you want to understand the need for a Creative Commons approach to copyright law for musicians, you could do worse than to visit San Francisco. When you get there, take the 1-California Muni bus to ...

Most people who regularly use or create images, videos or music available online are familiar with Creative Commons, the California-based nonprofit organization that provides licensing options for ...

Creative Commons Licenses work within the boundaries of traditional copyright by allowing copyright holders to maintain their inherent copyright while at the same time sharing the content in various ...