Indeed, the definition of "noncommercial use" is so widely debated that in 2008, Creative Commons commissioned a 255-page report on how the online public understands and misunderstands the meaning ...

Authors sell their rights to Creative Commons for $1, which grants full rights back to them for either 14 or 28 years, the duration of copyrights in the first copyright law in the U.S. in 1790.

Creative Commons (CC) resources are all around us, and continue to multiply by the day. You can find tons of CC texts, web pages, graphics, pictures, audio and video clips through the advanced ...

Thus, it seems to me that a Creative Commons definition that focused more on the type of use rather than the type of user could help to clarify things. A Noncommercial license could, ...

Any work that is not a students', including text, music or images, if not cited is by definition plagiarized. In the worlds of academia, press, or other creative industries that use source ...

Creative Commons is a non-profit organization devoted to expanding the range of creative works available for others to build upon legally and to share. The organization has released several ...

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 ...

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 c ...

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).