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A court in the Netherlands has ruled that a Creative Commons license is binding, in a case brought against a Dutch gossip magazine by an ex-MTV star. This is one of the first times that the ...

Creative Commons licensing can be a good way for businesses and artists alike to protect their creative works while enabling productive sharing, but figuring out which of the six Creative Commons ...

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 ...

The move will have the company license pre-built Business Mashups in hopes of spurring adoption of a forthcoming commercially hosted service Serena Software is licensing its Business Mashups software ...

As of October 2011, 200 million images bore the CC-licensed photo mark. Flickr keeps tabs of which of the six CC licences its photographers are opting for and, at last glance, it was one demanding ...

Creative Commons is an ideal way to share your creations with others and find art for personal projects. Some of us, though, don't always understand the rules. This chart helps you understand the key ...

Editor’s note: On December 16, 2002, the first Creative Commons license was issued. The idea behind CC — giving content creators an easy way to let others copy, modify, or build on their work — has ...

Anyone who has spent time scouring the internet for free-to-use content has likely come across pictures, written materials and music permissively licensed under one or more of the Creative Commons ...

But it seems that Great Minds can’t make up its mind on whether it truly wants its materials to be a part of free culture. Or, in the alternative, it’s reading the CC license a little too literally.

PicScout has released a new browser extension designed to make it simple for designers, bloggers and illustrators to license photos they find online, so long as they aren't looking for pictures ...