Everything about Creative Commons
Organization designing open copyright licenses
Creative Commons Corporation (CC) is an American nonprofit organization and international network devoted to educational access and expanding the range of creative works available for others to build upon legally and to share. The organization has released several copyright licenses, known as Creative Commons licenses, free of charge to the public, to allow authors of creative works to communicate which rights they reserve and which rights they waive for the benefit of recipients or other creators. Content owners still maintain their copyright, but Creative Commons licenses give standard releases that replace the individual negotiations for specific rights conducted between owners (licensors) and licensees under "all rights reserved" copyright. Wikipedia →
🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path
- Read the overview: Creative CommonsA 5-minute orientation
- Skim a recent paper: Mining the ambient commons: building interdisciplinary connections between environmental knowledge, AI and creative practice researchInfluential work since 2022
- Pick up a classic book: Use Your HeadThe most-reprinted book on the subject
- Read the landmark paper: The Creative Commons and Copyright Protection in the Digital Era: Uses of Creative Commons LicensesCited 39 times
- Go sideways: Creative Commons NonCommercial licenseA closely related topic
- Go sideways: Creative Commons licenseA closely related topic
📖 Definitions
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🗂️ The subject at a glance
🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)
The Creative Commons and Copyright Protection in the Digital Era: Uses of Creative Commons Licenses
Online knowledge sharing experience with Creative Commons
Understanding Creative Commons
La régulation des creative commons scientifiques
An information commons? Creative Commons and public access to cultural creations
Creative Commons – The Next Generation: Creative Commons licence use five years on
Creative Commons Licenses: Empowering Open Access
Creative Commons — the other way?
🆕 Influential since 2022
Mining the ambient commons: building interdisciplinary connections between environmental knowledge, AI and creative practice research
Networking the commons: creative commons project creators funding patterns in crowdfunding
Uncommon Commons? Creative Commons Licencing in Horizon 2020 Data Management Plans
Discovering Creative Commons Sounds in Live Coding
Abusive copyright litigation, proposed solutions, and the implications for Creative Commons licenses
📚 Books worth reading
Use Your HeadTony Buzan · 1974
With a Little HelpCory Doctorow · 2011
King Who Lives EverythingRobert Durec · 2023
Against CreativityOli Mould · 2018
Shared creationsEmily Puckett Rodgers · 2013
A short history of ebooksMarie Lebert · 2021
Creative Commons for Educators and LibrariansCreative Commons · 2019
Successful intelligenceRobert J. Sternberg · 1996
Ranked by number of editions on Open Library, a rough measure of how lasting a book is.
🔗 Related topics
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- The Future of Ideas The Future of Ideas: The Fate of the Commons in a Connected World (2001) is a book by Lawrence Lessig, at the time of writing a professor of law at Stanford…
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- List of major Creative Commons–licensed works This is a list of notable works available under a Creative Commons license. There are multiple Creative Commons licenses, each with important differences…