Creative Commons is a nonprofit organization that offers flexible copyright licenses for creative works.
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Freedom to Creativity! This year's Freedom to Creativity festival is underway in Zagreb, Croatia, featuring a lecture by John Wilbanks of Science Commons on "The Impact of Patents and Licensing on the Commons" and free ...
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Creative Commons 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. We're a nonprofit. All of our tools are free.
Recent Features
Groklaw's Pamela Jones
DEC 2005 Pamela Jones is the founder and editor of Groklaw, an award-winning Web site that conducts complex legal research using an approach inspired by open source. What started out as a one-woman operation in 2003 has grown to a full-fledged community with hundreds of contributors and millions of daily visitors. We recently spoke with Jones about her site's origins and how applying a Creative Commons license to her articles has helped her promote her work.
Nov 2005 Google released Creative Commons-enabled search. Now you can use Google to search the web for CC-licensed works via our find page and Google's advanced search.
