http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5/ Creative-Commons <p>Creative Commons is a nonprofit that offers copyright licenses for creative works. There are a wide variety of licenses to choose from, based on the principle of mixing and matching terms: no-derivatives, no-commercial, share-alike are all terms of cc licenses that may be mixed and matched to the author&#8217;s desire.</p> <p>Many of the copyright licenses offered by Creative Commons are valid <a class="wikilink" href="http://swik.net/open-source">open source</a> licenses, however some are not, notably the &#8216;non-commercial&#8217; or &#8216;no-derivatives&#8217; derivations.</p> <p>The popular rival standard to creative commons licensing is the <a class="wikilink" href="http://swik.net/License:GFDL"><span class="caps">GNU</span> Free Documentation License</a>, a license created by the <a class="wikilink" href="http://swik.net/FSF"><span class="caps">FSF</span></a> for use in open source project documentation. This license is used by <a class="wikilink" href="http://swik.net/Wikipedia">Wikipedia</a>.</p> <h2>No Standard of Freedom</h2> <p>Unlike many <a class="wikilink" href="http://swik.net/open-source">open source</a> software licenses, the Creative Commons stated objective is to protect the intent of the author in the allowed re-use of their creative works, rather than to promote re-use of works generally and to promote &#8216;free&#8217; information that can be re-used by anyone.</p> <p>This goal has attracted criticism, as it has led to some clauses which don&#8217;t promote re-use by anyone, such as the no-commercial clauses. Additionally the wide variety of licenses that cater to author desires means that many &#8216;creative commons&#8217; licensed works are not compatible with each other.</p> <h2>Not Meant For Software</h2> <p><span class="caps">A CC</span> license is not meant for licensing software or code. From the Creative Commons <span class="caps">FAQ</span>:</p> <blockquote> <p>Creative Commons licenses are not intended to apply to software. They should not be used for software. We strongly encourage you to use one of the very good software licenses available today. The licenses made available by the Free Software Foundation or listed at the Open Source Initiative should be considered by you if you are licensing software or software documentation. Unlike our licenses &#8211; which do not make mention of source or object code &#8211; these existing licenses were designed specifically for use with software.</p> </blockquote> <p>Despite this, a number of projects use creative commons licenses. In the open source definition, only the share alike and attribution only clauses would be valid open source licenses. Noncommercial is not open source because it restricts fields of endeavor, and Noderivatives is not because it does not allow for modification.</p> <h2>External Links</h2> <ul> <li><a rel="nofollow" href="http://creativecommons.org">http://creativecommons.org</a></li> </ul> Creative Commons is a nonprofit that offers copyright licenses for creative works. There are a wide variety of licenses to choose from, based on the principle of mixing and matching terms: no-derivatives, no-commercial, share-alike are all terms of cc licenses that may be mixed and matched to the author&#8217;s desire. Many of the copyright licenses offered by Creative Commons are valid open source licenses, however some are not, notably the &#8216;non-commercial&#8217; or &#8216;no-derivativ http://swik.net/Creative-Commons nonprofit copyright organization Creative-Commons Tue, 21 Feb 2006 15:28:54 -0800 Thu, 22 Feb 2007 12:44:16 -0800 http://swik.net/opensource/del.icio.us+tag%2Fopensource/Joi+Ito%27s+Web/ccrar Sun, 17 Aug 2008 18:05:54 -0700 http://swik.net/open-source/del.icio.us+tag%2Fopen-source/Science+Commons/cb2ko A Creative Commons project to make it easier for scientists, universities and industries to share data and knowledge. Sat, 09 Aug 2008 19:07:37 -0700 http://swik.net/opensource/del.icio.us+tag%2Fopensource/Faq+-+Identi.ca/casrl Fri, 18 Jul 2008 18:51:14 -0700 http://swik.net/podcasting/del.icio.us+tag%2Fpodcasting/jamendo.com/cae73 On Jamendo artists allow anyone to download and share their music. It's free, legal and unlimited. creative commons music Tue, 15 Jul 2008 15:49:08 -0700 http://swik.net/open-source/del.icio.us+tag%2Fopen-source/ccHost+-+CC+Wiki/b9g87 Mon, 07 Jul 2008 12:48:11 -0700 http://swik.net/podcasting/del.icio.us+tag%2Fpodcasting/CCMixter+-+Royalty-free+Music/b8wrp Tue, 01 Jul 2008 13:47:08 -0700 http://swik.net/open-source/del.icio.us+tag%2Fopen-source/Creative+Commons/b8d4p Free tools to let authors, artist, scientists, and educators share, remix and reuse creative work - legally! Includes a search engine to creative commons licensed images, audio and video. Wed, 25 Jun 2008 15:56:31 -0700 http://swik.net/open-source/del.icio.us+tag%2Fopen-source/Via+Releases+Laptop+Design+as+Open+Source+-+NYTimes.com/b505w Wed, 28 May 2008 12:15:20 -0700 http://swik.net/open-source/del.icio.us+tag%2Fopen-source/Copyleft/b5z6c interesting ppt from scribd Wed, 28 May 2008 09:18:33 -0700 http://swik.net/User:osdeinfo/del.icio.us%2Fosde.info/Blank+map%2C+Printable+world+map%2C+Blank+world+map+ALL+FREE/b5bdf Sun, 18 May 2008 05:17:37 -0700 http://swik.net/Web2.0/TechCrunch/Joi+Ito+Takes+Lead+At+Creative+Commons/b31hz <p><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Joichi_Ito_Headshot_2007.jpg"><img style="float: right" src="http://www.techcrunch.com/wp-content/ito.jpg" class="snap_nopreview shot2" alt=""/></a>The five year old <a href="http://creativecommons.org/">Creative Commons</a> nonprofit organization announced a new CEO this afternoon as founding CEO <a href="http://www.lessig.org/blog/">Lawrence Lessig</a> steps down: <a href="http://joi.ito.com/">Joi Ito</a>.</p> <p>The organization is devoted to expanding the range of creative works available for others to legally build upon and share by creating consensus driven copyright license forms. Users can set terms for copyright usage without complex negotiations using CC approved licenses. These licenses restrict only certain rights (or none at all) of the work. The initial set of Creative Commons licenses was published on December 16, 2002.</p> <p>In 2007 Lessig announced that he would be defocusing his attention on copyright law, and announced <a href="http://change-congress.org/">Change Congress</a>, an organization to build support for government reform.</p> <p>Joi Ito, who was born in Kyoto, Japan, is a well known investor and Creative Commons board member. Founding board member and Duke law professor James Boyle will become chair of the board, replacing Ito.</p> <p>The full press release is below.</p> <div style="display:none">document.write(\'&#8216;);</div> <p> <object id="embedded_flash_2419495_1iwcp2_object" height="500" width="560"> <param name="movie" value="http://documents.scribd.com/ScribdViewer.swf?document_id=2419495&#038;access_key=key-2fqodaeagtjy0puvt6u5&#038;page=1&#038;version=1"> </param> <param name="quality" value="high"> </param> <param name="play" value="true"> </param> <param name="loop" value="true"> </param> <param name="scale" value="showall"> </param> <param name="wmode" value="opaque"> </param> <param name="devicefont" value="false"> </param> <param name="bgcolor" value="#ffffff"> </param> <param name="menu" value="true"> </param> <param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"> </param> <param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always"> </param> <param name="salign" value=""> <embed src="http://documents.scribd.com/ScribdViewer.swf?document_id=2419495&#038;access_key=key-2fqodaeagtjy0puvt6u5&#038;page=1&#038;version=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" height="500" width="560"></embed> </param></object> <div style="display:none"> </div> <div id="embedded_flash_2419495_1iwcp2" style="width:100%;height:100%"><span style="display:none">Read this doc on Scribd: <a href="http://www.scribd.com/doc/2419495/cc-leadership-and-funding">cc leadership and funding</a></span> </div> <div style="display:none"> var scribd_doc = new scribd.Document(2419495, \'key-2fqodaeagtjy0puvt6u5\'); scribd_doc.addParam(\'height\', 500); scribd_doc.addParam(\'width\', 560); scribd_doc.addParam(\'page\', 1); scribd_doc.addParam(\'mode\', \'list\'); scribd_doc.write(\'embedded_flash_2419495_1iwcp2\');</div> <p><strong><em>Crunch Network</em></strong>: <a href="http://crunchgear.com">CrunchGear</a><em> </em>drool over the sexiest new gadgets and hardware.</p> <p><a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/Techcrunch?a=QAoLWc"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/Techcrunch?i=QAoLWc" border="0"></img></a></p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/Techcrunch?a=cN4d9iG"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/Techcrunch?i=cN4d9iG" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/Techcrunch?a=wE9w86g"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/Techcrunch?i=wE9w86g" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/Techcrunch?a=bPvsfwG"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/Techcrunch?i=bPvsfwG" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/Techcrunch?a=2AUvA0G"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/Techcrunch?i=2AUvA0G" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Techcrunch/~4/262260059" height="1" width="1"/> Tue, 01 Apr 2008 16:46:31 -0700 http://swik.net/open-source/del.icio.us+tag%2Fopen-source/WNDW2+Release+-+WNDW+Wiki/b298b Un texto sobre la implementación social y comunitaria de redes WIFI Tue, 26 Feb 2008 11:44:32 -0800 http://swik.net/open-source/del.icio.us+tag%2Fopen-source/LiveContent+2.0/b212u Thu, 21 Feb 2008 03:43:36 -0800 http://swik.net/open-source/del.icio.us+tag%2Fopen-source/The+Commons+-+Main+index/b1q6e Thu, 24 Jan 2008 12:59:29 -0800 http://swik.net/open-source/del.icio.us+tag%2Fopen-source/opsound%3A+free+love%2C+free+music/bz9mt Fri, 11 Jan 2008 16:59:40 -0800 http://swik.net/podcasting/del.icio.us+tag%2Fpodcasting/Magnatune%3A+license+music+and+MP3+download/bzn2i Source for podsafe music Fri, 04 Jan 2008 19:14:35 -0800 http://swik.net/open-source/del.icio.us+tag%2Fopen-source/What+the+Creative+in+%27Creative+Commons%27+Really+Means/bxt0o Tue, 18 Dec 2007 13:58:00 -0800 http://swik.net/User:jeyrb/del.icio.us%2Fnetwork%2Fjey/%5Bfrom+rjray%5D+api.creativecommons.org/bxik6 Sun, 16 Dec 2007 03:20:07 -0800 http://swik.net/opensource/del.icio.us+tag%2Fopensource/NO+COPY+-+Die+Welt+der+digitalen+Raubkopie%3A+%3Cb%3EDer+Film+zum+Buch/bwq8f etwas arg blauäugig und platt aber sehenswert und nicht lang. Mon, 10 Dec 2007 03:39:45 -0800 http://swik.net/podcasting/del.icio.us+tag%2Fpodcasting/Creative+Commons+Attribution-Noncommercial-No+Derivative+Works+3.0+Unported/bvm4y Noncommercial. You may not use this work for commercial Sat, 01 Dec 2007 01:26:27 -0800 http://swik.net/open-source/del.icio.us+tag%2Fopen-source/Content+Directories+-+CC+Wiki/bueax Sat, 17 Nov 2007 15:24:52 -0800 http://swik.net/open-source/del.icio.us+tag%2Fopen-source/Revoking+open+source+%7C+The+Pervasive+Datacenter+-+CNET+Blogs/bt5t2 Thu, 15 Nov 2007 19:26:25 -0800 http://swik.net/podcasting/del.icio.us+tag%2Fpodcasting/T%C3%A9l%C3%A9charger+et+%C3%A9couter+de+la+musique+libre/br407 Wed, 31 Oct 2007 07:53:41 -0700 http://swik.net/User:jeyrb/del.icio.us%2Fnetwork%2Fjey/%5Bfrom+rjray%5D+25%2B+Sources+For+Creative+Commons+Content/br1yk Tue, 30 Oct 2007 16:05:43 -0700 http://swik.net/open-source/del.icio.us+tag%2Fopen-source/CcHost+-+CC+Wiki/brqcv Web-based System Supporting Remixing and Collaboration on Media Sun, 28 Oct 2007 06:28:48 -0700 http://swik.net/open-source/del.icio.us+tag%2Fopen-source/Open+Source+Templates+%7C+Free+CSS+and+XHTML+Website+Templates/bpn09 Mon, 08 Oct 2007 22:23:49 -0700 http://swik.net/XML/del.icio.us%2Ftag%2Fxml/Creative+Commons+Namespace+for+RSS/bo1gn Thu, 04 Oct 2007 05:09:50 -0700 http://swik.net/open-source/del.icio.us+tag%2Fopen-source/Elephants+Dream+on+Microsoft.com+at+BlenderNation/bob7q Microsoft uses Elephant's Dream, the open movie created with the open source 3d app Blender, to showcase their new VC-1 video codec Thu, 27 Sep 2007 09:53:18 -0700 http://swik.net/open-source/del.icio.us+tag%2Fopen-source/librivox/bmt8k Tue, 11 Sep 2007 17:34:17 -0700 http://swik.net/open-source/del.icio.us+tag%2Fopen-source/Via+Negativa+%22+Blog+Archive+%22+Should+poetry+be+open-source%3F/bk6m8 &quot;The source code of the imagination is existentially open.&quot;, which makes sense in context. Thu, 30 Aug 2007 17:18:28 -0700