[Posted on creativecommons.ca, CC-BY] In response to the Government of Canada’s call for comments on the Proposed Open Government Licence Agreement, Creative Commons Canada submitted the feedback ...

CC BY 4.0 offers six licence variations, as follows: CC BY: This licence type allows others to redistribute and adapt licensed works on the condition that attribution is given to the author. CC BY-SA: ...

Creative Commons is preparing to draft a new version of its eponymous suite of copyleft licenses. The aim of the update is to deliver improvements in key areas such as database rights and the ...

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 can set the appropriate license in a couple of clicks ...

A court in the Netherlands has ruled that a Creative Commons (CC) licence 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 ...

The Saxon State and University Library (SLUB) in Dresden has now made large parts of its digital collection available under the Creative Commons BY-SA 4.0 licence. Creative Commons licences are simple ...

Wired.com today announced it would, from today forward, be releasing all of its staff-produced photos under a Creative Commons license. That means lots of photos of tech-and-geek-culture luminaries — ...

To grow the commons of free knowledge and free culture, all users are required to grant broad permissions to the general public to re-distribute and re-use their contributions freely. Therefore, for ...

This article forms part of Wired.co.uk's Creative Commons Week, which sees a range of articles published on the topics of CC licensing, as well as the past, present ...

What recourse does an artist have in instances where they upload a seemingly innocent painting to a website that governs its adaptation by others with public licenses, only to discover that someone ...