creative commons

Creative Commons is turning 5

Submitted by Bryan on November 27, 2007 - 12:01am

"No matter where you are in the world, we invite you to celebrate CC’s
five years of helping to keep culture free and celebrate the future of
participatory culture."

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CC: Creative Commons @ 5 years

Submitted by Bryan on October 2, 2007 - 7:22pm

"Five years ago this December, we launched Creative Commons...We have taken the insight of the Free Software Movement, and made it real in the space of culture, science and education. There is now a language to signal the freedoms creators support, and a set of legal and technical tools to make those freedom stick."

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Linux.com: The trouble with artwork and free software licenses

Submitted by CMS Report on September 26, 2007 - 4:46pm
"Are you a crafter of icons, sounds, backgrounds and splash screens, or even window manager themes? Selecting the right license for your artwork to coexist with free software is no trivial task. Creative Commons (CC) and Free Software Foundation (FSF) licenses each have their advantages, but they are mutually incompatible. The two groups are beginning to move toward simplifying the situation, but in the meantime there are several things you can do to make license compatibility easier.

The crux of the problem is that non-software artwork like the examples above occupies a strange niche inside free software applications and operating systems. They are not code, but they are tightly integrated into the system. Artists frequently create them as standalone works, but they are also -- by necessity -- bundled into software packages and distributions, many of which are under the FSF's General Public License (GPL)."

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Creative Commons: To build upon

Submitted by Bryan on April 6, 2007 - 10:05am

"When we launched version 3.0 of the CC licenses February 23 we also switched on a number of graphical, language, and technical updates. This is the first of a very tardy series of posts about those updates."

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Professional PHP: The Legality of Republishing RSS Feeds

Submitted by Bryan on July 20, 2006 - 5:24pm

"Tobias Schlitt "freaked out" today about PHP Freak's republishing of his blog feed. He publicly withdraws his implicit permission for PHP Freaks to republish content from his feeds. This is an interesting area of law. Eric Goldman has an rundown of the issues. In my mind, there's no question that a blogger grants an implied..."

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