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 ...

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 ...

Here at Ars we’re big fans of Creative Commons, both the idea behind it and the work that gets produced. As publishers, we benefit from Creative Commons in a number of ways—we look things up in ...

Editor’s note: On December 16, 2002, the first Creative Commons license was issued. The idea behind CC — giving content creators an easy way to let others copy, modify, or build on their work — has ...

Creative Commons licensing can be a good way for businesses and artists alike to protect their creative works while enabling productive sharing, but figuring out which of the six Creative Commons ...

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 ...

Ever since Facebook unveiled its new terms of service, users have been concerned over content ownership issues. For those still concerned, the Creative Commons ...

But it seems that Great Minds can’t make up its mind on whether it truly wants its materials to be a part of free culture. Or, in the alternative, it’s reading the CC license a little too literally.