Flickr has announced that it now houses more than 200 million photos published under a Creative Commons license, which enables viewers to freely distribute, copy and even modify or use commercially in some cases, the images. This makes Flickr the largest source for Creative Commons (CC) licensed photography on the w... |
6 October 2011
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In a move that seems long overdue, YouTube will start offering creative commons licensing options for uploaded videos and will make use of this new opportunity to make it easier to remix videos with the web-based YouTube video editor.YouTube hasn't made the official announcement yet, but the news got leaked when... |
2 June 2011
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With intellectual property becoming more and more important and powerful, thanks to the work of a few corporations and industries interested in it being so, it's great to see that some companies and developers can still find the value in freeing things up. SimpleGeo, a company that focuses on location services a... |
22 April 2011
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Creative Commons has announced that it has released the Public Domain Mark, a new tool similar to the ones for the various Creative Commons licenses. The new mark will label works that are in the public domain to make it easier for users to determine which works can be freely used or modified. "The Public Domain Mark... |
12 October 2010
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In what is without a doubt an excellent move, Microsoft is offerings select resources that helped the company bulletproof products such as Windows 7, Windows Server 2008 R2 and Office 2010 under a Creative Commons License. Essentially, the publicly available documentation related to the Microsoft Security Developmen... |
27 August 2010
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Vimeo has teamed up with Creative Commons and will introduce new licensing options for its users enabling them to share their works and make them freely available while still retaining most rights over them. Users will be able to choose from the regular Creative Commons options which allow others to distribute or bui... |
13 July 2010
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Google may be getting portrayed as the bad guy by some regarding its Google Books project with fears and even accusations of monopoly and other negative comments, but it is trying to be as open as possible, be it because of the undergoing DOJ investigation or out of genuine good intentions. In any case, it's tak... |
14 August 2009
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Yesterday marked a big step in copyright protection of open source licensed software, as the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit ruled that an open source software developer can claim copyright infringement, even if the work is released under a free software license.The appellate court reversed a district c... |
15 August 2008
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