An organization that has defined an alternative to copyrights by filling in the gap between full copyright, in which no use is permitted without permission, and public domain, where permission is not ...

Have you heard of Creative Commons? If not, you may soon. Creative Commons consists of a U.S. charitable corporation and a not-for-profit company in the United Kingdom. It believes that all-out ...

A court in the Netherlands has ruled that a Creative Commons license 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 ...

Companies love to use third-party content for free. In this era of belt-tightening and slashed marketing budgets, why pay to create photos and videos for advertising and other commercial uses when ...

Most people who regularly use or create images, videos or music available online are familiar with Creative Commons, the California-based nonprofit organization that provides licensing options for ...

The rise in user-generated content is extending beyond written text in blogs. As the availability of professional-quality photographic gear broadens with advances in technology and lowering prices, a ...

When Creative Commons appeared to tacitly endorse the NFT boom, it set off a conversation about the future of ownership and techno-utopian ideals. Reading time 6 minutes Beeple set off a buying frenzy ...

Flickr will allow free accounts to exceed its new 1,000 photo limit if the works are licensed publicly under Creative Commons. Credit: LIONEL BONAVENTURE/AFP/Getty Images Just days before Flickr mass ...

I recently received a fundraising appeal email from the Creative Commons. I’m a big fan of the Creative Commons and have been blessed with great richness in my life. The richness in my life is not ...

Creative Commons is a non-profit organization devoted to expanding the range of creative works available for others to build upon legally and to share. The organization has released several ...

If data is the fundamental currency of the Information Age, then the concept of intellectual property is the wallet that protects it from theft or misappropriation. Ensuring that protection — ...

In 2019, thousands of artworks from 1923 entered the public domain. Speakers from Creative Commons, the Internet Archive, and other places share why this matters. In response to photographers' ...