Happy birthday, Creative Commons. ProPublica has made important use of Creative Commons since our launch four and a half years ago. While we make a few exceptions at the request of publishing ...

Six Types of Creative Commons Licenses. Following are the six Creative Commons licenses that you can use to protect your creative works, ranging from least restrictive to most restrictive.

If you're going to use a Creative Commons-licensed work with this option, you must use it exactly as-is. Of course, the No Derivatives option does not interfere with Fair Use rights, ...

Creative Commons’ Openverse: Creative Commons, the same nonprofit that devised the CC license, has its own open-source search engine that you can use to find free images.

Creative Commons licences have a legal framework based on national copyright laws and are presented in three different versions: machine-readable, user-readable and legal documents.

No one is forcing anyone to put their work into the public commons. But, once you do, you need to accept that you no longer can wholly control how it is used.

Creative Commons is studying how people understand the term "noncommercial use." Better to just get rid of that license option (and others). Simplify Creative Commons, don't tweak it - CNET ...

Some students believe if they see Fair Use or Creative Commons that their bases are covered and they do not need to worry about citation or credit. Unfortunately, this is not the case, and can be ...

We've been looking at the GateHouse/New York Times Co. linking dispute quite a bit recently. (See our previous posts on the case here and here.) To recap: NYT Co.'s Boston Globe is republishing the ...