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Information Today June 3, 2002 Wallys W. Conhaim |
Creative Commons Nurtures the Public Domain Creative Commons is a new nonprofit organization that develops alternative approaches to handling copyright licensing and encouraging contributions to the public domain within the framework of the current copyright system. |
ONLINE Jan/Feb 2010 Laura Gordon-Murnane |
Creative Commons: Copyright Tools for the 21st Century Copyright laws in the U.S. have been around since 1790, but two 20th-century revisions, coupled with the internet's fostering of a read/write culture, have had a significant impact on the use, reuse, and distribution of digital media and content in this century. |
InternetNews March 24, 2005 Tim Gray |
Yahoo Offers Creative Commons Search Yahoo Creative Commons will help developers and site owners find content published by authors willing to share or reuse it. |
InternetNews June 21, 2006 Ed Sutherland |
Microsoft's Creative Copyright Move Software giant Microsoft said it will offer a free tool for Office users to embed Creative Commons copyright options in Word, Excel and PowerPoint documents. |
Searcher July 2005 Laura Gordon-Murnane |
Generosity and Copyright: Creative Commons and Creative Commons Search Tools Librarians now have a useful tool they can use to help identify content that patrons might want to use in a podcast, a mash-up, a collage, a video contribution to a blog, a document, a presentation, or whatever. |
Search Engine Watch March 3, 2005 Chris Sherman |
Finding Free Content in the Creative Commons The Creative Commons search engine can help you find tons of (legally) free stuff on the web, such as photos, music, text, and books. |
Searcher December 2002 Carol Ebbinghouse |
Just Can't Hardly Give It Away: Generosity Versus Copyright Many do not want to give up their copyright and the financial return on their creative work, but a growing number of creators do want to make their creations freely available. |
Scientific American February 14, 2005 |
Beyond the Big How copyright became "no right to copy." Overly strong property rights can threaten the Internet as a medium capable of fostering dynamic interchange of ideas. |
Wired November 2004 Hilary Rosen |
How I Learned to Love Larry She was the champion of the music industry. He was the voice of the people. It was a deathmatch made in heaven, but they found common ground... Done right, copyrights can inspire the next digital revolution... |
Information Today October 18, 2010 Susanne Bjorner |
Creative Commons Releases Public Domain Mark Creative Commons announced the release of a tool that enables works free of known copyright restrictions to be labeled in a way that clearly communicates that status to the public and allows easy discovery of such works on the internet. |
InternetNews August 15, 2006 Sean Michael Kerner |
Lessig: Free Culture Needs Free Software Can the fight for free culture be won with free software? |
Information Today March 9, 2009 |
Attributor and Creative Commons Launch FairShare Service This free service allows bloggers and individual content creators to understand how their work is shared across the web. |
Information Today November 27, 2006 Marji McClure |
Lisensa Poised to Raise Profile of User-Generated Content Lisensa launched this month with the goal of enabling bloggers to manage the copyright and monetization of their unique content. |
Reason November 2004 David G. Post |
Free Culture vs. Big Media In the book Free Culture: How Big Media Uses Technology and the Law to Lock Down Culture and Control Creativity, author Lawrence Lessig leads the charge to retake the public domain. |
Wired December 2001 Lawrence Lessig |
May the Source Be With You The laws protecting software code are stifling creativity, destroying knowledge, and betraying the public trust. It's time to bust the copyright monopoly... |
Wired November 2004 Thomas Goetz |
Sample the Future Rip, mix, burn. Swap till you drop. The music cops can't do a thing - it's 100 percent legal, licensed by the bands. The Wired CD, copyrighted for the 21st century. |
Information Today June 16, 2011 |
YouTube Adds Creative Commons Attribution License YouTube added the Creative Commons Attribution license as a licensing option for users. |
D-Lib Jul/Aug 2013 Fowler & Smith |
Drawing the Blueprint As We Build: Setting Up a Library-based Copyright and Permissions Service for MOOCs The rapid growth of Massively Open Online Courses in higher education has raised the question of what services libraries on campus can, and should, provide for these courses. |
Information Today October 25, 2012 Abby Clobridge |
Copyright Clearance Center Launches Open Access Solutions On Oct. 11, 2012, the Copyright Clearance Center debuted its Open Access Solutions, a set of services aimed at supporting publishers in managing their journal content through the CCC's RightsLink platform. |
Information Today December 1, 2008 |
CCC Launches Ozmo for Online Content Licensing Copyright Clearance Center has announced the beta launch of Ozmo, a web-based service that makes it easy for independent content creators to license the use of their work for commercial purposes and for content users to tap into the user-generated content found online. |
Information Today January 19, 2012 |
Springer Open Choice Adopts Creative Commons Attribution License In 2004, the hybrid OA option Open Choice was launched at Springer with the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial license. Springer's Open Choice option allows authors to publish their articles with OA for the majority of its subscription-based journals. |
Information Today March 10, 2015 Abby Clobridge |
'Every Week Is Fair Use Week' Similar to Open Access Week, Fair Use Week is a loosely organized, week long event during which libraries, universities, museums, archives, and individuals raise awareness about fair use. |
D-Lib December 2003 Bonita Wilson |
Open Access and Public Domain Those providing content on an openly accessible web site should make clear what content can be freely reused and what cannot. |
D-Lib February 2006 Esther Hoorn |
Copyright Issues in Open Access Research Journals: The Authors' Perspective A survey reveals the desire on the part of academics to change the balance of rights within copyright between authors and publishers in scholarly communication journals. |
Information Today January 2, 2014 |
Springer Journals Get New Creative Commons License Beginning Feb. 3, 2014, a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license will apply to journals from BioMed Central, Chemistry Central, and SpringerOpen, which are all part of Springer Science+Business Media. |
Information Today January 30, 2012 |
CCC and MPLC Partner for New Corporate Movie License The Motion Picture License is a companion to CCC's Annual Copyright License, which gives knowledge workers the freedom to legally share content with each other while respecting the rights of copyright holders. |
Linux Journal July 2001 Lawrence Rosen |
Copyright Confusion Do I need to put a copyright notice on my software?... Can a software license restrict my ability to use software?... |
BusinessWeek April 5, 2004 Heather Green |
Creativity In Chains In Free Culture: How Big Media Uses Technology and the Law to Lock Down Culture and Control Creativity, the author insists that our very ability to make cultural products is newly endangered. |
InternetNews February 16, 2006 David Needle |
Lessig Makes Plea For Read/Write Internet A Stanford law professor says that today's fast-growing, free-wheeling Internet is threatened by network providers who want to control innovation and commerce on the Internet. |
Information Today May 21, 2012 |
Unglue.it Officially Launches With Five Ebook Campaigns Unglue.it is a crowdfunding site that lets book lovers pay authors and publishers to make their already-published books free to the world under a Creative Commons license. |
Salon.com November 7, 2001 Marc Rotenberg |
Internet liberation theology In "The Future of Ideas" Lawrence Lessig explains why ham-handed efforts to increase copyright protection are a threat to freedom and prosperity... |
Reason June 2002 Jesse Walker |
Cyberspace's Legal Visionary Lawrence Lessig on the fate of copyrights and computer networks in the digital future... |
Entrepreneur August 2007 Jane Easter Bahls |
What Counts as Copyright Infringement? Building a website? Don't get caught in a copyright mess. |
InternetNews October 30, 2007 David Needle |
Yahoo: 'IP Rules!' Yahoo's head intellectual property lawyer explains why the Internet is keeping a lot of legal staffs busier than ever. |
New Architect July 2002 Lincoln Stein |
Fate of the Commons Lawrence Lessig's provocative book The Future of Ideas: The Fate of the Commons in a Connected World explores the danger of owning ideas. |
The Motley Fool November 30, 2006 Alyce Lomax |
Google Gets Burned Big questions remain unanswered about digital media's future. Google's battles to get its hands on copyrighted content may ultimately carry a hefty financial price for its shareholders. |
Linux Journal December 1, 2001 Lawrence Rosen |
Geek Law: License FUD The threat of Microsoft's shared-source licenses... |
T.H.E. Journal October 2003 |
Are You Breaking the Law? Copyright guidelines for video streaming and digital video in the classroom |
D-Lib September 2004 Karen Coyle |
The "Rights" in Digital Rights Management Obtaining clarity on what we mean by rights and the various approaches to those rights will help us in the process of finding solutions that are appropriate to the library context. |
Information Today July 2, 2007 |
Copyright Clearance Center Announces Annual License for Academia By preapproving the use of content, the Annual Copyright License is designed to save library staff valuable time and reduce the costs associated with tracking and managing high volumes of individual copyright permission requests. |
D-Lib March 2006 |
To the Editor (March 2006) A reader responds to the article, Copyright Issues in Open Access Research Journals: The Authors' Perspective. |
Bio-IT World September 9, 2002 Jim Gatto |
Open Source: Not Yet a Closed Case Biotech companies should weigh both the benefits and risks before choosing open source software. |
Linux Journal September 1, 2002 Lawrence Rosen |
Geek Law: Allocation of the Risks Make sure software licensors actually own all the copyrights they're making you license. |
Linux Journal September 2001 Lawrence Rosen |
Geek Law: A Question of Licenses The definitive answer to that oft-asked question: Which open-source license should I use for my software? |
Linux Journal August 1, 2002 Lawrence Rosen |
Geek Law: Fair Use Unfortunately, the word fair has colloquial meanings that are different from the legal meaning of the phrase fair use. The law doesn't say that any licensing practice you find distasteful or that you morally oppose can be ignored if to do so would be fair. |
PC Magazine November 30, 2005 Sebastian Rupley |
Filmmakers Going Pro Amateur video has been on the rise on the Internet, but start-up company Revver wants to shake things up by offering creators a chance to profit. |
T.H.E. Journal March 1, 2010 |
A Custom Fit K-12 educators need to get a better understanding of open content, for their own benefit as well as their students'. |
Wired October 2002 Steven Levy |
Lawrence Lessig's Supreme Showdown Lawrence Lessig helped mount the case against Microsoft. He wrote the book on creative rights in the digital age. Now the cyberlaw star is about to tell the Supreme Court to smash apart the copyright machine. |
D-Lib Nov/Dec 2014 Brook et al. |
The Social, Political and Legal Aspects of Text and Data Mining There is a vast literature describing research into, and applications of text and data mining, as well as the technical challenges. Relatively little has been written on the political, social and legal barriers involved. |
D-Lib Jan/Feb 2010 Carol Minton Morris |
Cloud Computing, Big Data, and Open Access at EDUCAUSE 2009 With a national climate of shrinking IT budgets and increasing needs at institutions of higher education, EDUCAUSE 2009 centered around more economical technologies such as cloud computing and distributed communication tools. |