Creative Commons (CC)
A Creative Commons (CC) is an non-profit organization that provides a licensing framework that enables copyright holders to grant the public permissions to use their work under specified terms.
- Context:
- Website: https://creativecommons.org/
- It was founded in 2001 by Lawrence Lessig.
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- Example(s):
- a Creative Commons License such as:
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- Counter-Example(s):
- See: Open Access, Public Domain, Digital Rights Management, GNU General Public License (GPL).
References
2023a
- (Wikipedia, 2023) ⇒ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creative_Commons Retrieved:2023-12-31.
- Creative Commons (CC) is an American non-profit organization and international network devoted to educational access and expanding the range of creative works available for others to build upon legally and to share. The organization has released several copyright licenses, known as Creative Commons licenses, free of charge to the public. These licenses allow authors of creative works to communicate which rights they reserve and which rights they waive for the benefit of recipients or other creators. An easy-to-understand one-page explanation of rights, with associated visual symbols, explains the specifics of each Creative Commons license. Content owners still maintain their copyright, but Creative Commons licenses give standard releases that replace the individual negotiations for specific rights between copyright owner (licensor) and licensee, that are necessary under an "all rights reserved" copyright management. The organization was founded in 2001 by Lawrence Lessig, Hal Abelson, and Eric Eldred with the support of Center for the Public Domain. The first article in a general interest publication about Creative Commons, written by Hal Plotkin, was published in February 2002. The first set of copyright licenses was released in December 2002. The founding management team that developed the licenses and built the Creative Commons infrastructure as it is known today included Molly Shaffer Van Houweling, Glenn Otis Brown, Neeru Paharia, and Ben Adida. In 2002, the Open Content Project, a 1998 precursor project by David A. Wiley, announced the Creative Commons as successor project and Wiley joined as CC director. Aaron Swartz played a role in the early stages of Creative Commons, as did Matthew Haughey. , there were "nearly 2 billion" works licensed under the various Creative Commons licenses. Wikipedia and its sister projects use one of these licenses. According to a 2017 report, Flickr alone hosted over 415 million cc-licensed photos, along with around 49 million works in YouTube, 40 million works in DeviantArt and 37 million works in Wikimedia Commons. The licenses are also used by Stack Exchange, MDN, Internet Archive, Khan Academy, LibreTexts, OpenStax, MIT OpenCourseWare, WikiHow, TED, OpenStreetMap, GeoGebra, Doubtnut, Fandom, Arduino, ccmixter.org, Ninjam, etc., and formerly by Unsplash, Pixabay and Socratic.
2023b
- (GM-RKB ChatGPT, 2023) ⇒ Summarize the concept Creative Commons (CC) in 1- 2 paragraphs, promt.GM-RKB ChatGPT (model: gpt-4-1106-preview) Retrieved: 2023-12-31.
- QUOTE: Creative Commons (CC) is a nonprofit organization founded in 2001 that provides free legal tools to enable content creators to share their work with the public under user-friendly, standardized terms. The core idea of Creative Commons is to help overcome legal obstacles to the sharing of knowledge and creativity, fostering a culture where content can be used and built upon by others. CC licenses allow authors, artists, educators, and scientists to mark their work with the freedoms they want it to carry, so others can use it within the terms and conditions set by the content creator.
There are several types of CC licenses, each with specific requirements ranging from allowing only attribution to the original creator (the most liberal license, referred to as CC BY), to more restrictive forms that limit commercial use, prevent the creation of derivative works, or require any derivatives to be shared under the same license (known as "ShareAlike"). These licenses reduce the barriers to collaboration and sharing, making it simple for individuals to legally access and build upon a vast, rich commons of knowledge and creativity. Creative Commons licenses are widely used globally by individuals, educational institutions, governments, and organizations to distribute a wide range of content including books, music, photos, and academic literature.
- QUOTE: Creative Commons (CC) is a nonprofit organization founded in 2001 that provides free legal tools to enable content creators to share their work with the public under user-friendly, standardized terms. The core idea of Creative Commons is to help overcome legal obstacles to the sharing of knowledge and creativity, fostering a culture where content can be used and built upon by others. CC licenses allow authors, artists, educators, and scientists to mark their work with the freedoms they want it to carry, so others can use it within the terms and conditions set by the content creator.