There's free and then there's Free. The Creative Commons folks have just unleashed a new license that's about as free as it gets: Creative Commons 0 1.0. Essentially CC0 allows the user to put the ...

This month the Smithsonian becomes Creative Commons Zero (CC0). This means we are opening the digital doors, making our content available under user-friendly copyright laws. Artists, researchers and ...

*Cleveland? I learn something new every day. *Also, maybe it costs even more to try to police it than it does to just give it away. A common argument that museums make against open access is, 'We ...

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The Smithsonian has opened its digital doors, making our content available under user-friendly Creative Commons Zero copyright laws. Artists, researchers and anyone with an internet connection can ...

L.A. County’s Getty Museum is a year into a program that allows the public to download 88,000 pieces of its renowned collection for free. How it works: You’re allowed to do whatever you want with the ...

Creative Commons, an international non-profit organization that provides the Creative Commons License (CC License), which allows authors to express their intention to 'use my work freely as long as ...

Courtesy of the Metropolitan Museum of Art (Gift of Adele R. Levy, 1958) Art fans enjoyed a win Thursday morning when the Metropolitan Museum of Art announced it will place 375,000 works of art in its ...

Traditional rights management often involves an exclusive assignment of all of the rights associated with a copyright from the author to a publisher. The publisher then makes copies and distributes ...