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 ...

Here at Ars we’re big fans of Creative Commons, both the idea behind it and the work that gets produced. As publishers, we benefit from Creative Commons in a number of ways—we look things up in ...

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 ...

This article forms part of Wired.co.uk's Creative Commons Week, which sees a range of articles published on the topics of CC licensing, as well as the past, present ...

Professor Anne Fitzgerald works at QUT, where Creative Commons Australia is based. She has been directly involved with the management of Creative Commons Australia for several years. In 2005 she ...