Some of the organizations that have been skeptical of Creative Commons licensing are beginning to see the light. But challenges remain, especially given the ongoing debate over legislation like SOPA.

Anyone who has spent time scouring the internet for free-to-use content has likely come across pictures, written materials and music permissively licensed under one or more of the Creative Commons ...

Attorneys have to navigate copyright issues on a daily basis: whenever marketing materials are made, videos get recorded, client websites get updated. Although the term open licensing might seem ...

Most people who regularly use or create images, videos or music available online are familiar with Creative Commons, the California-based nonprofit organization that provides licensing options for ...

As of October 2011, 200 million images bore the CC-licensed photo mark. Flickr keeps tabs of which of the six CC licences its photographers are opting for and, at last glance, it was one demanding ...

Global Voices has become a supporter of Creative Commons licensing not due to ideology, but because our website depends on it. The translations we post, bridging bloggers from different languages and ...

Raymond A. vanderWoning is a talented photographer who's released his works under a Creative Commons license. It's not that Raymond doesn't want to make money with his photos, but he enjoys the ...

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. Gordon Haff is Red Hat's cloud evangelist ...

You can't look at the news lately without seeing reports of the legal and technological warfare going on between "big entertainment" copyright owners against virtually everyone else. It's shaped up as ...