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 ...

Creative Commons has officially launched a Web tool to aid content creators who want to publish material under the highly permissive CC0 license. The tool, which has been under development for over a ...

Nonprofit organization Creative Commons is today publicly launching its search engine after more than two years of beta testing. The new service is designed to offer an easy way to search the commons’ ...

A new draft of the Dungeons & Dragons Open Gaming License, dubbed OGL 1.2 by publisher Wizards of the Coast, is now available for download. The announcement was made Thursday by Kyle Brink, executive ...

Brian Jamison, an avid roleplayer and GM, has written a comprehensive book with a range of tips and advice for game and dungeon masters everywhere. Better still, he has made the book available as a ...

Creative Commons licensing can be a good way for businesses and artists alike to protect their creative works while enabling productive sharing, but figuring out which of the six Creative Commons ...

openDemocracy.net has taken a major step toward enriching global democratic discussion by adopting Creative Commons licences for its articles. Practically, the use of these licences grant ...

Create PDF documents from almost any application and then attach a Creative Commons license. With Creative Commons licenses, you can distribute your creative work for free and specify the conditions ...

Back when I was writing software for PCs, it was pretty common to see licenses offering some program free "for noncommercial use" or some similar wording. The basic idea was that if you got people ...