Saturday, December 19, 2009

How much do you know about Creative Commons?

Creative commons a popular term and its slogan some rights reserved we see it all the time but very few bothered to check what creative commons means and its background .Because of CC now we can use amazing photos from flickr and other sites legally and data from Wikipedia as we want .logo_cc_trademark

In their own words

Creative Commons is a nonprofit organization

We work to increase the amount of creativity (cultural, educational, and scientific content) in “the commons” — the body of work that is available to the public for free and legal sharing, use, repurposing, and remixing.

There are six major licenses of the Creative Commons:

  1. Attribution (CC-BY)
  2. Attribution Share Alike (CC-BY-SA)
  3. Attribution No Derivatives (CC-BY-ND)
  4. Attribution Non-Commercial (CC-BY-NC)
  5. Attribution Non-Commercial Share Alike (CC-BY-NC-SA)
  6. Attribution Non-Commercial No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND)

There are four major conditions of the Creative Commons:

  1. Attribution (BY), requiring attribution to the original author;
  2. Share Alike (SA), allowing derivative works under the same or a similar license (later or jurisdiction version);
  3. Non-Commercial (NC), requiring the work is not used for commercial purposes;
  4. and No Derivative Works (ND), allowing only the original work, with out derivatives

So next time you going to use some one else’s data check whether it is under cc or not and also now you know what type of license exist and you know what to do!

About the Company: Creative Commons (CC) is a non-profit organization headquartered in San Francisco, California, United States devoted to 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 for free to the public. These licenses allow creators to communicate which rights they reserve, and which rights they waive for the benefit of recipients or other creators. Wikipedia is one of the notable web-based projects using one of its licenses.

Creative Commons licenses are international — over 80 countries have their own CC projects — and something licensed under CC in the USA can be combined with Israeli, Indian, Brazilian, Spanish, British, South African and German CC works without violating the terms of any of their licenses.

Places To Find Creative Commons Media

  1. Archive.org: Most people only think of Archive.org for the Way back Machine, but it also offers up a huge selection of audio, video and text documents under the Creative Commons license.
  2. Creative Commons.org Search: The search at Creative Commons.org allows you to choose which type of license you want to search for, and then you can search on Blip.TV, Flickr, Google, and Yahoo all from one easy interface.
  3. Google Advanced Search: The advanced search options in Google allow you to restrict it to CC licensed items.
  4. Wikimedia Commons: The Creative Commons arm of Wikipedia allows you to search through all of the files they use.
  5. Yahoo Creative Commons Search: A version of Yahoo search that allows you to search only for Creative Commons items.
  6. Flickr Creative Commons search: A specialized search inside of Flickr that will allow you to search only for images that are using CC license.
  7. wikiHow.com: Best known for their ever growing collection of tutorials on all walks of life, wikiHow also has a huge collection of photographs for all those subjects, and they are all under CC licenses.
  8. IntraText.com: The IntraText library contains over 12 millions texts dating back as far as 900 B.C., and as recent as the 21st century. A good number of them are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0  License, but make sure to check each one individually before using it.
  9. http://www.commoncraft.com explanation is their product

External links

I am happy to announce that my blog Zen Inspiration is licensed under creative commons . and did i missed some important point or site please help me make this article by sharing your thoughts and suggestion is comments.Gracias amigo!

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