PC World

Need to Choose a Creative Commons License? This New Tool Can Help

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 ...
Microsoft

Microsoft and Creative Commons Release Tool for Copyright Licensing

REDMOND, Wash., and SAN FRANCISCO — June 20, 2006 — Microsoft Corp. and Creative Commons, a nonprofit organization that offers flexible copyright licenses for creative works, have teamed up to release ...
Yahoo Finance

Creative Commons Licensing Training Course: Understanding Copyright law Implications for your Business (ONLINE EVENT: May 13, 2025 & ON-DEMAND)

Dublin, March 19, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The "Creative Commons Licensing Training Course - Understanding Creative Commons Licensing and its Implications for your Business" training has been added to ...
JD Supra

Recent Appellate Decisions Clarify the “NonCommercial” Requirement of the Creative Commons ShareAlike License

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 ...
JD Supra

Creative Commons Works: Free to License, But Not Necessarily Free to Use

Companies love to use third-party content for free. In this era of belt-tightening and slashed marketing budgets, why pay to create photos and videos for advertising and other commercial uses when ...
adtmag.com

Creative Commons Introduces CC+ License

The Creative Commons foundation recently released the CC+ protocol, which allows authors and other content makers to release their work for free (under the Creative Commons noncommercial license) and ...
Wired

Creative Commons Licenses Are Permanent Except on Flickr

Yahoo's photo-sharing site, Flickr, has been an early and enthusiastic supporter of Creative Commons licenses. But there's one aspect of the licenses that Flickr doesn't respect: Users can remove the ...
The Verge

Medium adds Creative Commons licensing for writers

Adi Robertson is a senior tech and policy editor focused on VR, online platforms, and free expression. Adi has covered video games, biohacking, and more for The Verge since 2011. Writing platform ...
The Verge

500px will no longer allow photographers to license their photos under Creative Commons

The photo-sharing site is also closing down 500px Marketplace, its stock photo platform The photo-sharing site is also closing down 500px Marketplace, its stock photo platform Photography platform ...
Business 2 Community

3 Alternatives to Creative Commons Licensing

Creative Commons is the go-to licensing source for most graphic designers, and for good reason. Creative Commons has simplified the differences between standard licenses so they’re easy to understand, ...
CNET

Creative Commons license upheld by court

A court in the Netherlands has ruled that a Creative Commons license is binding, in a case brought against a Dutch gossip magazine by an ex-MTV star. This is one of the first times that the ...