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Creative Commons

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from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • proper noun A set of licences intended to offer the consumer more freedoms than traditional copyright.

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Examples

  • The Green Party is committed instead to a system known as Creative Commons, which offers a flexible range of protections and freedoms for authors and artists.

    B2fxxx 2009

  • The Free Software Foundation, which maintains Wikipedia's GNU license, is teaming up with a popular rival licensing movement called Creative Commons to create an interoperable open source standard.

    Credit Where Credit Is Due 2007

  • Most important, the students released the recipe under what is called a Creative Commons licence.

    Open Source and Beer — Slaw 2005

  • But, the editorial points out, at the same time, new approaches aim to work around overly-restrictive rights, such as the open-source software movement and an effort called the Creative Commons, which makes it easy for creators to give away some of their copyrights under licence while retaining others to control how their works are reused.

    ‘Huge stress’ now on IP laws 2005

  • Most important, the students released the recipe under what is called a Creative Commons licence.

    Slaw » Open Source and Beer » Print 2005

  • Most important, the students released the recipe under what is called a Creative Commons licence.

    Open Source and Beer — Slaw 2005

  • I like the idea of Creative Commons, which Cory Doctorow has utilized and promoted.

    Wonder Woman interviews the fabulous Ms. Kelly Link : Edward Champion’s Reluctant Habits 2004

  • I like the idea of Creative Commons, which Cory Doctorow has utilized and promoted.

    Wonder Woman interviews the fabulous Ms. Kelly Link : Edward Champion’s Reluctant Habits 2004

  • On December 15, 2002, in San Francisco, a charitable organization called Creative Commons was launched.

    The Public Domain Enclosing the Commons of the Mind James Boyle

  • Since 2004, Flickr has allowed users like Kelly to waive some of their rights through a non-profit organization called the Creative Commons, which aims to expand the collection of creative work available for the general public to build upon and share.

    TheTyee.ca Fabiola Carletti 2010

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