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Creative Commons: “Providing fair solutions”
12/12/2008
It provides free licenses and other legal tools to mark creative work with the freedom the creator wants it to carry, so others can share it, remix it, use it commercially, or any combination. CC licenses let people easily change their copyright terms from the default, restrictive "all rights reserved" to a more flexible "some rights reserved."
Creative Commons was founded in 2001 by Lawrence Lessig and the Creative Commons Foundation. Creative Commons licenses are not an alternative to copyright. They work alongside copyright, so you can modify your copyright terms to best suit your needs. They have collaborated with intellectual property experts all around the world to ensure that their licenses work globally.
For those creators wishing to opt out of the copyright altogether, Creative Commons helps them do so by providing tools that allow them to place their work as squarely as possible within the public domain — a “no rights reserved” alternative to copyright.
If they do not like the way that a person has made a derivative work or incorporated their work into a collective work, under the Creative Commons licenses, they may request removal of their name from the derivative work or the collective work.
Creative Commons licenses the use of its trademarked CC logo in the context of its Public Copyright License Marks on the condition that the licensee uses the mark solely to point to a Creative Commons license or Commons deed on the Creative Commons server, or otherwise uses it to describe the Creative Commons license that applies to a particular work; and provided that, to the extent the licensee is using the mark in an online environment, the licensee does not alter or remove the hyperlink embedded in such logo as made available on Creative Commons webpage. Creative Commons retains full, unfettered, and sole discretion to revoke this trademark license for any reason whatsoever or for no specified reason. Creative Commons is particularly likely to revoke said license if, in its full, unfettered, and sole discretion, it finds that the licensee’s use of the mark is likely to bring disrepute to the licensor or its mark.
Creative Commons is not involved in Digital Rights Management (DRM). They are in the business of digital rights expression, not management. Their tools make it easy to say what rights an author is reserving. But they do not provide tools for enforcing the rights the author reserves. Digital rights management (or “DRM”) does. In addition to digitally expressing rights, a DRM system provides technology for enforcing those rights.
Copyrights should be respected, no doubt. But the Creative Commons prefer the old fashioned way of respect — by people acting to respect the freedoms, and limits, chosen by the author and enforced by the law.
Creative Commons is not involved in Digital Rights Management (DRM). They are in the business of digital rights expression, not management. Their tools make it easy to say what rights an author is reserving. But they do not provide tools for enforcing the rights the author reserves. Digital rights management (or “DRM”) does. In addition to digitally expressing rights, a DRM system provides technology for enforcing those rights.
Copyrights should be respected, no doubt. But the Creative Commons prefer the old fashioned way of respect — by people acting to respect the freedoms, and limits, chosen by the author and enforced by the law.
