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 ...

Your business revolves around producing creative works, and you use the Internet to market those works. Considering how quickly and easily such material can be disseminated around the world without ...

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 ...

AlterNet, however, didn’t attribute the photo to Philpot. For that reason, Philpot sued AlterNet for copyright infringement and under the DMCA, essentially alleging “If You’ve Got the Money, I’ve Got ...

Editor’s note: On December 16, 2002, the first Creative Commons license was issued. The idea behind CC — giving content creators an easy way to let others copy, modify, or build on their work — has ...

Creative Commons is an ideal way to share your creations with others and find art for personal projects. Some of us, though, don't always understand the rules. This chart helps you understand the key ...

Heather VanMouwerik is a Ph.D. candidate in Russian History at the University of California, Riverside. You can follow her on Twitter, @hvanmouwerik, or check out her website. Summers in North ...

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 ...

Creative Commons has created a WordPress plugin which makes it easier to attribute and license content. The plugin, simply called ‘Creative Commons’, is an upgraded version of the organization’s old ...

The Dungeons & DragonsSystem Reference Document (SRD for short) is a critical part of the game's enormous popularity, allowing other companies and creators to make material that uses core aspects of ...

No one is forcing anyone to put their work into the public commons. But, once you do, you need to accept that you no longer can wholly control how it is used. Gordon Haff is Red Hat's cloud evangelist ...

It looks like Dungeons & Dragons just succeeded on a death-saving throw. After weeks of backlash and protests from fans and content creators, Wizards of the Coast — the Hasbro-owned publisher of ...