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 ...

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 ...

When people think "open source," they usually think software. John Buckman, however, has been applying some of the open source philosophy to music using the Creative Commons licenses, and it seems to ...

Creative Commons: Next Stop for School Books? Cable Green doesn't have to look very far to find an example of an education system weighed down by what he considers a bloated and inefficient textbook ...

In February 2015, NPR’s Danny Zwerdling published a four-part investigative series on nurses who had been injured on the job. The series was published on the NPR website and distributed using NPR’s ...

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Nonprofit organization Creative Commons is today publicly launching its search engine after more than two years of beta testing. The new service is designed to offer an easy way to search the commons’ ...

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 ...

Between February and April 2022, a professional photographer from Cologne, Germany, filed nine copyright infringement lawsuits in U.S. federal courts. What makes the cases unique is that in each one, ...

I was in a meeting today about an after-school program where students are creating a lot of digital content. As much of this content is being tagged, students need to identify the copyright holder for ...

Creative Commons, a group that aims to provide an infrastructure to make copyright fit for the digital age, has launched a new campaign to make people aware of its work. The Power of Open is a new ...