Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 16, No. 388.
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Date: Thu, 26 Dec 2002 10:44:23 +0000
From: NINCH-ANNOUNCE <david@ninch.org>
Subject: Creative Commons Releases New Projects
NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT
News on Networking Cultural Heritage Resources
from across the Community
December 17, 2002
Creative Commons Releases New Projects
http://creativecommons.org/
Licensing Project
http://creativecommons.org/license/
Founders' Project
http://creativecommons.org/projects/founderscopyright
Creative Commons has just announced two new projects that will enable
creators of intellectual property to have more direct control over the
rights and uses of their creations.
Creative Commons was founded in 2001 to help improve access to raw source
material online. It is producing licenses that enable creators to specify
which rights they want to retain and which they do not. It is developing
software that will enable creators to donate their work to the public
domain and metadata that can be used to associate a work with its public
domain or license status in a machine-readable way. The organization is
working to enable us to use software to find "for example, photographs that
are free to use provided that the original photographer is credited, or
songs that may be copied, distributed, or sampled with no restrictions
whatsoever."
David Green
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