Creative Commons Resources
Licensing Resources
- Creative Commons Site
- Creative Archives License - BBC semi-CC license
- Science Commons
- Patent Commons
Academic CC licensed content
- Public Library of Science - Journals in biology, medicine, genetics and more. All are placed in PubMed Central.
- Nature Precedings - CC attribution licensed pre-prints of research findings
- Nature Genomic Papers
- MIT Open Courseware
- ccLearn - Project from Creative Commons organization to facilitate access to CC licensed content
- Open Educational Resources
- WikiEducator - now incorporating collaborative video.
- BioMed Central
- Wellcome Library - The library has licensed its entire collection of images with CC
CC licensed content
- Flickr
- CC only images from flickr
- LibriVox - Audio books in the public domain
- Livecontent - CC and open source software for libraries
- Story of Healing - 33 Minute Academy Award winning documentary
- Common Content - Catalog of Creative Commons licensed content
- CC Licensed books
- ccMixter - CC licensed audio
- Yahoo Creative Commons Search
- Get the Microsoft Office Addin - to easily license your office docs.
- Nine Inch Nails - releases new album under CC remix license.
Articles and information about copyright, DRM, and Creative Commons
Copyright
- Peter B. Hirtle's Copyright Term Chart
- Reselling your used CDs? Not so fast!
- The Copyright Office's view on fair use
DRM
- Google Video robs customers of the videos they "own"
- How Hollywood, Congress and DRM are Beating Up the American Economy
- User's guide to DRM
- Major League Baseball and DRM
- Bought Mucic from Microsoft's music store?
- Sales boom with DRM free music
- Electonic Frontier Foundation - Fair use and DRM
- Amazon Launches DRM-free music store
- Random House Audio gives up on DRM
- More Audiobook publishers give up
Fair Use
Creative Commons
- Australia mulls licensing all public data with CC
- Unbounded Freedom - A guide to creative commons thinking for cultural organisations
- Free Culture - e-book by Lawrence Lessig
- The Future of Ideas - another book by Lawrence Lessig recently released by Random House to allow CC licensed version to be published.
