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Thursday, 5 February 2015 - 6:14pm by agnez
Tuesday, 20 January 2015 - 3:46pm by YannickHMadoun

The global community of Creative Commons Affiliates is starting a new tradition: collectively compiling an annual mixtape of great music from artists using CC licenses.

Friday, 7 February 2014 - 3:04pm by YannickHMadoun

As open data and open data projects are becoming increasingly important as value creators in the modern-day economy, it is nice to see that important efforts are being made to professionalise and perpetuate the open data community. If we really want to harvest the potential of open data, we must look beyond regional and national interests when considering yet again a new licensing suite. The open data community is a global movement, so open data projects and it's licenses should keep this premise in mind.

Monday, 25 November 2013 - 10:07am by YannickHMadoun
We proudly introduce our 4.0 licenses, available for adoption worldwide as of today. These licenses — more than two years in the making — are the most global and legally robust licenses produced by CC to date.
Thursday, 17 October 2013 - 12:44pm by jspr

This weekend you can visit Cologne Commons, a festival/conference on the topic of free music and Creative Commons.

About CC

Creative Commons helps you share your knowledge and creativity with the world. If you want to give people the right to share, use, and even build upon a work you’ve created, you should consider publishing it under a Creative Commons license. Our free, easy-to-use copyright licenses provide a simple, standardized way to give the public permission to share and use your creative work — on conditions of your choice. CC licenses let you easily change your copyright terms from the default of “all rights reserved” to “some rights reserved.”

Licenses

Creative Commons licenses provide an easy way to manage the copyright terms that attach automatically to all creative works under copyright. Our licenses allow those works to be shared and re-used under terms that are flexible and legally sound. Creative Commons offers a core suite of six copyright licenses. Because there is no single "Creative Commons license," it is important to identify which of the six licenses you are applying to your work, and which of the six licenses has been applied to a work you intend to use.
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