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 ...

As of October 2011, 200 million images bore the CC-licensed photo mark. Flickr keeps tabs of which of the six CC licences its photographers are opting for and, at last glance, it was one demanding ...

Flickr has taken extra steps to protect the photos on its platform uploaded under the Creative Commons license. On March 12th, the service will purge free tier users' photos until they only have 1,000 ...

Flickr announced today that all Creative Commons images will remain protected on its site – including those uploaded in the past and those that will be added in the future. The news follows Flickr’s ...

Finding great artwork for your next blog post or meme can be a challenge. And while there are plenty of sites you can use to find images you’re legally allowed to reproduce and/or modify, the latest ...

A new CC Search tool allows users to find and use some 300 million images from openly licensed and public domain works. Developed by Creative Commons and a community of volunteer developers, the ...

A court in the Netherlands has ruled that a Creative Commons (CC) licence 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 ...

Good news is rare in wartime. The intellectual property battles seem a Darwinian melee where the powerful are free to set rules that crush the different, the innovative and the revolutionary before ...

This video is part of a series brought to you by Intel and Vox Creative. There are people online who are donating their brain power and their time, sharing their knowledge to make the world a smarter ...

To grow the commons of free knowledge and free culture, all users are required to grant broad permissions to the general public to re-distribute and re-use their contributions freely. Therefore, for ...

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 ...