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Mike Linksvayer at 18:10, 10 June 2008

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Mike Linksvayer at 18:09, 10 June 2008

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Mike Linksvayer at 02:29, 9 June 2008

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Mike Linksvayer at 02:02, 9 June 2008

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Mike Linksvayer at 01:42, 9 June 2008

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Mike Linksvayer at 01:22, 9 June 2008

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Mike Linksvayer at 01:17, 9 June 2008

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Mike Linksvayer at 01:13, 9 June 2008

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 ;[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_access_publishing OA]: Open Access
-;[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_educational_resources OER]: Open Educational Resource
+;[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_educational_resources OER]: Open Educational Resources. OER are educational materials and resources offered freely and openly for anyone to use and under some licenses to re-mix, improve and redistribute.
 ;[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_Domain Public Domain]: Works that are not restricted by copyright either because they are very old or not copyrightable (e.g., data).

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 ;[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_Culture Free Culture]: The name of a movement of which CC is a part, a [http://free-culture.cc book by Lawrence Lessig], and [http://freeculture.org Students for Free Culture]. The [http://freedomdefined.org Definition of Free Cultural Works] specifies which licenses its authors believe qualify as free culture licenses -- CC BY and CC BY-SA qualify, while licenses with NC or ND terms do not.
-;Jurisdiction: A legal system. The CCi project "ports" CC licenses to individual jurisdictions. Often a jurisdiction is the same as a "country" but in some cases there are more than one legal system within a country or disagreement about exactly what legal systems and corresponding geographies make up a country, so we use the term jurisdiction for maximum accuracy.
+;Jurisdiction: A legal system. The CCi project "ports" CC licenses to individual jurisdictions. Often a jurisdiction is the same as a "country" but in some cases there is more than one legal system within a country or disagreement about exactly what legal systems and corresponding geographies make up a country, so we use the term jurisdiction for maximum accuracy.
 ;[[liblicense]]: A software library in the C programming language that makes functions such as reading and embedding license metadata and discovering license properties available to other programs.

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 ;[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_Culture Free Culture]: The name of a movement of which CC is a part, a [http://free-culture.cc book by Lawrence Lessig], and [http://freeculture.org Students for Free Culture]. The [http://freedomdefined.org Definition of Free Cultural Works] specifies which licenses its authors believe qualify as free culture licenses -- CC BY and CC BY-SA qualify, while licenses with NC or ND terms do not.
-;Jurisdiction: A legal system. The CCi project "ports" CC licenses to individual jurisdictions. Often a jurisdiction is the same as a "country" but in some cases there are more than one legal system within a country or disagreement about exactly what legal systems corresponding geographies make up a country, so we use the term jurisdiction for maximum accuracy.
+;Jurisdiction: A legal system. The CCi project "ports" CC licenses to individual jurisdictions. Often a jurisdiction is the same as a "country" but in some cases there are more than one legal system within a country or disagreement about exactly what legal systems and corresponding geographies make up a country, so we use the term jurisdiction for maximum accuracy.
 ;[[liblicense]]: A software library in the C programming language that makes functions such as reading and embedding license metadata and discovering license properties available to other programs.

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 ;[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_Culture Free Culture]: The name of a movement of which CC is a part, a [http://free-culture.cc book by Lawrence Lessig], and [http://freeculture.org Students for Free Culture]. The [http://freedomdefined.org Definition of Free Cultural Works] specifies which licenses its authors believe qualify as free culture licenses -- CC BY and CC BY-SA qualify, while licenses with NC or ND terms do not.
 ;[[liblicense]]: A software library in the C programming language that makes functions such as reading and embedding license metadata and discovering license properties available to other programs.
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 ;Some Rights Reserved: A descriptive tagline for any CC license -- the licensor offers some rights to the public, but withholds others.
 ;[[XMP]]: eXtensible Metadata Protocol, a format for embedding metadata in many different file formats, most significantly PDF and JPEG. A recommendation of ccREL.

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 ;[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_educational_resources OER]: Open Educational Resource
-;[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public Domain]: Works that are not restricted by copyright either because they are very old or not copyrightable (e.g., data).
+;[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_Domain Public Domain]: Works that are not restricted by copyright either because they are very old or not copyrightable (e.g., data).
 ;[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resource_Description_Framework RDF]: Resource Description Framework, a model for representing statements about things on the web. CC uses RDF to model license properties and describe licensed works.

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 ;[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyleft Copyleft]: Usually refers to a license that requires distributed modifications of licensed works be shared under the same license, most prominently in the case of the GPL. CC calls this property of licenses ShareAlike. [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ CC BY-SA] is unambiguously a copyleft license, while some consider [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/ CC BY-NC-SA] to not be in the spirit of copyleft.
 ;[[ccREL]]: Creative Commons Rights Expression Language, a composite recommendation of technologies for marking digital media with license information and other metadata.
-;[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_Culture Free Culture]:The name of a movement of which CC is a part, a [http://free-culture.cc book by Lawrence Lessig], and [http://freeculture.org Students for Free Culture]. The [http://freedomdefined.org Definition of Free Cultural Works] specifies which licenses its authors believe qualify as free culture licenses -- CC BY and CC BY-SA qualify, while licenses with NC or ND terms do not.
+;[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fair_Use Fair Use]: The right to make certain uses of a work without permission of the copyright holder.
 ;[[liblicense]]: A software library in the C programming language that makes functions such as reading and embedding license metadata and discovering license properties available to other programs.
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 ;[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_educational_resources OER]: Open Educational Resource
 ;[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resource_Description_Framework RDF]: Resource Description Framework, a model for representing statements about things on the web. CC uses RDF to model license properties and describe licensed works.
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 ;[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semantic_Web Semantic Web]: The project to make the web machine-readable using technologies such as RDF.
 ;[[XMP]]: eXtensible Metadata Protocol, a format for embedding metadata in many different file formats, most significantly PDF and JPEG. A recommendation of ccREL.

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 ;[[ccHost]]: A remix-oriented content management system that powers ccMixter, licensed under the GPL.
-;[http://creativecommons.org/international CCi]; Creative Commons International refers to the project to legally and linguistically "port" CC licenses to jurisdictions around the world and the global network of teams engaged in this and follow-on activites.
+;[http://creativecommons.org/international CCi]: Creative Commons International refers to the project to legally and linguistically "port" CC licenses to jurisdictions around the world and the global network of teams engaged in this and follow-on activites.
 ;[http://learn.creativecommons.org ccLearn]: A division of Creative Commons that works to minimize legal, technical and social barriers to reuse of educational materials.
 ;[http://ccmixter.org ccMixter]: A remix-focused music community developed by Creative Commons to demonstrate the creative re-use of openly licensed music.
 ;[[ccREL]]: Creative Commons Rights Expression Language, a composite recommendation of technologies for marking digital media with license information and other metadata.
 ;[[liblicense]]: A software library in the C programming language that makes functions such as reading and embedding license metadata and discovering license properties available to other programs.
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 ;[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_educational_resources OER]: Open Educational Resource
-;[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resource_Description_Framework RDF]: Resource Description Framework, a model for representing statements about things on the web.
+;[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resource_Description_Framework RDF]: Resource Description Framework, a model for representing statements about things on the web. CC uses RDF to model license properties and describe licensed works.
 ;[[RDFa]]: RDF in attributes, a mechanism for annotating web pages such that machine-readable data is colocated with human-visible markup, allowing metadata to be retained through operations like copy and paste. The key recommendation of ccREL.
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 ;[http://sciencecommons.org Science Commons]: A division of Creative Commons that applies open tools to the problem of unlocking the value of research so more people can benefit from the work scientists are doing.
 ;[[XMP]]: eXtensible Metadata Protocol, a format for embedding metadata in many different file formats, most significantly PDF and JPEG. A recommendation of ccREL.

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 ;[[ND]]: The short name for the NoDerivatives term of some CC licenses, often used by itself to refer to the term in any of these licenses or as part of their short names, e.g., "[http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/ CC BY-NC-ND]".
-;[[OA]]: Open Access
+;[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_access_publishing OA]: Open Access
-;[[OER]]: Open Educational Resource
+;[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_educational_resources OER]: Open Educational Resource
-;[[RDF]]: Resource Description Framework, a model for representing statements about things on the web.
+;[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resource_Description_Framework RDF]: Resource Description Framework, a model for representing statements about things on the web.
 ;[[RDFa]]: RDF in attributes, a mechanism for annotating web pages such that machine-readable data is colocated with human-visible markup, allowing metadata to be retained through operations like copy and paste. The key recommendation of ccREL.