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The Creative Commons world includes many buzzwords -- legal, social, and technical. Here's a quick guide to some of them, with links for more on each.
 
The Creative Commons world includes many buzzwords -- legal, social, and technical. Here's a quick guide to some of them, with links for more on each.
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;[[BY]]: The short name for the attribution term of CC licenses. "[http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ CC BY]" is a CC license that only requires giving credit -- allowing commercial and derivative use.
  
 
;[[CCPlus|CC+]]: A protocol describing the offering of a work under a CC license plus other options, such as the availability of private agreements that provide permissions or warranties beyond the scope of the CC license on offer. Note that one cannot add restrictions to a CC license via this or any other mechanism.
 
;[[CCPlus|CC+]]: A protocol describing the offering of a work under a CC license plus other options, such as the availability of private agreements that provide permissions or warranties beyond the scope of the CC license on offer. Note that one cannot add restrictions to a CC license via this or any other mechanism.
  
 
;[[CC0]]: A waiver that attempts to offer users as many rights as possible, currently in beta.
 
;[[CC0]]: A waiver that attempts to offer users as many rights as possible, currently in beta.
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;[[ccHost]]: A remix-oriented content management system that powers ccMixter, licensed under the GPL.
  
 
;[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://learn.creativecommons.org ccLearn]: A division of Creative Commons that works to minimize legal, technical and social barriers to reuse of educational materials.
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;[[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.
 
;[[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.
 
;[[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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;[[NC]]: The short name for the NonCommercial 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/3.0/ CC BY-NC]".
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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
 
;[[OA]]: Open Access
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;[[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.
 
;[[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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;[[SA]]: The short name for the ShareAlike 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-sa/3.0/ CC BY-SA]".
  
 
;[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.
 
;[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.
 
;[[XMP]]: eXtensible Metadata Protocol, a format for embedding metadata in many different file formats, most significantly PDF and JPEG. A recommendation of ccREL.

Revision as of 01:13, 9 June 2008

The Creative Commons world includes many buzzwords -- legal, social, and technical. Here's a quick guide to some of them, with links for more on each.

BY
The short name for the attribution term of CC licenses. "CC BY" is a CC license that only requires giving credit -- allowing commercial and derivative use.
CC+
A protocol describing the offering of a work under a CC license plus other options, such as the availability of private agreements that provide permissions or warranties beyond the scope of the CC license on offer. Note that one cannot add restrictions to a CC license via this or any other mechanism.
CC0
A waiver that attempts to offer users as many rights as possible, currently in beta.
ccHost
A remix-oriented content management system that powers ccMixter, licensed under the GPL.
ccLearn
A division of Creative Commons that works to minimize legal, technical and social barriers to reuse of educational materials.
[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.
NC
The short name for the NonCommercial 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., "CC BY-NC".
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., "CC BY-NC-ND".
OA
Open Access
OER
Open Educational Resource
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.
SA
The short name for the ShareAlike 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., "CC BY-SA".
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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