Difference between revisions of "Documentation"

Developer

• Developer - Documentation for software developers.

FAQ

• FAQ - Important documentation of frequently asked CC questions.

Integration Best Practices

• Web Integration
  • Web integration infodoc (pdf)
• Application Integration
• Desktop Integration

Mailing list archives

• CC-Community
• CC-Licenses
• CC-Devel

Marking

• Marking - How to properly mark various media with Creative Commons licenses.
• Metadata Marking - The primary focus of this article is machine-readable metadata
  • Metadata - the in-progress basic page to define how CC's metadata functions
  • ccREL - the in-progress advanced page to define how CC's metadata functions

Metrics

• Metrics in progress to assess CC-license adoption
• License Statistics
• "CC Statistics from CC-Monitor Project" (pdf)
• "Taking Stock of the Creative Commons Experiment..." (pdf)
• "Creative Commons license use five years on" (pdf)

Projects

CC+

How does Creative Commons and Commercial entities work together to get artists and companies paid?

• CC+ is the home for this effort.
  • CCZero Official Press Release (pdf)
  • CC and CC+ Overview for the World Wide Web (pdf)
  • CC+ Technical Implementation for the World Wide Web (pdf)
  • CC+ video explanation from Blip.tv and accompanying script text

CCZero

• CCZero is the home for this effort.
  • CCZero Official Press Release (pdf)

Podcasting Legal Guide

• Podcasting Legal Guide is the home of this project.
  • Podcasting Legal Guide (pdf)

Promotional

Documents that aim to explain CC and licensing.

• General Information about Creative Commons (pdf)
• What is CC? poster (pdf)
• How to license poster (pdf)
  • Inkscape SVG source files (zip)
• Simple Licensing infodoc (pdf)
• Sharing Creative Works Comics - A general introduction to copyright and CC licensing
  • comic book (pdf)
  • Inkscape SVG source files (zip)
• "Encouraging the Ecology of Creativity" info guide (pdf)
• CC Videos
• CC Comics

Technical Documentation

• Embedded Metadata with XMP (pdf)

White Papers

• "Creative Commons licensing for public sector information..." (pdf)

Help Create Documents!

How do you see CC? While these documents can exist on this wiki just fine and is a great way to get started, below is a package consisting of the Scribus document and files necessary to make documentation. Please post up any of your creations on this page!

• Information page framework — Scribus source
• Information page framework — InDesign source

Please help us complete these!

Teaching Creative Commons

How should you go about teaching Creative Commons ideas to a general audience?

Creative Commons in the classroom

Creative Commons Overview for your Company

An overview of Creative Commons for a company.

Creative Commons + Open CourseWare Legal Guide