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Revision as of 22:54, 21 March 2008
Welcome to the Creative Commons Documentation project!
This is a page for critical documentation about large scale CC specifications, recommendations, white papers, tutorials and other pieces that need to be written to explain various facets of Creative Commons across the board.
Join the community
- WIKI - Sign up for an account on this wiki and contribute
- CHAT - Channel #CC at http://irc.freenode.net - http://wiki.creativecommons.org/IRC
- LIST - cc-community listserv - Creative Commons Community email list - http://wiki.creativecommons.org/Mailing_Lists
Many ways to contribute
- Help us translate documents.
- Help us create new documents.
- Help us log CC press articles.
Contents
Creative Commons Explained
Documents that aim to explain CC and licensing.
- What is Creative Commons? flyer (pdf) (scribd.com)
- What is Creative Commons? (pdf) (scribd.com)
- What is Creative Commons? poster (pdf) (scribd.com)
- How To License poster (pdf) (scribd.com)
- Licensing and Marking Your Content (pdf) (scribd.com)
- Sharing Creative Works Comics - A general introduction to copyright and CC licensing (scribd.com)
- Encouraging the Ecology of Creativity (pdf) (scribd.com)
- CC Videos
- CC Comics
Developer
- Developer - Documentation for software developers.
FAQ
- FAQ - Important documentation of frequently asked CC questions.
Integration Best Practices
Mailing list archives
Marking
- Marking - How to properly mark various media with Creative Commons licenses.
- Metadata - an overview of Creative Commons metadata
- ccREL - describing license metadata in a machine readable way and attaching it to digital works
- Metadata Marking - technical background on machine-readable metadata
Metrics
- Metrics in progress to assess CC-license adoption
- License Statistics
- Statistics from the CC Monitor Project (pdf)
- Taking Stock of the CC Experiment (pdf)
- License Use Five Years On (pdf)
Projects
CC+
How do Creative Commons and Commercial entities work together to get artists and companies paid? CC+ is an effort to address that.
- CC+ press release (pdf) (scribd.com)
- CC+ Overview (pdf) | (scribd.com)
- CC+ Technical Implementation (pdf) (scribd.com)
- "How Creative Commons licenses can interact with commerce" video (blip.tv) (script)
CC0
- CC0 press release (pdf) (scribd.com)
Other Projects
Staff Contributions
- Explore CC conference participation.
- Explore CC staff publications.
- Explore staff presentations and slideshows online!
- Mike Linksvayer, Vice President
- Eric Steuer, Creative Director
- Nathan Yergler, CTO
- Jon Phillips, Community + Business Developer
Technical Documentation
- Embedded Metadata with XMP (pdf) (scribd.com)
White Papers
Help Translate Documents
Please help CC translate these documents into other languages. For the documents written in English already uploaded to this site, we've included the standardized 3-character language code, ISO 639-2. For example, the Web Integration PDF is labeled "Creativecommons-webintegration_eng.pdf". A Japanese translation of the same document would be labeled "Creativecommons-webintegration_jpn.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.
