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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)
  • Inkscape SVG source files (zip)
• Fact sheets created by ccAustralia for the Pooling Ideas competition
  • What is Creative Commons? (pdf)
  • Finding Creative Commons Material (pdf)
  • Attributing Creative Commons Material (pdf)
• Licensing and Marking Your Content (pdf) (scribd.com)
• Sharing Creative Works Comics - A general introduction to copyright and CC licensing (scribd.com)
  • Inkscape SVG source files (zip)
• Encouraging the Ecology of Creativity (pdf) (scribd.com)
• CC Videos
  • See the videos on blip.tv, dotsub, revver, or youtube
• CC Comics

ccLearn

• ccLearn Informational Flyer (pdf)
• ccLearn Informational Flyer (print pdf)

Developer

• Developer - Documentation for software developers.

FAQ

• FAQ - Important documentation of frequently asked CC questions.

Integration Best Practices

• Web Integration
  • Creative Commons Integration With Your Website (pdf) (scribd.com)
• Application Integration
• Desktop Integration

Legal

• License Your Work
• Before Licensing
• Legal Concepts
• Podcasting Legal Guide

Mailing list archives

• cc-community
• cc-licenses
• cc-devel

Marking

• Marking - How to properly mark various media with Creative Commons licenses.
  • Licensing and Marking Content (pdf) (scribd.com)
• 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
• Attributing Creative Commons Material

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)

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
    • Slideshare Slides
    • Scribd Docs and Slides

Technical Documentation

• Embedded Metadata with XMP (pdf) (scribd.com)

White Papers

• Creative Commons Licensing for the Public Sector (pdf)

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.

Creative Commons + Open CourseWare Legal Guide