Documentation

Developer

• Developer - Documentation for software developers.

FAQ

• FAQ - Important documentation of frequently asked CC questions.

Integration Best Practices

• Web Integration
  • Media:Creativecommons-webintegration_eng.pdf (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
• Statistics-from-the-CC-Monitor-project_eng.pdf (pdf)
• Media:Taking-stock-of-the-creative-commons-experiment_eng.pdf (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 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