Documentation
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. Help us review the documentation here. Help us create new documents too! |
Contents
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.
- Marking_Works_Technical - The primary focus of this article is machine-readable metadata
Metrics
- Metrics in progress to assess CC-license adoption
- License Statistics
- Media:CC-Monitor_Findings_-_iSummit.pdf - "CC Statistics from CC-Monitor Project" (pdf)
- Media:CreateCommExp.pdf - "Taking Stock of the Creative Commons Experiment..." (pdf)
- Media:CC_the_next_generation.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.
- Media:Cc_plus_cc_zero_pr.pdf - CCZero Official Press Release (pdf)
- Media:Ccplus-general.pdf - CC and CC+ Overview for the World Wide Web (pdf)
- Media:Ccplus-technical.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.
- Media:Cc_plus_cc_zero_pr.pdf - CCZero Official Press Release (pdf)
Podcasting Legal Guide
- Podcasting Legal Guide is the home of this project.
- Media:Podcasting_Legal_Guide.pdf - Podcasting Legal Guide (pdf)
Promotional
Documents that aim to explain CC and licensing.
- Media:Cc-general.pdf - General Information (pdf)
- Media:Cc-fullpage-promo-1.pdf - What is CC? poster (pdf)
- Media:Cc-fullpage-promo-2.pdf - How to license poster (pdf)
- Media:Cc-fullpage-promo-svg.zip - Inkscape SVG source files (zip)
- Sharing Creative Works Comics - A general introduction to copyright and CC licensing
- Media:Sharingcreativeworks.zip - Inkscape SVG source files (zip)
- Media:ConceptPaperV.2007.pdf - "Encouraging the Ecology of Creativity" info guide (pdf)
- CC Videos
- CC Comics
Technical Documentation
- Media:Cc-xmp.pdf - Embedded Metadata with XMP (pdf)
White Papers
- Media:CC_PublicSectorInformation_report_v3.pdf - "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!
- Media:Cc-general-open.zip - Information page framework (Scribus source file)
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Teaching Creative Commons
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Creative Commons in the classroom
Creative Commons Overview for your Company
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