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 translate and 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.
- Metadata Marking - The primary focus of this article is machine-readable metadata
Metrics
- Metrics in progress to assess CC-license adoption
- License Statistics
- Media:Statistics-from-the-CC-Monitor-project_eng.pdf (pdf)
- Media:Taking-stock-of-the-creative-commons-experiment_eng.pdf (pdf)
- Media:License-use-five-years-on_eng.pdf (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:Creativecommons-ccplus-cczero-pressrelease_eng.pdf (pdf)
- Media:Creativecommons-ccplus-overview-for-the-world-wide-web_eng.pdf (pdf)
- Media:Creativecommons-ccplus-technical-implementation-for-the-world-wide-web_eng.pdf (pdf)
- "How Creative Commons licenses can interact with commerce" video
- On CC site
- On blip.tv
- Accompanying script text
CCZero
- CCZero is the home for this effort.
Podcasting Legal Guide
- Podcasting Legal Guide is the home of this project.
Creative Commons Explained
Documents that aim to explain CC and licensing.
- Media:Creativecommons-informational-flyer_eng.pdf (pdf)
- Media:Creativecommons-what-is-creative-commons_eng.pdf (pdf)
- Media:Creativecommons-what-is-creative-commons-poster_eng.pdf (pdf)
- Media:Creativecommons-how-to-license-poster_eng.pdf (pdf)
- Media:Creativecommons-licensing-and-marking-your-content_eng.pdf (pdf)
- Sharing Creative Works Comics - A general introduction to copyright and CC licensing
- comic book (pdf)
- Inkscape SVG source files (zip)
- Media:Creativecommons-encouraging-the-ecology-of-creativity_eng.pdf (pdf)
- CC Videos
- CC Comics
Technical Documentation
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.