Documentation

Developer

• Developer - Documentation for software developers.

FAQ

• FAQ - Important documentation of frequently asked CC questions.

Integration Best Practices

• Web Integration
  • Media:Creativecommons-integration-with-your-website_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
• 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.
  • Media:Creativecommons-ccplus-cczero-pressrelease_eng.pdf (pdf)

Podcasting Legal Guide

• Podcasting Legal Guide is the home of this project.
  • Media:Creativecommons-podcasting-legal-guide_eng.pdf (pdf)

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)
  • Inkscape SVG source files (zip)
• 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

• Media:Creativecommons-embedded-metadata-with-xmp_eng.pdf (pdf)

White Papers

• Media:Creativecommons-licensing-for-public-sector-information_eng.pdf (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