Resources for Creative Commons Compliance

Inspired by Resources for Open Source Compliance.

Works released with CC tools are everywhere today and there is growing awareness of how to comply with the the terms offered under CC tools. Here are some useful resources to learn more about compliance.

Organizations

• Creative Commons, developer and steward of legal tools used to release or mark works; see their FAQ.

Communities

• cc-community mailing list for general CC Q&A and discussion.

Educational materials

• Licensing: Knowing Your Rights at Curriki

News and Journals

• Plagiarism Today occasionally covers CC compliance.
• TechDirt occasionally does as well.

Conferences

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Provenance

Some software/services provide registries or similar whereby works can be looked up to establish with greater certainty that a work has been offered under a particular license, by a variety of methods: text/image matching, keyword, URL, hash...

• Safe Creative is a content registry.
• Attributor matches text.
• TinEye matches images.
• PicScout matches images.
• Vetting by a community such as Wikimedia Commons or posting by a user with a long history at a site such as Flickr may be a useful indicator.