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. Eventually, this type of content will be moved to our main website, but for now, this is the incubator for this type of content.

FAQ

• FAQ - Important documentation of frequently asked CC questions.

Promotional

Documents that aim to explain CC and licensing.

• File:Cc-general.pdf - General Information (pdf)
• File:Cc-fullpage-promo-1.pdf - What is CC? poster (pdf)
• File:Cc-fullpage-promo-2.pdf - How to license poster (pdf)
  • File:Cc-fullpage-promo-svg.zip - Inkscape SVG source files (zip)
  • File:Cc-general-open.zip - Information page framework (Scribus source file)

• Sharing Creative Works Comics - A general introduction to copyright and CC licensing
  • File:Sharingcreativeworks.zip - Inkscape SVG source files (zip)

• File:ConceptPaperV.2007.pdf - "Encouraging the Ecology of Creativity" (pdf)

• CC Media Presskit
• CC Promotional Videos
• CC Comics

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

Projects

CC+

How does Creative Commons and Commercial entities work together to get artists and companies paid?

• CC+ is the home for this effort.
  • File:Cc plus cc zero pr.pdf - CCZero Official Press Release (pdf)
  • File:Ccplus-general.pdf - CC and CC+ Overview for the World Wide Web (pdf)
  • File: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.
  • File:Cc plus cc zero pr.pdf - CCZero Official Press Release (pdf)

Podcasting Legal Guide

• Podcasting Legal Guide is the home of this project.
  • File:Podcasting Legal Guide.pdf - Podcasting Legal Guide (pdf)

Developer

• Developer - Documentation for developers.

Metrics

• Metrics in progress to assess CC-license adoption
• License Statistics
• File:CC-Monitor Findings - iSummit.pdf - "CC Statistics from CC-Monitor Project" (pdf)
• File:CreateCommExp.pdf - "Taking Stock of the Creative Commons Experiment..." (pdf)
• File:CC the next generation.pdf - "Creative Commons license use five years on" (pdf)

Technical Documentation

• ccREL - tba
• File:Cc-xmp.pdf - Embedded Metadata with XMP (pdf)

Integration Best Practices

• Web Integration
  • web integration one pager - tba
• Application Integration
• Desktop Integration

Mailing list archives

• CC-Community
• CC-Licenses
• CC-Devel

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!

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