Documentation
Welcome to the Creative Commons Documentation project!
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.
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- WIKI - Sign up for an account on this wiki and contribute here
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- LIST - cc-community listserv - Creative Commons Community email list - http://wiki.creativecommons.org/Mailing_Lists
Many ways to contribute
- Help us translate documents.
- Help us create new documents.
- Help us log CC press articles.
Top 5 Docs
These are in order of general relevance and promotion.
- What is Creative Commons? flyer (pdf) (scribd.com)
- What is Creative Commons? (pdf) (scribd.com)
- Sharing Creative Works Comics - A general introduction to copyright and CC licensing
- Licensing and Marking Content (pdf) (scribd.com)
- Creative Commons Integration With Your Website (pdf)
Contents
Creative Commons Explained
Documents that aim to explain CC and licensing.
About Creative Commons
- What is Creative Commons? flyer (pdf) (scribd.com)
- What is Creative Commons? (pdf) (scribd.com)
- Encouraging the Ecology of Creativity (pdf) (scribd.com)
- CC info sheet for WIPO (pdf)
- About Creative Commons
Using the Creative Commons Licences
- How To License poster (pdf) (scribd.com)
- Quick Guide to the Creative Commons Licences (pdf) (scribd.com)
- Creative Commons Licensing Flowchart (pdf) (scribd.com)
- Licensing and Marking Your Content (pdf) (scribd.com)
Using Creative Commons Content
- Finding Creative Commons Material (pdf) (created for the Pooling Ideas competition)
- Attributing Creative Commons Material (pdf) (created for the Pooling Ideas competition)
- Quick guide to Creative Commons resources (pdf)
Multimedia
- Sharing Creative Works Comics - A general introduction to copyright and CC licensing (scribd.com)
- CC Videos
- CC Comics
Sector-specific Information
- For teachers - A collection of resources on finding and using Creative Commons specifically designed for teachers, including fact sheets, slideshows, videos and worksheets.
- For citizen journalists - from CC Lebanon: 10 Legal Rules on social activism and copyright by Martin Wählisch:
- For the public sector - Creative Commons Licensing for the Public Sector (pdf)
- Business models - Business Models for Creative Works and Creative Commons Licensing (pdf)
Legal
FAQ
- FAQ - Important documentation of frequently asked CC questions. A must read !
CC Education/OER
- The Open Education program at Creative Commons works to minimize barriers to universal access to education that are created by increasingly restrictive copyright laws and incompatible technologies. Learn more about CC Education and Open Educational Resources.
Technical Implementation
Developer
- Developers - Documentation and information for software developers.
Integration Best Practices
Marking
- Marking - How to properly mark various media with Creative Commons licenses.
- Metadata - an overview of Creative Commons metadata - opening documentation.
- ccREL - describing license metadata in a machine readable way and attaching it to digital works.
- Metadata Marking - technical background on machine-readable metadata.
- Attributing Creative Commons Material
Metrics
- Metrics in progress to assess CC-license adoption
- License Statistics
- Statistics from the CC Monitor Project (pdf)
- Taking Stock of the CC Experiment (pdf)
- License Use Five Years On (pdf)
Staff Contributions
- Explore CC conference participation.
- Explore staff presentations and slideshows online!
- Eric Steuer, Creative Director
- Jon Phillips, Community + Business Developer
- Jessica Coates, Global Network Manager
Mailing list archives
Technical Documentation
- Embedded Metadata with XMP (pdf) (scribd.com)
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".
Available translations can be found at Translate/Documentation.
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, to make our wiki as informative as possible !
Teaching Creative Commons
How should you go about teaching Creative Commons ideas to a general audience?
CC Denmark has made a section "CC i undervisningen" (CC in education) containing video tutorials, pdf guides and other resources for teachers. [1](In Danish)
Creative Commons in the classroom
Creative Commons Overview for your Company
An overview of Creative Commons for a company.
