Keyword: Creative Commons (was: [ox-en] Oekonux introduction)
- From: Stefan Merten <smerten oekonux.de>
- Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2007 08:48:06 +0200
Keyword: Creative Commons
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* Licenses for "Some rights reserved"
Copyright: "All rights reserved"
* Four license building blocks
* Attribution (BY)
Demands attribution of the source on copies
* Noncommercial (NC)
Denies permission of commercial usage of the work
* No Derivative works (ND)
Denies permission to derive works
* Share Alike (SA)
Demands keeping the license on derived works
Copyleft equals SA+BY
* Big, international movement with good "marketing"
(http://creativecommons.org/)
* Adaption of license terms to national law systems
3rd Oekonux conference: Presentation of the Austrian variant
* Many million of works under Creative Commons licenses already
.. admonition:: Conclusion
Creative Commons further the transfer of the idea of Free Software
Transfers idea to arbitrary information goods
Probably no initiative which does this with more success
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