The Creative Commons movement is 10 years old, but what is it? How do the licences work? Who uses them? And what are the pros and cons? Wired.co.uk helps you navigate the licensing system with ...

A Creative Commons license might be the most realistic solution. Although international law holds that a traditional copyright is automatically granted the moment you produce a creative work ...

A court in the Netherlands has ruled that a Creative Commons (CC) licence is binding in a case brought against a Dutch gossip magazine by an ex-MTV star. This is one of the first times that the ...

It’s now official: Dungeons & Dragons is licensed under the Creative Commons. This makes the popular tabletop roleplaying game “freely available for any use,” Dungeons & Dragons executive ...

In light of the criticism, D&D pivoted to an even more open Creative Commons License, which was then applied to SRD 5.1 and will apply to SRD 5.2 from the start. D&D's official announcement of SRD ...

Creative Commons is a public charity dedicated to reducing barriers ... Taking inspiration from the open source movement, CC has developed Web applications that help people license their original ...

At the peak of the outrage, Wizards of the Coast fully retreated from the proposed changes, and promised to make the base rules available under a Creative Commons licence. In January, Wizards ...

You don’t give Wizards any license-back, and for any ownership disputes, you can sue for breach of contract and money damages.” The draft of the new OGL under Creative Commons — known as OGL ...

under the Creative Commons—specifically the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC-BY-4.0)—means it can't be taken back. And third-party publishers citing it only need to ...

The license for the 3DBenchy model is (and always has been) the Creative Commons BY-ND 4.0, which requires attribution and forbids distributing of derivative works. This means that legally any ...

Creative Commons licenses, or CC licenses for short, provide authors with a simple way to specify the conditions under which their works can be used. When publishing your research open access, ...