A court in the Netherlands has ruled that a Creative Commons license 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 ...

You can't copyright a fact. But that doesn't mean that data and databases are exempt from legal discussions and licensing requirements, even if the intention is to share the data openly. Such is the ...

Back when I was writing software for PCs, it was pretty common to see licenses offering some program free "for noncommercial use" or some similar wording. The basic idea was that if you got people ...

A Creative Commons (CC) license is a type of copyright license that grants permission for others to use copyrighted works without obtaining prior approval from the copyright owner. However, the usage ...

Yahoo's photo-sharing site, Flickr, has been an early and enthusiastic supporter of Creative Commons licenses. But there's one aspect of the licenses that Flickr doesn't respect: Users can remove the ...

A new version of the Creative Commons license came out today. It’s the fourth iteration of the legal agreement, which was first released in 2002 and has since become nearly ubiquitous on the web among ...

Nearly five years after Google purchased YouTube, the web titan continues to add features to the world's largest video website. In a bid to put more power into users' hands, Google is rolling out ...

Authors and artists seeking to release works under a Creative Commons license now have more flexibility and choice when they want to share their works, Creative Commons said Thursday. Creative Commons ...

Photography platform 500px will no longer allow photographers to license their photos under a Creative Commons license, and is removing the functionality to search and download such images. The site ...