Here at Ars we’re big fans of Creative Commons, both the idea behind it and the work that gets produced. As publishers, we benefit from Creative Commons in a number of ways—we look things up in ...

Companies love to use third-party content for free. In this era of belt-tightening and slashed marketing budgets, why pay to create photos and videos for advertising and other commercial uses when ...

Open Attribute is a new tool that helps you identify and attribute Creative-Commons licensed content. And while it is still in active development, and even though at present it is only available for ...

Ars Magica Definitive Edition has arrived at U.S. hobby retail, priced at $159.95 for Atlas Games' 600-page gilded ...

This is one of the first times that the license–which offers more flexibility than traditional copyright licenses–has been tested in a court of law, according to legal Web site Groklaw. “The Creative ...

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 ...

With Creative Commons licenses, you can distribute your creative work for free and specify the conditions under which it can be used. For example, you can offer your work free for use, provided you ...

If you’ve ever yearned to mash up your cat video with some C-SPAN footage but couldn’t figure out how, today’s your lucky day. Because starting now, YouTube is giving users a choice over how they want ...

Thank you for your continued work on these licenses, Larry. I am very pleased to hear about the retiring of these two licenses. I agree that they fall short of promoting Free Culture. The simple Share ...