Die "Lizenz" - CC - creative commons scheint sich immer grösserer Beliebtheit zu erfreuen.



Bei Syllabus wurde ein Artikel darüber geschrieben:

In the face of ever longer and stronger copyright laws, Creative Commons has launched a suite of licenses—its first project of many—to help recreate a healthy public domain.

In principle, copyright is a spectrum. It grants authors an array of discrete, fine-grained powers: the rights to copy, redistribute, commercially exploit, or build upon an authored work, among others. Each right can be exercised individually and enforced more or less than any other, depending on the author's preferences.

In practice, however, copyright tends toward monochrome: It applies automatically and fully to all works the moment they're made, regardless of the author's aims. To deviate from this "all rights reserved" default usually requires the help of skilled (and often expensive) lawyers.

Hier geht's weiter: Academic Digital Rights: A Walk on the Creative Commons

Und hier geht's zur Weblog von Lawrence Lessing: Chair of creative commons project (Stanford Law School)