Guide to open content licenses (original) (raw)
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2011
The EU Directive harmonising copyright, Directive 2001/29/EC, has been implemented in all META-NORD countries. The licensing schemas of open content/open source and META-SHARE as well as CLARIN are discussed shortly. The status of the licensing of tools and resources available at the consortium partners are outlined. The aim of the article is to compare a set of open content and open source license and provide some guidance on the optimal use of licenses provided by META-NET and CLARIN for licensing the tools and ...
Open Content Licensing: From Theory to Practice
This book assembles chapters written by renowned European scholars on a number of selected issues relating to open content licensing. It offers a comprehensive and objective study of the principles of open content from a European intellectual property law perspective and of their possible implementation in practice.
Open Content LicensesHow to choose the right one
2011
The EU Directive harmonising copyright, Directive 2001/29/EC, has been implemented in all META-NORD countries 1 . The licensing schemas of open content/open source and META-SHARE as well as CLARIN are discussed shortly. The status of the licensing of tools and resources available at the consortium partners are outlined. The aim of the article is to compare a set of open content and open source license and provide some guidance on the optimal use of licenses provided by META-NET and CLARIN for licensing the tools and resources for the benefit of the language technology community.
Creative Commons Licenses: Empowering Open Access
Open access (OA) is a concept that in recent years has acquired popularity and widespread recognition. International statements and scholarly analysis converge on the following main characteristics of open access: free availability on the public Internet, permission for any users to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, and link to the full texts of these articles, crawl them for indexing, pass them as data to software, and use them for any other lawful purpose, without financial, legal, or technical barriers other than those inseparable from gaining access to the Internet itself. The only legal constraint on reproduction and distribution, and the only role for copyright in this domain, should be to give authors control over the integrity of their work and the right to be properly acknowledged and cited.
Creative Commons: Open Content Licenses to Govern Creative Works
2006
Creative Commons (CC,< http://www. creativecommons. org>) provides licensing tools to assist creators in publishing their work under flexible terms which are more generous for the public than the traditional copyright" all rights reserved" approach. Inspired from the GNU-GPL license (General Public License), CC proposes a copyleft license for non-software intellectual and artistic works, as well as several more restrictive licenses allowing for instance creators to reserve commercial exploitation and derivative works.
Open Licenses and Radical Shift in Digital Content Distribution
… in honour of Prof.(Dr.) CV Rajan Pillai, 2010
Popular Open Content Licenses Open content licenses are developed to distribute free content which does not contain any harmful licensing terms same contain in commercial digital contents. It also promote ethical, legal framework for the distribution and use of digital content. Creative Commons Creative commons is considered as most popular and flexible license for free content distribution. The Creative Commons initiative designed this license with the support of practitioners and theorists of law and technology. James Boyle, Michael Carroll, Lawrence Lessig, MIT computer science Professor Hal Abelson, cyber law expert Eric Saltzman, and public domain Web publisher Eric Eldred founded Creative Commons in 2001. Creative Commons is a set of legal licenses from which creators can select the rights they wish to retain and those that they are willing to give to the public. A Creative commons license is based on copyright. So they apply to all works that are protected by copyright law. The kinds of works that are protected by copyright law are books, websites, blogs, photographs, films, videos, songs and other audio & visual recordings [10]. Popular projects make using Creating Commons are MIT OpenCourseWare, Public Library of Science, Flickr, Ourmedia and Wikinews. GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) The GNU Free Documentation License is a copy left license for free documentation, designed by the Free Software Foundation (FSF) for the GNU project. GFDL mainly applied to the distribution of manual, text book and other documentations of free software. Projects which make use GFDL for content distributions are,
Open Licenses and Content Distribution
Commercial content distributors prevent the free access of digital content using copyright law and technology. Open content licenses give opportunity to publish the work free without loosing creator’s ownership. And users have the right to use, copy, distribute, modify, perform, display and create derivative works. Open content license ensures community participation in content development and distribution, and give hype and hope for both content developers and users.
Using Free and Open Online Resources: Licensing and Collections
Small Cities Imprint, 2011
The purpose of this document is to provide an overview of the “open” or “free” resources and materials available from online collections and providers that may be of significant strategic value to schools, universities and to other organizations with educational mandates, such as museums and archives. The initial sections of this paper describe some of the most basic characteristics of “open source,” or more accurately,“creative commons” licensing for cultural and educational resources. These sections also outline criteria for the ...