Wow. If taken to the (il)logical extreme, it seems like blocking any "commercial" provider, anywhere in the process of reproduction, would exclude just about every use of CC NC on the internet. Share ...

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 ...

A new draft of the Dungeons & Dragons Open Gaming License, dubbed OGL 1.2 by publisher Wizards of the Coast, is now available for download. The announcement was made Thursday by Kyle Brink, executive ...

Between February and April 2022, a professional photographer from Cologne, Germany, filed nine copyright infringement lawsuits in U.S. federal courts. What makes the cases unique is that in each one, ...

The move will have the company license pre-built Business Mashups in hopes of spurring adoption of a forthcoming commercially hosted service Serena Software is licensing its Business Mashups software ...

A Creative Commons license is one of several public copyright licenses that allow the distribution of copyrighted works. A Creative Commons license is used when an author wants to give people the ...

No one is forcing anyone to put their work into the public commons. But, once you do, you need to accept that you no longer can wholly control how it is used. Gordon Haff is Red Hat's cloud evangelist ...

For a while there, it looked like Hasbro and its Wizards of the Coast label were about to destroy more than two decades of goodwill from fans, but the company is making some significant moves to ...

When Creative Commons appeared to tacitly endorse the NFT boom, it set off a conversation about the future of ownership and techno-utopian ideals. Reading time 6 minutes Beeple set off a buying frenzy ...

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The six licensing templates devised by VC firm Andreessen Horowitz are irrevocable and amendable, and give creators the power to set five variables for the future use of their works. Venture capital ...