Creative Commons（知识共享）

Founded

January 15, 2001; 17 years ago[1]

Founder

Lawrence Lessig

Type

501(c)(3)

Tax ID no.

04-3585301

Focus

Expansion of "reasonable", flexible copyright Method

Creative Commons license

Key people

Ryan Merkley (CEO)

Website

creativecommons.org

Creative Commons (CC) is an American non-profit organization devoted to expanding the range of creative works available for others to build upon legally and to share.[2] The organization has released several copyright-licenses known as Creative Commons licenses free of charge to the public. These licenses allow creators to communicate which rights they reserve, and which rights they waive for the benefit of recipients or other creators. An easy-to-understand one-page explanation of rights, with associated visual symbols, explains the specifics of each Creative Commons license. Creative Commons licenses do not replace copyright, but are based upon it. They replace individual negotiations for specific rights between copyright owner (licensor) and licensee, which are necessary under an "all rights reserved" copyright management, with a "some rights reserved" management employing standardized licenses for re-use cases where no commercial compensation is sought by the copyright owner. The result is an agile, low-overhead and low-cost copyright-management regime, benefiting both copyright owners and licensees.

The organization was founded in 2001 by Lawrence Lessig, Hal Abelson, and Eric Eldred[3] with the support of Center for the Public Domain. The first article in a general interest publication about Creative Commons, written by Hal Plotkin, was published in February 2002.[4] The first set of copyright licenses was released in December 2002.[5] The founding management team that developed the licenses and built the Creative Commons infrastructure as we know it today included Molly Shaffer Van Houweling, Glenn Otis Brown, Neeru Paharia, and Ben Adida.[6]

In 2002 the Open Content Project, a 1998 precursor project by David A. Wiley, announced the Creative Commons as successor project and Wiley joined as CC director.[7][8] Aaron Swartz played a role in the early stages of Creative Commons,[9] as did Matthew Haughey.[10]

As of May 2018 there were an estimated 1.4 billion works licensed under the various Creative Commons licenses.[11] Wikipedia uses one of these licenses.[12] As of May 2018, Flickr alone hosts over 415 million Creative Commons licensed photos.[13][14]

Creative Commons is governed by a board of directors. Their licenses have been embraced by many as a way for creators to take control of how they choose to share their copyrighted works.

Contents

1 Purpose and goal

2 Creative Commons Network

2.1 South Korea

2.2 Bassel Khartabil

3 Criticism

3.1 License proliferation and incompatibility

3.2 License misuse

3.3 Criticism of the non-commercial license

3.4 Personality rights

4 See also

5 References

6 Bibliography

7 External links

Purpose and goal

Golden Nica Award (2004)

Lawrence Lessig (January 2008)

Creative Commons Japan Seminar, Tokyo (2007)

CC some rights reserved

 A sign in a pub in Granada notifies customers that the music they are listening to is freely distributable under a Creative Commons license。

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