Top 10 articles celebrating Creative Commons' very uncommon last 10 years

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To a lot of people all over the world, Creative Commons is more than a license. The organization and their mission is a shining copyleft-light for work rendered by artists, designers, writers, and the list goes on. Here at Opensource.com all of our original content is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License (CC-BY-SA) which means that you are welcome to share (copy, distribute, and transmit the work), to remix (to adapt the work), or to make commercial use of the work. And many of our contributors choose to attribute thier work under the same license. Why?

Though the main idea is to provide access to all, everyone has their own personal reason for sharing their work, and the rights to use it, with the world. It's true that what Creative Commons is all about comes down to something very personal, because it's about work that represents peoples' livelihood, their pride, their passion. For me, Creative Commons is bravery and openness. To jump on board with Creative Commons, it takes a real understanding of how open access can improve education, healthcare, business, law and other areas of life and technology.

To learn more, check the list below of articles we've published from some amazing authors over the past couple of years. And as Creative Commons celebrates their 10th Anniversary/Birthday this year (with events planned on every continent except Antarctica!), we encourage you to get involved: See a listing of events on their editable wiki, view photos from events at their Flickr group, and share ideas and plans using the hashtag #cc10. There's already been a lot of activity on Twitter!

Because of you, the Internet is a better place.

—Elliot Harmon, Creative Commons, Communications Manager

  1. Celebrating 10 years of Creative Commonsby Jason Hibbets
  2. What Creative Commons and 'copyleft' mean to a designerby Jenna Slawson
  3. California passes groundbreaking open textbook legislation, by Timothy Vollmer
  4. Creative Commons applied to government, business, and journalismby Natalya Berenshteyn
  5. Creative Commons CEO reflects on YouTube's remixable libraryby Casey Brown
  6. Government and library open data using Creative Commons toolsby Jane Park
  7. Creative Commons: You are the power of openby Jason Hibbets
  8. Cable Green, director of learning at Creative Commons, on the obviousness of open policiesby Ruth Suehle
  9. New book from Creative Commons celebrates the power of openby Bryan Behrenshausen
  10. Open Your World forum preview: Q&A on music and Creative Commonsby Ruth Suehle
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Jen leads a team of community managers for the Digital Communities team at Red Hat. She lives in Raleigh with her husband and daughters, June and Jewel.

3 Comments

(the link #7 doesn't work)

oh, and happy birthday!!

@orange - thank you! it is fixed

Cool article. Those links are pretty helpful. I try to keep my blog, Bypass-Censorship, as open-source and free of copyright as possible.

Are there any licenses similar to the Creative Commons worth checking out? Specifically for blogs.

Creative Commons LicenseThis work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported License.