Here at Ars we’re big fans of Creative Commons, both the idea behind it and the work that gets produced. As publishers, we benefit from Creative Commons in a number of ways—we look things up in ...

"Existing copyright laws limit the creativity of today's global society." This was the motion for debate at a seminar hosted recently by Counterpoint, the cultural relations think tank of the British ...

Any work that is not a students', including text, music or images, if not cited is by definition plagiarized. In the worlds of academia, press, or other creative industries that use source information ...

Heather VanMouwerik is a Ph.D. candidate in Russian History at the University of California, Riverside. You can follow her on Twitter, @hvanmouwerik, or check out her website. Summers in North ...

Johannesburg — The "Digital Information Commons: An African Participant's Guide" was launched yesterday at LINKS Centre here in Johannesburg in a bid to popularise the Creative Common (cc) movement on ...

Jonathan Worth's photograph of blogger and Creative Commons supporter Cory Doctorow A campaign has been launched to help people avoid breaking the law when they post ...

Your business revolves around producing creative works, and you use the Internet to market those works. Considering how quickly and easily such material can be disseminated around the world without ...

A campaign has been launched to help people avoid breaking the law when they post pictures, music and videos online. Copyright group Creative Commons has published a ...