Taking Stock of the Creative Commons Experiment: Monitoring the Use of Creative Commons Licenses and Evaluating Its Implications for the Future of Creative Commons and for Copyright Law

We provide an analysis of the use of Creative Commons (CC) licenses, an approach to licensing creative works which has become very popular among authors who wish to promote more liberal sharing and use of their work. We provide data demonstrating the popularity of CC, examine which specific license...

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Main Authors: Cheliotis, Giorgos, Chik, Kam Wai, Warren Bartholomew, Guglani, Ankit, Tayi, Giri Kumar
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Language:English
Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2007
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Online Access:https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sis_research/281
https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/sis_research/article/1280/viewcontent/ChikChelotisTaking_stock_of_the_creative_commons_experiment_eng.pdf
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Institution: Singapore Management University
Language: English
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Summary:We provide an analysis of the use of Creative Commons (CC) licenses, an approach to licensing creative works which has become very popular among authors who wish to promote more liberal sharing and use of their work. We provide data demonstrating the popularity of CC, examine which specific license types within the CC framework are most popular, and then identify contributing factors for the relative popularity of some of the license types.