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PicScout has released a new browser extension designed to make it simple for designers, bloggers and illustrators to license photos they find online, so long as they aren't looking for pictures ...

Companies love to use third-party content for free. In this era of belt-tightening and slashed marketing budgets, why pay to create photos and videos for advertising and other commercial uses when ...

As of October 2011, 200 million images bore the CC-licensed photo mark. Flickr keeps tabs of which of the six CC licences its photographers are opting for and, at last glance, it was one demanding ...

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 ...

Anyone who has spent time scouring the internet for free-to-use content has likely come across pictures, written materials and music permissively licensed under one or more of the Creative Commons ...

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 ...

Attorneys have to navigate copyright issues on a daily basis: whenever marketing materials are made, videos get recorded, client websites get updated. Although the term open licensing might seem ...

That's exactly the problem that the folks at the Creative Commons set out to solve. Assembling a team of those very same high-priced copyright lawyers from top law firms and law schools, they've ...

A Texas family has dropped its lawsuit against the nonprofit Creative Commons copyright licensing organization, after an apparent misunderstanding over commercial use of a photo of a teenage member of ...

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 ...