Creative Commons License

Should I Get a Copyright or a Creative Commons License?

In short, yes. It often makes sense to both register your work with the US Copyright Office and get a Creative Commons License if you want an easy way to share your work. Copyright is a bundle of exclusive rights that...more

CBC, Creative Commons and Caution

While late to the party, I thought I'd take a moment to provide a legal perspective on last week's blogosphere brouhaha regarding the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation's evident policy of not allowing Creative...more

MGM v Grokster

Brief for Creative Commons as Amicus Curiae in Support of Respondents

EFF defended StreamCast Networks, the company behind the Morpheus (P2P) file-sharing software, in a case decided by the US Supreme Court on 06/23/05. Though the Court set aside the Ninth Circuit's ruling in favor of...more