Google the Creative Commons initiative with an additional $ 30,000 supports.
claims to be the donation of $ 30,000 not the first to give Google the Creative Commons initiative (CC) is performed. As a reason the importance of the work is called, who made the initiative last year. This covered not only the licenses for which the organization is widely known, but countless other projects. Sun was , the engine ccHost that lies ccMixter to expand support for additional media types. ccPublisher , a utility, the publishing media that are under a CC license easier, now allows you to upload to the website of the Internet Archive and has been translated into several languages. Furthermore, a was launched community site for developers to life.
The use of CC licenses is currently growing almost exponentially, according to Google. In any case, is the company that had grown between January and July 2006 the number of links to a CC license from 40 to 140 million.
Meanwhile designs Creative Commons Version 3.0 of its licenses, which cover the whole spectrum of copyright from full copyright protection to public domain. Version 3.0 should be clarified with respect to the current version 2.5, many terms and concerns one of the largest users of licenses, the MIT in mind. Furthermore, the current "generic" license to a specifically targeted on the United States license. The "generic" license is rewritten in accordance with international treaties.
Also version 3.0 of the licenses is likely to rule out technical measures for copy protection (eg DRM) explicitly. Although it was discussed whether such measures can be authorized as long as even versions of works are made available without copy protection, but was apparently no agreement .[ pro-linux ]
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