On April 14, the
Russian translation of the “tool” (this is not a license!) “CC0” (
see a brief description in Russian ,
see the legal text in English ) was published
on Creative Commons, with which you can give up your copyright and transfer the work in
public domain .
CC0 was launched in December 2007 . Previously, instead of “CC0” there was a
simple waiver of copyright , but it was created to work only according to US law, while “CC0” was created to work around the world.
The CC0 tool is suitable for both content (text, sound, video, images), and software (
the Free Software Foundation recently included a CC0 in its list of free licenses , “CC0” as a public domain is compatible with the GNU GPL license).
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“CC0” works as follows: the author waives rights to the extent possible under the law, but if this is not possible, then a safety net is provided - then “CC0” becomes a simple public license allowing any use of content.
"CC0" works not only for copyright, but also for related rights and for the rights of database compilers, i.e. "CC0" is a universal tool.
Popular use of "CC0" for databases . For example, “CC0” is used by the British Library, CERN, Digg, Flickr, GlaxoSmithKline, German Wikipedia, the Open Library (Internet Archive project), the Dutch government portal (
which I talked about in Habré ), a couple of university libraries and
others (for example, satellite imagery, genetic research projects).
Interestingly, do we have any more or less well-known sites using "CC0"? Prompt sites from the BSSSR, using this tool.
I remind you that the
Russian translation of the text of Creative Commons licenses can be found in this topic .