Creative Commons licenses have published over 1 billion papers.
Creative Commons (CC) has published the 2015 State of the Commons annual report, which demonstrates the overwhelming popularity of free licenses worldwide. Over the past five years, the number of copyright works under free licenses has almost tripled, and this year it has overcame the mark of one billion!
Founded in 2001, the Creative Commons organization aims to increase the number of works available for legal free distribution and use. To this end, she has developed model contracts that are free to use - public licenses Creative Commons. These are the simplest licenses with metadata, clear icons and short descriptions.
By 2015, the Creative Commons organization created a legal and technical infrastructure that is fundamentally important to the modern web in its current form. The organization brings together researchers, activists, lawyers, teachers and volunteers who are representatives of CC in more than 85 countries.
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By promoting open education, open data, science, music, video, photos and regulations under free licenses, CC stimulates innovation in the heart of the Internet. The license is supported by many content platforms, from Wikimedia to Europeana, and a huge number of sites.
This is how the popularity of CC license types with different elements is distributed. As you can see, the most popular is the license CC BY SA (37%), that is, requiring to specify the authorship of the work and requiring to distribute derivative works under the same license using the copyleft principle.
In second place is the CC BY license (24%).
In 2015, photo, video and text materials under CC licenses were downloaded 136 billion times (only CC button downloads are tracked).
Most often under the free license publish photos. The table includes statistics from only 16 platforms and the Directory of Open Access Journals, just to estimate the ratio.
An important role is played by supporting CC as the default license on the popular photo hosting site Flickr (356 million photos under CC), but millions of other sites are contributing.
Last year was very successful for Creative Commons and the entire free Internet.
Founded in 2001, the Creative Commons organization aims to increase the number of works available for legal free distribution and use. To this end, she has developed model contracts that are free to use - public licenses Creative Commons. These are the simplest licenses with metadata, clear icons and short descriptions.
By 2015, the Creative Commons organization created a legal and technical infrastructure that is fundamentally important to the modern web in its current form. The organization brings together researchers, activists, lawyers, teachers and volunteers who are representatives of CC in more than 85 countries.
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By promoting open education, open data, science, music, video, photos and regulations under free licenses, CC stimulates innovation in the heart of the Internet. The license is supported by many content platforms, from Wikimedia to Europeana, and a huge number of sites.
This is how the popularity of CC license types with different elements is distributed. As you can see, the most popular is the license CC BY SA (37%), that is, requiring to specify the authorship of the work and requiring to distribute derivative works under the same license using the copyleft principle.
In second place is the CC BY license (24%).
In 2015, photo, video and text materials under CC licenses were downloaded 136 billion times (only CC button downloads are tracked).
Most often under the free license publish photos. The table includes statistics from only 16 platforms and the Directory of Open Access Journals, just to estimate the ratio.
An important role is played by supporting CC as the default license on the popular photo hosting site Flickr (356 million photos under CC), but millions of other sites are contributing.
Last year was very successful for Creative Commons and the entire free Internet.
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/273157/
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