Creative Commons licenses provide a flexible range of protections and freedoms for authors, artists, and educators. Since last fall, we've been talking at length to various creators about their CC stories---the impact Creative Commons has had on their lives and in their respective fields, whether that's in art, education, science, or industry. We are thrilled to announce that we have cultivated the most compelling of these stories and woven them together...
CC0 enables scientists, educators, artists and other creators and owners of copyright-protected content to waive copyright interests in their works and thereby place them as completely as possible in the public domain, so that others may freely build upon, enhance and reuse the works for any purposes without restriction under copyright.
In contrast to CC’s licenses that allow copyright holders to choose from a range of permissions while retaining their copyright, CC0 empowers yet another choice altogether – the choice to opt out of copyright and the exclusive rights it automatically grants to creators – the “no rights reserved” alternative to our licenses.
The Talis Connected Commons scheme is intended to directly support the publishing and reuse of Linked Data in the public domain by removing the costs associated with those activities.
The scheme is intended to support a wide range of different forms of data publishing. For example scientific researchers seeking to share their research data; dissemination of public domain data from a variety of different charitable, public sector or volunteer organizations; open data enthusiasts compiling data sets to be shared with the web community.
For qualifying data sets, Talis will provide, through the Talis Platform:
* Free hosting of up to 50 million RDF triples and 10Gb of content
* Access to data access services that operate on that data, including data retrieval and text search
* Free access to a public SPARQL endpoint for each dataset.
This means that data set providers will not incur any of the commercial costs normally associated with hosting data on the Talis Platform. In addition neither the data set provider or its users will incur any usage charges relating to the use of the Platform services made available on that data.
To qualify for entry into the scheme all data and content hosted in the Platform must be made available under one of the following public domain data licenses:
* Open Data Commons Public Domain Dedication and License
* Creative Commons CC0
CC0 enables scientists, educators, artists and other creators and owners of copyright-protected content to waive copyright interests in their works and thereby place them as completely as possible in the public domain, so that others may freely build upon, enhance and reuse the works for any purposes without restriction under copyright.
In contrast to CC’s licenses that allow copyright holders to choose from a range of permissions while retaining their copyright, CC0 empowers yet another choice altogether – the choice to opt out of copyright and the exclusive rights it automatically grants to creators – the “no rights reserved” alternative to our licenses.
In Deutschland stehen wir vor der Frage, ob das Modell des Open Content dieses Problem der Nutzungsrechte lösen kann oder uns in die Lage versetzt, dass wir innerhalb der Kirche verschiedene Inhalte frei, kostenfrei und sogar ohne großen Verwaltungsaufwand austauschen können.
ASN would strengthen the collaborative nature of the Internet... to act as a public commons that engages citizens in civil society... an infrastructure for trusted relationships across the [web]...enabling innovation in democratic governance, alternative
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