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Story of Creative Commons

Published on Jun 17, 2019

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the fundamental tension the creators of CC were trying to resolve: the restrictions of copyright law & the technological possibilities of the internet

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the Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act: extended the term of copyright for every work in the U.S.; term of copyright equals the life of the creator plus 70 years

Eldred vs Ashcroft: challenged the constitutionality of the CTEA

the CC organization: created in 2002 as a nonprofit

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what CC tries to accomplish with its licenses: a set of free, public licenses that would allow creators to keep their copyrights while sharing their works on more flexible terms than the default “all rights reserved.”

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the number of CC-licensed works available today: 1.4 billion works

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the CC global network: a global force of people committed to the idea that the world is better when we share and work together

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Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/