Keyword: Creative Commons
- Licenses for "Some rights reserved"
Copyright: "All rights reserved" - Four license building blocks
- Attribution (BY)
Demands attribution of the source on copies - Noncommercial (NC)
Denies permission of commercial usage of the work - No Derivative works (ND)
Denies permission to derive works - Share Alike (SA)
Demands keeping the license on derived works
Copyleft equals SA+BY - Attribution (BY)
- Big, international movement with good "marketing" (http://creativecommons.org/)
- Adaption of license terms to national law systems
3rd Oekonux conference: Presentation of the Austrian variant - Many million of works under Creative Commons licenses already
- Adaption of license terms to national law systems
Creative Commons further the transfer of the idea of Free Software
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Transfers idea to arbitrary information goods
Probably no initiative which does this with more success