Any recent law school graduate or intellectual property attorney has likely come across Creative Commons, the California-based non-profit founded by Lawrence Lessig, Hal Abelson and Eric Eldred.

An organization that has defined an alternative to copyrights by filling in the gap between full copyright, in which no use is permitted without permission, and public domain, where permission is not ...

In a thought-provoking article, Daphne Ekpe, a lawyer with an impressive academic background and extensive experience in intellectual property law, has delved into the pressing issue of copyright ...

Here at Ars we’re big fans of Creative Commons, both the idea behind it and the work that gets produced. As publishers, we benefit from Creative Commons in a number of ways—we look things up in ...

This article forms part of Wired.co.uk's Creative Commons Week, which sees a range of articles published on the topics of CC licensing, as well as the past, present and future of the Creative Commons ...

Busted! You copied an image on your blog that you saw on the internet. You didn’t think you were doing anything wrong but it turns out you were. The image was copyrighted and now the copyright holder ...

As a digital hub for Europe, Ireland is a key location for policy debates on internet innovation. One of the fundamental issues in internet policy is the appropriate balance to strike between free ...

This article forms part of Wired.co.uk's Creative Commons Week, which sees a range of articles published on the topics of CC licensing, as well as the past, present ...