October 17, 2010 at 17:37Understanding Creative Commons Public Domain Tools
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I decided to issue my comment as a separate post.
So, let's take a look at Creative Commons' public domain tools (I hope everyone knows that Creative Commons are more than licenses).
First, I will traditionally recall what the public domain is . The public domain is a condition where the work is not protected by copyright. This may be for several reasons. For example, copyrights never existed (for example, a photo taken by NASA), copyrights expired (Pushkin died more than 70 years ago), copyright was refused (for example, this post).
The very first tool we are interested in created by Creative Commons is located at creativecommons.org/licenses/publicdomain. It was created both to transfer the work you created to the public domain (i.e., to give up your copyright), and to mark a work that is not protected by copyright (for example, a NASA photo). However, this tool is based only on US laws and may not work in other countries. Most likely because of this, Creative Commons refused this tool and no longer recommends using it.
Instead of an obsolete tool, it is now recommended to use two other tools . CC Zero
now exists for transferring your work to the public domain (i.e., forfeiting your copyright). This tool is designed to operate around the world (including in Russia), and not only in the United States. I believe that all anti-copyright fighters should use CC Zero without exception. I myself will show an example below.
In order to mark someone else's work as not protected by copyright there is a Public Domain Mark . That is, this is for if you post Pushkin’s poems to the site.
Now about how the transfer to the public domain differs from distribution under the CC-BY license. The differences are very small, but practically none for Russia. Firstly, in the United States (unlike Russia), authors of works in OD may not be indicated (i.e., the public domain is a waiver of the right to a name). Secondly, CC-BY is still a license and copyrights are reserved, just permission is given for copying, editing and commercial use.
And now, as I promised, with CC0, I give up copyright on this text because I want it to not suffer from copyright restrictions, such as the prohibition of copying. To the extent possible under law, TarzanASG has waived
all copyright and related or neighboring rights to “Understanding Public Commons by Creative Commons.” This work is published from: Russian Federation.
(if you don’t see the picture, disable Adblock)
And the HTML code looks like this . You can get your own HTML code here .
So, let's take a look at Creative Commons' public domain tools (I hope everyone knows that Creative Commons are more than licenses).
First, I will traditionally recall what the public domain is . The public domain is a condition where the work is not protected by copyright. This may be for several reasons. For example, copyrights never existed (for example, a photo taken by NASA), copyrights expired (Pushkin died more than 70 years ago), copyright was refused (for example, this post).
The very first tool we are interested in created by Creative Commons is located at creativecommons.org/licenses/publicdomain. It was created both to transfer the work you created to the public domain (i.e., to give up your copyright), and to mark a work that is not protected by copyright (for example, a NASA photo). However, this tool is based only on US laws and may not work in other countries. Most likely because of this, Creative Commons refused this tool and no longer recommends using it.
Instead of an obsolete tool, it is now recommended to use two other tools . CC Zero
now exists for transferring your work to the public domain (i.e., forfeiting your copyright). This tool is designed to operate around the world (including in Russia), and not only in the United States. I believe that all anti-copyright fighters should use CC Zero without exception. I myself will show an example below.
In order to mark someone else's work as not protected by copyright there is a Public Domain Mark . That is, this is for if you post Pushkin’s poems to the site.
Now about how the transfer to the public domain differs from distribution under the CC-BY license. The differences are very small, but practically none for Russia. Firstly, in the United States (unlike Russia), authors of works in OD may not be indicated (i.e., the public domain is a waiver of the right to a name). Secondly, CC-BY is still a license and copyrights are reserved, just permission is given for copying, editing and commercial use.
And now, as I promised, with CC0, I give up copyright on this text because I want it to not suffer from copyright restrictions, such as the prohibition of copying. To the extent possible under law, TarzanASG has waived
all copyright and related or neighboring rights to “Understanding Public Commons by Creative Commons.” This work is published from: Russian Federation.
(if you don’t see the picture, disable Adblock)
And the HTML code looks like this . You can get your own HTML code here .