The term “open source” can be tricky. For many people, it’s taken to mean that a particular piece of software is free and that they can do whatever they wish with it. But the reality is far more ...

Welcome to Smithsonian Open Access, where you can explore and reuse millions of digital items from the Smithsonian’s collections (2.8 million at February 2020 launch). We have released these images ...

The Fedora Project has announced that it will no longer permit Creative Commons 'No Rights Reserved' aka CC0-licensed code in its Linux distro or the Fedora Registry ...

The world of free stock photos can be a difficult one to navigate. If you’re using a paid image repository like iStockphoto or Shutterstock, your rights and responsibilities are clear: You pay for the ...

CC0 licence honors values of internet “Today, we’re announcing that @moonbirds and @oddities_xyz are moving to the CC0 public license. We believe this move honors and respects the values of the ...

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Finding a high quality stock photo for free used to be quite the chore — there were very few options available, and the inventory that ...

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 ...