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IndexPREFACE........................................................................................ 7AUTHOR’S PRESENTATION....................................................... 9

CHAPTER ONEAN INTRODUCTION TO THE PHENOMENON......................11

1. Preambles.............................................................................122. What Creative Commons is................................................. 13

a. The Creative Commons project......................................13b. The Creative Commons Corporation............................. 13c. The project spirit.............................................................14d. Curiosity: the origin of “Creative Commons” name......15

3. What Creative Commons is not........................................... 15a. It is not a public body with institutional duties.............. 15b. It is not a copyright collecting society like ASCAP, PRS or similar............................................................................ 16c. It is not a legal advice service.........................................16

4. The local porting of the licenses.......................................... 17

CHAPTER TWOTHE LICENSES............................................................................19

1. Basic principles....................................................................20a. A definition of “copyright license”.................................20b. The license and the restriction of the work....................20c. The license and the acquisition of copyright.................. 20d. Licensor and licensee..................................................... 21e. Writing a license............................................................. 22f. The sense of the standardized licenses............................22

2. The three different shapes of the licenses............................ 22

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a. The legal code.................................................................23b. The Commons deed........................................................23c. The Digital code............................................................. 23

3. The characteristics and the functioning of the licenses........25a. Common features of all Creative Commons licences....25b. Structure and basic clauses of the Creative Commons licenses............................................................................... 26c. The licenses set...............................................................29d. The update of the licenses.............................................. 31

4. Other special Creative Commons tools................................31a. CC Plus...........................................................................31b. CC0 (CC Zero)............................................................... 33

CHAPTER THREESUGGESTIONS TO CORRECTLY APPLYTHE LICENSES............................................................................35

1. Basic advices for a correct approach................................... 362. Before licensing................................................................... 37

a. Make sure your work falls within the Creative Commons license.................................................................................37b. Make sure you have the rights........................................37c. Make sure you understand how Creative Commons licenses operate.................................................................. 38d. Be specific about what you are licensing....................... 40e. Are you a member of a collecting society? If so, does it allow you to CC-license your works?................................ 40

3. How to choose the most suitable license............................. 41a. Regarding the clauses of the licenses............................. 41b. Regarding the updating of the licenses.......................... 42c. Regarding the jurisdiction ............................................. 42

4. Legal suggestions.................................................................43a. The copyright notice.......................................................44b. Use of logos and “visuals”............................................. 44

5. The guided process for choosing a license...........................46

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6. Technical suggestions.......................................................... 51a. Marking Creative Commons works: general aspects.....52b. Marking specific kinds of files.......................................53c. Publishing your work through a social networking site or a file sharing system...........................................................55d. Finding works under Creative Commons licenses.........56

APPENDIX ITHE COMMONS DEEDSOF THE LICENSES(release 3.0, unported version)...................................................... 57

APPENDIX IITHE PAGE ABOUT CREATIVE COMMONSON WIKIPEDIA........................................................................... 65

Aim and influence....................................................................66Governance.............................................................................. 67

Board.................................................................................. 67Technical Advisory Board.................................................. 67Audit Committee................................................................ 67

Types of Creative Commons licenses...................................... 68Jurisdiction ports......................................................................68Criticism...................................................................................69

General criticism................................................................ 69License proliferation and incompatibility.......................... 70License misuse................................................................... 70The Free Software Foundation...........................................71Other criticisms of the non-commercial license.................71Debian................................................................................ 72

Legal cases............................................................................... 72Dutch tabloid...................................................................... 72Virgin Mobile..................................................................... 73CC-Music – Spanish Court (2006).....................................73

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APPENDIX IIIHOW TO PUBLISH......................................................................75

APPENDIX IVA CC REL GUIDE........................................................................ 87

APPENDIX VBOOKS, ARTICLES AND WEBSITESABOUT CREATIVE COMMONS..............................................109

Books and articles............................................................ 110Websites............................................................................111