On 14/11/11 21:36, Secret Artist wrote: > what's the difrence between copyleft and creative commons ?
Copyleft is a particular way of licencing a copyrighted work in order to restore the freedom that copyright removes. If you receive a copylefted work you are free to use it as you wish. *As long as* you pass on that freedom to others when you distribute copies of the work or works that are based on it. You do this by placing them under the same licence. Creative Commons are an organization that produce a range of copyright licences for cultural works. Their "Attribution ShareAlike" licence is a copyleft licence. Most of their other licences aren't free for any common definition of free-as-in-freedom. It's confusing to talk about "Creative Commons Licences", people should always specify the exact licence that they mean. > btw - Lawrence Lessig has some great lectures about this topic Lessig's "Free Culture" is well worth reading as well: http://www.free-culture.cc/ - Rob. _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list [email protected] http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
