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Creative Commons licenses provide a flexible range of protections and freedoms for authors, artists, and educators.

"Our music, our culture, our science, and our economic welfare all depend on a delicate balance between those ideas that are controlled and those that are free, between intellectual property and the public domain. In The Public Domain: Enclosing the Commons of the Mind James Boyle introduces readers to the idea of the public domain and describes how it is being tragically eroded by our current copyright, patent, and trademark laws. In a series of fascinating case studies, Boyle explains why gene sequences, basic business ideas and pairs of musical notes are now owned, why jazz might be illegal if it were invented today, why most of 20th century culture is legally unavailable to us, and why today’s policies would probably have smothered the World Wide Web at its inception. Appropriately given its theme, the book will be sold commercially but also made available online for free under a Creative Commons license."

Broschüre des Europäisches Zentrum für Medienkompetenz GmbH zum Thema Open Soure und Open Content (Stand: Oktober 2006).

PODCASTING LEGAL GUIDE: RULES FOR THE REVOLUTION