Information about Free Content
Free content, or free information, is any kind of functional work, artwork, or other creative content having no significant legal restriction relative to people's freedom to use, redistribute, and produce modified versions of and works derived from the content.
Free content encompasses all works in the public domain and also those copyrighted works whose licenses honor and uphold the freedoms mentioned above. Because the law by default grants copyright holders monopolistic control over their creations, copyrighted content must be explicitly declared free, usually by the referencing or inclusion of licensing statements from within the work.
(Work in the public domain cannot be licensed because, by definition, its copyright has expired or has been relinquished. However, such a work is still considered free content, because it may be used for any purpose whatsoever — except, naturally, being re-copyrighted.)
Most free content licenses contain provisions specifying that derivative works must attribute or give credit to the authors of the original, a requirement which promotes intellectual honesty and discourages plagiarism without imposing so great a burden as to weaken the claim of such licenses to being truly free.
The Design Science License (DSL), and GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) are copyleft licenses for free content. The FreeBSD Documentation License is an example of a non-copyleft license. The GNU General Public License (GPL) can also be used as a free content license. Against DRM license is a free copyleft license for artworks published by Free Creations.
Other examples of free content licenses are some of those published by Creative Commons when commercial use and derivative works are not restricted, although they do not require a source copy of the license be provided. Note that not all Creative Commons licenses are free content as defined here. The Libre Society project also has some free content licenses and a critique of the Creative Commons philosophy.
It is questioned whether the IANG license complies with the definition of free content given here, since it puts responsibilities on redistribution the product, notably by requiring access to financial accounting.
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Free content encompasses all works in the public domain and also those copyrighted works whose licenses honor and uphold the freedoms mentioned above. Because the law by default grants copyright holders monopolistic control over their creations, copyrighted content must be explicitly declared free, usually by the referencing or inclusion of licensing statements from within the work.
(Work in the public domain cannot be licensed because, by definition, its copyright has expired or has been relinquished. However, such a work is still considered free content, because it may be used for any purpose whatsoever — except, naturally, being re-copyrighted.)
Free content licenses
Free content licenses may be copyleft - in which case modifications of the work must themselves be distributed only under the terms of the original free license - or else they are non-copyleft, which means that the licensed work may be modified and then distributed under a different license, even one that is less free.Most free content licenses contain provisions specifying that derivative works must attribute or give credit to the authors of the original, a requirement which promotes intellectual honesty and discourages plagiarism without imposing so great a burden as to weaken the claim of such licenses to being truly free.
The Design Science License (DSL), and GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) are copyleft licenses for free content. The FreeBSD Documentation License is an example of a non-copyleft license. The GNU General Public License (GPL) can also be used as a free content license. Against DRM license is a free copyleft license for artworks published by Free Creations.
Other examples of free content licenses are some of those published by Creative Commons when commercial use and derivative works are not restricted, although they do not require a source copy of the license be provided. Note that not all Creative Commons licenses are free content as defined here. The Libre Society project also has some free content licenses and a critique of the Creative Commons philosophy.
It is questioned whether the IANG license complies with the definition of free content given here, since it puts responsibilities on redistribution the product, notably by requiring access to financial accounting.
See also
Many of the Wikimedia Foundation's projects, including Wikipedia, are free content.- Copyright commandeering
- Creative Commons
- Free Culture Movement
- Free software and open source software
- Freedom of information
- IMSLP - International Music Score Library Project
- Libre knowledge
- Open access
- Open content
- Open publishing
- Public domain
- Project Gutenberg
- Open Content Alliance
- - a definition of "free content" or "free cultural works" similar to the free software definition
References
External links
- Open Knowledge Definition - project under the aegis of the Open Knowledge Foundation which provides a definition of 'open' suitable for content and data.
work of art (or artwork or work) is a creation, such as a song, book, film, print, sculpture or a painting, that has been made in order to be a thing of beauty in itself or a symbolic statement of meaning, rather than having a practical function.
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Public domain comprises the body of knowledge and innovation (especially creative works such as writing, art, music, and inventions) in relation to which no person or other legal entity can establish or maintain proprietary interests within a particular legal jurisdiction.
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worldwide view of the subject.
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Not to be confused with copywriting.
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Property law
Part of the common law series
Acquisition of property
Gift · Adverse possession · Deed
Lost, mislaid, and abandoned property
Alienation · Bailment · License
Estates in land
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Part of the common law series
Acquisition of property
Gift · Adverse possession · Deed
Lost, mislaid, and abandoned property
Alienation · Bailment · License
Estates in land
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monopoly (from Greek monos, one + polein, to sell) is defined as a persistent market situation where there is only one provider of a product or service, in other words a firm that has no competitors in its industry.
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Copyleft is a play on the word copyright and is the practice of using copyright law to remove restrictions on distributing copies and modified versions of a work for others and requiring that the same freedoms be preserved in modified versions.
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Plagiarism (from the Latin plagiare, "to kidnap") is the practice of claiming, or implying, original authorship of (or incorporating material from) someone else's written or creative work, in whole or in part, into one's own without adequate acknowledgement.
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This is primarily a statement about the article's subject, not necessarily its quality or veracity.
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This is primarily a statement about the article's subject, not necessarily its quality or veracity.
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GNU Free Documentation License (GNU FDL or simply GFDL) is a copyleft license for free documentation, designed by the Free Software Foundation (FSF) for the GNU project.
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The FreeBSD Documentation License is the license that covers the documentation for the FreeBSD operating system. Based on this license, the BSD Documentation License was created to contain terms more generic to most projects as well as reintroducing the 3rd clause the restricts the
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GNU General Public License
Author: Free Software Foundation
Version: 3
Copyright on the license: Free Software Foundation, Inc.
Publication date: 29 June 2007
OSI approved: Yes
Debian approved: Yes
Free Software:
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Author: Free Software Foundation
Version: 3
Copyright on the license: Free Software Foundation, Inc.
Publication date: 29 June 2007
OSI approved: Yes
Debian approved: Yes
Free Software:
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Against DRM 2.0 is a free copyleft license for artworks. It is the first free content license that contains a clause about related rights and a clause against DRM.
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Creative Commons
Founder Lawrence Lessig
Type Non-profit organization
Founded 2001
Focus Expansion of reasonable, flexible copyright
Method Creative Commons licenses
Website [1] The Creative Commons
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Founder Lawrence Lessig
Type Non-profit organization
Founded 2001
Focus Expansion of reasonable, flexible copyright
Method Creative Commons licenses
Website [1] The Creative Commons
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The Libre Society is a radical artistic and cultural movement that is committed to releasing free/libre/open-source art, music and literature. The Libre Society released a manifesto, called the Libre Manifesto, as its call to action.
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Creative Commons
Founder Lawrence Lessig
Type Non-profit organization
Founded 2001
Focus Expansion of reasonable, flexible copyright
Method Creative Commons licenses
Website [1] The Creative Commons
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Founder Lawrence Lessig
Type Non-profit organization
Founded 2001
Focus Expansion of reasonable, flexible copyright
Method Creative Commons licenses
Website [1] The Creative Commons
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free culture movement is a social movement that promotes the freedom to distribute and modify creative works, using the Internet as well as other media.
The movement objects to overly restrictive copyright laws, or completely reject the concepts of copyright and intellectual
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The movement objects to overly restrictive copyright laws, or completely reject the concepts of copyright and intellectual
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Free software is software that can be used, studied, and modified without restriction, and which can be copied and redistributed in modified or unmodified form either without restriction, or with restrictions only to ensure that further recipients can also do these things.
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Open source software is computer software which source code is available under a license (or arrangement such as the public domain) that meets the Open source definition. This permits users to use, change, and improve the software, and to redistribute it in modified or unmodified
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Freedom of information may refer to:
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- Whether particular information can be freely created, read, modified, copied and distributed; see Free content (as well as Free culture movement and Free software)
- Freedom to express one's opinions or ideas,
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International Music Score Library Project (IMSLP) was a project for the creation of a virtual library of public domain music scores, based on the wiki principle. Since its launch on February 16, 2006, more than 15000 scores, for 9000 works, by over 1000 composers (as of
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Libre Knowledge is knowledge which may be acquired, interpreted and applied freely, it can be re-formulated according to one's needs, and shared with others for community benefit.
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Open access (OA) is free, immediate, permanent, full-text, online access, for any user, web-wide, to digital scientific and scholarly material[1], primarily research articles published in peer-reviewed journals.
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Open content, coined by analogy with "open source", describes any kind of creative work (including articles, pictures, audio, and ) or engineering work (i.e. open machine design) that is published in a format that explicitly allows the copying and the modifying of the information
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Open publishing is a process of creating news or other content that is transparent to the readers. They can contribute a story and see it instantly appear in the pool of stories publicly available.
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Public domain comprises the body of knowledge and innovation (especially creative works such as writing, art, music, and inventions) in relation to which no person or other legal entity can establish or maintain proprietary interests within a particular legal jurisdiction.
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Project Gutenberg
Location Salt Lake City, UT
Established 1971
Collection size Over 22,000
Director Michael Hart
Website [1]
Project Gutenberg, abbreviated as PG, is a volunteer effort to digitize, archive and distribute cultural works.
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Location Salt Lake City, UT
Established 1971
Collection size Over 22,000
Director Michael Hart
Website [1]
Project Gutenberg, abbreviated as PG, is a volunteer effort to digitize, archive and distribute cultural works.
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Open Library website (openlibrary.org) is hosted by the Internet Archive as a display window for books that have been scanned by the Alliance. Another announcement in July 2007 revealed a new project under the same name (demo.openlibrary.
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