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Can you offer your content under different licenses to different users? There is some confusion around this, but the CC legal code says that the license is about the use […]

Until the end of this year, our license at FWK was CC-BY-NC-SA with an open access version (Web). Here’s a video explaining our license and why we chose it. With […]

There are a lot of folks who seek to get rid of the Non-Commercial clause in CC licenses, stating that they are not open. See for example, “The case against -NC.”  […]

Perception of the license and its uses has evolved beyond the barriers of what’s written in the Creative Commons code of law. The “open purists,” as I call them, have […]

There are a lot of misconceptions about copyright.   Copyright starts with the creation of a work. The creator either holds the rights to his/her IP (automatic under U.S. copyright […]

A couple weeks ago, my company/employer Flat World Knowledge made a necessary shift in its business model.  Here are the official company statements: Why Flat World is Moving from Free […]