This piece was commissioned by Nieman Lab for the tenth anniversary of Creative Commons, and was published initially by them. Happy birthday, Creative Commons.

Creative Commons turned five years old this past weekend, and to celebrate, they held synchronous parties all around the world. Unless otherwise noted this site and its contents are licensed under a ...

Creative Commons, the nonprofit organization behind those popular online copyright licenses, recently turned 10 years old. To mark the occasion, the Free Music Archive (FMA) has launched a contest to ...

Editor’s note: On December 16, 2002, the first Creative Commons license was issued. The idea behind CC — giving content creators an easy way to let others copy, modify, or build on their work — has ...