History of Creative Commons

[Creative Commons]( seeks to resolve the tension between [copyright law]( and technologies that make it easy to share and remix materials. The first United States copyright law was the copyright act of 1790. The first copyright laws were very limited in both scope and term; they covered only specifi

Instead of lasting for a set number of years, copyright now expired 50 years after the death of the author.[1] As copyright terms lengthened, copyright terms were extended for some works that were previously scheduled to fall into the public domain.Thus, a work that would have fallen into the public

Chapters follow the Creative Commons charter, and are vouched for by two members of the Global Network. [6] **Platforms** organize the work areas of the Global Network online. There are currently four platforms, concerned with open education, copyright reform, community development, and GLAM (Galler

For instance, Google Image Search allows users to filter works by license. ### History The first (1.0) Creative Commons licenses, issued in 2002, were inspired by the GNU General Public Licenses.[1] They included three parts: a plain-language summary for anyone who wanted to use them, legal code to