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pagePreamble This Master Privacy Policy (“Privacy Policy”) explains the collection, use, and disclosure of “personal information” by Creative Commons Corporation (“CC” or “Creative Commons”), a Massachusetts Corporation. Unless otherwise noted on a particular site or service, this Privacy Policy applies to your use of all websites that Creative Commons operates, including https://creativecommons.org, http://wiki.creativecommons.org, http://openpolicynetwork.org, http://open4us.org, https://rightsback.org/, https://ccsearch.creativecommons.org/, http://teamopen.cc, http://donate.creativecommons.org, http://thepowerofopen.org,…
Terms pre 2017-11-07
pageeffective as of 2014-12-22 (December 22nd 2014); minor updates on 2017-02-07 1. General Information Regarding These Terms of Use Master terms: Unless otherwise noted on a particular site or service, these master terms of use (“Master Terms”) apply to your use of all of the websites that Creative Commons Corporation operates, including https://creativecommons.org, http://wiki.creativecommons.org, http://openpolicynetwork.org,…
Open Innovation in Education Study: Concepts and Business Models
by Cable Green, Priscila Gonsales Open Education post![brazil-covers](https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/Screen-Shot-2017-11-06-at-1.12.22-PM-1024x302.png)
The Creative Commons (CC) community has an ongoing interest in how traditional and new business models interact with, leverage, and give back to the commons.
Open In Order To…Fulfill Our Vision for Universal Access to Research and Education
by Ryan Merkley Copyright, Open Access post![](https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/open-access-2-1-1024x768.jpg)
It’s Open Access Week, the yearly global event to raise broad awareness about the opportunities and benefits for open access to scientific and scholarly research. Open Access Week—now in its 10th year—also mobilises action for progressive policy changes so that researchers and the public get immediate online access to the results of scholarly research, and…
Open In Order To…Guarantee Access to the Laws That Govern Us
by Timothy Vollmer Copyright, Open Access post![](https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/open-access-2-1-1024x768.jpg)
It’s Open Access Week, the yearly global event to raise broad awareness about the opportunities and benefits for open access to scientific and scholarly research. Open Access Week—now in its 10th year—also mobilises action for progressive policy changes so that researchers and the public get immediate online access to the results of scholarly research, and…
Open In Order To…Accelerate Research and Scientific Discoveries
by Timothy Vollmer Copyright, Open Access post![](https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/open-access-2-1-1024x768.jpg)
It’s Open Access Week, the yearly global event to raise broad awareness about the opportunities and benefits for open access to scientific and scholarly research. Open Access Week—now in its 10th year—also mobilises action for progressive policy changes so that researchers and the public get immediate online access to the results of scholarly research, and…
Open In Order To…Promote Knowledge Sharing, Not Criminalize It
by Timothy Vollmer Copyright, Open Access post![](https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/open-access-2-1-1024x768.jpg)
It’s Open Access Week, the yearly global event to raise broad awareness about the opportunities and benefits for open access to scientific and scholarly research. Open Access Week—now in its 10th year—also mobilises action for progressive policy changes so that researchers and the public get immediate online access to the results of scholarly research, and…
Open In Order To…Maximize Reuse Possibilities of Research
by Timothy Vollmer Copyright, Open Access post![](https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/open-access-2-1-1024x768.jpg)
It’s Open Access Week, a yearly global event to raise broad awareness about the opportunities and benefits for open access to scientific and scholarly research. Open Access Week—now in its 10th year—mobilises action for progressive policy changes so that researchers and the public get immediate online access to the results of scholarly research and the…
CC Certificates spring into action
by Jennie Rose Halperin About CC post![certs-team](https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/IMG_20171002_111116-1024x768.jpg)
In order to better teach open tools and practices to communities around the world, Creative Commons has developed open educational resources and a certification program called the CC Certificate.
Landmark release of Termination of Transfer tool from Creative Commons and Authors Alliance
by Diane Peters Licenses & Tools post![tot](https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/ToT_infographic-1024x380-1.png)
For more than a decade, Creative Commons has developed and stewarded legal tools that give creators the opportunity to share their work on open terms.