The term “open source” can be tricky. For many people, it’s taken to mean that a particular piece of software is free and that they can do whatever they wish with it. But the reality is far more ...

Creative Commons has officially launched a Web tool to aid content creators who want to publish material under the highly permissive CC0 license. The tool, which has been under development for over a ...

On Tuesday, the Metropolitan Museum of Art moved to make all of the public-domain images of artwork in their possession—around 375,000—free for anyone to use under a Creative Commons Zero license, ...

There’s free and then there’s Free. The Creative Commons folks have just unleashed a new license that’s about as free as it gets: Creative Commons 0 1.0. Essentially CC0 allows the user to put the ...

This month the Smithsonian becomes Creative Commons Zero (CC0). This means we are opening the digital doors, making our content available under user-friendly copyright laws. Artists, researchers and ...

Because not every picture needs to turn a profit, Flickr is making it easier for photographers to distribute their work with no strings attached. This week, the photo sharing site added public domain ...

Claude Monet's "The Green Wave" (ca. 1866) is just one of 375,000 images from the Metropolitan Museum of Art that are now available to download for free. Metropolitan Museum/Public Domain - CC0 ...