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 ...

L.A. County’s Getty Museum is a year into a program that allows the public to download 88,000 pieces of its renowned collection for free. How it works: You’re allowed to do whatever you want with the ...

Here at Ars we’re big fans of Creative Commons, both the idea behind it and the work that gets produced. As publishers, we benefit from Creative Commons in a number of ways—we look things up in ...