Previously at ProfHacker, I’ve discussed talking about fair use in the classroom and George provided some links regarding intellectual property. All of the ProfHacker content previously found at ...

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 ...

Heather VanMouwerik is a Ph.D. candidate in Russian History at the University of California, Riverside. You can follow her on Twitter, @hvanmouwerik, or check out her website. Summers in North ...

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 ...

Earning cash by saving the planet? It sounds too good to be true — but Commons lets you do just that. The innovative app pays you actual money for making mindful, eco-positive purchases. Here's how it ...

Any work that is not a students', including text, music or images, if not cited is by definition plagiarized. In the worlds of academia, press, or other creative industries that use source information ...

There’s a dark cloud on the horizon. The behavior of cloud infrastructure providers, such as Amazon, threatens the viability of open source. During 13 years as a venture investor, I have invested in ...