This article details the purpose of the Creative Commons license as well as its limitations. In a nutshell, Creative Commons aims to lower the barriers of entry for creators to protect their content. However, some potential problems highlighted by the author are: "1) the pitfall of a free license; 2) the risk of irrevocability; 3) the ambiguity of NonCommercial and NonDerivative licenses; 4) the dilemma of ShareAlike and the open movement."
Yi Ding, "Is Creative Commons a Panacea for Managing Digital Humanities Intellectual Property Rights?", contributed by Farhat Adam Bin Aznan and Hipolito Angel Cerros, Platform for Experimental Collaborative Ethnography, Platform for Experimental Collaborative Ethnography, last modified 27 May 2021, accessed 5 February 2025. https://worldpece.org/content/creative-commons-panacea-managing-digital-humanities-intellectual-property-rights
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This article details the purpose of the Creative Commons license as well as its limitations. In a nutshell, Creative Commons aims to lower the barriers of entry for creators to protect their content. However, some potential problems highlighted by the author are: "1) the pitfall of a free license; 2) the risk of irrevocability; 3) the ambiguity of NonCommercial and NonDerivative licenses; 4) the dilemma of ShareAlike and the open movement."