Creative Commons Plus

Creative Commons has announced CCPlus.

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This is not a new license, but a method of facilitation to acquire more use of a non-commercially licensed CC protected work.  In theory, the gold link would take a potential user of the work to an agreement that can be used to acquire more permissions than the standard CC/NC license permits.

Now owners of CC licensed works can make money from those works.  I don’t know this will change much for most people who create CC licensed material (I consider myself in that group), but it could lead to more traditionally copyright protected works being licensed under the Creative Commons umbrella.  Time will tell.

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