An important aspect in combining and adapting CC-licensed works is knowing the difference between collections and adaptations also called remixes, or derivatives. In this post, I will try to explain these two important differences. Collections A collection “involves the assembly of separate and independent creative works into a collective whole” (Creative Commons, 2019). Very common […]

As a next post in this series, I will explain the anatomy of a Creative Commons (CC) license, which build on copyright law. The licenses are used amongst others for Open Access publishing, which yields a lot of academic, economic, as well as social advantages. They include three layers, a legal code, a human readable layer, and […]

Currently, I am taking the Creative Commons Certificate course. In the initial module, which introduced creative commons is and its history and in which I made this timeline, the second module is about copyright. This is not so strange, as the creative commons licenses build on copyright law. Although there are many differences between countries regarding […]