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Keyword: Creative Commons
Licenses for "Some rights reserved"
Copyright: "All rights reserved"
Four license building blocks
Attribution (BY)
Demands attribution of the source on copies
Noncommercial (NC)
Denies permission of commercial usage of the work
No Derivative works (ND)
Denies permission to derive works
Share Alike (SA)
Demands keeping the license on derived works
Copyleft equals SA+BY
Big, international movement with good "marketing" (http://creativecommons.org/)
Adaption of license terms to national law systems
3rd Oekonux conference: Presentation of the Austrian variant
Many million of works under Creative Commons licenses already
Conclusion
Creative Commons further the transfer of the idea of Free Software
Transfers idea to arbitrary information goods
Probably no initiative which does this with more success
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