Authors of books will be creating books under "open source like" licences
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Description
As the emergence of WIKI that the collaboration and coordination by different people creating one work or one books are becoming more and more popular, it is hard to separate the ownership or copyright of a book. So a new form of "open source like" licence is coming out.
Enablers
- Development wiki-like platform
- Extensive knowledge production
- advocate of knowledge sharing worldwide
Inhibitors
- DRM
- Copyright and author's rights
Paradigms
Creative Commons licenses are several copyright licenses released on December 16, 2002 by Creative Commons, a U.S. non-profit corporation founded in 2001.
All of the main licenses grant certain baseline rights, such as the right to distribute the copyrighted work without changes, at no charge. The rest of the license depends on the version, and comprises a selection of four conditions:
- Attribution (by): Permit others to copy, distribute, display and perform the work and make derivative works based upon it only if they give the author or licensor the credits in the manner specified by these.
- Noncommercial or NonCommercial (nc): Permit others to copy, distribute, display, and perform the work and make derivative works based upon it only for noncommercial purposes.
- No Derivative Works or NoDerivs (nd): Permit others to copy, distribute, display and perform only verbatim copies of the work, not derivative works based upon it.
- ShareAlike (sa): Permit others to distribute derivative works only under a license identical to the license that governs your work.