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…
The CC global network
Most of the people and institutions who are part of the CC movement are not formally connected to Creative Commons. One player in the larger open movement is the CC Global Network. It is the home for a community of advocates,…
CC licensed works
By 2018, there have been over 1.4 billion works published on the Internet with CC licenses. The biggest collections on platforms such as Flickr, YouTube, Wikipedia, and DeviantArt. Since 2014, this number of CC licensed works has almost doubled. …
Meet the Creative Commons licenses
In 2002, CC published the free and public Creative Commons licenses, allowing creators to keep their copyright, while sharing their works in a more flexible way. The underlying idea was to create an easy way for creators who wanted to…
The battle continues – Creative Commons is founded
Inspired by the work of Eldred, Lessig and others founded a nonprofit organization called Creative Commons (CC). CC is a distributed organization, with CC staff and contractors working from various locations around the world. “Creative Commons Staff Berlin 17-Nov-2016” photo by…
Eldred vs Ashcroft
Lawrence Lessig, a Stanford Professor who believed the CTEA was unconstitutional, represented Eric Eldred, a web publisher, who made a career of making works available as they passed into the public domain. In the case later known as Eldred v.…
The Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act (CTEA)
The Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act (CTEA) was enacted in 1998 and extended the term of copyright for every work in the United Stated for an additional 20 years. As a result, the copyright term equaled the life of…
The digital technology vs Copyright tension
While the Internet and the World Wide Web has provided us with the opportunity to access, share, and collaborate on human creations at a scale never seen before in the history of mankind, these sharing and collaboration capabilities are restricted…
World Wide Web invented
In 1989, Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web enabling billions of people to interact on the Internet. Web pages may contain formatted text, images, video, audio, and software components. The World Wide Web has been central to the development…
My birthday
I was born in Wilhelmshaven.