Creative commonslicensed books the following 21 pages are in this category, out of 21 total. List of major creative commons licensed works wikipedia. Electronic version are also available to purchase in kindle, ebook, and pdf formats. Hacking secret ciphers with python a creative commonslicensed book for complete beginners with a focus on cryptography. They were incredibly positive, so i decided to move forward and started a kickstarter project. Learn what the four basic creative commons licenses are, and how they can be combined. There is a print version to buy on amazon if you like to carry books around. Our learning resources and documentation are released under a creative commons licence. If you answered yes to any of the questions above, then you should learn more about creative commons.
The book teaches the formal principles and exercises of the. Creative commons university of minnesota libraries. Using a cc licence or licensed material creative commons. The creative commons offers also a search engine for major databases as. My friend and colleague karen richardson is the perfect person to give novices a quick primer on creative commons. To learn more about the specific creative commons licenses and stipulations made in each, please visit the creative commons licenses page. Of course, youll also get monthly updates about the project and the opportunity to help coedit the book. The organization has released several licenses, known as creative commons licenses, free of charge to the public. Creative commons is a collective that contains several different types of creators and technology experts. It helps people legally share knowledge and creativity more easily. All the licenses contained short abbreviations for each standard that was to be used. Creative commons staffmembers sarah hinchliff pearson and paul stacey have now published made with creative commons, the awaited book they successfully funded on kickstarter in 2015.
Creative commons licences allow creators to mixandmatch restrictions that apply to their works. A creative commons licence is used when an author wants to give people the right to share, use and build upon a work that they have created. Weve expanded the definition in two added sections below, however, to include the most popular books published through doityourself press lulu, and. Xtine burrough and i just published digital foundations. People, organizations, and businesses all over the world are sharing their work using creative commons licenses because they want to encourage the public to reuse their works, to copy them, to modify them. All can be read online and are downloadable for offline reading. This is a list of books available under a creative commons license.
Media in category programmers the following 174 files are in this category, out of 174 total. This list may not reflect recent changes learn more. The book introduces the core libraries essential for working with data in python. It is about sharing textbooks, music, data, art, and more. By the end of 2010, more than 400 million works had been licensed with creative commons licenses. How to publish a book under a creative commons license. By book we generally mean works over 35,000 words that are or have been commercially available in hardcopy and have an isbn. This book is published under the creative commons license. Files are available under licenses specified on their description page. Flickr advanced search is my favourite place to find creative commons images, however you must remember to select the box underneath which says only search within creative commonslicensed content see below, or you will just be carrying out a regular flickr search compfight is another good site for creative commons images, with a very visual interface. Creative commons isnt perfect, and some people have made reasonable arguments against its system. This is an abbreviated version of the previously published work of the same name. We dont have to consider permission requests, or payment, or even. But ive been getting more annoyed by all the trolling, mickey mouse extensions and massive overreach.
This file is licensed under the creative commons attributionshare alike 3. The art of unix programming, 2003, 2005, book about the history and culture of unix programming by eric s. Most of the illustrations on this website are used under a creative commons attributionnoncommercial cc bync or attribution cc by license. Youll also get the ebook before the general public.
Cc is anti cc believes in and the right of creators to control the use of their work. Creative commons promotional video with czech subtitles addeddate 20090225 19. Open source licenses are not a good fit for these kinds of nonsoftware works. How to structure your program so that it is easy to ready and reliable. This work, freeprogrammingbooks, is licensed under the. Ive felt for a long time that the current law is working against the reasons it was set up. You must always provide credit to the original author. Creative commons staff members release new free ebook. Made with creative commons is a book about sharing. Thats 400 million musical compositions, news items, academic manuscripts, artworks, blueprints, presentations, photographs, books, blog posts, and videos whose owners believed traditional restrictions didnt allow their creations to properly circulate, grow, and. You should check which terms apply to the works you want to use. Official creative commons plugin for licensing your content.
With creative commons licenses, keep your and share your creativity. As of january 2016, 31 governments and 7 intergovernmental organizations have made their information available per cc according to, similarly dozens of organizations from the glam sector. The creative commons license on someone elses work might not be valid. This video was developed in support of csus affordable learning solutions initiative, and is licensed under. Made with creative commons is a book about sharing, explains the book s description. Creative commons licenses give much more certainty to your uses if you meet the conditions of the license, your use is preapproved. A big problem with creative commons licenses is the fact that anyone can apply them to any work. Cc just provides voluntary tools to let creators manage their own. Pages in category creative commonslicensed novels the following 24 pages are in this category, out of 24 total. New book from creative commons celebrates the power of. Creative commons licences were therefore established. Python is very popular in scientific fields, so a smattering of scientific focused titles are presented too. The growing adoption of creative commons textbooks ten years after its creation, governments are turning to the creative commons license to. Pages in category book the following 154 pages are in this category, out of 154 total.
We have published a series covering the best open source programming books for other popular languages. These licences provided many more freedoms, while following dmca. The creative commons catalog api allows programmatic access to search for cclicensed and public domain digital media. Search tools for finding creative commons and open access resources.
It details many of the activities and ideas generated at mozillas eponymous festival held last year, a 500 person metahackfest that took place in a barcelona city square, says ben moskowitz from mozilla. Often when we consider creative commons it is automatically linked with and the legality of using someone elses work. Wikipedia the licence we use is cc bysa attribution and sharealike, which is the licence used by wikipedia. The growing adoption of creative commons textbooks us news. All four of these license types can be combined and you might come across wordy licenses like attribnoderivnoncommercial when searching for images, but as long as you understand the four terms you should be able to make use of creative commons content easily and legally. Python programminglinks wikibooks, open books for an open world. You may notice browsing some of the tutorials on our website that you see this. Pratham books is a nonprofit publisher started by the pratham education initiative, which, since 1994, has been working to secure primary education for every child in india. These licenses allow creators to communicate which rights they reserve and which.
Pratham books is a notforprofit trust that seeks to publish highquality books for children at a affordable cost in multiple indian languages. Pratham books is a notforprofit trust that seeks to publish highquality books for children at a affordable cost in multiple indian. All structured data from the file and property namespaces is available under the creative commons cc0 license. Open source python programming books licensed under.
You may wish to open source the documentation, the website or some other content. Here is an introductory video about creative commons, explaining what it is, and how it can be used. Whats so creative about commons anyway read write respond. Europeana, open clip art library, pixabay, ccmixter and more governments and intergovernmental organizations. Creative commons list of freely available programming books. In a series of posts he describes his battle with an artist about using a piece of music in a video he made.
We hope to release the textbook we produce under a cc byncsa 3. Creative commons cc is an american nonprofit organization devoted to expanding the range of creative works available for others to build upon legally and to share. All of the books are released under an open source license. However, it still seems the most balanced, easiest to use approach generally accepted in the market, and it does leave the artist in control of deciding which rights to hold and which rights to grant. Its also a difficult item for creative commons to comment on. In this video, author richard harrington explains what creative commons is, how the organization works, and how to use digital images that are part of creative commons. John discusses how the creative commons licenses are a better fit for content than an open source software license. The open textbook library is a collection of over 550 freely available electronic textbooks licensed under one of six creative commons licenses. You are free to copy, distribute, transmit and adapt this work with correct attribution. Down and out in the magic kingdom by cory doctorow, accelerando by charles stross, eastern standard tribe by cory doct. Quick reference guide to finding creative commons material.
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