View source for Resources for Creative Commons Compliance

Inspired by [http://opensource.org/node/539 Resources for Open Source Compliance].

Works released with CC tools are everywhere today and there is growing awareness of how to comply with the the terms offered under CC tools. Here are some useful resources to learn more about compliance.

==Organizations==
* [http://creativecommons.org Creative Commons], developer and steward of legal tools used to release or mark works; see their [[FAQ]].

==Communities==
* [http://lists.ibiblio.org/mailman/listinfo/cc-community cc-community] mailing list for general CC Q&A and discussion.

==Educational materials==
* [http://www.curriki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Coll_Group_OERi-OpenEducationalResourcesintegration/LicensingKnowingYourRights Licensing: Knowing Your Rights] at Curriki

==News and Journals==
* [http://www.plagiarismtoday.com Plagiarism Today] occasionally covers CC compliance.
* [http://techdirt.com TechDirt] occasionally does as well.

==Conferences==
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==Provenance==
Some software/services provide [[Content Registries|registries]] or similar whereby works can be looked up to establish with greater certainty that a work has been offered under a particular license, by a variety of methods: text/image matching, keyword, URL, hash...
* [http://safecreative.org Safe Creative] is a content registry.
* [https://fairshare.attributor.com/fairshare/ Attributor] matches text.
* [http://www.tineye.com/ TinEye] matches images.
* [http://www.picscout.com/ PicScout] matches images.
* Vetting by a community such as [http://commons.wikimedia.org Wikimedia Commons] or posting by a user with a long history at a site such as [http://flickr.com/creativecommons Flickr] may be a useful indicator.