Creative Commons (CC) is an American non-profit organization and international network devoted to educational access and expanding the range of creative works available for others to build upon legally and to share. The organization has released several copyright licenses,known as Creative Commons licenses,free of charge to the public. These licenses allow authors of creative works to communicate which rights they reserve and which rights they waive for the benefit of recipients or other creators. An easy-to-understand one-page explanation of rights,with associated visual symbols,explains the specifics of each Creative Commons license. Content owners still maintain their copyright,but Creative Commons licenses give standard releases that replace the individual negotiations for specific rights between copyright owner (licensor) and licensee,that are necessary under an "all rights reserved" copyright management.
James Boyle is a Scottish intellectual property scholar. He is the William Neal Reynolds Professor of Law and co-founder of the Center for the Study of the Public Domain at Duke University School of Law in Durham,North Carolina. He is most prominently known for his advocating for loosening copyright policies in the United States and worldwide.
Thomas Eugene Baker is a constitutional law scholar,Professor of Law,and founding member of the Florida International University College of Law. With four decades of teaching experience,Baker has authored eighteen books,including two leading casebooks,has published more than 200 scholarly articles in leading law journals,and has received numerous teaching awards.
Open knowledge is knowledge that is free to use,reuse,and redistribute without legal,social,or technological restriction. Open knowledge organizations and activists have proposed principles and methodologies related to the production and distribution of knowledge in an open manner.
Margaret Jane Radin is the Henry King Ransom Professor of Law,emerita,at the University of Michigan Law School by vocation,and a flutist by avocation. Radin has held law faculty positions at University of Toronto,University of Michigan,Stanford University,University of Southern California,and University of Oregon,and has been a faculty visitor at Harvard University,Princeton University,University of California at Berkeley,and New York University. Radin's best known scholarly work explores the basis and limits of property rights and contractual obligation. She has also contributed significantly to feminist legal theory,legal and political philosophy,and the evolution of law in the digital world. At the same time,she has continued to perform and study music.
James G. Neal is an American librarian,library administrator,and a prominent figure in American and international library associations.
The Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC) is an international alliance of academic and research libraries developed by the Association of Research Libraries in 1998 which promotes open access to scholarship. The coalition currently includes some 800 institutions in North America,Europe,Japan,China and Australia.
The public domain consists of all the creative work to which no exclusive intellectual property rights apply. Those rights may have expired,been forfeited,expressly waived,or may be inapplicable.
Peter Dain Suber is a philosopher specializing in the philosophy of law and open access to knowledge. He is a Senior Researcher at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet &Society,Director of the Harvard Office for Scholarly Communication,and Director of the Harvard Open Access Project (HOAP). Suber is known as a leading voice in the open access movement,and as the creator of the game Nomic.
Mary Wong is the vice president for strategic community operations,planning &engagement at ICANN. Prior to taking up a full-time position with ICANN,she was the founding director of the Franklin Pierce Center for Intellectual Property and a tenured professor at the University of New Hampshire in Concord,New Hampshire,U.S.A.
Richard Harvey Stern is an attorney and law professor.
Harry Thomas Edwards,an American jurist and legal scholar,is currently a Senior United States Circuit Judge and chief judge emeritus of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit in Washington,D.C.,and a professor of law at the New York University School of Law.
Douglas Gordon Baird is an American legal scholar,the Harry A. Bigelow Distinguished Service Professor and a former dean of the University of Chicago Law School. He joined the faculty in 1980 and served as the dean from 1994-1999. He is a leader in the field of bankruptcy law.
Victoria Angelica Espinel is the president and chief executive of the software industry trade group BSA.
David R. Johnson is lawyer specializing in computer communications. He is a senior fellow at Center for Democracy and Technology,and a former chairman of the Electronic Frontier Foundation.
A copyright transfer agreement or copyright assignment agreement is an agreement that transfers the copyright for a work from the copyright owner to another party. This is one legal option for publishers and authors of books,magazines,movies,television shows,video games,and other commercial artistic works who want to include and use a work of a second creator:for example,a video game developer who wants to pay an artist to draw a boss to include in a game. Another option is to license the right to include and use the work,rather than transferring the copyright.
Eric Goldman is a law professor at Santa Clara University School of Law. He also co-directs the law school's High Tech Law Institute and co-supervises the law school's Privacy Law Certificate.
Danielle Keats Citron is a Jefferson Scholars Foundation Schenck Distinguished Professor in Law at the University of Virginia School of Law,where she teaches information privacy,free expression,and civil rights law. Citron is the author of Hate Crimes in Cyberspace (2014). She also serves as the Vice President of the Cyber Civil Rights Initiative],an organization which provides assistance and legislative support to victims of online abuse. Prior to joining UVA Law,Citron was an Austin B. Fletcher Distinguished Professor of Law at Boston University Law School,and was also the Morton &Sophia Macht Professor of Law at the University of Maryland School of Law.
Dennis S. Karjala was an intellectual property law professor at Arizona State University. His major interests in teaching and research were primarily in the area of intellectual property,specifically in copyright and its applications in digital technologies. His work in the field of intellectual property was internationally recognized and complemented by his ease in speaking and writing in Japanese.
Jorge L. Contreras is an American legal scholar and attorney who is recognized as a leading global authority on intellectual property law,technical standardization and the law and policy of human genomics.
