The term “open source” can be tricky. For many people, it’s taken to mean that a particular piece of software is free and that they can do whatever they wish with it. But the reality is far more ...

As nonfungible tokens (NFTs) rose to fame over the last couple of years, they were hailed as the solution to digital ownership and intellectual property (IP). However, a new class of NFTs and founders ...

There's free and then there's Free. The Creative Commons folks have just unleashed a new license that's about as free as it gets: Creative Commons 0 1.0. Essentially CC0 allows the user to put the ...

On Tuesday, the Metropolitan Museum of Art moved to make all of the public-domain images of artwork in their possession—around 375,000—free for anyone to use under a Creative Commons Zero license, ...

A couple of weeks ago, AI company Anthropic published the constitution that they use to train their Claude LLM (“under a Creative Commons CC0 1.0 Deed, meaning ...