RegisteredCommons is a new organization launched on September 19 at the Wizards of OS 4 conference in Berlin. The best short description is that it's an Austrian-based cousin to Creative Commons. Like CC, RC offers licenses for creators who want to share their creations. Unlike CC, RC offers both some-rights-reserved licenses and traditional all-rights-reserved licenses. In the same spirit it also offers expiring licenses for those who want to share their content only for a limited time. Finally, it allows authors to register their authorship, without creating a license, in order to facilitate subsequent proof. For more information, see the press release from the launch or the FAQ, which uses a CC (not RC) license.
Posted by
Peter Suber at 9/24/2006 11:57:00 AM.
The open access movement:
Putting peer-reviewed scientific and scholarly literature
on the internet. Making it available free of charge and
free of most copyright and licensing restrictions.
Removing the barriers to serious research.
I recommend the OA tracking project (OATP) as the best way to stay on top of new OA developments. You can read the OATP feed on a blog-like web page or subscribe to it by RSS, email, or Twitter. You can also help build the feed by tagging new developments you encounter.
