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This is the home of the CC-Monitor online platform, which contains automatically collected data, graphs, research and collectively written commentary on the global adoption of Creative Commons licenses. It is our hope that this will become a valuable online resource for the Creative Commons community, for researchers, the press, and other third parties. We will invite many more experts on CC and all things 'open' to contribute to this resource in due time. Click on any of the links below to access statistical information, original research and commentary on the adoption of Creative Commons around the world.
THIS ONLINE RESOURCE IS CURRENTLY UNDER DEVELOPMENT - PLEASE CHECK AGAIN IN A FEW WEEKS
[edit] Guidelines for readers and writers
As a visitor to this website, if you find something that is of interest to you and wish to include in another report, in your blog, or even to a commercial publication, you may do so under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution license. The only exception to this currently are the interactive maps which are available for non-commercial use only. If you have been invited or wish to contribute to this online resource please look here first for further instructions: Author instructions. For the time being write access to the website is limited because the site is still under development and we have already had issues with spammers.
Disclaimer
Please note that this online resource will be continuously updated, so some content may be outdated or inaccurate at the time you access a page. While we will try to keep this website up-to-date, relevant and fact-based at all times, we will not be held responsible for any mistakes or false information that you may come across while browsing our pages. Please read also the general disclaimer if in doubt.
[edit] Credits
This project was initiated by Mike Linksvayer, VP of Creative Commons and Giorgos Cheliotis, Assistant Professor of Communications and New Media at the National University of Singapore, with support from the Social Science Research Council (Collaborative Grants in Media and Communications) and the Ford Foundation (Program on Knowledge, Creativity and Freedom). This effort builds on the research of the Participatory Media Lab of Prof. Cheliotis, initially set up at Singapore Management University, and the data collection efforts of CC. Many more have contributed thus far in one way or another, including Asheesh Laroia (CC), Nathan Kinkade (CC), Haoyu Bai (Fudan), Ankit Guglani (SMU), Clint Gono (SMU), Jackson Tan (NUS), Pratichi Joshi (NUS), Sofia Morales (NUS), Jane Gowan (Citizen Lab), Ronald Deibert (Citizen Lab) and Jonathan Zittrain (Oxford). Interactive maps built with the DIY Map tool by John Emerson.
Project initiated by Creative Commons and the Communications and New Media Programme of the National University of Singapore, with support from the Social Science Research Council and the Ford Foundation.
