The site for the content licensing service RightsAgent has been down for approximately 48 hours, causing broken images on sites that use the service and an inability to license new works.

Creative Commons recently started adding seals to some of their “more free” licenses indicating that they are compatible with free culture works, including Wikipedia and similar sites.

RightsAgent is a new system designed to help you license your content to the world, both for profit and non-profit purposes. But is the system worth entrusting your content to?

It’s Monday again and that means it is time for yet another episode of the Copyright 2.0 show. As usual, myself and Chris Matthieu are taking on the past week in copyright law in our usual relaxed, humorous way.
This week’s show is talks about Creative Commons licenses including what they are, how to obtain [...]

Many sites, including this one, have expressed concerns that CC licenses may be encouraging or enabling scraping.
The problem seems to be straightforward. If a blog licenses all of their content under a CC license, then a scraper that follows the terms of said license is just as protected as a human copying one or [...]