The Piet Zwart Institute for Media Design Rotterdam has published under creative commons license the book Guide to Open Content Licenses, which is as well available as a pdf file. The book provides a comprehensive overview of diverse open content licenses, as well as background information on historical and legal issues.
Scientists, writers, designers, artists, musicians and others are increasingly interested in making their work available in ‘the public domain’. This booklet is an overview of the ways in which this has been done and a guide to the growing area of Open Content Licenses through which people design Lawrence Liang’s and safeguard access to their work.
