Questions tagged [creative-commons]
The Creative Commons license allows the distribution of copyrighted works. Use this tag for questions on how the Stack Exchange network makes use of the CC-license.
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Does the new Ask AI feature meet the attribution requirements of the Creative Commons License when referencing network posts?
I am posting this here instead of SO Meta because this can potentially impair the network as a whole and therefore should be discussed at an higher level with more visibility.
Multiple time in the ...
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Would adopting the Really Simple Licencing standard for attribution make sense/fit into the community and company's goals?
I've come across a apparently well supported project called "Really Simple Licencing" to allow for licencing and attribution of content that AI scrapes. Assuming it's respected, it has a ...
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Removing attribution because someone was charged but not convicted with a crime?
When someone is charged with a crime, they don't - as I understand it - lose their rights under the Creative Commons license. I know one such user has had his right of attribution stripped. I find ...
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Additional licenses for Creative Commons contributions
Some framing around content licensing...
As a content creator who contributes to the data repository that is Stack Overflow/Stack Exchange, authors maintain ownership of their works, even though their ...
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Preparing for the company to breach the terms of the CC-BY-SA license [closed]
I am expecting that at some point in the future and possibly quite soon, the company will breach the terms of the CC-BY-SA licence that I grant to them as a content creator.
As is my right, when this ...
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Do I own and retain all rights (copyright) to all the content posted on my profile page? [duplicate]
Does the 'public Network' include content on the profile page such as the profile picture and display name?
Does the answer to Do I have to give attribution to SO when using my own content elsewhere? ...
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What aspects of Stack Exchange are copyrighted in the case of a fork?
Here's a hypothetical scenario.
Say that the Stack Exchange management does something that the community thinks is so counter to their core values, that a large majority decides to set up a new ...
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Can the "Right to be forgotten" and a LLM "non-negotiable attribution" be reconciled? Do they need to?
I was trying to make sense of the impact of the GDPR "Right to be forgotten" rules in accordance to the growing number of LLM partnership the network is announcing lately.
The data subject ...
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I want to use content from a Stack Overflow / Stack Exchange question and answer. How do I comply with the Attribution requirements?
One of the requirements of the CC BY-SA license used for content on the Network is Attribution. What does proper attribution look like for questions and answers found on the Network?
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YouTube Channels Stealing SE Network Content
Although this has been reported before (1, 2), and the current canonical guidance for how to approach sites or scrapers copying SE content is also available, I wanted to share information that I have ...
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Does the Share-alike clause of the content license mean software code content can't be used other than in open-source software?
Does the current applicability of the CC-BY-SA 4.0 to most Stack Overflow content actually mean that one can only embed (or adapt) code content from Stack Overflow in their own software if they make ...
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Posting content under licenses besides CC BY-SA 4.0
If I post content (authored by me) on an SE site, and I have released it under some license X, how does this work with the SE TOS (even though it links to SO I assume it's applicable to all sites ...
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How do we make sure that contributors get the credit and attribution they deserve when their work is used for training AI models?
I have read the blog post about Community is the future of AI and I could not find any serious answer to this question.
Here is the way I see it: The knowledge in Stack Exchange (and Stack Overflow in ...
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Will SE tell us if they sell our content?
So, the CEO of Stack Exchange has been quoted in a news article saying that they plan to sell the content of the SE network to large companies training neural networks like the one used for ChatGPT. ...
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Can SE just resell our data, relicense it and remove the attribution requirement?
SE has decided to charge for the network content when used for training AI according to an article. This has not been officially announced here, so we do not know the details.
But the main question to ...
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