To grow the commons of free knowledge and free culture, all users are required to grant broad permissions to the general public to re-distribute and re-use their contributions freely. Therefore, for ...

Dungeons and Dragons just released a new draft for its Open Game License for One D&D. The OGL 1.2 draft was released as a part of Dungeons and Dragons’ response to controversy surrounding the future ...

A court in the Netherlands has ruled that a Creative Commons license is binding, in a case brought against a Dutch gossip magazine by an ex-MTV star. This is one of the first times that the ...

It’s now official: Dungeons & Dragons is licensed under the Creative Commons. This makes the popular tabletop roleplaying game “freely available for any use,” Dungeons & Dragons executive producer ...

The Wikimedia Foundation will change the terms under which it licenses the content in Wikipedia, the organization said Thursday. By adopting the Creative Commons ...

As students growing up in the digital era, we are all content creators. From posting blogs, to taking pictures and videos, to programming applications, we are making work that is by default protected ...

If data is the fundamental currency of the Information Age, then the concept of intellectual property is the wallet that protects it from theft or misappropriation. Ensuring that protection — ...

As readers of this blog know, two of my interests are photography and open source, so I'm naturally particularly interested in the way the two intersect with each other. As a result, I've been doing a ...

It looks like Dungeons & Dragons just succeeded on a death-saving throw. After weeks of backlash and protests from fans and content creators, Wizards of the Coast — the Hasbro-owned publisher of ...

Valve just released the CAD files for the Steam Controller and the Puck, which is used to charge and connect the controller to your PC. According to the Steam Community blog post, the STP and STL ...

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GameSpot may receive revenue from affiliate and advertising partnerships for sharing this content and from purchases through links. For a while there, it looked like Hasbro and its Wizards of the ...