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 ...

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 ...

For a while there, it looked like Hasbro and its Wizards of the Coast label were about to destroy more than two decades of goodwill from fans, but the company is making some significant moves to ...

Creative Commons (or “CC”) licenses empower authors to share their work openly while maintaining copyright and some basic control of downstream reuse. While the logos have become a familiar part of ...

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 ...

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 ...

Rules covered under the proposed OGL 1.2 include specific classes, spells, and monsters, meaning that creators who want to create a D&D compatible class for instance or new monsters compatible with ...