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Free content, libre content, or open content (also called free information, libre information, open information) is any kind of creative work, such as a work of art, a book, a software program, or any other creative content for which copyright and other legal limitations on usage, modification and distribution are minimal. These are works or expressions…

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Definition

Legal background

Usage

History

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Free content

Nodes84
Edges83
Triples97
Avg. degree1.98
Density0.02381
Components1

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Free content

Top relations

related to Definition · 15
Free content → An, CC BY, CC BY-SA, CC0, Creative Commons, Definition, For, Free Cultural Works, Free Software Definition, Legally, Open Knowledge Foundation's Open, Open Source, Open Source Definition, The, There
related to Legislation · 14
Free content → Any, Article, Berne Convention, CC BY, Examples, In, It, Legislation, LexML Brazil, N-Lex, Only, So, The, UK's Open Government Licence
related to Origins and Open Content Project · 11
Free content → Applying Copyleft, David, Free, GNU Project, However, Michael Stutz, Non-Software Information, Open Content License, Open Content Project, The, Wiley
related to Media · 7
Free content → Creative Commons, In, Not, Repositories, Since February, While, Wikipedia
related to 5Rs definition · 5
Free content → Framework, It, Open Content Project, The, Unlike
related to Engineering and technology · 4
Free content → Free, Open, Rapid, Technologies
related to Usage · 3
Free content → Projects, Such, Technology

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Important terminology

content open free copyright works licenses work license software public use project creative may copyleft legal domain definition commons reuse

Entity relationships Subject–Predicate–Object triples

SubjectPredicateObjectConfidenceSrc
some of the licenses made by Creative Commons have allowed for the dissemination of works under a clear set of legal permissionsinstance offree licensing schemes0.80text
photographsinstance ofRepositories exist which exclusively feature free material and provide content0.80text
clip artinstance ofRepositories exist which exclusively feature free material and provide content0.80text
musicinstance ofRepositories exist which exclusively feature free material and provide content0.80text
literatureinstance ofRepositories exist which exclusively feature free material and provide content0.80text
news articlesinstance ofRepositories exist which exclusively feature free material and provide content0.80text
scientific researchinstance ofSome claim that open source development models offer similar peer-recognition and collaborative benefit incentive as in more classical fields0.80text
with the social structures that result leading to decreased production costs.Given sufficient interest in a software componentinstance ofSome claim that open source development models offer similar peer-recognition and collaborative benefit incentive as in more classical fields0.80text
by using peer-to-peer distribution methodsinstance ofSome claim that open source development models offer similar peer-recognition and collaborative benefit incentive as in more classical fields0.80text
distribution costs may be reducedinstance ofSome claim that open source development models offer similar peer-recognition and collaborative benefit incentive as in more classical fields0.80text
easing the burden of infrastructure maintenance on developersinstance ofSome claim that open source development models offer similar peer-recognition and collaborative benefit incentive as in more classical fields0.80text
engineeringinstance ofProject hosting and code distribution is not a problem for most free projects as a number of providers offer these services free of charge.Engineering and technologyFree content…0.80text

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