Alternative License for the Arts Fails to Catch On in Academe

By ANDREA L. FOSTER

Creative commons, an effort to get artists and scholars to give up some control of their works so that they can be more freely distributed, is struggling to gain a foothold in academe.

Two years after the project was announced, only a few college programs regularly use the group's licenses to grant access to online works.

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