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"CC0 enables scientists, educators, artists and other creators and owners of copyright-protected content to waive copyright interests in their works and thereby place them as completely as possible in the public domain, so that others may freely build upon, enhance and reuse the works for any purposes without restriction under copyright. In contrast to CC's licenses that allow copyright holders to choose from a range of permissions while retaining their copyright, CC0 empowers yet another choice altogether - the choice to opt out of copyright and the exclusive rights it automatically grants to creators - the "no rights reserved" alternative to our licenses."

"# 1 Questions about CC0 generally * 1.1 What is CC0? * 1.2 How does it work? * 1.3 Are CC0 and CC's Public Domain Dedication and Certification ("PDDC") the same? * 1.4 Which should I use if I want to dedicate a work to the public domain? CC0 or PDDC? * 1.5 Will the PDDC Change? * 1.6 How is CC0 different from the Public Domain Dedication and License ("PDDL") published by Open Data Commons? # 2 Questions for those thinking about applying CC0 to their work(s) * 2.1 Who can use CC0? * 2.2 How do I apply CC0 to my work? * 2.3 What are the benefits of including the information requested by the CC0 chooser? * 2.4 Does CC0 require others who use my work to give me attribution? * 2.5 Does CC0 really eliminate all copyright and related rights, everywhere? * 2.6 What kinds of rights am I waiving when I use CC0? * 2.7 What are neighboring rights? * 2.8 What are database rights? * 2.9 Can I control how my work is being used once I publish it using CC0? * 2.10 What about other IP related rights, such as trademark and patent rights? # 3 Questions for those thinking about using a CC0'd work * 3.1 Can anyone use a work that is distributed under CC0? * 3.2 Do I have to attribute the person who applied CC0 to their work? * 3.3 Why do some works indicate the jurisdiction from which the work is being published? * 3.4 What rights do I need to use a CC0'd work? * 3.5 How can I be sure that I have all the rights I need to use the work?"

"Though Open Access publication and Creative Commons licensing were not mentioned as issues by the people who participated in the DICE survey, several replies deal with germane issues: see cases THETA-MU in the "Per cominciare..." section of the handbook. The concern about protection expressed in THETA, IOTA and KAPPA is answered in Chapter B [check "B" in final version - calmansi calmansi just now] of this handbook: works such as those mentioned in these replies are automatically protected by copyright law once they have been expressed, and this protection also obtains for works expressed in digital form, and offered online. Open Access publishing and of Creative Commons licensing are particular uses of copyright law. As we shall see in what follows, they can help towards the communal sharing wished for by the author of LAMBDA, and the literature about their implementation can be of use in solving the conundrums of third parties' rights evoked by the author of MU. Open Access The main Swiss higher education authorities have signed the Berlin Declaration on Open Access. This is a great progress for research. It also means that all publications by teachers and researchers - and all theses by students - of Swiss academic and higher education institutions must be made available in Open Access repositories, following the rules stated in by the Berlin Declaration: 1. The author(s) and right holder(s) of such contributions grant(s) to all users a free, irrevocable, worldwide, right of access to, and a license to copy, use, distribute, transmit and display the work publicly and to make and distribute derivative works, in any digital medium for any responsible purpose, subject to proper attribution of authorship (community standards, will continue to provide the mechanism for enforcement of proper attribution and responsible use of the published work, as they do now), as well as the right to make small numbers of printed copies for their personal use. 2. A complete