About Open Content
Open content
Open Content hosting is experiment project provides open and free access to content to some of the of the most popular articles, books and courseware from quality sources. Some content is provided free because their copyright for these books has expired in the United States. Some are provided as a choice of the authors to benefit the wider community.
Definitions
Free content, or free information, is any kind of
functional work, artwork, or other creative content having no
legal restriction relative to people's freedom to use,
redistribute, improve, and share the content. Importantly, when
free content is modified, expanded, or incorporated within
another work, the resulting work must also be distributable as
free content (see share-alike). To be considered free content, a
work must allow modification and redistribution.
Free content encompasses all works in the public domain and also
those copyrighted works whose licenses honor and uphold the
freedoms mentioned above. Because the law by default grants
copyright holders monopolistic control over their creations,
copyrighted content must be explicitly declared free, usually by
the referencing or inclusion of licensing statements from within
the work.
A work in the public domain cannot be licensed because, by
definition, its copyright has expired or has been relinquished.
However, such a work is still considered free content, because
it may be used for any purpose whatsoever. - Source Wikipedia
Although this website provides free access to valuable content, please note that open content and free content license are not the same. Every author has different terms of use for their work. For more information on copyrights and licensing information please contact the authors. If any of the submitted content violates the authors copyrights please notify us by email at < @.org>
Open Content Leaders and Contributors
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) mit.edu
- Columbia University columbia.edu
- European Archive europarchive.org
- Gutenberg project gutenberg.org
- International Institute of Management (IIM) iim-edu.org
- Open content opencontent.org
- Johns Hopkins University Libraries jhu.edu
- Smithsonian Institution Libraries sil.si.edu
- University of California universityofcalifornia.edu
- University of Texas utsystem.edu
- Washington University washington.edu
- William and Flora Hewlett Foundation hewlett.org
