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This lesson focuses on the origins and history of Creative Commons to the present. Items of focus include: the reasons for the invention of Creative Commons, the Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act, Eldred vs Ashcroft, the Creative Commons Organization, intended purposes of Creative Commons licenses, the numbers of Creative Commons licensed works today, and the Creative Commons Global Network.

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