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- How do I properly attribute a work offered under a CC license?
- Does what I want to do violate the NonCommercial clause of the licenses?
- Does my use constitute an adaptation?
- What can I do if there are no CC licenses ported to my jurisdiction (country)?
- Why has Creative Commons Search taken over my Firefox browser search?!
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Discussion and Community Participation
Please join the discussion! There are three main ways to jump into the discussion. Through our mailing lists (community, licenses, and development) and web forum, by using our public wiki, and on our irc chat channel. Also, see the participate page if you are interested in specific ways to get involved with Creative Commons.
Discussion
Web Forum
This is a new (May, 2008) web forum/bulletin board discussion of topics related to Creative Commons, including general questions about CC licenses. It is a good place to start if you are interested in Creative Commons and want to ask general questions.
Community List
This is a wide ranging public discussion of topics related to Creative Commons, including general questions about CC licenses.
License Development and Versioning List
This is a moderated list focused on development and versioning of CC licenses.
Developers List
This is the place for general discussion of Creative Commons’ free and open source software projects and developer APIs.
Wiki
Our public wiki is a place to develop a collective memory about Creative Commons, contribute to our on-going projects, and a great place to find ample amounts of ways to help grow the commons.
Chat
The CC developer community uses the IRC chat channel #cc on irc.freenode.net. If that doesn’t make sense to you, you can read more here about hopping onto this chat channel to find out how to contribute. Please note, this channel is primarily used for free software-style development discussions, so it might be a bit technical.
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Copyright infringement notifications
If you have reason to believe that any material or activity on a site controlled or operated by Creative Commons (such as creativecommons.org, sciencecommons.org or ccmixter.org) is infringing of the right(s) owned by you or someone else, for whom you have authority to act, please follow our DMCA Notice & Takedown Procedure.
Complaints about financial impropriety
As a nonprofit entity, the integrity of CC’s financial information is paramount. We have adopted Codes of Conduct that prohibit financial impropriety and protect whistle blowers who bring such irregularities to our attention.
If you are aware of any conduct prohibited by law or by our policies, you are encouraged to make a complaint, anonymously if you wish, to the members of the company’s Audit Committee. The email address for such complaints is audit@creativecommons.org which will forward your message automatically to the members of the Audit Committee. The Committee members are identified on our People page. You may also submit a complaint by post or fax to the attention of “Audit Committee” at our San Francisco address.