The Open Content Project was a project dedicated to creating Open content. Primarily designed for academics, the project's Open Publication License can easily be adapted to the needs of the artist or other content provider.
The Open Content Project is now closed and has been succeeded by Creative Commons.
Opencontentproject rely on at least a kernel of a civil society, comprised of dedicated individuals, NGOs, educational institutions and initiatives, and others who see their own actions not only in terms of individual short-term pay-off, but also within the framework of a greater, common goal.
One is that opencontentprojects rely on collaborative platforms to enable interaction and to serve as a repository of the material produced.
Opencontentprojects, in order to attract contributors, need not just to be able to mobilize a sense of shared culture, but also be immediately useful to the community.
open machine design) that is published in a format that explicitly allows the copying and the modifying of the information by anyone; not exclusively by a closed organization, firm or individual.
Content can be either in the public domain or under an open license like one of the Creative Commons licenses.
The words "opencontent" were first put together in this context by David Wiley, then a graduate student at Brigham Young University, who founded the OpenContent project and put together the first content-specific (non-software) license in 1998 with input from Eric Raymond, Tim O'Reilly, and others.
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