10 Facts About Open content

Free Open content encompasses all works in the public domain and those copyrighted works whose licenses honor and uphold the freedoms mentioned above.

Projects that provide free Open content exist in several areas of interest, such as software, academic literature, general literature, music, images, video, and engineering.

Projects to provide free literature and multimedia Open content have become increasingly prominent owing to the ease of dissemination of materials that are associated with the development of computer technology.

Free Open content principles have been translated into fields such as engineering, where designs and engineering knowledge can be readily shared and duplicated, in order to reduce overheads associated with project development.

Open content publication has been seen as a method of reducing costs associated with information retrieval in research, as universities typically pay to subscribe for access to content that is published through traditional means whilst improving journal quality by discouraging the submission of research articles of reduced quality.

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Open content describes any work that others can copy or modify freely by attributing to the original creator, but without needing to ask for permission.

Concept of applying free software licenses to Open content was introduced by Michael Stutz, who in 1997 wrote the paper "Applying Copyleft to Non-Software Information" for the GNU Project.

The openness of content can be assessed under the '5Rs Framework' based on the extent to which it can be reused, revised, remixed and redistributed by members of the public without violating copyright law.

In 2006 the Creative Commons' successor project was the Definition of Free Cultural Works for free Open content, put forth by Erik Moller, Richard Stallman, Lawrence Lessig, Benjamin Mako Hill, Angela Beesley, and others.

Open content textbooks help to eliminate this problem, because they are online and thus easily updatable.