开放内容:分享与合作

Open Content:Sharing and Collaboration

开放内容是以授权方式允许人们使用、发布或修改的内容或资料,现在它包括公共领域和仍处于著作权保护期的作品,对于前者,所有用户都可以自由使用,对于后者通常是通过开放内容许可协议来实现开放。开放内容的创作者有专业人士、图书馆、广播公司、教育机构及研究和发展中心,还包括广大业余爱好者。目前开放内容的经费主要来自捐款和赞助、广告、服务费、出版费、订购费和政府拨款等。

Open content is contentand material which are under licenses that allow people to use,distribute or make additions and deletions. It now includes public domain works and copyrighted works. All users are free to use the former, the latter is usually authorized by open content licenses. Main creators of open content are professionals, amateurs, libraries, archives and public broadcasting companies. Currently open content is mainly funded from donations and sponsorship, advertising, service fees, publication fees, subscription fees and government funds.