English edit

Etymology edit

Coined by David Wiley as OpenContent in 1998.[1]

Noun edit

open content (uncountable)

  1. (sometimes attributive) Creative work that others can freely and legally copy or modify.
    Many websites are copyrighted and do not have any open content.
    Wiktionary is a wiki-based open-content dictionary.

References edit

  1. ^ Grossman, Lev (1998 July 18) “New Free License to Cover Content Online”, in Netly News[1], archived from the original on 2000-06-19