As a part of the Eurobalance partners’ continuing commitment to sustain the project work after its conclusion, partners focused on privacy and property issues.

The partnership has agreed to use the Creative Commons (CC) license system as it represents a range of copyright licenses and tools that forge a balance within the traditional “all rights reserved” setting that copyright law creates. The tools give to Eurobalance partners a simple, standardized way to grant copyright permissions to their creative work. The licenses provide a world-wide growing digital commonality and a pool of content that can be copied, distributed, edited, remixed and built upon all within the boundaries of copyright law.

The CC licenses begins with the Legal Code Layer, a traditional legal tool in the language and text formats that matches the most with international legislative frameworks.

The CC licenses are also available in a format that ‘normal’ people and the Eurobalance beneficiaries can read. The license ‘Commons Deed’ provides a handy reference for licensors and licensees, summarizing and expressing some of the most important terms and conditions.

Finally, in order to make it easy for the Web to know when a work is available under a Creative Commons (CC) license, CC provides a “machine readable” version of the license, which provides a summary of the key freedoms and obligations written into a format that software systems, search engines and other kinds of technology can understand. CC developed a standardized way to describe licenses that software can understand called CC Rights Expression Language (CC REL) to accomplish this.

This will enable Eurobalance products to be easily readable and found by both Google and Yahoo for content, by Flickr for images, by Spinxpress for general media and, of course, by Wikimedia Commons, the multimedia repository of Wikipedia.

Taken together, these three layers of licenses ensure that the spectrum of rights isn’t just a legal concept. It’s something that the creators of works can understand, their users can understand, and even the Web itself can understand.

The partners choose the Attribution – Share Alike License (CC BY-SA). The license allows Eurobalance beneficiaries and whoever interested in Work Life Balance to remix, tweak and build upon Eurobalance partner’s work, even for commercial purposes, as long as they credit the Eurobalance project and its EU funding from EU. They will also have to license their new creations under the identical terms.

More specifically, CC BY-SA allows to share (copy, distribute and transmit the work) and remix (adapt the work) under the condition of attribution. By this condition each beneficiary must attribute the work in the manner specified by the EB partners as authors and licensors, but not in any way that suggests that they endorse EB partners or our use of the work.

More detailed information and permissions can be obtained by contacting the project through its web site.

Both the CC BY-SA license Deed and its Legal Code are available in multiple languages:

To view the License Deed: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0

To view the Legal Code: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/legalcode