open content

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English

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Etymology

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

Noun

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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

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  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
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