Creative Commons Licensing Training Course: Understanding Creative Commons Licensing and its Implications for your Business (ONLINE EVENT: September 11, 2025) - ResearchAndMarkets.com

DUBLIN--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The "Creative Commons Licensing Training Course - Understanding Creative Commons Licensing and its Implications for your Business" training has been added to ResearchAndMarkets.com's offering.

This high-impact training course teaches how Creative Commons works and lays a foundation to understand UGC licensing and other open content licensing schemes.

The internet is flooded with digital content. Much of this is UGC - User Generated Content. Many open platforms such as YouTube, TikTok, Google and Twitter have been encouraging copyright owners to make their creative works available. The main way this is done is through the creative commons licensing suite.

Copyright law gives creators certain control over their creative work. If people want to use copyrighted work, they usually have to ask for permission from the creator. Creative Commons works within copyright law and allows creators to grant permission to everyone in the world to use their work in certain ways.

For businesses, Creative Commons Licensing is a way to license your work to allow others to use your creations. Your work will be able to circulate more widely, which can help you reach different audiences, gain a wider awareness and potentially an interesting market share.

Benefits of attending

• Understand how creative commons works
• Get to grips with the development of OCL and what it means for your business
• Learn about UGC licensing and other open content licensing schemes
• Expand your knowledge of emerging trends and different ways of doing business
• Consider practical tips and latest guidance to take back to your workplace

Who Should Attend:

This programme has been specifically designed for those who deal with business in any way:

• In-house lawyers
• Private practice lawyers
• Compliance officers
• Company secretaries
• Board members
• Marketing professionals

Plus, anyone with an interest in new ways of doing business and/or new technologies.

Key Topics Covered:

• Copyright as a backbone
• The development of Open Content Licensing (OCL)
• OCL schemes
• Understanding what Creative Commons Licensing is
• The Creative Commons Scheme
• Three 'layers' of licences
• Six core licences
• Practical tips and guidance

Speakers:

Mark Weston

Hill Dickinson LLP

Mark Weston has run his own law firm, Weston Legal, since 1 January 2024. He is also a consultant at Hill Dickinson LLP where he joined in February 2016 as a partner and Head of its Commercial, TMT & IP Practice. Before that, he was a partner and Head of the Commercial/IP/IT Team at Matthew Arnold & Baldwin LLP and before that, he spent several years at Baker & McKenzie in London and Chicago and has also previously been seconded to Hewlett Packard and other technology businesses. He changed role to become a consultant in Hill Dickinson's London office in January 2024.

Mark is the author of the Legal Practice Companion, a parallel text book used at several law schools, the editor of the IP and Media Law Companion as well as the rest of the Companion series of books published by Bloomsbury Professional, Tottels, Cavendish Publishing and Oxford University Press. He has noted numerous reports for the IT Law Reports and is widely published in Computing, Computers & Law, Computer Law & Security Report, IT Law Today, Intellectual Property World, Solicitors Journal and many other journals both online and offline.

Mark has also authored articles syndicated in the national and trade press and is regularly quoted in national newspapers and is heard on radio as an expert in his fields. Mark is the author of the Business Names on the Internet chapter in the PLC Ecommerce Manual as well as numerous other articles on various Commercial & IT law topics.

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