Psychology 2.0 introduces a modern conception of intellectual properties

• in order to assist the level of creativity of the psy2 community, the site licenses the articles published on its website using the up-to-date web licenses of Creative Commons 3.0
• Creative Commons guarantees that everybody will have his rights as an author, but releases the other rights connected to an article, such as copying, publishing and alteration
• this concept of intellectual property enables the content of all articles published on psy2.org to be available to the maximum of people and should thus be accessible by everyone via the internet
  • everybody can add his or her knowledge and ideas to make articles even better
  • by also taking into account the effect of using simple language, the results of Psychology 2.0 will be accessible for free by many more people than today
  • if somebody wants to publish an article found on Psy2 in off-line media and wants to earn money from doing so: he is free to do that if he indicates that the article's origin is psy2.org and that the idea comes from the users who initiated the topic and added the most value to it
• you can find further information on pmwiki system's authoring philosophy at http://www.pmwiki.org/wiki/PmWiki/AuthoringPhilosophy [+] the article is written by Patrick Michaud, the creator of pmwiki -- the system which psy2.org is based on