AntWeb, Fedora Project, Wikitravel → CC BY-SA 3.0

Mike Linksvayer, November 9th, 2009

… Wikimedians and 30,000 ant images gracing Wikipedia articles. Waldir Pimenta guest-blogging with Brianna Laugher, writes :

I found the fantastic images from AntWeb, a project from The California Academy of Sciences, which aims to illustrate the enormous diversity of the ants of the world. I was especially happy to find that they were using a Creative Commons license — but soon after I was disappointed to find that the specific one they used (CC-BY-NC) was not appropriate …

Wikipedia community vote on migration to CC BY-SA begins now

Mike Linksvayer, April 13th, 2009

… with Wikipedia

Here’s a great “propaganda poster”, original created by Brianna Laugher (cited a number of times on this blog ), licensed under CC BY. See her post, Vote YES for licensing sanity!

Indeed, please go vote yes to unify the free culture movement!

Thoughtful notes on “Building an Australasian Commons”

Mike Linksvayer, July 6th, 2008

Wikimedia Commons editor and Australian Brianna Laugher wrote up some thoughtful notes on Creative Commons Australia’s recent conference :

Nonetheless, what can we learn from how CC conducts itself? I can’t speak for the other jurisdictions, but the Australian one is damn impressive. They do an incredible amount of gently-gently lobbying for the adoption of free content licenses and open access policies in a general sense, …

Scobleizing the public domain

Mike Linksvayer, February 4th, 2008

… Lessig at Stanford’s Memorial Auditorium / photo by Robert Scoble / Public Domain

Via Brianna Laugher.

Wikimedia Commons Pictures of the Year

Mike Linksvayer, January 26th, 2008

… commercially, often under liberal CC licenses or in the public domain. Explore!

Via Brianna Laugher.

Thanks and congratulations to Wikimedia Commons

Mike Linksvayer, October 15th, 2007

… does live in the shadow of Wikipedia, which it (mainly) serves. In the words of Commons editor Brianna Laugher :

We live with being identified via Wikipedia, it’s like being Albert Einstein’s sister.

We slightly furthered this over-identification in the recent announcement of public discussion of version 3.01 of CC licenses in which we thanked the Wikipedia community for raising concerns about version 3.0’s treatment of moral rights. The concern was actually raised on …