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CC Talks With: Brooklyn Museum
Cameron Parkins, February 5th, 2010
Regarding openness and sharing, the Brooklyn Museum is an exemplary institution. They are major contributors to The Commons on Flickr , license their online image collection under a CC Attribution-NonCommerical license license, provide API access to this collection, and recently ran a CC-licensed remix contest with Blondie ’s Chris Stein. Needless to say, we were eager to catch up …
No Comments »“Python for Informatics” Open Textbook Remixed in 11 Days
Timothy Vollmer, February 5th, 2010
Image: dr-chuck / CC BY
Chuck Severance, clinical professor at the University of Michigan’s School of Information, recently published a new textbook in 11 days because he was able to remix an existing textbook. The book, Python for Informatics: Exploring Information , is currently being used in his winter semester Networked Computing course. The textbook is based on the …
1 Comment »EFF’s 20th Birthday Party
Alex Kozak, February 2nd, 2010
For the past 20 years, our friends at the Electronic Frontier Foundation have been at the forefront of the intersection between technology and law, helping to define and fight for our rights in the digital age. We’d like to congratulate them on hitting the 20 year mark. To celebrate their 20th birthday, they’re throwing on a party this February 10th in San Francisco :
February 10, 2010 …
CC & OER 2010
Mike Linksvayer, January 30th, 2010
Earlier this week we announced a reorganization of Creative Commons open education projects. The objective of this reorganization is to maximize CC’s impact by focusing our activities in support of the Open Educational Resources (OER) movement where we have unique leverage and expertise — developing and explaining the legal and technical infrastructure required to make “open” work.
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Public Domain Day 2010 and Beyond
Diane Peters, January 1st, 2010
… first day of each year, Public Domain Day celebrates the moment when copyrights expire. The films, photos, books and symphonies whose copyright term has finished become “free as the air to common use” (quoting U.S. Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis).
As Creative Commons embarks on its 8 th year, plans are well underway to increase our focus and effort in the public domain arena. Here are a few highlights of what you can look forward to:
In 2009, we launched the CC0 waiver …
No Comments »CC@7 Birthday Party Round-Up
Michelle Thorne, December 29th, 2009
From a “Happy Birthday” rendition in Korean to apple schnapps in Reykjavik and a Free Culture debate in Poland, Creative Commons’ seventh birthday was celebrated this month with originality and cheerful camaraderie.
The global parties kicked off in Beijing at the opening of “Remix and Share” , a contemporary art exhibition featuring 60 acclaimed artists across the country. …
CC Talks With: The Shuttleworth Foundation on CC BY as default and commercial enterprises in education
Jane Park, December 22nd, 2009
Photo by Mark Surman CC BY-NC-SA
For those of you who don’t know Karien Bezuidenhout, she is the Chief Operating Officer at the Shuttleworth Foundation , one of the few foundations that fund open education projects and who have an open licensing policy for their grantees. A couple months ago, I had the chance to meet Karien despite a six hour time difference—she was in …
December CC Music Happenings
Cameron Parkins, December 14th, 2009
Three stories from the Creative Commons music world came across our radar recently, each showcasing a different facet of how our licenses are used to expose artists, encourage collaboration, and promote commercial avenues for freely-licensed works.
First comes news today that The Everybody , a new project from Joey Santiago and David Lovering (guitarist and drummer of the Pixies , …
Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla, supports CC with a $10,000 gift!
Allison Domicone, December 14th, 2009
Photo of Elon Musk by jdlasica / CC BY-NC 2.0
Photo of Tesla car by jurvetson / CC BY 2.0
We are delighted to announce the generous support of Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla Motors and CEO/CTO of SpaceX , who has given $10,000 to this year’s annual fundraising campaign. We are honored to receive this gift, which will have a great impact in helping us reach our $500,000 …
No Comments »The Future of Peer 2 Peer University
Jane Park, December 8th, 2009
Photo by John Britton CC BY-SA
The pilot phase of P2PU (Peer 2 Peer University) ended in October, after having run for six weeks with seven courses and approximately 90 participants. Last month, the pilot phase volunteers, including the course organizers, met in person for the first time at the first ever P2PU Workshop in Berlin. The goal of the workshop was to integrate pilot …
