Creative Commons Launches Study of “Noncommercial Use”

September 18th, 2008

San Francisco, California, USA — September 18, 2008
The nonprofit organization Creative Commons has launched a research study that will explore differences between commercial and noncommercial uses of content, as those uses are understood among various communities and in connection with a wide variety of content. Generous support for the study has been provided by the Andrew [...]

CC Romania Promotes Creativity with Localized Licenses

September 1st, 2008

Text in English and Romanian

Bucharest, Romania and Berlin, Germany — September 2, 2008

Creators in Romania now have the option to license their creative works under one of the six Creative Commons licenses tailored to Romanian law. Available as of today, the ported Romanian licensing suite (BY through to BY-NC-ND of Version 3.0) is provided free [...]

dublab & Creative Commons Launch “Into Infinity”

August 26th, 2008

Ready-to-Remix Art and Music Exhibit Online Now; Physical Installations to Follow
San Francisco, CA, USA and Los Angeles, CA, USA — August 26, 2008
Today, dublab and Creative Commons announced the launch of Into Infinity, an art and music exhibit jointly produced by the two nonprofit organizations. The online version of the exhibit is online now at http://intoinfinity.org; physical [...]

Flickr Cofounder Caterina Fake Joins Creative Commons Board

August 25th, 2008

San Francisco, CA, USA – August 25, 2008
Creative Commons announced today that Flickr cofounder Caterina Fake has joined its board of directors.
Fake cofounded the massively popular photo sharing site and community in early 2004. Flickr was one of the first media-sharing sites to embrace Creative Commons licensing as a way to encourage users to make their work [...]

THE “IP” Court Supports Enforceability of CC Licenses

August 13th, 2008

San Francisco, CA, USA — August 13, 2008
The United States Court of Appeals held, in Jacobsen v. Katzer, that “Open Source” or public license licensors are entitled to copyright infringement relief.
The Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (CAFC), the leading intellectual property court in the United States, has upheld a free copyright license, while [...]

Singapore Announces Ported Creative Commons Licenses

July 25th, 2008

San Francisco, CA, USA and Singapore City, Singapore — July 27, 2008
Today Creative Commons Singapore announces the completion of the locally ported Creative Commons licensing suite. In close collaboration with Centre for Asia Pacific Technology Law & Policy (CAPTEL), the Creative Commons team in Singapore, led by Associate Professor Samtani Anil and Assistant Professor Giorgos [...]

Creative Commons Launches Web and Desktop License Integration Approach with LicenseChooser.js and liblicense Projects

July 23rd, 2008

SAN FRANCISCO, USA JULY 24, 2008
Creative Commons announced today the release of liblicense and LicenseChooser.js, content licensing tools which make integration of Creative Commons license functionality easy for developers building modern desktop and web applications. These tools enable reading and writing Creative Commons licensing information to a variety of media formats. Many projects [...]

Education Innovator Esther Wojcicki Joins Creative Commons Board

July 10th, 2008

San Francisco, CA – July 10, 2008
Creative Commons (CC), a global non-profit focused on the preservation and growth of a openly shareable and remixable media landscape, officially announced today that education innovator Esther Wojcicki has joined its Board of Directors.

Wojcicki has been a prominent figure in American education. As the leading mind behind the creation [...]

Creative Commons Launches Metrics Research Project

July 9th, 2008

San Francisco, CA – July 9, 2008
Today Creative Commons (CC) announced the official launch of the Metrics project, a broad-based open web-based initiative to encourage and collect research efforts on the adoption of CC licenses worldwide. With the launch of the Creative Commons Case Studies project last month, CC expanded the qualitative information available about license [...]

Creative Commons Launches Global Case Studies Project

June 23rd, 2008

Brisbane, Australia & San Francisco, USA — 2008 June 24
Today Creative Commons (CC), in association with Creative Commons Australia, officially announced the release of the Case Studies Project, which is a large-scale community effort to encourage all to explore and add noteworthy global CC stories. Creative Commons provides free tools to allow copyright-holders to clearly show [...]