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 [...]

Experts in Norway adapt CC licenses to national law / Eksperter i Norge tilpasser CC-lisenser til nasjonal lovgivning

June 5th, 2008

[Text in English and Norwegian]
Oslo, Norway and Berlin, Germany — June 6, 2008
The Creative Commons Norway team has successfully ported the Creative Commons licensing suite to Norwegian law. The localized licenses will be unveiled today at a press conference at Oslo University College.
The team responsible for coordinating the porting process and public discussion with local and international legal [...]

Creative Commons announces major funding support from Omidyar Network

May 28th, 2008

San Francisco — 2008 May 28
Creative Commons announces that it has received $500,000 as the first installment of a gift of $2.5 million over five years from Omidyar Network. This gift is made to Creative Commons as part of the “5×5 Challenge” grant program, from which Creative Commons expects to receive $2.5 million annually in general [...]

Creative Commons explores a digital copyright registry system

May 22nd, 2008

San Francisco, CA USA — May 22, 2008
Creative Commons today announced that it is exploring possible roles in connection with a digital copyright registry system.
Creative Commons is the San Francisco-based not-for-profit organization which provides free copyright licenses that allow creators to mark their works in advance with a range of permissions granted to others. This licensing model [...]

Ecuador encourages learning, research, and creativity with localized CC licenses

April 21st, 2008

Loja, Ecuador and San Francisco, CA, USA — April 22, 2008
Ecuador, the forty-fifth jurisdiction worldwide to port the Creative Commons licensing suite, will celebrate its launch today at the Universidad Técnica Particular de Loja (UTPL).
The Creative Commons Ecuador team has coordinated the porting process and public discussion with local and international legal experts under the leadership of [...]