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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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