Brazilian Government First to Adopt New “CC-GPL”

December 2nd, 2003

The Brazilian Committee for the Implementation of Free Software will release code under the Free Software Foundation’s General Public License, with Creative Commons providing new human- and machine-readable packaging
Rio de Janeiro, BRAZIL, and Tokyo, JAPAN — The government of Brazil today announced its adoption of the CC-GPL, an innovation on the Free Software Foundation’s (FSF) General [...]

Italy Builds Out the Creative Commons

November 18th, 2003

The Department of Law at the University of Turin will lead the license translation, while the CNR Institute of Electronics and Information and Telecommunications Engineering (IEIIT-CNR) will take the tech lead. 
Palo Alto, USA and Turin, Italy — Creative Commons, a nonprofit dedicated to building a body of creative works free for copying and re-use, announced [...]

Creative Commons Expands to Ireland with University College Cork

November 17th, 2003

University College Cork will lead the license translation and work to expand global access to Irish culture.
Palo Alto, USA, and Cork, Ireland — Creative Commons, a nonprofit dedicated to building a body of creative works free for copying and re-use, announced today the expansion of its International Commons (iCommons) project to Ireland. University College Cork [...]

Second Life Residents To Own Digital Creations

November 14th, 2003

Linden Lab Preserves Real World Intellectual Property Rights of Users of its Second Life Online Service
NEW YORK CITY: Linden Lab, creator of online world Second Life, today announced a significant breakthrough in digital property rights for its customers and for users of online worlds. Changes to Second Life’s Terms of Service now recognize the ownership [...]

Berklee College Of Music Launches “Berklee Shares” - A Ground-breaking

November 12th, 2003

The world-renowned music college encourages people to share music lessons
via file-sharing networks
Boston, Massachusetts USA - Berklee College of Music,
the world’s largest independent music college and the premier institution
for the study of contemporary music, announces the launch of Berklee
Shares. The groundbreaking new program provides free music lessons under
Creative Commons licenses and encourages musicians to share and
distribute [...]

China and Taiwan are paving the way for Creative Commons

November 12th, 2003

CNBlog.org and the Institute of Information Science at Academia Sinica are spearheading efforts to translate Creative Commons licenses for China and Taiwan to expand international access to their cultures.
Palo Alto, USA; Shanghai, China; Taipei, Taiwan; - Creative Commons, a nonprofit organization dedicated to building a body of creative works free for copying and re-use, announced today [...]

Creative Commons launches the GET CREATIVE! Moving Image Contest

August 5th, 2003

Win a Computer - A DV Cam - An iPod
Contest to create a 2-minute presentation will demonstrate “open-source
messaging”
Palo Alto, USA Creative Commons announced today the
launch of the GET CREATIVE! Moving Image Contest. Entrants are invited to
create a 2-minute presentation in the animation or moving image format of
their choice that explains Creative Commons’ mission.
“With ‘Get Creative,’ our [...]

Supreme Court Audio Classics Enter P2P Zone Thanks to Creative Commons Licenses

June 25th, 2003

Creative Commons Also Rolls Out Strategy for Embedding and Verifying License Information in MP3s and Other Files
Palo Alto and Chicago, USA — Creative Commons and the OYEZ Project announced today the first-stage 100-hour release of MP3s from the Project’s 2000+ hours of Supreme Court recordings using Creative Commons’ machine-readable copyright licenses. Creative Commons also announced its [...]

Creative Commons Welcomes David Wiley as Educational Use License Project Lead

June 23rd, 2003

The Silicon Valley Nonprofit Also Takes Up Baton of Wiley’s Trailblazing OpenContent Project

Palo Alto, California, USA — Creative Commons, a nonprofit dedicated to building a layer of reasonable copyright, announced today that OpenContent founder Dr. David Wiley, Assistant Professor of Instructional Technology at Utah State University, will join Creative Commons and officially close the OpenContent [...]

Creative Commons Welcomes Joi Ito to Board of Directors

June 16th, 2003

San Francisco- and Tokyo-based venture capitalist, technologist, and
policy expert joins leadership of the Silicon Valley nonprofit

Palo Alto, USA — Creative Commons, a nonprofit
corporation dedicated to expanding the world of reusable content online,
announced today that Joichi Ito has joined its Board of Directors. Ito is
a venture capitalist, technologist, and internationally popular weblogger
and commentator based in California [...]