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Creative Commons Expands Documentation Project
March 23rd, 2008
San Francisco, CA, USA — March 24, 2008
Creative Commons today announced the expansion of a documentation project to explain various facets of Creative Commons licensing. The initiative includes links and PDF downloads to information on critical CC specifications, recommendations, research studies and tutorials. Some of the topics covered include the CC+ and CC0 projects, a simple [...]
Creative Commons LiveContent 2.0 Demonstrates Autocuration of Open Content
March 9th, 2008
San Francisco, CA — March 10, 2008
Creative Commons today announced the release of LiveContent 2.0, a LiveDVD full of Creative Commons-licensed multimedia content and free and open source software. LiveContent allows users to explore open content such as music, video, photography, books, and educational materials that can be freely used, copied, and built upon. LiveContent boots [...]
Puerto Rico Launches Localized Creative Commons Licenses
February 21st, 2008
San Francisco, California and San Juan, Puerto Rico — February 22, 2008
Today in San Juan, the University of Puerto Rico Cyberlaw Clinic will host the launch of localized Creative Commons licenses, marking the forty-fourth jurisdiction worldwide to port the Creative Commons licensing suite. The event will be held at 7:00pm at U.P.R.’s School of Law, featuring [...]
Lawrence Lessig to Give Final Presentation on Free Culture and Copyright
January 29th, 2008
Lawrence Lessig to Give Final Presentation on Free Culture and Copyright
San Francisco, CA, USA — January 29, 2008
Creative Commons founder and Stanford professor Lawrence Lessig will give his final presentation on free culture, copyright, and the future of ideas at Stanford’s Memorial Auditorium on January 31st, 2008 at 1pm. After 10 years of enlightening and inspiring audiences [...]
Philippine Launch Celebration: a vibrant member of the global commons
January 13th, 2008
San Francisco, CA, USA and Pasay City, Metro Manila, Philippines — January 14, 2008
Following the unveiling of the Philippine localized Creative Commons licenses in December, citizens of the archipelago will gather today in Manila to celebrate in full the public launch of its completed licenses and the country’s strides towards fostering the global commons movement.
Attorney Jaime N. [...]
Creative Commons Announces Pledges Made to Fulfill “5×5” Funding Challenge
January 2nd, 2008
CREATIVE COMMONS ANNOUNCES PLEDGES MADE TO FULFILL “5×5” FUNDING CHALLENGE
Pledges include promises of support from the Hewlett Foundation, Omidyar Network, Google, Mozilla, Red Hat, and the Creative Commons board
San Francisco, CA, USA — January 2, 2008
Today, Creative Commons announced that pledges have been made to meet the Hewlett Foundation’s “5×5” funding challenge to Creative Commons. The [...]
Creative Commons Launches CC0 and CC+ Programs
December 17th, 2007
San Francisco — December 17, 2007
Today, Creative Commons announced the launch of CC0 (aka CC Zero) and CC+ (aka CC Plus). These programs are major additions to CC’s array of free legal tools.
CC+
CC+ is a protocol to enable a simple way for users to get rights beyond the rights granted by a CC license. For example, a [...]
Serbia announces ported licenses on Creative Commons’ fifth year
December 15th, 2007
December 15, 2007 — San Francisco, CA, USA and Belgrade, Serbia
The much-anticipated global celebration of Creative Commons’ fifth year is amplified today with the announcement of the locally ported Creative Commons licensing suite in Serbia. In close collaboration with slobodnakultura.org, Wikimedia Serbia, and New Media center Kuda_org, the Creative Commons Team in Serbia, lead by [...]
Philippines introduces locally ported Creative Commons licenses
December 14th, 2007
December 15, 2007 — San Francisco, CA, USA and Pasay City, Metro Manila, Philippines
Today in Pasay City, the 42nd locally ported Creative Commons licensing suite will be launched for the Philippines. The Creative Commons licenses, now legally adapted to Philippine law, enable authors, artists, scientists, and educators the choice of a flexible range of [...]
Creative Commons Voluntarily Dismissed from Lawsuit
November 28th, 2007
San Francisco — November 28, 2007
We are happy to announce that the plaintiffs in the Chang litigation, previously reported at http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/7680, have voluntarily dismissed Creative Commons from that lawsuit. Although we are confident that any court would have agreed that there was no valid legal claim against us, this is a good result. It was highly [...]
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