DotAsia and Creative Commons Join Forces to Foster Creativity and Sharing in Asia

October 24th, 2008

The creativity of Asia’s people will be supported and shared thanks to a new long-term strategic collaboration between the DotAsia Organisation and Creative Commons (CC).
DotAsia, the not-for-profit registry operator for the “.Asia” Internet top-level domain, plans to commit US$100,000 to Creative Commons in support of its cause, outreach and community efforts in Asia. In addition, DotAsia [...]

Hong Kong Promotes Education, Creativity with Creative Commons’ 50th Launch Event

October 23rd, 2008

[Text in English and Chinese]
Hong Kong and Berlin, Germany
The localized Hong Kong licenses, launching October 25, will enable Hong Kong creators to clearly and legally indicate the freedoms they wish their creative works to carry. The launch marks the fiftieth Creative Commons jurisdiction to celebrate the license porting.
When Creative Commons was founded in 2001, the core Creative Commons [...]

CC Guatemala: “Free to Choose, To Create, To Innovate, To Learn, To Imagine”

October 22nd, 2008

[Text in English and Spanish]
Guatemala City, Guatemala and Berlin, Germany
On October 23 in Guatemala City, the University Francisco Marroquin will host an event to celebrate the localized Creative Commons licenses in Guatemala. Jimmy Wales, Creative Commons Board member, will hold the keynote address “Free to choose, to create, to innovate, to learn, to imagine” at a ceremony [...]

Jesse Dylan’s “A Shared Culture” Video Released to Celebrate Creative Commons 2008 Fundraising Campaign

October 15th, 2008

Creative Commons, a nonprofit organization focused on building a body of openly shareable and reusable creative work, today announced the launch of its 2008 fundraising campaign. Information about how to support Creative Commons is available at http://support.creativecommons.org/.
To celebrate the campaign, Creative Commons today released “A Shared Culture,” a short video by renowned filmmaker Jesse Dylan. [...]

Creative Commons Launches “CC Network” with Annual Campaign

October 15th, 2008

Today Creative Commons launched the Creative Commons Network, as part of their annual fundraising campaign. 
The CC Network offers users a profile and web badge, providing a means to express support of Creative Commons. The site also acts as a testbed for digital copyright registry technology. CC Network users may list their Creative Commons [...]

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 [...]