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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 [...]
Creative Commons Announces New Leadership, New Funding
April 1st, 2008
San Francisco, CA, USA — April 1, 2008
Creative Commons, a nonprofit organization that works to expand the body of creative work available to the public for legal sharing and use, today announced both a leadership evolution and a major new grant of $4 million from the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation to support its activities. “Both [...]
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. [...]
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