Our 2010 Google Policy Fellowship

Fred Benenson, November 13th, 2009

We’re very excited to announce that Creative Commons will once again be part of Google’s Policy Fellowship for the summer of 2010, and we’re looking forward to filling the big shoes of our 2009 policy fellow, Aurelia Schultz.  Just like last year, the Google Policy Fellow will receive a substantial grant to work at Creative Commons’ San Francisco Office on the following issues (but this is certainly not an exhaustive list of the things we’ll have you thinking about):

• Synthesize statistics garnered from recent studies focusing on international license adoption. Fellow will be expected to generate and investigate diverse theses relating to license choice, adoption, and use.
• Coordinate with counsel to critically analyze the current state of public domain policy in US and abroad. Develop a framework to help Creative Commons’ deploy messaging regarding public domain policy in US and abroad.
• Research and analysis of how the contemporary discourse of copyright, sharing, reuse, and remix has been shaped over the last six years as a result of the Creative Commons project.
• Investigate new opportunities for Creative Commons implementation in ‘uncontacted’ communities, institutions, artists, and mediums.
• Work with Creative Commons’ international community and jurisdiction project leads on projects, research, and outreach.

Check out more details and the application, which is due by December 28th, 2009.

Internship Application Period – Now Closed

Jennifer Yip, March 16th, 2009

Thank you to all the internship applicants. It’s past the March 13 deadline, and we have more than enough submissions to review. We will not be able to interview all applicants. We will announce our final decisions by the end of this month or early April. Applicants may email inquiries to me, Jennifer Yip. (No phone calls, please.)

Summer Internships 2009

Jennifer Yip, February 26th, 2009

CC’s popular summer internship positions are now posted on the Opportunities page! We are looking for motivated students who can spend the summer at the San Francisco office to work with the staff on various projects. This year, we are offering technology, legal, international outreach, and graphic design/media development positions. Please spread the word to qualified students, or apply yourself! We are accepting applications now through March 13th.

To The 2008 Summer Interns

Jennifer Yip, August 22nd, 2008

Last Friday was the last day of Creative Commons’ fourth summer internship program. The staff had the pleasure of working with six accomplished students from various backgrounds and locations. As seen in their active blogging and outreach, they proved to be an asset during our busy summer months. We’d like to thank them each for their diligence at the office and exuberance for free culture.

• Brian Rowe, a 3L from the University of Seattle School of Law, was our Legal intern.
• Frank Tobia, from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Technology, was a Tech intern.
• Grace Armstrong, who is attending Yale University in the fall, assisted our ccLearn team.
• Greg Grossmeier, a graduate student from the University Michigan School of Information, was our Community Development intern.
• Steren Giannini, from Ecole Centrale de Lyon in France, was our other Technology intern.
• Tim Hwang, from Harvard University, was the Business Development intern.

Special thanks to:

• Brian for helping to distill the much needed list of “Frequently Frequently Asked Questions;”
• Frank for improving the curry bot and working on code that will reduce the duplicated code in our licensing interfaces;
• Grace for bringing an inquisitive eye to the international issues in the realm of ccLearn and open education;
• Greg for driving Case Studies, PDregistry.ca and ccHost 5 forward with his mad bug reporting and triaging skills;
• Steren for improving our internal task tracking system and making the deeds and license chooser validate as XHTML+RDFa;
• and thanks to Tim for all his hard work on the Case Studies and Metrics projects and for helping plan the next wave of CC business development.

We were truly impressed by all your great work, and look forward to seeing each of you again in the near future!

2008 Summer Internships

Jennifer Yip, February 8th, 2008

For all the students who have been patiently waiting, Creative Commons has posted summer internship positions. Please spread the word to interested college or graduate students. We are currently looking for a Community Development, a Business Development, a Technology, and a Development intern. Three full-time and one part-time (Development) positions are available in total.

Applicants may submit a cover letter, resume, and references for the position(s) of interest through March 3.