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CC China Mainland launches 3.0 licenses

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After more than two years of hard work, the CC China Mainland 3.0 licenses are ready for use. Congratulations to Chunyan Wang and the entire CC China Mainland team. Thank you to everyone who helped create these licenses, including the community members who participated in the public discussion. China / Dainis Matisons / CC BY…

Version 4.0 – License Draft Ready for Public Comment!

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“The Public, West Bromwich – Welcome to The Public Entrance Free” / ell brown / CC BY We are pleased to post for public comment the first discussion draft of version 4.0. This draft is the product of an extended (and unprecedented) requirements gathering period involving input from CC affiliates, community and stakeholders. Thanks to…

CC and data[bases]: huge in 2011, what you can do

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DATABASE at Postmasters, March 2009 by Michael Mandiberg / CC BY-SA You may have heard that data is huge — changing the way science is done, enabling new kinds of consumer and business applications, furthering citizen involvement and government transparency, spawning a new class of software for processing big data and new interdisciplinary class of…

CC Australia releases 3.0, explains improvements

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Our CC jurisdiction teams are always hard at work on critical license maintenance and version upgrades. Currently, many of these talented local teams are adapting Version 3.0, released February 2007, to the laws and languages of more than 70 jurisdictions around the globe. Joining the jurisdictions that offer licenses at 3.0 is Creative Commons Australia,…

Software Freedom Law Show on the history of documentation licensing

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The Software Freedom Law Show, Episode 0x16 contains numerous bits of interest to CC geeks and is well worth a listen. The show’s hosts, Karen Sandler and Bradley Kuhn of the Software Freedom Law Center, discuss among other things: How the GFDL turned out suboptimally — a key point is that developing good public licenses…