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Year: 2010
We met 3taps' matching giving challenge – thank you!
by allison UncategorizedGreg Kidd and Karen Gifford by Elizabeth Sabo / CC BY We’re thrilled to announce that we have successfully met the $3000 matching giving challenge by 3taps, a new startup that makes sifting through classified ads a whole lot easier. We are grateful to 3taps for their support and thankful to everyone who got in…
Letter from featured Superhero Andrew Rens, former Lead for CC South Africa
by allison UncategorizedI’m delighted to introduce Andrew Rens, one of our exceptional CC Superheroes, who will tell you in his own words why he supports Creative Commons and why you should too. Rens, the founding legal lead of Creative Commons South Africa – a volunteer position he held from 2003 to 2009 – possesses particularly adept superpowers…
University of Michigan Library adds 700k bibliographic records to the public domain via CC0
by Jane Park UncategorizedUniversity of Michigan Library Card Catalog by dfulmer / CC BY In addition to changing their default licensing policy from CC BY-NC to CC BY, the University of Michigan has enabled even greater sharing and reuse by releasing more than half a million bibliographic records into the public domain using the CC0 public domain dedication.…
IEEE teams up with Connexions to deliver high-quality, peer-reviewed engineering OER
by Timothy Vollmer UncategorizedRice University’s Connexions and the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Signal Process Society (IEEE-SPS) recently announced the release of a set of open educational resources on signal processing. The materials allow engineering instructors to mix and match to build customized courses, textbooks and study guides, and are useful for practicing engineers for their own…
CC News: Would you donate to CC if your gift was doubled?
by allison About CCStay up to date with CC news by subscribing to our weblog and following us on Twitter. 3taps Supports Creative Commons with a Matching Challenge! Today, we'd like to turn your attention to 3taps, a new startup that makes sifting through classified ads a whole lot easier. 3taps is supporting our fall fundraising campaign with…
3taps Supports Creative Commons with a Matching Challenge
by lisak UncategorizedGreg Kidd and Karen Gifford by Elizabeth Sabo / CC BY Today, we’d like to turn your attention to 3taps, a new startup that makes sifting through classified ads a whole lot easier. 3taps is supporting our fall fundraising campaign with a $3000 matching challenge! That means if you donate now, 3taps will match your…
science@creativecommons T-shirts now available in the CC store!
by allison UncategorizedScience@creativecommons by Creative Commons / CC BY November has been an exciting month for science at Creative Commons. Earlier this month we hosted a Creative Commons Salon in San Francisco on the promises and pitfalls of personalized medicine, which you can now watch online. We met a matching giving challenge by Hindawi, the open access…
Microsoft Continues Supporting CC!
by melissa UncategorizedWe are thrilled to announce that Microsoft has once again stepped up to support CC during our annual campaign. Microsoft has been generously donating to CC for over 5 years and we are thrilled to have their continued support. Tom Rubin, Chief Counsel for Intellectual Property Strategy, says “CC provides necessary infrastructure for openness, collaboration,…
We met The Miraverse's matching giving challenge! Thank you!
by allison UncategorizedThanks to all who donated in the past week and had your gift doubled by the Miraverse. The Miraverse has matched $5000 in your donations, bringing in a total of $10,000 this week for our fundraising campaign. We still need help reaching our $550,000 goal by December 31, so if you haven’t yet donated please…
Amazon #1 Bestseller, "Machine of Death," goes Creative Commons
by Jane Park UncategorizedIt’s happened before with music albums, where releasing work openly online did not hurt actual sales of the product. The authors of Machine of Death clearly get this. They explain why the science fiction anthology of stories about people who know the manner by which they die (but have no idea when), has been made…