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wikiHow Reaches 25,000 Articles

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With the addition of “How to Make an Eiskaffee (Creamy Iced Coffee)” on September 21, the 25,000th article was added to wikiHow. wikiHow is a wiki whose community works to build and share the world’s largest, highest quality how-to manual. Articles include everything from everyday tasks such as maintaining a vacuum cleaner and tying a…

Firefox Knowledge Base

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The Firefox Knowledge Base (also known as SUMO, or support.mozilla.com) launched as alpha, with all content licensed under CC Attribution-ShareAlike. There are lots of really practical uses of this great content allowed under the license — for example, an IT department, school, or NGO creating training materials covering specific browser tasks. For example, the Knowledge…

Creative Commons 3rd Annual Fundraising Campaign

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Today, Creative Commons officially launched its third annual fundraising campaign. Our goal is to raise $500,000 before Dec. 31st which means we need your support! To help promote this campaign we’ve redesigned our website (as you may have noticed) to include a dynamic map which shows where in the world our support comes from and…

Creative Commons Launches Third Annual Fundraising Campaign

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Creative Commons Launches Third Annual Fundraising Campaign San Francisco, CA USA — October 1, 2007 Today, Creative Commons officially launched its third annual fundraising campaign. The past two fundraising campaigns generated vital financial support for Creative Commons. This year, the organization is asking its community for help in raising funds before January 1, 2008. “Our…

Creative Commons @ 5 years

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Five years ago this December, we launched Creative Commons. At a party with music by DJ Spooky, and video endorsements by John Perry Barlow and (the late) Jack Valenti, we began to implement a gaggle of legal hacks to let the copyright system better reflect the views of many artists, authors, educators, and scientists. Some…

Neurocommons in the news

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New on the Science Commons blog … Pharmaceutical companies may soon be adopting Semantic Web standards and technology if they haven’t already, according to a recent piece in Chemical & Engineering News. The cover story, “The Semantic Web: Pharma researchers Adopt an Orphan Internet Standard”, looks at the desirability of such search technology and functionality…

CC in Thailand: a debut at ComWorld

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Visitors to one of Thailand’s largest digital trade fairs, the Comworld Exhibition, were greeted this year by the CC Team in Thailand. The dedicated Thai team members erected a booth in the Web 2.0 area and spent September 27-30 informing the public about the CC project. The hard working volunteers handed out leaflets with translated…

Creative Commons Announces New Vice President and General Counsel

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Creative Commons is extremely pleased to welcome Virginia Rutledge as Vice President and General Counsel. This is an extraordinary hire. One press release quote, from William Patry, Senior Copyright Counsel at Google: I applaud Creative Commons for its inspired choice of Virginia Rutledge as Vice President and General Counsel. Virginia’s background in academia, the art…

Creative Commons Announces New Vice President and General Counsel

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October 1, 2007 — San Francisco, CA, USA Virginia Rutledge has been named Vice President and General Counsel of Creative Commons, the organization announced today. In this position, Rutledge will oversee Creative Commons’s legal affairs, lead initiatives focused on the arts, and create partnerships with arts and cultural institutions both in the U.S. and internationally.…

Revver pays $1 million to video creators and promoters

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Earlier this month Revver announced that it had paid $1 million to video creators and promoters over the past year. Revver has been a pioneer in combining CC licensing (videos on Revver are licensed under Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives) and compensation to creators via an ad-based model. Creative Commons used Revver as part of its fall fundraising campaign…