We are very pleased to announce that the ‘First Roundtable on the Introduction of Creative Commons licenses in the Russian Federation’ will be organized on Tuesday, September 9, 2008 between 16:30 and 19:00 in central Moscow. The roundtable will be chaired by Anton Nossik (SUP) and Syb Groeneveld (Creative Commons Russia). Creative Commons International has…

Harvard University’s Berkman Center for Internet & Society (where the idea of CC originated) will be venturing out of Cambridge, MA in order to celebrate the release of their newest publication on Sept. 15th at Hotel Vitale, right here in San Francisco. Born Digital: Understanding the First Generation of Digital Natives by John Palfrey and…

“Trust: Reaching The 100 Million Missing Voters“, originally released in 2004 as a collection of essays, has been re-released online under a CC BY-NC license, meaning it can be shared, reused, and remixed as long as the author, Farai Chideya, is credited and it is for non-commercial purposes. By releasing “Trust” under a CC license,…

Creative Commons is working with Multimedia Development Corporation (MDeC) to create Malaysia jurisdiction-specific licenses from the generic Creative Commons licenses. CC Malaysia Project Leads: Dr. Alina Ng Hasnul Hadi Samsudin Hasnul Nadzrin Shah Muid Latif License draft: License draft (PDF). English explanation of substantive legal changes (PDF). Post a message. Subscribe to the discussion. Read…

25 years ago Richard Stallman started the GNU (“Gnu’s Not Unix”) project to create a computer operating system like Unix (then ascendant in computer labs like the one Stallman worked in), but with source code free for programmers to run, study, share, and improve. Free software from the GNU project now powers in the range…

Creators in Romania now have the option to license their creative works under one of the six Creative Commons licenses tailored to Romanian law. The Creative Commons team in Romania, led by Bogdan Manolea and Stefan Gavrilescu and supported by the Association for Technology and Internet, carried out the porting process and public discussion with…

Text in English and Romanian Bucharest, Romania and Berlin, Germany — September 2, 2008 Creators in Romania now have the option to license their creative works under one of the six Creative Commons licenses tailored to Romanian law. Available as of today, the ported Romanian licensing suite (BY through to BY-NC-ND of Version 3.0) is…

The Center for Open and Sustainable Learning (COSL) has been hosting an OER Handbook on WikiEducator for a while now, inviting others to contribute and edit various elements of the book. Now they’ve finally published the first printable version of one of their mini-handbooks: OER Handbook for Educators 1.0.  The actual handbook isn’t so mini—though…

Creative Commons is working with Association for Technology and Internet to create Romania jurisdiction-specific licenses from the generic Creative Commons licenses. CCi Romania List Project Lead: Stefan Gavrilescu, Bogdan Manolea License draft (Version 3.0, PDF). English re-translation of the draft (PDF). English explanations of substantial legal changes (PDF). Post a message. Subscribe to the discussion.…

We are pleased to release for public comment the next beta draft of CC0 Waiver, which comes several months after the last draft of CC0 was published in April.  You can view the beta draft 3 at ccLabs. While this draft is being released later than planned (more on that, below), we are very excited…