Joi Ito blogged yesterday about Shinsei Bank’s plans to release their methods as open courseware in collaboration with the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur. Shinsei Bank is one of Japan’s great success stories in terms of its innovative approach to business; it was this approach, an adaptation of existing industrial engineering methods to the “design…

Wondering what those moving images popping up in your friends’ Flickr photostream are? Last week Flickr introduced the ability for users to upload videos as well as photos, adding new functionality to one of the web’s leading media-sharing sites. Flickr has long been exemplary of a well executed, CC-enabled content community. By utilizing the same…

It’s tax day here in the USA, but let’s look to more interesting things. I will endeavor to send out an update, perhaps in newsletter form, of key ccLearn activities and plans every month or so, in addition to any announcements or interviews that we post to the site. As we continue to develop our…

From CC Switzerland: The organization Openlaw, platform for law and Free Software, has filled the role of Legal Lead for Creative Commons Switzerland for several years. The tasks entailed, among others, the adaptation of Creative Commons in Switzerland and providing a point-of-contact for inquiries about the licenses. Creative Commons in Switzerland will now be coordinated…

Just a reminder that this Wednesday (4/16) at 7:30PM we will be returning to FOUND LA (Google Map) for another CC Salon LA! Rex Bruce, director of the Los Angeles Center for Digital Art, will be screening a video he directed that uses public domain imagery from the US Military (also playing at the Centre…

This Friday, April 18, at 7PM CC’s Creative Director Eric Steuer will be speaking on a panel titled New Media Artists and the Law at The Kirsch Conference Center in San Jose, CA. Hosted by California Lawyers for the Arts, Eric will be joined by Emily A. Berger, Intellectual Property Fellow with Electronic Frontier Foundation,…

If you haven’t been to Amsterdam or checked out what great work Paul Keller and CC Netherlands is doing, then I highly recommend you A.) get here when you can by jet, or B.) tap into their great projects on the net. In particular, I’m referring to the big premiere 2nd Annual Blender Peach Open…

CC Taiwan has produced a lovely and informative 36-page guidebook to CC licensing for government agencies and NGOs. The document is available to download in Taiwanese Mandarin. In other publication news, a translation of Lawrence Lessig’s book Free Culture is now available in Taiwanese Mandarin. The translator, Ching-Yi Liu, is a professor at the National…

After finishing at USC music department and working with electronic superstar BT, Brian Trifon joined his brother Laurence to enter ccMixter‘s first remix contest with a one-off band they called Trifonic. Their entry Bored on Your Backside went on to be the top vote getter in the contest and album opener for the WIRED remix…

In May of 2007, the Center for Educational Research and Innovation (CERI) of the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) published a report called, “Giving Knowledge for Free: The Emergence of Open Educational Resources.” This report published the findings from a study in 2006, which included the results of a survey taken by 193…