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Meet Our New Senior Accountant, Senior Project Manager, and Project Coordinator for Science and Data
by elliot UncategorizedThree new employees have joined Creative Commons in the last few weeks. Join us in welcoming Jenny Utke, Paul Stacey, and Puneet Kishor to the team. Jenny Utke, Senior Accountant Jenny is originally from Michigan but has lived in California for over 10 years. She started her career as an auditor at CPA firms…
Library catalog metadata: Open licensing or public domain?
by Timothy Vollmer Uncategorizedcatalogue / elise.y / CC BY As reported a few weeks ago, OCLC has recommended that its member libraries adopt the Open Data Commons Attribution license (ODC-BY) when they share their library catalog data online. The recommendation to use an open license like ODC-BY is a positive step forward for OCLC because it helps communicate…
Great CC Resources from the Community
by natalya UncategorizedFor people wanting to learn about CC and its application in different sectors, there is a sea of materials available online. In particular, CC’s international affiliates create a huge number of educational resources that cross language and cultural boundaries. A few weeks ago, I wrote a post about my work sorting through some of these…
CC Welcomes its New Regional Project Managers for Africa and the Asia-Pacific
by jessica UncategorizedTobias SchonwetterIbtihel Zaatouri / CC BY Alex GakuruErik Hersman / CC BY Jane HornibrookAndrew McMillan / CC BY SooHyun Paedreamdrawing / CC BY It is my great pleasure to welcome to CC’s staff our new Regional Project Managers for Africa and the Asia-Pacific — Tobias Schonwetter and Alex Gakuru (Africa) and Jane Hornibrook and SooHyun Pae…
CC News: Video Contest Winners Announced
by elliot About CCStay up to date with CC news by subscribing to our blog and following us on Twitter. Top stories: Why Open Education MattersBlink Tower / CC BY Watch the winning entries in our Why Open Education Matters video contest. iSummit08: Jimmy SorianoTomislav Medak / CC BY Jimmy Soriano of CC Philippines passed away last…
Creative Commons Remembers Jimmy Soriano
by jessica UncategorizediSummit08: Jimmy Soriano / Tomislav Medak / CC BY Creative Commons would like to take this opportunity to remember the great contribution made to its community by Atty. Jimmy Soriano. Jimmy first joined the CC community in 2005 when he launched our CC Philippines team. Over the past 7 years, he has been a constant…
Draft 2 of 4.0 Ready for Public Comment
by Diane Peters UncategorizedTower / Paul Holloway / CC BY-SA We are pleased to post draft 2 of 4.0 for public discussion. This comes after several months of substantive conversations on a number of policy issues, with input solicited from our global community on the CC license-development list (archive), through affiliate consultations, via comments posted directly on our…
New Creative Commons License Chooser
by lunpa UncategorizedCreative Commons is proud to announce the launch of our new license chooser tool. The license chooser has been completely redesigned for greater clarity and ease of use. While the original license chooser was successful at simplifying the act of selecting a license and applying it to one’s work, its linear workflow resembled a registration…
Four Million CC-Licensed Videos Uploaded to YouTube
by elliot UncategorizedCreative Commons just reached an exciting milestone. As of this week, there are four million Creative Commons–licensed videos on YouTube. That’s over forty years’ worth of footage to remix and reuse, all licensed under CC BY, the most permissive CC license. One thing that makes this mass of CC-licensed content really exciting is that all…
School of Open Virtual Sprint: How you can participate
by Jane Park UncategorizedThe first School of Open Virtual Sprint is set to take place next Tuesday, 24 July from 2:00-5:00pm Berlin time (UTC/GMT+2). Learn how you can participate below. LSE Sports Day, Malden Sports Ground, c1920s / LSE Library / No known copyright restrictions Before the Sprint Join the School of Open discussion list at https://groups.google.com/group/school-of-open. This…