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The Dream of a Virtual European Digital Library – Will CC Licensing Play a Role?

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The European Commission is investigating a digital libraries initiative that “aims at making European information resources easier and more interesting to use in an online environment.” As part of a background paper, the Commission discussed the range of technical, legal, operational and financial challenges such an initiative would encounter and specifically noted that Creative Commons…

Copyright-free images lead to a fun animation

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So the the American Institute of Graphics Arts (AIGA for short) and the U.S. Department of Transportation released a set of 50 universal symbols “copyright-free” online. The symbols are “designed for use at the crossroads of modern life: in airports and other transportation hubs and at large international events.” They are intended to be clearly…

CC travel sites acquired

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Wikitravel and World66, two user generated content travel sites each using the same Creative Commons license (Attribution-ShareAlike 1.0) have been acquired by Internet Brands, the operator of carsdirect.com and many other .com properties. It’s great to see Internet Brands’ confidence in a business built on CC-licensed content, particularly under a BY-SA license, which permits forking,…

Sharing Is Daring: CC art show in Boston opens on April 27

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Elizabeth Stark of Harvard Free Culture reports that Sharing Is Daring — a terrific art show featuring works offered under Creative Commons licenses — is ready to rock with an opening reception on April 27. Harvard Free Culture presents Sharing is Daring, a showcase of new & derivative artworks released under flexible licenses that allow…

License adoption estimates

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It’s been awhile since the last time we posted estimates of the number of web pages under a Creative Commons license or a breakdown of how those licenses are distributed. The last aggregate estimate (45 million) was posted to our support the commons page in December, which has since changed (thanks yet again for your…

Mia Garlick to Present Copyright Basics in Second Life

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Mia Garlick, Creative Commons’ General Counsel, goes in-world in Second Life to discuss copyright issues and the “Some Rights Reserved” licensing perspective this Thursday, April 20, 2006 at 6 PM PST. The event takes place at the new Creative Commons land on Kula Island. As previously noted here and by previous CC Salon presenter Wagner…

Summer of Code and Commons

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Creative Commons is participating in Google’s 2006 Summer of Code as a mentoring organization. If you’re a student please read the Summer of Code Student FAQ, check out CC’s Tech Challenges and start thinking about your application. Student proposals will be accepted May 1 through May 8. We’ll have a page dedicated to SoC 2006…

Futures of Music

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Wednesday night’s CC Salon San Francisco concerned the future of music. James Polanco spoke about Fake Science’s CC licensed podcasts and emphasized that Fake Science is not a record label, but a digital distributor with a far lower cost structure — and lower costs for both artists and patrons. Fake Science has a great slogan:…