Over the past 25 years, “illusionist, eco-entertainer and kid comedian” Steve Trash has been sharing tips with kids about what we can do to make the world just a little bit greener. Steve offers his book The Magic of Ecology as a free PDF download on his website. The book is released under a Creative…
We are again indebted to the graphical talents of Atty. Michael Vernon M. Guerrero, Deputy Project Lead of Creative Commons Philippines, for his beautiful “retroactively created” remixes of issues #1-4 of our bimonthly newsletter. Moreover, there’s a crisp maiden issue of the CC Philippines newsletter that mustn’t be missed. Happy reading!
Carnegie Mellon University hosted a symposium last week titled, Opening Learning Interplay, focused on the relationship of learning sciences and open education. At a reception towards the end of the symposium, those of us who were present were treated to an excellent speech by Sir John Daniel, President and CEO of the Commonwealth of Learning…
Creative Commons is working with GRNET to create Greece jurisdiction-specific licenses from the generic Creative Commons licenses. CCi Greece List Public Lead: Theodoros Karounos, GRNET Legal Leads: Prodromos Tsiavos, Marinos Papadopoulos License draft (PDF, English). License draft (PDF, Greek). English explanation of substantive legal changes (PDF). Post a message. Subscribe to the discussion. Read the…
Creative Commons is working with Information Systems and Innovation Group (ISIG) – Department of Management to create UK: England & Wales jurisdiction-specific licenses from the generic Creative Commons licenses. CCi UK: England & Wales List Overall Project Lead: Professor Ian Angell Legal Project Leads: Mr. Andrew Murray and Dr. Prodromos Tsiavos Public Project Lead: Dr.…
Creative Commons is working with Multimedia Institute [mi2] to create Croatia jurisdiction-specific licenses from the generic Creative Commons licenses. CCi Croatia List Project Lead: Diana Kovaèeviæ Remenariæ and Tomislav Medak License draft 3.0 (PDF, English). License draft 1.0 (PDF, Croatian). English explanation of substantive legal changes (PDF). Post a message. Subscribe to the discussion. Read…
Drip, a trip-hop group from the Philippines, will be releasing the first full-length Filipino CC licensed album, Identity Theft, this Saturday, 3/15, at 8PM at Magnet Café High Street, Bonifacio Global City, Taguig. Identity Theft will be released under a CC BY-NC-SA license and will released as an enhanced CD containing song stems as a…
Creative Commons licenses help creators (and users) opt for reasonable copyright by offering (and using) creative works under “some rights reserved” terms, expanding the commons where the default is “all rights reserved”. We also offer tools to mark works that are in the public domain — and are working on a major upgrade of those…
Science Commons Counsel Thinh Nguyen has posted a response to a recently released statement by STM (the trade association for scientific, technology and medical publishers) on author addenda. This is an issue near and dear to our hearts, due to our Scholar’s Copyright work. Here’s an excerpt: “[…] [STM] recently released a statement this March…
An update on Nine Inch Nails’ new CC-licensed album, Ghosts I-IV. Today, NIN’s Trent Reznor announced the launch of the Ghosts Film Festival project on YouTube. Reznor describes it as an “expansion of the Ghosts project into the visual world.” The concept is for you to take whatever tracks you feel inspired by from Ghosts…