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Shipwreck Central

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Shipwreck Central is a companion site for a team of divers that explore various shipwrecks around the world. They host live chats, teaching aids, and information about shows they’ve made from diving footage. For the bits of downloadable audio and video, they’ve chosen a Creative Commons license and their copyright page explains why, even though…

Creative Commons in Sweden

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It just keeps growing: the International Commons (iCommons) expands to Sweden, under the leadership of the premier law firm Lindahl and man-about-the-Net Mikael Pawlo. Public discussion of the Swedish drafts of the Creative Commons licenses has begun.

Learning Photo

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There are lots of great sites to help you learn the basics of photography and keep up with the latest news, but recently I came across the new site Learning Photo which is doing something a bit different than the others. For each shot shared on the site, the photographer describes the location and how…

Some clarifications about the "Commonwealth" list

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A few of you have expressed concern about a discussion list we announced recently. These are all good points and I feel I should make a couple of things clear: (1) It is never a foregone conclusion that a project in discussion will be adopted by Creative Commons. Check out the image on our discuss…

Industry analysts releasing licensed whitepapers

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Redmonk is an analyst firm that studies the Technology industry. One aspect of their work is publishing whitepapers on various technology subjects, which are usually sold for hundreds of dollars to companies seeking research. Tech magazine InfowWorld noticed their most recent publication was released for free, and on top of that, licensed under Creative Commons.…

New Zealand's Digital Strategy

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The New Zealand Ministry of Economic Development recently released a draft of its Digital Strategy, and makes a mention of Creative Commons in reference to builing an online repository of published works.

Wired presents a Creative Commons benefit in NYC, Sept 21st

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click for full sized announcement Tuesday, September 21, 2004, Wired Magazine will throw a benefit for Creative Commons featuring a concert by David Byrne (with the Tosca Strings) and Gilberto Gil. It will take place at 8PM at The Town Hall in New York City. Proceeds from the concert will go to support the non-profit…

CC on Seybold DRM Panel

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I’m speaking on a DRM Roundtable 10:30AM tomorrow at Seybold San Francisco. The panel will address current and future trends in Digital Rights Management (or the pejorative: Digital Restrictions Management). We have two FAQs addressing Creative Commons and DRM, reproduced below: Is Creative Commons involved in digital rights management (DRM)? No; we prefer to describe…

Announcing the commonwealth

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A few weeks back, we unveiled a new list for discussing the intersection of Creative Commons licenses and business, dubbed Commonwealth. It’s headed by Marshall Van Alstyne, an Associate Professor of Information Economics at Boston University. The welcome message to the list details the goals for the list and plans for exploring hybrid licensing systems.…