Educause Learning Initiative (ELI) offers a crash course on CC this month in its “7 Things You Should Know About …” series. The series aims to provide basic information on emerging learning technologies or practices in a digestible, easy-to-read format. Past topics include Open Journaling, Digital Storytelling, YouTube and Virtual Worlds. Click here to read…

Ground Report is a new citizen journalism site that “Empowers Global Users to Self-Publish, Rate Content and Earn Money.” In a move that helps insure user generated content can flourish on the web, they bolster their reputation and community participation by licensing all user-generated content under a CC Attribution license. I’ve been working with them…

If you didn’t read your morning New York Times and see a tall fellow wearing a CC logo shirt, check out this article about Danny Hillis and Robert Cook’s new venture, Metaweb’s Freebase project, which is using the newly released CC Attribution (BY) 3.0 license across-the-board (data and User Generated Content). It is great to…

From the Science Commons blog: In a recent BBC article, Google’s Chris DiBona talked about a new program under development to help ameliorate some of the transfer problems in moving enormous data sets – up to 120,000 gigabytes worth. The project has not been released to the public, but would involve taking massive data sets,…

From the Science Commons blog: Elsevier – a dominant subscription-based publisher – has made a deal with the Howard Hughes Medical Institute regarding Open Access. Announced today, the agreement will make author manuscripts of articles published in Elsevier and Cell Press journals available to the public (in PubMed Central) six months after publication. The conditions…

CC’s involvement in this year’s SXSW conference in Austin, Texas should come as no surprise. There’s Jon Phillips‘ talk at the Austin History Center, a fundraiser with GOOD Magazine and a party with Tigerbeat6 Records and XLR8R Magazine. But that’s not all. CC’ers Francesca Rodriquez (COO, Creative Commons), John Wilbanks (Executive Director, Science Commons), and…

A new division of Creative Commons, provisionally called CC Learn, will focus on on education, broadly defined — from kindergarten to graduate school, to lifelong learning. The mission of this new division will be to promote vigorous networks of Open Educational Resources: materials offered freely and openly for educators, students and self-learners to use, modify…

The Vieux Farka Touré remix contest has been a phenomenal success so far — and there’s still one more day to get your remixes of “Ana” uploaded to ccMixter before the contest ends. Don’t miss out on this opportunity to have your music included on Modiba Productions’ upcoming “Vieux Remixed” CD compilation! It’s been really…

The Vieux Farka Touré remix contest has been a phenomenal success so far — and there’s still one more day to get your remixes of “Ana” uploaded to ccMixter before the contest ends. Don’t miss out on this opportunity to have your music included on Modiba Productions’ upcoming “Vieux Remixed” CD compilation! It’s been really…

We are proud to announce the official release of Creative Commons’ open source remix community project ccHost 4.0 which is now available for immediate download and install (it’s actually version 4.0.1 so if you downloaded 4.0 or 4.0 RC1 then you should upgrade immediately to get the last minute bug fixes). More information about this…