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Review of the Law, Business & Policy of Community Created Content Now Available

CC Finland project lead Herkko Hietanen has co-authored a book with Ville Oksanen and Mikko Välimäki that provides a useful overview of the law, business and policy of “community created content,” entitled (not suprisingly) “Community Created Content. It is published by Turre Legal Publishing and available for download as a PDF under the Creative Commons … Read More “Review of the Law, Business & Policy of Community Created Content Now Available”

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Another Reason for Opening Access to Research

Open access journal — the British Medical Journal — recently published an article by John Wilbanks, the Executive Director of one of CC’s projects: Science Commons. While much has been written about open access and it represents a welcome and increasing trend in scientific and academic publishing, John’s article provides a timely focus on how … Read More “Another Reason for Opening Access to Research”

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CC Licenses Make Sense for Gatehouse Media Sites

As Lisa Williams noted her local paper – Watertown TAB – quietly switched over the site to use a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 2.5 license. Dave Weinberger noted that his local paper – the Brookline TAB – did likewise. The reason — GateHouse Media, a newspaper conglomerate that owns 75 daily and 231 weekly newspapers, has … Read More “CC Licenses Make Sense for Gatehouse Media Sites”

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Swivel Adopts CC Licensing

Swivel is a site that is all about data. You can upload your data and have it made into graphs, you can find datasets, comment on them or rate them, or you can compare different datasets that have been uploaded to the site. As the site itself explains, it’s “a place where curious people explore … Read More “Swivel Adopts CC Licensing”

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"Returning Author's Rights: Termination of Transfer" Beta Tool Launched

Creative Commons is excited to launch a beta version of its “Returning Authors Rights: Termination of Transfer” tool. The tool has been included in ccLabs — CC’s platform for demoing new tech tools. It’s a beta demo so it doesn’t produce any useable results at this stage. We have launched it to get your feedback. … Read More “"Returning Author's Rights: Termination of Transfer" Beta Tool Launched”

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Another Spanish Decision Involving CC licenses

As Andres from our CC Scotland team has already blogged, there has been another court case in Spain involving the use of CC licensed music. For those keeping track, there has already been a similar case decided earlier this year. In the earlier case, the main Spanish collecting society — Sociedad General de Autores y … Read More “Another Spanish Decision Involving CC licenses”

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CREATIVE COMMONS LICENSES OFFERED IN PORTUGAL

San Francisco, CA, USA; Berlin, GERMANY; and Lisbon, Portugal — December 13, 2006 — Creative Commons, a nonprofit dedicated to building a body of creative work free to share and build upon, is proud to announce the celebration of the launch of its licenses in Portugal on December 15, 2006. Creative Commons copyright licenses are … Read More “CREATIVE COMMONS LICENSES OFFERED IN PORTUGAL”

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LibriVox – New Featured Commoner

LibriVox is a project that describes its mission to be the “acoustical liberation of books in the public domain.” It is a digital library of free public domain audio books that are read and recorded by volunteers. LibriVox’s catalogue includes an impressive range of books, short works and poems from a diverse range of writers. … Read More “LibriVox – New Featured Commoner”

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Librivox

LibriVox is a project that describes its mission to be the “acoustical liberation of books in the public domain.” It is a digital library of free public domain audio books that are read and recorded by volunteers. It was started just a year and a half ago, in August 2005, and already has amassed over … Read More “Librivox”

Arts / culture

Writer Cory Doctorow Explains the Economics of Giving It Away

In a recent article in Forbes.com, Cory Doctorow explains the impact of using Creative Commons licenses for him as a writer. Cory has used CC licenses on many of his writings — from his books (available here) to his postings on Boing Boing. We featured him back in October 2005. The Forbes article offers a … Read More “Writer Cory Doctorow Explains the Economics of Giving It Away”

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Review of the Law, Business & Policy of Community Created Content Now Available

Another Reason for Opening Access to Research

CC Licenses Make Sense for Gatehouse Media Sites

Swivel Adopts CC Licensing

"Returning Author's Rights: Termination of Transfer" Beta Tool Launched

Another Spanish Decision Involving CC licenses

CREATIVE COMMONS LICENSES OFFERED IN PORTUGAL

LibriVox – New Featured Commoner

Librivox

Writer Cory Doctorow Explains the Economics of Giving It Away

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