Creative Commons is working with the Law Department of Copenhagen Business School to create Denmark jurisdiction-specific licenses from the generic Creative Commons licenses. CCi Denmark List Legal Project Lead: Jan Trzaskowski and Thomas Riis Public Project Lead: Christian Villum and Martin von Haller Groenbaek License draft (PDF). English explanation of substantive legal changes. (PDF) Post…

Creative Commons is working with Renmin University and CNBlog.org to create China Mainland jurisdiction-specific licenses from the generic Creative Commons licenses. CCi China Mainland List Project Lead: Professor Chunyan Wang License draft (PDF). English explanation of substantive legal changes. (PDF) Post or subscribe to the discussion. About Law School of Renmin University of China Renmin…

Total Recut is an online social networking community for fans and creators of video remixes, recuts, and mash-ups that facilitates online collaboration between video artists. CC licensing is built in to their UI, allowing users to remix one another with relative ease, which in addition to their ‘materials section’ (comprised of CC licensed and Public…

ccLearn is a participating member of the program committee for the upcoming conference on COMPUTERS, FREEDOM, AND PRIVACY: TECHNOLOGY POLICY ’08, to be held May 20-23, 2008 in New Haven, CT. The conference covers many different themes, including a few near and dear to the heart of Creative Commons, such as social networks, digital education,…

Beyond Penguins and Polar Bears is the new online science magazine for K-5th grades focusing on polar issues wrought by global climate change. Developed by a host of contributors, including the Ohio State University with funding from the National Science Foundation (Research on Learning in Formal and Informal settings), the magazine will get much of…

Indaba Music, in their words, is “an international community of musicians, music professionals, and fans exploring the creative possibilities of making music with people in different places”. Enabling exciting forms of online musical creation, Indaba allows musicians to work with each other in ways that are both fresh and exciting, facilitating new and interesting means…

This hit the net last week, but it took a little while for us to go through our various channels to figure out what was going on (i.e. if only I had taken German in high school). CC-evangelist Cory Doctorow was recently interviewed on the German show Metropolis (a product of the German-French network Arte)…

A few members of the Creative Commons staff are headed to Austin, Texas later this week to attend South by Southwest Interactive. If you’re going to be in town for it too, make sure to find us and say hello. During the days of March 9, 10, and 11, we’ll have a booth at the…

Thanks again to everyone who participated in Creative Commons’ 2007 Annual Fundraising Campaign. We received financial support from individuals in 52 jurisdictions and many companies, totaling $601,976. Your support, however you’re able to give it, is what sustains and drives CC. This was our third annual campaign (and the second I’ve been involved with) and…

We were recently turned onto That Other Paper, an Austin based online-publication that focuses on technology and culture with its feet firmly planted in the CC-community. Not only do they license all their works under a CC BY-NC-ND license but they also release their library of professional photography under a CC BY-SA license. Similarly, Four…