Sarah Davies acknowledged her appreciation of our fundraising approach on her blog today, and I would like to take this opportunity to build upon what she said and to also say thank you. In order to sustain Creative Commons, fundraising is vital – but raising awareness and educating the larger community is more so. We…

This Tuesday, October 16th, Free Culture @ NYU will be hosting a screening of Good Copy Bad Copy, a fantastic documentary about copyright and culture, at the NYU Courant Institute, followed by a a question and answer session with the film’s award-winning Danish co-director, Henrik Moltke, and Fritz Attaway, the MPAA’s Executive VP and Special…

To all of you CC supporters in Los Angeles — there’s a happening party tonight that you should check out. Good Magazine is throwing a party at the Natural History Museum (details: Good comes back to LA) complete with an open bar and some awesome DJs. The cover is the cost of a subscription ($20),…

This Sunday, October 12th 14th, I will be joining Jack Learner, Visiting Clinical Assistant Professor of Law and Acting Director at the USC Intellectual Property and Technology Law Clinic, for a discussion of fair use and the arts as part of Art Crawl X. It will be taking place at the FoundLA Gallery in Silverlake…

We are proud to announce the successful localization of the Creative Commons licenses in Greece. The porting of the licenses to Greek law was headed by Legal Project Leads Marinos Papadopoulos and Prodromos Tsiavos, with support from Public Project Lead Theodoros Karounos. The launch will be celebrated on Saturday, October 13, at the Ceremonies Hall…

October 13, 2007 — San Francisco, CA, USA and Berlin, Germany Creative Commons, a nonprofit organization dedicated to building a body of creative work that is free and legal to share and build upon, unveiled today a localized version of its innovative licensing system in Greece. With the Creative Commons’ project in Greece joining the…

Last night at the CC Salon in San Francisco, Six Apart presented CC with an impressive donation raised entirely by their LiveJournal community through sales of permanent accounts. Over 600 people bought permanent accounts and chose Creative Commons as a recipient of a portion of that sale. CC CEO Lawrence Lessig was on hand to…

Hello CC Community, I’m writing to tell you about an update we are proposing to our current version of our licenses (3.0). Because the update is intended simply to make clear something we intended the license to mean, this version would be numbered 3.01. As you know, in February 2007, after 9 months of public…

We love to see Creative Commons metadata everywhere. Thanks to the work of Scott and Jason this summer, we now have a library called liblicense and some demos for how to integrate that with desktop applications in GNOME and KDE, the two most-used Free Software desktop environments. So I went to the GNOME summit last…

Please join us tonight, Wednesday, October 10, for the San Francisco CC Salon. Stop by Shine (1337 Mission St.) from 7-9PM to help celebrate the launch of our fall fundraising campaign, hang out with fellow CC supporters, and learn about CC topics. Our presenters include: Sharon Daniel, Associate Professor of Film and Digital Media, and…