Last night the podcast edition of James Patrick Kelly’s Hugo-nominated novella Burn won the Nebula Award for best science fiction/fantasy novella published in the U.S. during the two previous years. Cory Doctorow writes on Boing Boing: As far as I know, that makes it the first Creative Commons licensed work and the first podcast to…
As noted elsewhere, myself (Jon Phillips) and Alex Roberts, CC’s brilliant graphic designer, attended the spectacular Libre Graphics Meeting 2007 (LGM2007) in Montreal last weekend, which I highly recommend for others to check out next year! The highlight for me is always to see my friends and to make new acquaintances like Tina Piper from…
Continuing our series highlighting the excellent work being done by Creative Commons international jurisdiction projects, today we present Creative Commons Italy. Since the launch of version 2.0 of the Creative Commons Licenses at the end of 2004, the Creative Commons Italia Working Group, based at the Politecnico of Torino and composed of people from a…
The Creative Commons international scholarship campaign ended successfully today. We cannot thank you enough for all your help and support. Over the past two weeks we have profiled Creative Commons international jurisdiction projects to highlight the importance to the movement. Although the campaign has ended, we still have some great stories remaining, which we’ll post…
I have exciting news! Not only did we meet the $50,000 goal for the CCi Scholarship campaign we also met the $100,000 matching challenge — raising $200,000 in total. We met this challenge through the significant support of: the Ford Foundation Nokia Digital Garage IBM Old Mutual and most importantly you — our community. We…
The past 13 days have been unbelievable. The support that you have shown CC and the CCi volunteer affiliates has been phenomenal. Tomorrow marks the end of the campaign so we’re making one final push to help us reach our goal. As always there are several ways to help us reach this goal: shop at…
Magnatune founder and CC board member John Buckman is giving a presentation today (and again next month) in London provocatively titled How to piss off the Industry for Fun and Profit. Check out John’s slides (PDF) (licensed under CC Attribution). I’ll give away the the big picture answer below, but do check out the whole…
The end of the campaign is near and we have received phenomenal support from our community. And for that we thank you. We still need to raise $22,460 in the next three days. If 45 people give at the $500 level we will reach our goal. If you’re looking for a unique present for someone…
Khaled Koubaa, Maitre Nafaa Laribi, and Rafik Dammak; Internet Society Tunisia (ISOC-Tunisia)
The past 24 hours have been rather active as we close in on the end of the campaign. We’ve now received $27,240 in support for the CCi Affiliate scholarships! We’re so close and with your support we can meet this goal. Over the past 10 days we’ve traversed the globe and have heard incredible news…