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#cc10 Featured Platform: Europeana

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Throughout the #cc10 celebrations, we’re highlighting different CC-enabled media platforms, to show the breadth and diversity of the CC world. Today, as we’re talking about governmental and institutional adoption of CC tools, it seemed appropriate to discuss Europeana, the massive digital library of European history and culture. For people who get excited about open cultural…

CC at 10: Government Resources + Open Licensing = Win

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On this 10th anniversary of CC, there’s much to celebrate: Creative Commons licenses and tools have been embraced by millions of photographers, musicians, videographers, bloggers, and others sharing countless numbers of creative works freely online. One area of growth in use of CC licenses and public domain tools is for government works. Government adoption of…

Dublab Celebrates #cc10 with a New Music Mix

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In celebration of the tenth anniversary of Creative Commons, our good friends at Dublab created an awesome #cc10 music mix. The continuous blend includes 22 tracks by esteemed artists like Bradford Cox, Lucky Dragons, Nite Jewel, Dntel, and Matthewdavid. The mix is available for free download and is available to the world under CC’s BY-NC…

CC10: Day 4

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CC 10th Anniversary / Creative Commons Philippines / CC BY On day 3 of our CC10 celebrations we focus on film. David Evan Harris tells us about Global Lives, a collective of filmmakers worldwide building an open source video library of human experience. We talk to Blake Whitman, VP of Creative Development at one of…

#cc10 Featured Content: Global Lives Project

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David Evan Harris / Joel Young / CC BY-SA Video artist and activist David Evan Harris sees sharing as a key component of his work. “The fact that we use Creative Commons licenses to guarantee that our work is in the commons is an essential ingredient in the production itself,” he told me. “It communicates…

#cc10 Featured Platform: Vimeo

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In honor of Creative Commons’ tenth anniversary, we’re profiling several media platforms with CC integration. Vimeo has supported CC licensing since 2010, and has accumulated over two million CC-licensed videos. When I spoke with VP of creative development Blake Whitman, he told me that Vimeo’s staff and community had been talking about CC for years…

CC10: Day 3

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cc10 / Webbstjärnan.SE / CC BY Welcome to Day 3 of #cc10. Today, Commoners are celebrating in Mexico City and Jakarta, and here on the Creative Commons blog, we’re celebrating Creative Commons in science. In his guest blog post, John Wilbanks applauds sharing where you might not expect it, explaining how the world’s largest pharmaceutical…

#cc10 Featured Platform: Public Library of Science

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Throughout the #cc10 celebrations, we’re profiling online platforms with Creative Commons integration. Today, Public Library of Science (PLOS) CEO Peter Jerram discusses the role that PLOS and Creative Commons play in the open access movement. Shared Facts and Open Access: A PLOS Salute to Creative Commons By Peter Jerram “Everyone is entitled to his own…

#cc10 Featured Content: John Wilbanks on GlaxoSmithKline

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John Wilbanks / Nick Vedros / CC BY-SA In celebration of Creative Commons’ tenth anniversary, we asked various friends of CC to write about the role that open licensing plays in their fields. Today, John Wilbanks shows how the world’s largest pharmaceutical company made a big step in malaria research by sharing its data openly.…

CC10: Day 2

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On day 2 of CC10 we focus on what makes CC more than just a bunch of licenses – our community. We give a long over-due introduction to Creative Commons for those who haven’t met us yet, with a favorite resource from one of our global volunteer affiliates: CC Qatar presents Meet Creative Commons. At…