Creative Commons has just concluded another successful summer internship program! This year, we welcomed six students to the San Francisco office: Tomas Ashe was our very first graphic design intern, who came from the Cork Institute of Technology in Ireland. Tomas spent the summer working on updating our presentations and presentation style; a fresh new…

I’ve spent the last few months of Summer volunteering for Creative Commons, and in that time I’ve had a great opportunity to do a few little things that should make CC outreach and communication a little bit more effective. First, I’ve been working a lot on the Videos section of the site, dealing specifically with…

Digium, the parent company that hosts and maintains the open source telephony & PBX project called Asterisk, recently replaced the on-hold music featured in their distributions to CC BY-SA licensed works from OpSound. Using freely licensed CC music in open source projects has always made sense to us, but Digium’s John Todd discusses why they…

Creative Commons is working with Fundação Getulio Vargas’ Law School in Rio de Janeiro to create Brazil jurisdiction-specific licenses from the generic Creative Commons licenses. CCi Brazil List Project Lead: Ronaldo Lemos da Silva Júnior License draft. English explanation of substantive legal changes. Post a message. Subscribe to the discussion. Read the discussion archives. More…

Creative Commons is working with The Berkman Center to create United States jurisdiction-specific licenses from the generic Creative Commons licenses. CCi United States List Project Lead: John Palfrey, Phillip Malone There are currently no email discussion lists for the US project. The creation of United States jurisdiction-specific Creative Commons licenses is a far simpler project…

Russell John (President) and Hasina Akhtar (Legal Advisor), Bangladesh Linux Users Alliance.

Paul Kihwelo, Dean of Faculty, Open University of Tanzania.

Emre Bayamlıoğlu, LL.M Southampton, Faculty of Law, Istanbul Bilgi University.

The dotmatrix project is a “collective of musicians, photographers, videographers & sound engineers” who organize, promote, and document monthly shows in Greensboro, North Carolina. DMP subsequently archive these shows online, distributing hi-quality videos, audio, and photos from the shows under a CC BY-NC-SA license. A recent post on the DMP blog provides ample reasoning for…

Last week, Talis Education launched an angel fund for open education, called the Talis Incubator for Open Education. Talis Education is providing funds up to “£15,000 to help individuals or small groups who have big ideas about furthering the cause of Open Education. All Talis asks in return is that the project deliverables are ‘open…