We are very pleased to announce that Creative Commons Austria has successfully completed the versioning of the ported Creative Commons licensing suite in Austria. Following the versioning of Creative Commons Germany in late July 2008, Version 3.0 of the six standard Creative Commons licenses is now legally and linguistically adapted to Austrian law. A special…

The Mozilla Concept Series is a recently announced initiative from Mozilla to garner greater participation in creating their newest browser, Aurora. While there are some intriguing inaugural designs, the most engaging part of the project is that Mozilla is pooling the greater web community for submissions in the form of ideas, mockups (textual/visual examples), and…

Creative Commons is working with the Vienna University of Economics to create Austria jurisdiction-specific licenses from the generic Creative Commons licenses. CCi Austria List Project Lead: Dr. Florian Philapitsch, LL.M. CC 3.0 – German explanation of substantive legal changes (PDF) CC 1.0 – License draft (PDF). CC 1.0 – English explanation of substantive legal changes (PDF).…

San Francisco, CA, USA — August 13, 2008 The United States Court of Appeals held, in Jacobsen v. Katzer, that “Open Source” or public license licensors are entitled to copyright infringement relief. The Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (CAFC), the leading intellectual property court in the United States, has upheld a free copyright…

The United States Court of Appeals held that “Open Source” or public license licensors are entitled to copyright infringement relief. The Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (CAFC), the leading IP court in the United States, has upheld a free copyright license, while explicitly pointing to the work of Creative Commons and others. The…

For those who will be missing out on tonight’s amazing CC Salon SF, we have some good news (if you are based in LA) – we are ecstatic to announce that the CC Salon LA continues next month (9/3/08) with an amazing duo of presenters – joining us will be Xeni Jardin, Tech Culture Journalist…

Don’t forget to come out to the CC Salon in San Francisco tonight! The lineup features a screening of a CC-licensed film from Arts Engine, Inc. along with our own Eric Steuer who will discuss the soon to be launched Film Maker’s Toolkit. Rob Sloan from Current TV will be wrapping up the evening. The…

We’ve posted a brief report that summarizes the details of Creative Commons’ most recent board meeting, which took place on June 19 and 20, 2008. Going forward, we intend to do this for all of our board meetings (and we’ll try to get the reports online more quickly in the future!).

One of my must-read blogs on technology and education, ZaidLearn has been rating various learning tools since July of last year. The blog was started by e-Learning Manager for INCEIF, Zaid Alsagoff, who has done research in the areas of “educational gaming, role-play simulation, virtual classrooms, learning (content) management systems, e-learning standards” and “instructional design…

With the great success of releasing their CAD files under a Creative Commons license Openmoko, the Open Source mobile telephone company, announced that they will also release the schematics. CAD files are the design specification for how the phone looks (size, shape, etc) while the schematics are the designs of the electronics inside. Included with…