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CC Taiwan has produced a lovely and informative 36-page guidebook to CC licensing for government agencies and NGOs. The document is available to download in Taiwanese Mandarin. In other publication news, a translation of Lawrence Lessig’s book Free Culture is now available in Taiwanese Mandarin. The translator, Ching-Yi Liu, is a professor at the National…
After finishing at USC music department and working with electronic superstar BT, Brian Trifon joined his brother Laurence to enter ccMixter‘s first remix contest with a one-off band they called Trifonic. Their entry Bored on Your Backside went on to be the top vote getter in the contest and album opener for the WIRED remix…
In May of 2007, the Center for Educational Research and Innovation (CERI) of the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) published a report called, “Giving Knowledge for Free: The Emergence of Open Educational Resources.” This report published the findings from a study in 2006, which included the results of a survey taken by 193…
Looking for another way to stay abreast of current CC news? Subscribe to the bi-monthly ccNewsletter — a one stop shop for all the current CC related news you could want. This month’s newsletter highlights the amazing work of Creative Commons International’s (CCi) affiliate network as well as the most interesting and informative links from…
Looking for another way to stay abreast of current CC news? Subscribe to the bi-monthly ccNewsletter — a one stop shop for all the current CC related news you could want. This month’s newsletter highlights the amazing work of Creative Commons International’s (CCi) affiliate network as well as the most interesting and informative links from…
On April 23, the MacArthur Foundation and Common Sense Media are hosting a public forum at Stanford University on “how digital technologies and new media are changing the way that young people learn, play, socialize and participate in civic life.” Julia Stasch, the Vice President of the foundation, will shed light on MacArthur’s $50 million digital media…
Market Street, Sydney | No known copyright restrictions. The Powerhouse Museum in Sydney, Australia has become the first museum in the world to release publicly-held historical photographs for access on the Flickr: The Commons. Powerhouse has released an initial 200 photographs from its Tyrrell Collection, and will continue to add more from this 7900+ image…
Creative Commons board member (now chair) James Boyle’s forthcoming book The Public Domain: Enclosing the Commons of the Mind which will be published by Yale University Press in Fall of 2008 under a CC Attribution-NonCommercial license. You could design the book’s cover. To do so, participate in a contest held at Worth1000 with $300 in…
The Berkman Center for Internet & Society, the wellspring of Creative Commons, is celebrating its tenth year with a public conference and awards. Conference registration is open. A number of current and past CC staff and international project leads will be present. Nominations for the first Berkman Awards due April 11: The awards will be…
LugRadio Live, the GNU/Linux/Rock conference from the UK, is coming to San Francisco this weekend. Register for only US$10. Speakers include lots of people from the open media world, including yours truly. Check the schedule. There’s also a “trailer” for the conference.