Next in a series addressing a suggested Wikipedia CC BY-SA migration checklist, today I’m publishing a DRAFT Creative Commons Statement of Intent for Attribution-ShareAlike Licenses. This draft statement attempts describe 1) what CC does as a license developer and steward, 2) why CC Attribution-ShareAlike licenses play a special role in the movement for free cultural…

Hey, remember when, as a kid, you read or heard about Rip Van Winkle? Yeah, he was the dude who went into the mountains, got intoxicated by gnomes or elves or whatever and fell asleep for a hundred years. Then he woke up and everything was crazy and different. Well, check out “Mr. Winkle” by…

Many institutions that use CC licenses also build free and open source software to support content creation and publishing. The Mellon Award for Technology Collaboration is an excellent opportunity for such organizations to gain recognition and funding for these software activities. The deadline for nominations for the 2008 Mellon Awards for Technology Collaboration (MATC Awards)…

Submissions are due April 26. This track should make iSummit 2008 the most exciting so far. Suggested topics include, but are not limited to: Studies on the use and growth of open/free licensing models; Critical analyses of the role of Creative Commons or similar models in promoting a free culture; Building innovative technical, legal or…

Two weeks ago, I met David Hodge, a freshman at the University of Southern California. He has been working with USC Free Culture (part of Students for Free Culture) and the USC Association for Computing Machinery chapter to run a week-long programming competition to build software for OLPC’s XO laptop. That project is “Code for…

Heads up to all LA based CC-heads – two weeks from today, April 16 at 7:30 PM, we are back at FOUND LA (Google Map) for another CC Salon. We’ve revamped our approach, focusing more on content creators and the issues they face and to say we are excited about the lineup would be an…

Over at the Science Commons blog, an introduction and a call for suggestions / comments … “Over the past few months, you may have noticed that some of the posts here have been attributed to a mysterious “dwentworth.” That’s me — Donna Wentworth — and I’m here to start bringing more of your voices to…

Visit the Creative Commons wiki at http://wiki.creativecommons.org to explore our updated wiki portal page. There’s easy ways to get involved, and lots to do. Jump right in and license your creative work or check out a developer challenge. Spread the word about CC with the great multimedia resources on our Documentation page. Congregate online by…

We’re a day late toasting Mozilla’s 10th anniversary. Their efforts to ensure and enhance openness, innovation, and opportunity on the web are deeply congruent with CC’s mission. Thanks to Mozilla and all contributors to Mozilla for their support of CC in various forms. And yeah, thanks for the awesome browser that I’m typing this into…

Today, Creative Commons is excited to make two important announcements. First, we’re thrilled about a major new grant of $4 million from the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, consisting of $2.5 million to provide general support to Creative Commons over five years, as well as $1.5 million to support ccLearn. We’re also pleased to announce…