Hala Essalmawi; Bibliotheca Alexandrina

Someone has to pick up the slack on reporting on all of CC Australia’s great work. I guess that will be me. Check out what Jessica Coates said on the cc-community mailing list. Just wanted to drop you a quick line to point out a great collaborative film project CCau took part in over the…

Sun CEO Jonathan Schwartz has a fine blog post in which he describes the Sun’s decision to pursue an “open” strategy rather than prosecute the “open” world and its results: In essence, we decided to innovate, not litigate. Further down: All of which is to say – no amount of fear can stop the rise…

Mark Hoekstra posted this cool photo (BY-NC-SA) on Geek Technique: This is part of a series on iPod hacking. A very Maker thing to do. (If you’re in the San Francisco area visit CC at Maker Faire this weekend.)

Looks like a new great web 2.0 has emerged along the lines of scribd, but specifically for sharing slideshows. Welcome to the world of the commons, Slideshare! (rounds of massive applause) Here at CC we have been working on a Media Hosting Wishlist for sites like Slideshare to use as a guide for how to…

Last night the podcast edition of James Patrick Kelly’s Hugo-nominated novella Burn won the Nebula Award for best science fiction/fantasy novella published in the U.S. during the two previous years. Cory Doctorow writes on Boing Boing: As far as I know, that makes it the first Creative Commons licensed work and the first podcast to…

As noted elsewhere, myself (Jon Phillips) and Alex Roberts, CC’s brilliant graphic designer, attended the spectacular Libre Graphics Meeting 2007 (LGM2007) in Montreal last weekend, which I highly recommend for others to check out next year! The highlight for me is always to see my friends and to make new acquaintances like Tina Piper from…

Continuing our series highlighting the excellent work being done by Creative Commons international jurisdiction projects, today we present Creative Commons Italy. Since the launch of version 2.0 of the Creative Commons Licenses at the end of 2004, the Creative Commons Italia Working Group, based at the Politecnico of Torino and composed of people from a…

The Creative Commons international scholarship campaign ended successfully today. We cannot thank you enough for all your help and support. Over the past two weeks we have profiled Creative Commons international jurisdiction projects to highlight the importance to the movement. Although the campaign has ended, we still have some great stories remaining, which we’ll post…

I have exciting news! Not only did we meet the $50,000 goal for the CCi Scholarship campaign we also met the $100,000 matching challenge — raising $200,000 in total. We met this challenge through the significant support of: the Ford Foundation Nokia Digital Garage IBM Old Mutual and most importantly you — our community. We…