Hello from the iCommons Summit! Rio is beautiful and so are the hundreds of people joining us here for this historic event. Among the many members of our community who have traveled to be a part of the summit is former Creative Commons executive director Glenn Otis Brown, who writes in to say: I’m honored…

Most of Creative Commons staff is in Rio de Janiero this weekend for the iCommons iSummit. See the iSummit coverage site for panel writeups, podcasts, and images from the conference. It is a pleasure to have a few days of face to face collaboration with our worldwide affiliates and extended community. Update: Participate online in…

Our latest Featured Commoner tells the story of Wikitravel – why it was started, how it has been built up & organized and its experience of CC licensing. As we mentioned earlier in the year, in April 2006 Wikitravel was one of two wikis that were acquired by Internet Brands, which makes this a very…

In preparation for the iCommons iSummit taking place in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil later this week, we’re pleased to announce that ccPublisher 2.2 is now available. The focus of this release was internationalization, and it includes translations for Chinese (Taiwan), Croation, Dutch, Polish, and Spanish. Thanks to the volunteers who graciously handled the translation efforts.…

Microsoft has released an tool for copyright licensing that enables the easy addition of Creative Commons licensing information for works in popular Microsoft Office applications. The software is available free of charge at Microsoft Office Online and will enable the 400 million users of Microsoft Office Word, Microsoft Office Excel, and Microsoft Office PowerPoint to…

The organizations announce availability of Microsoft Office add-in that enables easy access to Creative Commons copyright licenses. Redmond, WA, USA; San Francisco, CA, USA – June 20, 2006 Microsoft Corp. and Creative Commons, a nonprofit organization that offers flexible copyright licenses for creative works, have teamed up to release a copyright licensing tool that enables…

Now through July 20 entires are being accepted for the Open Video Contest promoting open content, open formats and open source. Entries should be under 30 seconds, under 10 megabytes, in OGG Theora format and released under the Attribution-ShareAlike license. Check out the press release and see the contest page for rules and other information.…

Wikitravel is a wiki dedicated to providing a “free, complete, up-to-date and reliable world-wide travel guide” that is built by collaboration of wikitravellers from 42 countries around the globe and in a variety of different languages including English, German, French and Japanese. The wiki tool, of course, lets any Internet reader create, update, edit, and…

San Francisco, USA – June 20, 2006 Creative Commons and the Fedora Project are pleased to announce the Open Video Contest taking place now. The contest promotes flexible copyright, open media formats and the Fedora Project. Entries must be 30 seconds or less, in OGG Theora format, promote freedom and openness, and be released under…

A little while ago, we blogged about the recent decisions – one in Spain and one in the Netherlands – that have been handed down that involve Creative Commons licenses. English translations of these are now available for those people whose Spanish or Dutch is a little rusty. The Spanish one is here; the Dutch…