Skip to content

Category: About CC

Seven successful launch events on The Power of Open

Events

From June 16 to July 8, The Power of Open launched in seven cities around the world: Tokyo, Washington DC, Brussels, Rio de Janeiro, London, Paris, and Madrid. Thanks to the diversity of our CC community, each launch event was unique and inspiring, emphasizing openness as relevant to local culture and policy. Here we recap…

CC News: The Power of Open

About CC

Stay up to date with CC news by subscribing to our weblog and following us on Twitter. The Power of Open: Stories of creators sharing knowledge, art, & data using Creative Commons Released a couple weeks ago, The Power of Open demonstrates the impact of Creative Commons through stories of successful use of our tools…

European Commission hearing on access to and preservation of scientific information

About CC

Along with over 50 organizations, I attended a recent European Commission public hearing on access to and preservation of scientific information. Among those present were representatives from national and regional ministries, higher education institutions, libraries, data repositories, public and private funders, scientific societies, supranational research centres, journal publishers and advocacy groups. A majority of those…

CC News: YouTube Launches Creative Commons Support

About CC

Stay up to date with CC news by subscribing to our weblog and following us on Twitter. What better gift for your dad on Father's Day but a remix of his favorite videos? YouTube launches support for CC BY and a CC library featuring 10,000 videos You heard the great news last week—YouTube added the…

CC News: Creative Commons Global Meeting 2011

About CC

Stay up to date with CC news by subscribing to our weblog and following us on Twitter. Creative Commons Global Meeting 2011 Since the last global meeting of the Creative Commons community in Sapporo, we’ve seen the launch of CC0 and the Public Domain Mark, and a half-dozen more CC affiliate jurisdictions with many more…

CC News: Creative Commons for Japan Relief

About CC

Stay up to date with CC news by subscribing to our weblog and following us on Twitter. March may be over, but the madness isn't! CC is helping to shape Japan relief efforts, moving offices, and playing an important role in open government. Japan relief efforts use Creative Commons Regardless of CC related efforts, we…

CC News: Where did our $ come from in 2010?

About CC

Stay up to date with CC news by subscribing to our weblog and following us on Twitter. Where our $ came from in 2010 In an exercise in transparency and graphic design, we illustrate the source of the hands that fed us, including yours. We’re a nonprofit organization that happily provides our tools for free,…

CC News: $2 billion fund available for open education

About CC

Stay up to date with CC news by subscribing to our weblog and following us on Twitter. CC heads into February with exciting new developments in policy, science, and journalism. A new U.S. education fund makes available $2 billion to create open educational resources in community colleges The U.S. Department of Labor and the Department…

Nature Publishing Group expands support for Creative Commons

About CC

Nature Publishing Group (NPG) and Creative Commons are pleased to announce an ongoing agreement to support the work of Creative Commons (CC). NPG today pledges an annual donation to CC. This will be equivalent to $20 for every article processing charge (APC) paid for publication in any of the 20 journals owned by NPG with…