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CC News: Would you donate to CC if your gift was doubled?
by allison About CCStay up to date with CC news by subscribing to our weblog and following us on Twitter. 3taps Supports Creative Commons with a Matching Challenge! Today, we'd like to turn your attention to 3taps, a new startup that makes sifting through classified ads a whole lot easier. 3taps is supporting our fall fundraising campaign with…
ccNewsletter: Wikipedia Founder Jimmy Wales Wants You to Support CC!
by allison About CCOur fall fundraising campaign is fully underway, and we'd like to start off this month's newsletter by encouraging all of you who use or support Creative Commons to donate today so we can continue to provide you with great tools for sharing and remixing on the web!
ccNewsletter: Campaign Launches! Become a CC Superhero!
by allison About CCStay up to date with CC news by subscribing to our weblog and following us on Twitter. Our annual fundraising campaign has launched! Help us reach our $550,000 goal! Creative Commons is recruiting a legion of superheroes to help us raise money for our fall fundraising campaign. We already have an all-star team of leaders…
Creative Commons launches Public Domain Mark; Europeana and Cultural Heritage Institutions lead early adoption
by Diane Peters About CCSan Francisco, California, USA; The Hague, Netherlands — 11 October 2010 Today, Creative Commons announces the release of the Public Domain Mark, a tool that enables works free of known copyright restrictions to be labeled in a way that clearly communicates that status to the public, and allows the works to be easily discovered over…
Mozilla Drumbeat Festival 2010: Learning, freedom and the web
by Jane Park EventsMozilla has announced the first ever Drumbeat Festival focused on learning, freedom, and the web. Mozilla wants you to save the dates November 4-5, as the festival is set to take place in Barcelona—also where the Open Ed Conference will be taking place from November 2-4. From the announcement: Learning, freedom and the web are…
CC Vietnam Launches at Open CourseWare Consortium Global Meeting in Hanoi
by michelle About CCHanoi, Vietnam – May 7, 2010 Today marks the celebration of the localized Creative Commons licenses in Vietnam, the fifty-third jurisdiction worldwide to adapt the Creative Commons licensing suite to national law. The Vietnam Education Foundation together with D&N International and Creative Commons have overseen the localization of the licenses in consultation with the Vietnamese…
Science Commons Symposium
by lisagreen EventsIn the spirit of Creative Commons Salons — global, informal events focused on bringing together the community around a central topic or focus — Science Commons will be holding a day-long event this February in Seattle. The event will aim to bring a broader understanding on the term “open” and all of its flavors…
CC Salon NYC: Opening Education (March 3rd)
by Jane Park EventsThe Creative Commons Salon NYC is back in action on March 3rd at the Open Planning Project‘s uber cool penthouse space from October. The theme for this salon is “Opening Education”, and if you don’t really know what that means, think CC licenses as applied to various learning contexts and you’re off to a good…
ccNewsletter #15: September-December 2009
by allison About CCCreative Commons will soon be turning 7 (Help us celebrate!), and we’re in the midst of our 5th annual fundraising campaign, our yearly effort to raise public awareness and support of our mission to promote free and legal sharing of creative works. This newsletter, from September-December 2009, is a testament to how important our work…
iPhone application released for the INTO INFINITY project
by cameron About CCCreative Commons Japan + Appliya Studio + DubLab + Creative Commons + corde Japan, US, and worldwide — November 12th, 2009 Today, Creative Commons Japan and iPhone developer Appliya Studio announced the release of a brand new iPhone application, “AudioVisual Mixer for Into Infinity”, specially developed for the launch of the Into Infinity project in…