Creators in Romania now have the option to license their creative works under one of the six Creative Commons licenses tailored to Romanian law. The Creative Commons team in Romania, led by Bogdan Manolea and Stefan Gavrilescu and supported by the Association for Technology and Internet, carried out the porting process and public discussion with…
Text in English and Romanian Bucharest, Romania and Berlin, Germany — September 2, 2008 Creators in Romania now have the option to license their creative works under one of the six Creative Commons licenses tailored to Romanian law. Available as of today, the ported Romanian licensing suite (BY through to BY-NC-ND of Version 3.0) is…
A friendly reminder that we are hosting the latest CC Salon LA next week (9/3/08) at the FOUND Gallery in Silverlake (Google map) between 7:30PM-9:30PM. Joining us will be Xeni Jardin, Tech Culture Journalist and co-editor at Boing Boing, and Casey Caplowe, Creative Director of GOOD Magazine. Both will discuss how CC, and ‘openness’ in…
Ready-to-Remix Art and Music Exhibit Online Now; Physical Installations to Follow San Francisco, CA, USA and Los Angeles, CA, USA — August 26, 2008 Today, dublab and Creative Commons announced the launch of Into Infinity, an art and music exhibit jointly produced by the two nonprofit organizations. The online version of the exhibit is online…
Ready-to-Remix Art and Music Exhibit Online Now; Physical Installations to Follow San Francisco, CA, USA and Los Angeles, CA, USA — August 26, 2008 Today, dublab and Creative Commons announced the launch of Into Infinity, an art and music exhibit jointly produced by the two nonprofit organizations. The online version of the exhibit is online…
San Francisco, CA, USA – August 25, 2008 Creative Commons announced today that Flickr cofounder Caterina Fake has joined its board of directors. Fake cofounded the massively popular photo sharing site and community in early 2004. Flickr was one of the first media-sharing sites to embrace Creative Commons licensing as a way to encourage users…
After the success of July’s CC Salon NYC, we’re even more excited about inviting you to September’s! The Open Planning Project has once again generously allowed us to use their loft space in the West Village for the salon and a reception afterward. September’s Salon will feature presentations from Rachel Sterne from GroundReport.com, Michael Galpert…
San Francisco, CA, USA — August 13, 2008 The United States Court of Appeals held, in Jacobsen v. Katzer, that “Open Source” or public license licensors are entitled to copyright infringement relief. The Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (CAFC), the leading intellectual property court in the United States, has upheld a free copyright…
San Francisco, CA, USA and Singapore City, Singapore — July 27, 2008 Today Creative Commons Singapore announces the completion of the locally ported Creative Commons licensing suite. In close collaboration with Centre for Asia Pacific Technology Law & Policy (CAPTEL), the Creative Commons team in Singapore, led by Associate Professor Samtani Anil and Assistant Professor…
SAN FRANCISCO, USA JULY 24, 2008 Creative Commons announced today the release of liblicense and LicenseChooser.js, content licensing tools which make integration of Creative Commons license functionality easy for developers building modern desktop and web applications. These tools enable reading and writing Creative Commons licensing information to a variety of media formats. Many projects already…