San Francisco, CA – July 10, 2008 Creative Commons (CC), a global non-profit focused on the preservation and growth of a openly shareable and remixable media landscape, officially announced today that education innovator Esther Wojcicki has joined its Board of Directors. Wojcicki has been a prominent figure in American education. As the leading mind behind…
San Francisco, CA – July 9, 2008 Today Creative Commons (CC) announced the official launch of the Metrics project, a broad-based open web-based initiative to encourage and collect research efforts on the adoption of CC licenses worldwide. With the launch of the Creative Commons Case Studies project last month, CC expanded the qualitative information available…
Brisbane, Australia & San Francisco, USA — 2008 June 24 Today Creative Commons (CC), in association with Creative Commons Australia, officially announced the release of the Case Studies Project, which is a large-scale community effort to encourage all to explore and add noteworthy global CC stories. Creative Commons provides free tools to allow copyright-holders to…
[Text in English and Norwegian] Oslo, Norway and Berlin, Germany — June 6, 2008 The Creative Commons Norway team has successfully ported the Creative Commons licensing suite to Norwegian law. The localized licenses will be unveiled today at a press conference at Oslo University College. The team responsible for coordinating the porting process and public…
San Francisco — 2008 May 28 Creative Commons announces that it has received $500,000 as the first installment of a gift of $2.5 million over five years from Omidyar Network. This gift is made to Creative Commons as part of the “5×5 Challenge” grant program, from which Creative Commons expects to receive $2.5 million annually…
San Francisco, CA USA — May 22, 2008 Creative Commons today announced that it is exploring possible roles in connection with a digital copyright registry system. Creative Commons is the San Francisco-based not-for-profit organization which provides free copyright licenses that allow creators to mark their works in advance with a range of permissions granted to…
Loja, Ecuador and San Francisco, CA, USA — April 22, 2008 Ecuador, the forty-fifth jurisdiction worldwide to port the Creative Commons licensing suite, will celebrate its launch today at the Universidad Técnica Particular de Loja (UTPL). The Creative Commons Ecuador team has coordinated the porting process and public discussion with local and international legal experts…
San Francisco, CA, USA — April 1, 2008 Creative Commons, a nonprofit organization that works to expand the body of creative work available to the public for legal sharing and use, today announced both a leadership evolution and a major new grant of $4 million from the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation to support its…
San Francisco, CA, USA — March 24, 2008 Creative Commons today announced the expansion of a documentation project to explain various facets of Creative Commons licensing. The initiative includes links and PDF downloads to information on critical CC specifications, recommendations, research studies and tutorials. Some of the topics covered include the CC+ and CC0 projects,…
San Francisco, CA — March 10, 2008 Creative Commons today announced the release of LiveContent 2.0, a LiveDVD full of Creative Commons-licensed multimedia content and free and open source software. LiveContent allows users to explore open content such as music, video, photography, books, and educational materials that can be freely used, copied, and built upon.…