If all goes according to plan this should be my first post on the Creative Commons blog. I’m going to take this opportunity to introduce myself and tell you why you are going to have see my posts in the future. My name is Greg Grossmeier and I am the Community Development Intern at Creative…
Hyper awesome super CC-evangelist Cory Doctorow has had two great bits of news pop up in the past couple days, with the first being that his new novel, Little Brother (CC BY-NC-SA) has entered its 4th week on the New York Times Bestseller List! A huge accomplishment in its own right, we are especially excited…
And, you can be too! 2008 is half over. Seriously, this is a massively overdue in praise, adulation and support for Tim “TVOL” Vollmer and Rebecca “RRR” Rojer who started last summer 2007 at Creative Commons as interns along with the oustanding still-CC-blog-superstar Cameron Parkins tasked with specific projects all have seen through this blog.…
We wanted to recognize and celebrate the hard work and talent of musicians all over the world registering their songs under cc licenses – so we now feature a handful of such songs on CC’s Myspace page. CC’s page on this social network site receives a steady flow of visitors each day, and posting songs…
The ccNewsletter #7 is now available for download. This edition highlights Science Commons, the project of Creative Commons dedicated to bringing the sharing and reuse principles CC brought to the world of culture, to scientific research. Also, a BIG thank you to CC Philippines for designing the newsletter and to all of you for keeping…
Two Bits: The Cultural Significance of Free Software is a new book by Christopher Kelty that explores the “history and cultural significance of Free Software”, narrating a time line about “the people and practices that have transformed not only software, but also music, film, science, and education” in contemporary society. Released in print by Duke…
Lingro is a project that aims to create an online environment that will allow anyone, in reading a foreign language website, a quick and easy means to translate words they don’t understand. Simple in concept, yet profound in implication, Lingro (which we have blogged about twice before) uses open dictionaries and user-submitted, CC BY-SA licensed,…
Back in 2004, Athabasca University released the e-version of the Theory and Practice of Online Learning for free online. Now the second edition of the book is out, also available in eBook form under the same license, CC BY-NC-ND. All chapters of the book have been updated with an addition of four new chapters on stuff…
Acerca de CC Chile [English] Creative Commons ha colaborado con la Universidad de Chile, El sistema de Servicios de Información y Bibliotecas (SISIB), y la Corporación Derechos Digitales (CDD) para adaptar las licencias de Creative Commons al sistema legal de Chile. Líder del Proyecto: Prof. Alberto Cerda Silva (Fundador de CDD) y Gabriela Ortuzar (Director…
Thanks to The Wired Campus, I recently stumbled across this new wiki whilst looking for a visualization tool for a ccLearn research project. The new wiki is called Digital Research Tools, also known as DiRT. DiRT is edited by a team of librarians from Rice University’s Digital Media Center and Sam Houston State University’s Newton…