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Third Round of TAACCCT Grants Announced by US Department of Labor
by pstacey Open Education postOn April 19, 2013 US Acting Secretary of Labor Seth D. Harris announced the third annual round of the Trade Adjustment Assistance Community College and Career Training Program (TAACCCT) grant program. The press release states that the current round of grants available is $474.5 million bringing the total 2011-13 program investment to nearly $1.5 billion.…
Imprisoned internet pioneer Bassel Khartabil wins Index on Censorship Digital Freedom Award
by elliot Uncategorized postBassel / Joi Ito / CC BY Download press release (36 KB PDF) Palestinian-born Syrian software engineer Bassel Khartabil is the winner of this year’s Index on Censorship Digital Freedom Award, sponsored by Google. Khartabil is a free internet pioneer who has spent his career advancing open source technologies. On March 15, 2012, he was…
Bassel Khartabil Nominated for Digital Freedom Award
by elliot Uncategorized post#FREEBASSELDAY San Francisco / Niki Korth / CC BY If you read Creative Commons’ blog or follow our various social media channels, you’re no doubt already familiar with the story of Bassel Khartabil, the long-time Creative Commons volunteer who’s been detained in Syria for over a year. Last Friday, we participated in a global day…
US Department of State Unveils Open Book Project
by Cable Green Open Education postDepartment of State Seal / Public Domain Earlier today, US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton unveiled the Open Book Project (remarks, project page, press notice), an initiative to expand access to free, high-quality educational materials in Arabic, with a particular focus on science and technology. These resources will be released under open licenses that allow…
Memorial for Aaron Swartz in SF at Internet Archive
by elliot Uncategorized postDear Friends, please join us as we gather to remember Aaron Swartz on the evening of Thursday, January 24th. Reception at 7:00pm Memorial at 8:00pm at the Internet Archive 300 Funston Avenue San Francisco 94118 Speakers will include Danny O’Brien, Lisa Rein, Peter Eckersly, Molly Shaffer Van Houweling, Cindy Cohn, Brewster Kahle, Tim O’Reilly, Elliot…
Remembering Aaron Swartz
by Lawrence Lessig Uncategorized postLawrence Lessig and Aaron Swartz (2002) / Rich Gibson / CC BY Friends and Commoners, It is with incredible sadness that I write to tell you that yesterday, Aaron Swartz took his life. Aaron was one of the early architects of Creative Commons. As a teenager, he helped design the code layer to our licenses,…
Lawrence Lessig's WSJ Article on Bassel Khartabil
by elliot Uncategorized postBassel / joi / CC BY Today in the Wall Street Journal, Creative Commons co-founder Lawrence Lessig has a thoughtful piece about Bassel Khartabil, the longtime CC volunteer who has been detained by Syrian authorities since March. In late 2012, Foreign Policy named Mr. Khartabil one of this year’s top 100 thinkers. The magazine singled…
#cc10 Featured Platform: deviantART
by elliot Uncategorized postWords can make a deeper scar than silence can healilovestrawberries / CC BY-NC-ND Throughout the #cc10 celebrations, we’ll be profiling online platforms with Creative Commons integration. I reached out to Josh Wattles, longtime copyright lawyer and advisor in chief at deviantART, to get his perspective on how artists online use (or don’t use) CC licensing.…
CC10: A party on every continent!
by jessica Uncategorized postFIESTA 10 aniversario CC: CC Costa Rica wishes CC happy 10th birthday at Bar El Lobo Estepario, San Jose / Adrian Coto / CC BY As you know, any second now we’ll be officially launching CC’s 10th birthday celebrations. But the party has already started for our global community. Over the course of the 10…
Call for the Release of Bassel Khartabil
by cathy Uncategorized postBassel / joi / CC BY Earlier this year, Creative Commons issued a statement in support of Bassel Khartabil, a longtime CC volunteer who has been detained by Syrian authorities since March 15. Amnesty International recently released a document with information suggesting that Bassel has been ill-treated and even tortured. This morning, we sent a…