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Thank you, Donatella Della Ratta
by jessica Uncategorized postDonatella Della Ratta / Joi Ito / CC BY Creative Commons extends its deepest gratitude to Donatella Della Ratta. For almost six years, she’s been working as a tireless advocate for Creative Commons and open culture in the Arab world, increasing the knowledge and adoption of CC, conducting outreach to creative communities, and connecting activists…
School of Open: Copyright & Creative Commons for Educators Courses Now Open for Sign-up
by Jane Park Uncategorized postIs copyright a little fuzzy? / Elias Bizannes / CC BY-SA Following on the heels of “Writing Wikipedia Articles: The Basics and Beyond,” three more School of Open courses are now open for sign-up. They are: 1. Copyright 4 Educators (AUS) This course will equip Australian educators with the copyright knowledge to confidently use copyright…
Affiliate Project Grant Update: Africa
by meryl Uncategorized postLast June, CC began a project grant program for our Affiliate Teams around the world. Of over 70 applicants, 18 were selected to receive funds to support events or activities in their region. The chosen projects in music, education, data, culture, and technology all work towards CC’s mission to promote the understanding and adoption of…
Next phase of the CC Toolkits project: Regional events
by billy-meinke Events postBack in November, we launched the CC Toolkits project with the aim of invigorating the CC Community through affiliate events. CC Argentina collaborated with Wikimedia Argentina to hack out a template for the toolkits during a sprint, creating a starting point for just about anyone to collect open content about CC, and publish it on…
Precocious One Year Old Turning Academic Publishing On Its Head
by puneet-kishor Uncategorized post“If we can set a goal to sequence the Human Genome for $99, then why shouldn’t we demand the same goal for the publication of research?” started with that bold challenge. Now, the scrappy startup that dared has done it. One year old today, PeerJ, the peer-reviewed journal, has seen startling growth having…
"Really Open Education" Policy Discussion In the European Parliament
by Timothy Vollmer Uncategorized postCreative Commons would like to invite you to a breakfast discussion “Really Open Education. Domestic Policies for Open Educational Resources”. The event will take place on the 18th of February 2014 and be hosted in the European Parliament by Róża Gräfin von Thun und Hohenstein, MEP. The event will highlight open education initiatives currently implemented…
U.S. PIRG report finds students would perform better with open textbooks
by Jane Park Uncategorized postCenter for Public Interest Research, Inc. / CC BY The U.S. PIRG Education Fund released a report this week called, “Fixing the Broken Textbook Market: How Students Respond to High Textbook Costs and Demand Alternatives.” The report features responses to a survey administered to over 2,000 students across 163 college campuses in the U.S. in…
Knowledged Unlatched invites university libraries to open access publishing pilot
by elliot Uncategorized postThis guest blog post was written by Lucy Montgomery, deputy director of Knowledge Unlatched. Knowledge Unlatched is inviting university libraries to join the pilot of a new approach to achieving open access for specialist scholarly books. Specialist books in the Humanities and Social Sciences, or monographs, sell for between $50 and $200. Monograph publishing is…
4.0 translation process begins
by sarah Uncategorized postWe are excited to announce the launch of the official translation process for the 4.0 license suite. As most of you know, CC made a significant push to make this latest version of the licenses as internationally robust as possible. The result is a set of licenses we hope will be used around the world.…
Honda releases 3D models under CC
by elliot Uncategorized postThis morning, auto manufacturer Honda released 3D data for the exterior designs of several of its concept models under a CC Attribution-NonCommercial (BY-NC) license. From the press release: With the data downloaded from the website “Honda 3D Design Archives,” Honda’s concept models can easily be replicated by a household 3D printer, which is becoming more…