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Free Bassel Day, coming March 15
by elliot Copyright postBassel Khartabil is a computer engineer who, through his innovations in social media, digital education, and open-source web software, played a huge role in opening the internet in Syria and bringing online access and knowledge to the Syrian people. Many people reading this blog know Bassel through his work as lead for CC Syria. Coinciding…
Help bridge our open communities: Open Coalition Project Coordinator Job
by Jane Park Uncategorized postConstruction of the Story Bridge, Brisbane, 1939 / State Library Queensland / No known copyright restrictions Last November, a bunch of us from Wikimedia, Mozilla, P2PU, OKFN, Creative Commons, School of Open, and other communities got together for a session at Mozfest called “Collaborations across the Open Space.” That session not only laid the groundwork…
Copyright Week: What happened to the Brazilian Copyright Reform?
by elliot Uncategorized postA few years ago, a major copyright reform in Brazil seemed imminent. What happened? On the Creative Commons Brazil blog, Mariana Giorgetti Valente and Pedro Nicoletti Mizukami have an excellent post on the complicated history of copyright reform in Brazil: In December 2007, the Brazilian Ministry of Culture — then under Minister Gilberto Gil’s administration…
Congress passes spending bill requiring free access to publicly funded research
by Timothy Vollmer Uncategorized postOER Summer Camp on Luxi Island
by Jane Park Uncategorized postThe following is a guest post by LIUPing and SUN Beibei, members of the CC China Mainland Affiliate team and the School of Open community. Below, they describe CC China Mainland’s experience with running a two-week open educational resources (OER) summer camp for the children of Luxi Island, a remote island off the coast of…
Letters for Bassel
by elliot Uncategorized post#FreeBassel / David Kindler / CC BY We’ve written several times on this blog about Bassel Khartabil, the Syrian Creative Commons community leader who’s been imprisoned since March 2012 without having had any charges brought against him. European Parliament members Charles Tannock and Ana Gomes recently submitted an official question to the Parliament leadership concerning…
Why we choose open
by cathy Uncategorized postI promise to keep this short. I wanted to share a note we received from CC donor Dorothea Salo: When I was a librarian hired to run an institutional repository, CC licenses helped me cut through copyright thickets with worried-but-interested faculty. CC’s unwavering support for free culture, and promotion of its benefits, demonstrated every day…
Copyright Week: Read-only access is not enough
by elliot Uncategorized postToday is the third day of Copyright Week, and today, we’re focusing on open access. As EFF put it in the Copyright Week principles: The results of publicly funded research should be made freely available to the public online, to be fully used by anyone, anywhere, anytime. This is a principle that Creative Commons has…
Copyright Week: Tools and policies for building and defending a robust public domain
by Timothy Vollmer Uncategorized postThe public domain is the DNA of creativity. Whereby current copyright law requires permission in order to use a work, the public domain is a copyright-free zone whereby anyone can use the work for any purpose without restriction under copyright law. One way works rise into the public domain is when the copyright protection term…
Policy Projects at CC: Open Policy Network and Institute for Open Leadership
by Cable Green, Timothy Vollmer Uncategorized postOver the last year we’ve been working on developing two new projects: the Open Policy Network and the Institute for Open Leadership. Both of these initiatives arise out of a direct identified need from the Creative Commons community. Let’s explain a bit more about each of these projects. Overview Over the last several years, Creative…