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Digital Public Library of America Launches
by elliot Uncategorized postCreative Commons would like to congratulate the Digital Public Library of America on its official launch today. The DPLA, which has been in planning since 2010, brings together millions of digital resources from numerous libraries, archives, and museums. From DPLA: The Digital Public Library of America will launch a beta of its discovery portal and…
Free Music Archive Launches Public Domain Music Contest
by elliot Uncategorized postBeautiful DreamerStephen Foster / Public Domain Remember the Happy Birthday song contest? Our friends at the Free Music Archive and WFMU are running another challenge to bring more music into the commons. But this time, it’s all about creating new, public domain recordings of public domain compositions. From FMA: Bring the public domain into the…
U.S. States considering public access policies
by Timothy Vollmer Uncategorized postWith the introduction at the federal level of both the Fair Access to Science and Technology Research Act (FASTR) and the White House public access directive, several states have begun to think about supporting public access to publicly funded research. Like the proposed federal legislation and White House policy, the state-level bills aim to support…
Open Textbook Summit
by pstacey Open Education postOn April 8 & 9, 2013 BCcampus hosted, and Creative Commons facilitated, an Open Textbook Summit in Vancouver British Columbia Canada. The Open Textbook Summit brought together government representatives, student groups, and open textbook developers in an effort to coordinate and leverage open textbook initiatives. Participants included: BCcampus BC Ministry of Advanced Education, Innovation and…
DRM in HTML5 Is a Bad Idea
by dan Uncategorized postToday’s latte, HTML5Yuko Honda / CC BY-SA Creative Commons strongly believes in the respect of copyright and the wishes of content creators. That’s why CC has created a range of legal tools that rely in part on copyright to enable our vision of a shared commons of creative and intellectual works. But when creators’ rights…
CC Talks With: David Liao: Open Courseware and CC Licenses
by billy-meinke Open Education, Open Science postLast week a researcher and educator by the name of David Liao contacted our team at Creative Commons about open courseware he had created, which we tweeted: “A mathematical way to think about biology.” Really well put-together CC BY-SA course. qbio.lookatphysics.com @lookatphysics #oer — creativecommons (@creativecommons) March 25, 2013 I sat down last Wednesday to…
Free Culture Conference hits NYC April 20-21
by Timothy Vollmer Uncategorized postThe Students for Free Culture conference will take place in New York City April 20-21. The conference–dubbed FCX 2013–will be held at New York Law School.
Open Education Around the World – A 2013 Open Education Week Summary
by pstacey Open Education postCreative Commons congratulates all those who participated in the second annual Open Education Week March 11-15, 2013. It’s impressive to see how global open education has become with contributors from over 30 different countries showcasing their work and more than 20,000 people from over 130 countries visiting the Open Education Week website during the week.…
CC Global Summit 2013 – Call for Papers
by jessica Uncategorized postListening to Larry’s Keynote [at the Global Summit 2011] / Chiaki Hayashi / CC BY NC SA We are proud to officially launch the call for papers for CC’s Global Summit 2013. The Global Summit is Creative Commons’ biannual gathering of CC friends and family. In 2013 it will be held from 21-24 August in…
Now Hiring: Senior Software Engineer
by dan Uncategorized postCC swag IV / Peter Shanks / CC BY Creative Commons is looking for a senior software engineer. This hire will play a key role in building the next generation of Creative Commons technology. From the job description: We’re looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join us in creating next generation products and services…