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School of Open returns to Berlin for a workshop with Wikimedia Germany
by Jane Park Uncategorized postWikimedia Office in Berlin / Hari Prasad Nadig / CC BY-SA On March 2nd, the Creative Commons & P2PU School of Open will join forces with Wikimedia at the Wikimedia Germany offices in Berlin! As part of Open Education Week, CC Germany and Wikimedia Germany are kicking things off early with a workshop to introduce…
Apply now for 2013 Google Policy Fellowship at Creative Commons
by Timothy Vollmer Uncategorized postUpdate: Please be sure to apply at the Google Policy Fellowship website. For the fifth year, Creative Commons will take part in the Google Policy Fellowship program. It’s fantastic to see that Google has expanded the number and diversity of groups involved in the fellowship program. This year there are participating organizations from Africa, Latin…
4.0 draft 3 published – final comment period underway
by Diane Peters Licenses & Tools post“… Civile” / umjanedoan / CC BY It’s a fitting start to CC’s second decade as a license steward that we are publishing for comment the third and final draft of version 4.0. This draft has been long in the making, but we think it’s all the better for the extended discussion and drafting period,…
Commercial Rights Reserved proposal outcome: no change
by kat Uncategorized postCC recently considered a proposal to rename the NonCommercial license to “Commercial Rights Reserved”, as raised on this list back in December. We have decided not to pursue that proposal, and to leave the name of the license the same. However, there is a possibility of using the “Commercial Rights Reserved” language in messaging and…
FASTR introduced in U.S. Congress to drastically expand public access to federally funded research
by Timothy Vollmer Uncategorized postToday marks an historic step forward for public access to publicly funded research in the United States. The Fair Access to Science and Technology Research Act (FASTR) was introduced in both the House of Representatives and the Senate. FASTR requires federal agencies with annual extramural research budgets of $100 million or more to provide the…
CC Arab World Community Gathers and Celebrates
by dona Uncategorized postFaiza Souici / CC BY-SA In keeping with the tradition inaugurated by the third Creative Commons Arab regional meeting (30th June-2nd July, Tunis, 2011), the 2012 fourth annual gathering of the CC Arab communities was marked by a great deal of creative energy and a strong push towards strengthening a sharing culture in the Arab…
Open Science Course Sprint: An Education Hackathon for Open Data Day
by billy-meinke Events, Open Education, Open Science postAn Education Sprint The future of Open is a dynamic landscape, ripe with opportunities to increase civic engagement, literacy, and innovation. Towards this goal, the Science Program at Creative Commons is teaming up with the Open Knowledge Foundation and members of the Open Science Community to facilitate the building of an open online course, an…
Clarifications about CC BY in the UK Open Access Policy
by Timothy Vollmer Uncategorized postIn the UK, the House of Commons has asked for feedback on their Open Access Policy. One provision of that policy requires that articles funded through the Research Councils UK (RCUK) must be released under a CC BY license. Last year, CC submitted a short comment in support. And just last month, the House of…
Work for Creative Commons in Europe: new Regional Coordinator job opening up
by jessica Uncategorized postBlack Marble – Africa, Europe, and theMiddle EastNASA Goddard Photo and Video / CC BY After nearly two years working with to support our community and forward Creative Commons in Europe, our European Regional Coordinator, Jonas Öberg, will be leaving us at the end of the month. Jonas has been awarded a prestigious fellowship from…
IAmSyria.org releases Teachers Guide to Syria
by Jane Park Uncategorized postIn December, we blogged about a new initiative by journalists called Syria Deeply, a news platform aiming to redesign the user experience of the Syrian conflict through news aggregation, interactive tools, original reporting, and feature stories. To encourage sharing and viral distribution, Syria Deeply licensed everything on its site under Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY).…