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CC News: YouTube Launches Creative Commons Support
by Jane Park About CC postStay up to date with CC news by subscribing to our weblog and following us on Twitter. What better gift for your dad on Father's Day but a remix of his favorite videos? YouTube launches support for CC BY and a CC library featuring 10,000 videos You heard the great news last week—YouTube added the…
Pete Forsyth and the Wikimedia Public Policy Initiative: Open Education and Policy
by Timothy Vollmer Uncategorized postPete Forsyth lives and breathes wikis. He is owner and lead consultant at Wiki Strategies, and has extensive experience in working within online peer production communities, specifically the production of open educational resources (OER) using wiki-based web sites like Wikipedia. Forsyth was the Wikimedia Foundation’s first Public Outreach Officer and key architect of the Wikipedia Public Policy…
Creative Commons Qatar launches today!
by dona Uncategorized postOn Tuesday, 31st May at 6pm local time, Creative Commons Qatar will celebrate its official birth with a reception in a unique venue, the Museum of Islamic Art in Doha. The CC Qatar launch will be a celebration of Qatari and Arab creativity. Qatar has a flourishing and rapidly expanding creative scene, which will be…
Improving the CC Legal User Interface
by mike Uncategorized postLast month at the New and Emerging Legal Infrastructures Conference I had the pleasure of participating in a panel on Interface Design for Legal Systems. See my presentation on slideshare or as a pdf. This led to some reflection upon and discussion of Creative Commons’ “Legal User Interfaces” (LUIs). Each of the “layers” (the legalcode…
Response to "Publishers Criticize Federal Investment in Open Educational Resources"
by Cable Green Open Education postOn Tuesday, the Chronicle of Higher Education posted the article, “Publishers Criticize Federal Investment in Open Educational Resources.” We strongly support the U.S. Department of Labor including a CC BY requirement in their recent TAACCCT grant which makes available $2 billion to create open educational resources (OER) for career training programs in community colleges. As…
Libre Graphics Meeting 2011: Year of the Innovative Libre Graphics Desktop
by cwebber Uncategorized postFaces of Libre Graphics Meeting 2011 by Tom Lechner / CC BY-NC-SA In 2007, Jon Phillips wrote this about Libre Graphics Meeting: I wanted to underline how key it is for all those in Open ____ (Open Content, Open Source, Open etc) get together at some point to see each other physically, as often it’s…
Kwame Nkrumah University adopts CC Attribution for OER policy
by Jane Park Uncategorized postKNUST OER production workshop team by bagaball / CC BY The Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) has adopted a university-wide open educational resources (OER) policy with CC Attribution as the default license for university material. KNUST’s “Policy for Development and Use of Open Educational Resources (OER)” (pdf) outlines the purpose, role, and…
CC News: Creative Commons Global Meeting 2011
by Jane Park About CC postStay up to date with CC news by subscribing to our weblog and following us on Twitter. Creative Commons Global Meeting 2011 Since the last global meeting of the Creative Commons community in Sapporo, we’ve seen the launch of CC0 and the Public Domain Mark, and a half-dozen more CC affiliate jurisdictions with many more…
Workshop on "Open Government: Open Data, Open Source and Open Standards"
by Jane Park Uncategorized postOpen Government Data Venn Diagram by justgrimes / CC BY-SA You are invited to attend a workshop titled Open Government: Open Data, Open Source and Open Standards, organized jointly by Dr. Hanif Rahemtulla, Horizon Digital Economy Research and Puneet Kishor, Creative Commons. The workshop will be held in conjunction with the annual Open Source GIS…
DRM (a day against)
by mike Uncategorized postToday is a good day to learn about Digital Rights Management, or more accurately Digital Restrictions Management: Selection of blog posts from Day Against DRM 2011 Posts on the Creative Commons blog about DRM, going back to 2004. DRM article on English Wikipedia Although DRM seems to no longer be the red hot issue it…