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pageUse Creative Commons tools to help share your work. Our free, easy-to-use copyright licenses provide a simple, standardized way to give your permission to share and use your creative work — on conditions of your choice. You can adopt one of our licenses by sharing on a platform, sharing your work with an open license,…
Controversy: A Recap of the copyright issues surrounding Prince’s estate
by Jennie Rose Halperin Uncategorized postPrince performing in Brussels during the Hit N Run Tour in 1986, CC-by-2.0 Today at Copyright On!, Britton Payne discussed the unique copyright situation surrounding Prince’s estate. This potentially long and bitter battle could shape the future of music copyright to come. Prince fought a number of legendary copyright battles, which makes this current fight…
Active OER: Beyond open licensing policies
by Timothy Vollmer Open Education post“eBook” (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0) by Jonas Tana This is a guest blog post written by Alek Tarkowski, Director of Centrum Cyfrowe and co-founder of Creative Commons Poland. On April 14, 2016, 60 experts from 30 countries are meeting in Kraków, Poland for the first OER Policy Forum. The goal of the event is to build on the…
Technology Platforms
pageOver 2.5 billion CC-licensed works exist across millions of websites. The majority are hosted on content platforms that provide CC license options for their users. Platforms that support CC licenses make it easy for users to discover and collaborate on images, video, music, research and educational texts. This page highlights some of the best known…
New CC directors to focus on platforms and content creation
by Ryan Merkley About CC postCreative Commons is pleased to announce the appointment of two new senior-level positions to help implement our new strategy. Last week, CC announced a renewed vision to create a vibrant, usable commons, powered by gratitude and collaboration. These two positions will be fundamental to bringing this strategy to life. I’m pleased to appoint Jane Park…
Towards a vibrant, usable commons
by Ryan Merkley About CC postOver the next few days, I’m going to share a series of posts about Creative Commons’ 2016-2020 strategy. Let me skip to the end: CC is going to refocus our work to build a vibrant, usable commons, powered by collaboration and gratitude. Over the course of these next few posts, I’ll explain what that means,…
State of the Commons Report Highlights Milestone of Over 1 Billion Creative Commons Works Shared Online
by Ryan Merkley About CC postAnnual State of the Commons Report highlights global cultural and policy impact of free and open content Creative Commons, the global nonprofit that makes it easier for creators to share their work under simple copyright terms, announced a major milestone in the release of its 2015 State of the Commons Report today: over 1 billion…
Read the story of Bassel Khartabil, Syrian prisoner who lives and risks dying for a free Internet
by Timothy Vollmer Uncategorized postThe original article was written by Stéphanie Vidal in Slate.fr. It has since been published under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license. Please attribute author Stéphanie Vidal and Slate.fr as the place of first publication by linking to the original article. The following has been translated into English by Philippe Aigrain, Mélanie Dulong de Rosnay,…
Congrats to EFF and the dancing baby
by sarah Uncategorized postThere are plenty of examples to depict our broken copyright system, but the “dancing baby” case is one of the most notorious. That’s the one where Universal Music used the DMCA to take down a 29-second YouTube video of an adorable baby dancing to “Let’s Go Crazy” by Prince. Putting aside the legal questions,…
U.S. Secretary of Education highlights Schools using OER to #GoOpen
by Cable Green Open Education postWilliamsfield video by U.S. Department of Education is licensed CC BY I’m pleased to announce two important updates from the U.S. Department of Education! #1: Williamsfield Community Unified School District embraces OER Today, U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan visited Williamsfield Community Unified School District in Illinois to highlight the progress the rural school district…