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Open High School of Utah's DeLaina Tonks: Open Education and Policy
by Timothy Vollmer Uncategorized postAt the beginning of this year we announced a revised approach to our education plans, focusing our activities to support of the Open Educational Resources (OER) movement. In order to do so we have worked hard to increase the amount of information available on our own site – in addition to an Education landing page and the OER…
Marking and Tagging the Public Domain: An Invitation to Comment
by Diane Peters Uncategorized postAlmost 1½ years have passed since we launched CC0 v1.0, our public domain waiver that allows rights holders to place a work as nearly as possible into the public domain, worldwide, prior to the expiration of copyright. CC0 has proven a valuable tool for governments, scientists, data providers, providers of bibliographic data, and many others…
Curriki's Christine Mytko: Open Education and Policy
by Jane Park Uncategorized postPhoto by Christine Mytko / CC BY-NC At the beginning of this year we announced a revised approach to our education plans, focusing our activities to support of the Open Educational Resources (OER) movement. In order to do so we have worked hard to increase the amount of information available on our own site – in…
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Costa Rican license draft enters public discussion, pilots new comment tools
by michelle Uncategorized postWe are happy to announce an experiment in the public discussion process of our licenses, piloted by CC Costa Rica. Customarily, we post a static text document of the licenses, including a re-translation and summary of changes in English, to our website. The community can download these files and submit comments on the jurisdiction’s mailing…
Joi Ito on License Proliferation
by cameron Uncategorized postCreative Commons CEO Joi Ito has a great post on his blog today about license proliferation. Drawing from his experience as a board member at both ICANN and the Open Source Initiative, Ito outlines the problems created by license proliferation: As sharing and the adoption of new, free licenses begins to accelerate, I believe we…
ISKME's Lisa Petrides: Open Education and Policy
by Timothy Vollmer Uncategorized postAt the beginning of this year we announced a revised approach to our education plans, focusing our activities to support of the Open Educational Resources (OER) movement. In order to do so we have worked hard to increase the amount of information available on our own site – in addition to a new Education landing page and…
CC Search Redesign Beta
by Alex Gakuru Uncategorized postToday we’ve released a new CC content search interface on our Labs site for an initial live beta, testing some interface variations, before completely replacing our current search UI. Why are we changing it? Many of you use and love search.creativecommons.org, judging by actual use and tweets about the service. After four years of the…
CC Australia releases 3.0, explains improvements
by michelle Uncategorized postOur CC jurisdiction teams are always hard at work on critical license maintenance and version upgrades. Currently, many of these talented local teams are adapting Version 3.0, released February 2007, to the laws and languages of more than 70 jurisdictions around the globe. Joining the jurisdictions that offer licenses at 3.0 is Creative Commons Australia,…
Cathy Casserly: Open Education and Policy
by Timothy Vollmer Uncategorized postAt the beginning of this year we announced a revised approach to our education plans, focusing our activities to support of the Open Educational Resources (OER) movement. In order to do so we have worked hard to increase the amount of information available on our own site – in addition to a new Education landing…