It’s tax day here in the USA, but let’s look to more interesting things. I will endeavor to send out an update, perhaps in newsletter form, of key ccLearn activities and plans every month or so, in addition to any announcements or interviews that we post to the site. As we continue to develop our…

CC Taiwan has produced a lovely and informative 36-page guidebook to CC licensing for government agencies and NGOs. The document is available to download in Taiwanese Mandarin. In other publication news, a translation of Lawrence Lessig’s book Free Culture is now available in Taiwanese Mandarin. The translator, Ching-Yi Liu, is a professor at the National…

In May of 2007, the Center for Educational Research and Innovation (CERI) of the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) published a report called, “Giving Knowledge for Free: The Emergence of Open Educational Resources.” This report published the findings from a study in 2006, which included the results of a survey taken by 193…

Looking for another way to stay abreast of current CC news? Subscribe to the bi-monthly ccNewsletter — a one stop shop for all the current CC related news you could want. This month’s newsletter highlights the amazing work of Creative Commons International’s (CCi) affiliate network as well as the most interesting and informative links from…

Looking for another way to stay abreast of current CC news? Subscribe to the bi-monthly ccNewsletter — a one stop shop for all the current CC related news you could want. This month’s newsletter highlights the amazing work of Creative Commons International’s (CCi) affiliate network as well as the most interesting and informative links from…

Two weeks ago, I met David Hodge, a freshman at the University of Southern California. He has been working with USC Free Culture (part of Students for Free Culture) and the USC Association for Computing Machinery chapter to run a week-long programming competition to build software for OLPC’s XO laptop. That project is “Code for…

Heads up to all LA based CC-heads – two weeks from today, April 16 at 7:30 PM, we are back at FOUND LA (Google Map) for another CC Salon. We’ve revamped our approach, focusing more on content creators and the issues they face and to say we are excited about the lineup would be an…

Back in December, we blogged about Lingro, a project that aims “to create an on-line environment that allows anyone learning a language to quickly look up and learn the vocabulary most important to them”. Lingro pools the open-content community for their definitions (including CC BY-SA licensed user submissions), ingraining it in a cycle of sharing…

Good Crew, a pop-rock band from Japan, have released the vocal tracks for all the songs from their new album, Nippon Husky, under a CC BY-NC-SA license. While this in itself is great news (we always love to hear about people using licenses!) this is especially noteworthy in that Good Crew are signed to Columbia…

Wired magazine recently pointed out that amidst all the hooplah about Google’s Book Search project, the Internet Archive hasn’t idled in their work a second. In fact, they’ve got people manually scanning in up to 1,000 public domain works a day—and the number of titles are almost at 350,000 and growing. The Internet Archive is…