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Opera Web Standards Curriculum
by cameron Uncategorized postOpera Software, know for their browser of the same name and a strict adherence to web standards, recently released 23 articles of their Web Standards Curriculum for free under a CC BY-NC-SA license, with 30 more to follow in the coming months. The WSC is intended to teach “standards-based web development, including HTML, CSS, design…
LegalTorrents
by cameron Uncategorized postLegalTorrents, “an online community created to discover and distribute Creative Commons licensed digital media”, recently revamped their website to include a stronger community focus as well as a more fluid user experience. We caught up with Jonathan Dugan to find out more about what LegalTorrents can offer those in the CC-community and why CC-using content…
TechSummit Video Now Online
by greg Uncategorized postCreative Commons held our first TechSummit at Google last month. This event included an update and overview of Creative Commons technologies, panels featuring other leaders in open digital rights technologies, and a look at the future, including the role of digital copyright registries. If you are curious of who all the speakers were you can…
Redefining the Book: Carnegie Mellon and Lulu.com Team Up
by fbenenson Uncategorized postETC Press has just launched as an “academic, open source, multimedia, publishing imprint.” The project is affiliated with the Entertainment Technology Center at Carnegie Mellon University and is in partnership with Lulu.com. When authors submit their work to ETC they retain ownership of it but they also must submit it under either an Attribution-NoDerivativeWorks-NonCommercial or…
The Metrics Project Now Live!
by thwang Uncategorized postTim Hwang, Business Development Intern here. Along with Jon Phillips and many others, we’ve been hard at work behind the scenes and excited to announce today that we’ve officially launched the Creative Commons Metrics Project! Recently, there’s been a growing academic interest in understanding how CC adoption is changing the creative landscape worldwide. Metrics is…
Creative Commons Launches Metrics Research Project
by thwang About CC postSan Francisco, CA – July 9, 2008 Today Creative Commons (CC) announced the official launch of the Metrics project, a broad-based open web-based initiative to encourage and collect research efforts on the adoption of CC licenses worldwide. With the launch of the Creative Commons Case Studies project last month, CC expanded the qualitative information available…
One Web Day is September 22nd
by fbenenson Uncategorized postI’m writing to you as the One Web Day Ambassador for July 9th 2008. One Web Day is a once-a-year celebration of all that is good about the Web. It’s organized by a non-profit team in New York City, but the celebrations take place all over the world. The Ambassadors project is designed to help…
Behance
by cameron Uncategorized postBehance is many things – a creative network, an online magazine, a producer of creative tools, an index of creative professionals, and a purveyor of methodology for getting creative projects done. Perhaps it is better to think of Behance then as an organization that, in their own words, “designs products and services that empower the…
Announcing July's CC Salon NYC
by fbenenson Uncategorized postOne of my favorite parts of my job as Creative Commons’ Culture Program Associate in New York is that I get to organize our Salons here. With that in mind, it gives me great pleasure to announce the next CC Salon NYC. The Open Planning Project has graciously allowed us to use their loft space…
Digital Photo Pro Covers Creative Commons
by fbenenson Uncategorized postIt has always been a goal of Creative Commons to integrate our licenses into communities of creators of all skill levels, from those of amateurs to those of experienced professionals. This is why it is wonderful to see the industry magazine Digital Photo Pro spotlight our licenses and the important implications that professional photographers should…