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Over at the Science Commons blog…
by kaitlin Uncategorized postOver at the Science Commons blog, an introduction and a call for suggestions / comments … “Over the past few months, you may have noticed that some of the posts here have been attributed to a mysterious “dwentworth.” That’s me — Donna Wentworth — and I’m here to start bringing more of your voices to…
CC Wiki puts on a new face
by Timothy Vollmer Uncategorized postVisit the Creative Commons wiki at http://wiki.creativecommons.org to explore our updated wiki portal page. There’s easy ways to get involved, and lots to do. Jump right in and license your creative work or check out a developer challenge. Spread the word about CC with the great multimedia resources on our Documentation page. Congregate online by…
Creative Commons Announces New Leadership, New Funding
by Eric Steuer Uncategorized postToday, Creative Commons is excited to make two important announcements. First, we’re thrilled about a major new grant of $4 million from the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, consisting of $2.5 million to provide general support to Creative Commons over five years, as well as $1.5 million to support ccLearn. We’re also pleased to announce…
Creative Commons Announces New Leadership, New Funding
by Eric Steuer About CC postSan Francisco, CA, USA — April 1, 2008 Creative Commons, a nonprofit organization that works to expand the body of creative work available to the public for legal sharing and use, today announced both a leadership evolution and a major new grant of $4 million from the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation to support its…
"Sampling & Fair Use": Copyright Issues For Indie Producers – April 7 @ 7PM
by cameron Uncategorized postHeads up to all Bay Area CC-ers – next Monday, April 7th from 7PM to 8:30PM, Independent Arts & Media will be hosting a panel titled “Sampling & Fair Use”: Copyright Issues For Indie Producers. Our own Jennifer Yip will be on hand to discuss CC licenses and how to access open works online. Joining…
What good is a CC licensed specification?
by mike Uncategorized postProto-lawyer, GNOME hacker and CC friend Luis Villa’s brief “CC-licensed specification” rant is correct: [I]mplementing a spec may require (among other things) licensing of “pending utility and design patent claims, copyrights, trade dress and trademark rights.” Putting a specification under a CC license gives you a copyright license to the text of the specification; it…
Lingro Adds CC-Licensed Multi-Lingual Dictionaries
by cameron Uncategorized postBack 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…
FUSE! Thai Creative Platform
by cameron Uncategorized postFUSE! is a Thai creative platform that aims to connect filmmakers, musicians, photographers, and other creative individuals in one space while encouraging reuses of each other’s work. All content is released under a CC BY-NC-SA license, making the sharing and reuse of these works not only encouraged but legally sound. The best works are published…
8.5 GB of CC-Licensed Samples for the OLPC
by cameron Uncategorized postGreat news from the OLPC project – 8.5 GB worth of sound library samples have been donated to the project by the Berklee College of Music, Berklee Music Synthesis alumni (including electronic musician BT and the international Csound Developer community), M-Audio, Digidesign, and the Open Path Music group! The samples are being released under a…
OpenSocial creates foundation; continues to license specifications under CC-BY
by Timothy Vollmer Uncategorized postYesterday Google, MySpace, and newest partner Yahoo! announced the formation of the OpenSocial Foundation, a non-profit organization that works “to ensure the neutrality and longevity of OpenSocial as an open, community-governed specification for building social applications across the web.” From the press release: The foundation will provide transparency and operational guidelines around technology, documentation, intellectual…