NYC affiliates, check out this awesome free culture photography scavenger hunt being put on by Free Culture @ NYU and Free Culture @ Columbia. Each member of the winning team will receive an iPod shuffle loaded with Creative Commons music! Second and third place teams will win copies of “Wikipedia, The Missing Manual” donated by…

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…

      We’re always trying to make Creative Commons licenses easier to understand and use. From the get-go, human-readable copyright licenses have been a CC mainstay. Creative Commons is excited to announce the expansion of a documentation project that explains various facets of Creative Commons licensing. From the press release: The initiative includes links and PDF…

San Francisco, CA, USA — March 24, 2008 Creative Commons today announced the expansion of a documentation project to explain various facets of Creative Commons licensing. The initiative includes links and PDF downloads to information on critical CC specifications, recommendations, research studies and tutorials. Some of the topics covered include the CC+ and CC0 projects,…

As an advocate of open education, ccLearn supports openness across a variety of fields, and, generally speaking, we would prefer to see things as openly licensed as possible. That’s why when we stumbled across this interview with Otago Polytechnic in New Zealand, we were delighted to find this quote about the role of Creative Commons…

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…

Moveon.org recently launched a contest called “Obama in 30 Seconds,” which encourages the public to create political ads in support of Barack Obama. All works must be released under a CC BY-NC-SA license and the wining ad, which will be voted on by both the public and a panel of judges including CC Founder and…

“Kelly” is a CC-BY-NC licensed webcomic written and illustrated by Dan Goldman. The comic’s incredible mixed-media illustration reveals “a psychedelic psychodrama about love, truth and conflicting interior landscapes in a tiny shared New York apartment”. “Kelly” is serialized at ACT-I-VATE, an online comic collective.

Carnegie Mellon University hosted a symposium last week titled, Opening Learning Interplay, focused on the relationship of learning sciences and open education. At a reception towards the end of the symposium, those of us who were present were treated to an excellent speech by Sir John Daniel, President and CEO of the Commonwealth of Learning…

Creative Commons is working with GRNET to create Greece jurisdiction-specific licenses from the generic Creative Commons licenses. CCi Greece List Public Lead: Theodoros Karounos, GRNET Legal Leads: Prodromos Tsiavos, Marinos Papadopoulos License draft (PDF, English). License draft (PDF, Greek). English explanation of substantive legal changes (PDF). Post a message. Subscribe to the discussion. Read the…