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Report on CC and UK cultural heritage institutions
by mike Uncategorized postA report based on the survey we mentioned in August is now released: The cultural heritage community sits on a goldmine of images, texts, sounds, films, video, data and metadata of immense interest to wide variety of specific sectors and the general public. The resources that these organisations hold increasingly come as digital files and…
Lawrence Lessig in xcd and on Boing Boing TV
by cameron Uncategorized postIn case you hadn’t heard, Lawrence Lessig is officially the most popular guy on the internet (for now)! Check out webcomic xkcd for a great strip featuring Elaine, the “greatest hacker of our era”, learning copyright from CC’s CEO. For added enjoyment, check out a wonderfully lo-fi tribute by SweedishViennese “art-pranksters” Monochrom on BoingBoingTV. That…
CC In the Trenches: "A Great Concept I'll Continue to Employ"
by Timothy Vollmer Uncategorized postThis great piece blew into our RSS reader this morning. Photographer Brian Auer provides a interesting discussion and personal perspective on Creative Commons. He explains what CC is, comments on licensing rights and responsibilities, and explores some of the grey areas in and around Creative Commons. Brian licenses using CC, and suggests that other photographers…
ACIA: International Workshop on Asia and Commons in the Information Age
by michelle Uncategorized postFor those of you interested in the vibrant commons of the Asia Pacific region, mark January 19, 2008 on your calendars for the International Workshop on Asia and Commons in the Information Age (ACIA), hosted in Taipei, Taiwan. The ACIA workshop (like ASIA, with a “C”), is the highly-anticipated, self-sponsored event organized by Creative Commons…
Creative Commons Releases Add-in Support for OpenOffice.org
by nathan About CC postSan Francisco, CA — November 14, 2007 Today Creative Commons released an Add-in for OpenOffice.org which allows users to select and embed a Creative Commons license in documents. Based on work completed as part of the Google Summer of Code by Cassio Melo, the add-in supports Writer (word processing documents), Calc (spreadsheets) and Impress (presentations).…
Integrated Licensing in OpenOffice.org
by nathan Uncategorized postOver the summer Creative Commons had the good fortune to participate in the Google Summer of Code. One of our students, Cassio Melo, worked on developing an add-in for OpenOffice.org, similar to the one that existed for Microsoft Office. Today I’m pleased to announce the fruits of Cassio’s efforts. We’re releasing a beta release of…
Panda Punk Lab: Inauguration in Chile
by michelle Uncategorized postClaudio Ruiz from Creative Commons in Chile reports the inauguration of the Panda Punk Lab, a multimedia lab in Chillán City offering educational software running on an Ubuntu Linux operating system: ” Because the indemnification received by the violation of a Creative Commons license – the first case in Chile and Latin America – the…
Creative Commons Launches Second Annual CC Swag Photo Contest
by melissa About CC postSan Francisco, CA — November 13, 2007 Today, Creative Commons launched its second annual CC Swag Photo Contest. The contest is an important component of the third annual Creative Commons fundraising campaign, which was launched on October 1. “It is not only vital that we meet our $500,000 goal for the fundraising campaign, it’s also…
Let the 2nd annual CC swag photo contest begin!
by melissa Uncategorized postPhoto © Franz Patzig – CC BY Photo © yamabobobo – CC BY Last year we launched the inaugural annual CC swag photo contest as a way to promote support for CC. There were over 50 entries to last year’s competition, including this one by Franz Patzig, which I’m sure you’ve seen somewhere by now.…
Alex Miroshnichenko and the Santiago Fires
by cameron Uncategorized postIn looking at CC success stories, we tend to focus on how CC licences have allowed new business models to grow or have helped facilitate new forms of artistic expression. While these are both incredibly important and, in their increasing abundance, popular implementations of what CC can provide, what sometimes gets lost in the shuffle…