Creative Commons and Science Commons Announce Open Access Law Program San Francisco & Boston, USA — June 6, 2005 Creative Commons, a nonprofit organization that provides flexible copyright licenses for authors and artists, and Science Commons, a project of Creative Commons that works to encourage sharing of scientific and academic knowledge, today unveiled their Open…

San Francisco, USA, and Johannesburg, SOUTH AFRICA, June 1, 2005 – Creative Commons, a non-profit organization that offers free copyright licenses and tools to creators to make their works available on more flexible terms, unveiled a localized version of its innovative licensing system in South Africa last week. With South Africa offering Creative Commons licenses…

The comments period announced here for the minor tweak to the attribution language across all of our core licenses proposed for version 2.5 is drawing to a close. As befits a minor tweak, there has not been a tremendous amount of criticism or issues raised with the revised suggested language. Some important comments, however, raised…

Yahoo! Search for Creative Commons is now part of the Yahoo! advanced search page: Way to go Yahoo! (Now close to 16 million pages linking to a CC license.)

San Francisco, USA, and Helsinki, Finland – May 19, 2005 – Creative Commons, a nonprofit organization dedicated to building a body of creative works free to share and build upon, announced today that Creative Commons licensed content is being sought as part of a pilot of an innovative new content service – mobile television. The…

Creative Commons and online record label Magnatune will co-host a digital music remix contest beginning in May of 2005 and will begin accepting entries on June 15, 2005. The contest will be hosted at ccmixter and features the music of Magnatune rock artist

Be creative, be open, and give it your best shot. “Let your imagination run wild and get creative,” is the slogan from Magnatune and Creative Commons on their latest venture. Online record label Magnatune and non-profit creative licensing organization Creative Commons announce that they will co-host a digital music remix contest beginning in May of…

Be creative, be open, and give it your best shot. “Let your imagination run wild and get creative,” is the slogan from Magnatune and Creative Commons on their latest venture. Online record label Magnatune and non-profit creative licensing organization Creative Commons announce that they will co-host a digital music remix contest beginning in May of…

So a new license draft has been posted here. The changes relate to our standard attribution language and the plan is that they take effect across all of our core licenses. The new version will be 2.5 because it is a minor change. We are in the process of working through other revisions to the…

Creative Commons and the Queensland University of Technology (QUT) introduce innovative copyright licenses to Australia San Francisco, USA and Brisbane, AUSTRALIA  Jan. 19, 2005  Creative Commons, a nonprofit organization that offers a flexible copyright for creative work, today unveiled a localized version of its innovative licensing system in Australia. The Creative Commons licenses…