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3rd Creative Commons Arab Regional Meeting and Concert
by dona Uncategorized postThe 3rd Creative Commons Arab regional meeting will occur on June 30 to July 1, and will gather Creative Commons communities consisting of youth and civil society members across various fields (education, law, art, music) that are actively spreading the values of openness, sharing, peer-production, collaboration, and innovation in the Arab world. The meeting will…
CC News: Creative Commons Global Meeting 2011
by Jane Park About CC postStay up to date with CC news by subscribing to our weblog and following us on Twitter. Creative Commons Global Meeting 2011 Since the last global meeting of the Creative Commons community in Sapporo, we’ve seen the launch of CC0 and the Public Domain Mark, and a half-dozen more CC affiliate jurisdictions with many more…
Using CC0 for public domain software
by mike Uncategorized postThe basic idea of Creative Commons, offering free copyright tools, is copied from the free software movement. However, CC licenses are not intended to be used to release software, as our FAQ has always said. One important reason why Creative Commons licenses should not be used to release software is that they aren’t compatible with…
Japan relief efforts use Creative Commons
by Jane Park Uncategorized postLast week we asked you to help support the Japanese relief effort. We would also like to highlight alternative ways you can help by pointing you to a few relief efforts that are using CC licenses. OLIVE for quake survivors OLIVE is a Wikipedia-like site that provides much-needed information for quake survivors in various languages.…
The Lebanese Creative Commons community gains momentum
by cc-lebanon Uncategorized postThis post is by the Lebanese Creative Commons Community, who shares this Slideshare presentation to accompany the milestones outlined below. In the past three years, the Lebanese CC Community has started to structurally gain momentum and actively co-create together on local, regional and multi-national levels. The community that we have is vibrant and diverse consisting…
CC and data[bases]: huge in 2011, what you can do
by mike Uncategorized postDATABASE at Postmasters, March 2009 by Michael Mandiberg / CC BY-SA You may have heard that data is huge — changing the way science is done, enabling new kinds of consumer and business applications, furthering citizen involvement and government transparency, spawning a new class of software for processing big data and new interdisciplinary class of…
Belgian and Israeli Courts Grant Remedies to CC Licensors
by mliebenson Uncategorized postLitigation involving CC licenses is infrequent even though we’ve been around almost a decade and hundreds of millions of creative works are published under CC licenses. CC believes that this absence of litigation is evidence of widespread acceptance and understandability of our licenses. That said, we still appreciate occasional decisions by courts confirming that CC…
An Island: CC-Licensed Film, Public-Private Screenings Announced
by cameron Uncategorized postMusic and film lovers take note – An Island, a beautiful new film by Vincent Moon featuring Danish band Efterklang, is very quickly nearing public release. A new teaser for the film was released today along with an announcement describing the “Private-Public Screenings” of the film: Efterklang and Vincent Moon welcome all our listeners and…
Meet our board members: Mike Carroll
by lisak Uncategorized postJeff Mao and Bob McIntire from the Maine Department of Education: Open Education and Policy
by Timothy Vollmer Uncategorized postMaine has been a leader in adopting educational technology in support of its students. In 2002, through the Maine Learning Technology Initiative (MLTI), the state began providing laptops to all students in grades 7-8 in a one-to-one laptop program. In 2009, Maine expanded the project to high school students. The one-to-one laptops paved the way…