If you haven’t been to Amsterdam or checked out what great work Paul Keller and CC Netherlands is doing, then I highly recommend you A.) get here when you can by jet, or B.) tap into their great projects on the net. In particular, I’m referring to the big premiere 2nd Annual Blender Peach Open…

Market Street, Sydney | No known copyright restrictions. The Powerhouse Museum in Sydney, Australia has become the first museum in the world to release publicly-held historical photographs for access on the Flickr: The Commons. Powerhouse has released an initial 200 photographs from its Tyrrell Collection, and will continue to add more from this 7900+ image…

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…

Creative Commons is working with Information Systems and Innovation Group (ISIG) – Department of Management to create UK: England & Wales jurisdiction-specific licenses from the generic Creative Commons licenses. CCi UK: England & Wales List Overall Project Lead: Professor Ian Angell Legal Project Leads: Mr. Andrew Murray and Dr. Prodromos Tsiavos Public Project Lead: Dr.…

On May 28-30, The Center for Intellectual Property at the University of Maryland University College will be hosting a symposium focused on U.S. copyright monopoly, technological innovation and higher education institutions titled “Monopoly: Playing the Innovation Game”. The symposium will take place at the UMUC Inn and Conference Center in metro Washington D.C. Tied into…

Creative Commons is working with University College Cork to create Ireland jurisdiction-specific licenses from the generic Creative Commons licenses. CCi Ireland List Project Lead: Dr. Darius Whelan, College Lecturer, UCC Law Faculty and Louise Crowley, College Lecturer, UCC Law Faculty License draft (v3.0, PDF). English explanation of substantive legal changes (v3.0, PDF). Post a message.…

Creative Commons is working with the Access to Knowledge Project to create Ukraine jurisdiction-specific licenses from the generic Creative Commons licenses. CCi Ukraine List Project Lead: Andriy Pazyuk, National Academy of Public Management, Fellow (Ukraine, Kyiv); Ms. Galina Sovenko, Public Agency for Copyright and Related Rights, Chief Legal Adviser (Ukraine, Kyiv). (email) License draft (PDF).…

Creative Commons is working with an Institute of Information Science, Academia Sinica to create Taiwan jurisdiction-specific licenses from the generic Creative Commons licenses. CCi Taiwan List Project Lead: Dr. Tyng-Ruey Chuang and Shunling Chen License draft. English explanation of substantive legal changes. (PDF) Post a message. Subscribe to the discussion. Read the discussion archives. About…

Creative Commons is working with the Intellectual Property Institute for all legal aspects and the LJUDMILA for all technical aspects to create Slovenia jurisdiction-specific licenses from the generic Creative Commons licenses. CCi Slovenia List Legal Project Lead: Maja Lubarda, Intellectual Property Institute. Counsel to Legal Lead: Maja Bogataj Jančič, Intellectual Property Institute. Public Project Lead:…

Creative Commons is working with slobodnakultura.org, Wikimedia Serbia and New Media center Kuda_org. to create Serbia jurisdiction-specific licenses from the generic Creative Commons licenses. CCi Serbia List Legal Project Lead — Nevenka Antic Public Project Lead — Vladimir Jeric Vlidi License draft (PDF). English re-translation of license and explanation of substantive legal changes (English, PDF).…