Creative Commons is working with IIT Bombay to create India jurisdiction-specific licenses from the generic Creative Commons licenses. CCi India List Legal Project Lead: Lawrence Liang Public Project Lead: Shishir K. Jha License draft (PDF). English explanation of substantive legal changes. (PDF) Post a message. Subscribe to the discussion. Read the discussion archives. More about…

Creative Commons is working with Budapest University of Technology and Economics and Center for Media Research and Education to create Hungary jurisdiction-specific licenses from the generic Creative Commons licenses. CCi Hungary List Legal Project Lead: Dr. Aniko Gyenge Public Project Lead: Bodó Balázs, István Szakadát (MOKK), Attila Kelényi (Kiskapu) License draft (PDF). English explanation of…

Creative Commons is working with CERSA to create France jurisdiction-specific licenses from the generic Creative Commons licenses. CCi France List Project Lead: Danièle Bourcier License draft (PDF). English explanation of substantive legal changes (PDF). Creative Commons France Website. Post a message. Subscribe to the discussion. Read the discussion archives. More about CERSA Founded in 1967,…

Creative Commons is working with the Law Department of Copenhagen Business School to create Denmark jurisdiction-specific licenses from the generic Creative Commons licenses. CCi Denmark List Legal Project Lead: Jan Trzaskowski and Thomas Riis Public Project Lead: Christian Villum and Martin von Haller Groenbaek License draft (PDF). English explanation of substantive legal changes. (PDF) Post…

Creative Commons is working with Renmin University and CNBlog.org to create China Mainland jurisdiction-specific licenses from the generic Creative Commons licenses. CCi China Mainland List Project Lead: Professor Chunyan Wang License draft (PDF). English explanation of substantive legal changes. (PDF) Post or subscribe to the discussion. About Law School of Renmin University of China Renmin…

Beyond Penguins and Polar Bears is the new online science magazine for K-5th grades focusing on polar issues wrought by global climate change. Developed by a host of contributors, including the Ohio State University with funding from the National Science Foundation (Research on Learning in Formal and Informal settings), the magazine will get much of…

In the universe of blogs and other syndicated content, a planet is a service that aggregates a specific set of blogs, usually all relevant to a particular community, so that one may easily follow conversations (or at least blogged updates) in the community or drop in and see what is happening in a community without…

It’s no secret that Flickr has a great archive of Creative Commons-licensed photos — over 50 million as I write this. Last week I ran across a plugin for WordPress that makes finding and using these images even easier. Photo Dropper allows you to search for images, optionally filtering for whether or not photos allow…

We’ve just added the seal you see at right to Creative Commons licenses that qualify as Free Culture Licenses according to the Definition of Free Cultural Works — Attribution and Attribution-ShareAlike. Public domain is not a license, but is an acceptable copyright status for free cultural works according to the Definition. One obvious way to…

Today seems to be the day that unique, experimental, CC-licensed record labels show up on our radar. 8bitpeoples, “a collective of artists sharing a common love for classic videogames”, specializes in retro video game goodness, creating music that reflects a clear obsession with old NES soundtracks and the wonderfully brittle noises of the Commodore 64.…