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U.S. Department of Labor adopts CC BY licensing policy department-wide
by Cable Green Copyright, Open Education post![](https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/DOL-CC-open-policy-text-JPG-1024x220-1.jpg)
Creative Commons (CC) believes publicly funded education, research and data resources should be shared in the global commons. The public should have access to what it paid for, and should not be required to pay twice (or more) to access, use, and remix publicly funded resources. This is why we are pleased…
Open Education Week: 7-11 March, 2016: Call for Participation
by Cable Green Open Education postOpen Education Week 2016: Call for Participation, by: Open Education Consortium, CC BY 4.0 The Open Education Week planning committee invites your contributions to and participation in the 2016 Open Education Week (#openeducationwk), featuring online and in-person events around the world. There are many ways to participate – including but not limited to: host an event help…
Tell the Department of Education 'YES' on open licensing
by Timothy Vollmer Uncategorized postIn October we wrote that the U.S. Department of Education (ED) is considering an open licensing requirement for direct competitive grant programs. If adopted, educational resources created with ED grant funds will be openly licensed for the public to freely use, share, and build upon. The Department of Education has been running a comment period in which interested parties can provide…
Trans-Pacific Partnership Would Harm User Rights and the Commons
by Timothy Vollmer Uncategorized postThe final text of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) was released earlier this month. The gigantic agreement contains sweeping provisions regarding environmental regulation, pharmaceutical procurement, intellectual property, labor standards, food safety, and many other things. If adopted, it would be the most significant expansion of international restrictions on copyright in over two decades. Over the last five years, the TPP…
Creative Commons offers Bassel Khartabil position as Digital Cultural Preservation Fellow
by Timothy Vollmer Uncategorized postBassel Khartabil by Joi Ito, CC BY 2.0. Bassel Khartabil is the lead of Creative Commons Syria. He’s been has been imprisoned in Syria since March 15, 2012. Bassel has been a key contributor to projects that digitize, preserve, and share cultural heritage works. The #NEWPALMYRA project was launched last month, which is an online community…
WIRED article highlights #NEWPALMYRA project launch
by Timothy Vollmer Uncategorized postToday marks the launch of #NEWPALMYRA, an online community platform and data repository dedicated to the capture, preservation, sharing, and creative reuse of data about the ancient city of Palmyra. The project features 3-D models of ruins from Palmyra created by Bassel Khartabil, the lead for Creative Commons Syria who has been imprisoned there since March…
Read the story of Bassel Khartabil, Syrian prisoner who lives and risks dying for a free Internet
by Timothy Vollmer Uncategorized postThe original article was written by Stéphanie Vidal in Slate.fr. It has since been published under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license. Please attribute author Stéphanie Vidal and Slate.fr as the place of first publication by linking to the original article. The following has been translated into English by Philippe Aigrain, Mélanie Dulong de Rosnay,…
Creative Commons Board of Directors approves resolution calling for Bassel Khartabil release
by Timothy Vollmer Uncategorized postAt its meeting on October 16, 2015, the Creative Commons Board of Directors unanimously approved the following motion: Consensus Resolution re: Bassel Safadi WHEREAS: Creative Commons is hosting its bi-annual Global Summit in Seoul, South Korea from Oct 15-17, 2015, an event that has previously been attended by Bassel Khartabil, where he was an active…
Our Kickstarter was a huge success, thanks to all of you!
by sarah Uncategorized postWe are thrilled to announce that 1,687 people backed our Kickstarter campaign, which successfully raised $65,420 – over 130% of our funding goal. We’re told by Kickstarter that Creative Commons is now among the top 5% of publishing projects in the history of the crowdfunding platform. All thanks to you, our supporters! What’s next?! Email…
Global Summit Call for Participation – Extension
by jessica Uncategorized postThe deadline for submissions to the CC Global Summit’s Call for Participation is fast approaching. But for those still getting their proposals together, there’s a reprieve – we’ve decided to extend the deadline until Wednesday 22 July. The extension is in response to a technical glitch we’ve become aware of, which meant that multiple submissions…