If you work with K-12 students in the United States (or if you are one), then you’ll want to know about this video competition. Engage 2012 asks young people to create short videos about political issues impacting their communities. All entries will be uploaded to YouTube under CC BY, meaning lots of great fodder for…

Three new employees have joined Creative Commons in the last few weeks. Join us in welcoming Jenny Utke, Paul Stacey, and Puneet Kishor to the team.   Jenny Utke, Senior Accountant Jenny is originally from Michigan but has lived in California for over 10 years. She started her career as an auditor at CPA firms…

Stay up to date with CC news by subscribing to our blog and following us on Twitter.   Top stories: Why Open Education MattersBlink Tower / CC BY Watch the winning entries in our Why Open Education Matters video contest. iSummit08: Jimmy SorianoTomislav Medak / CC BY Jimmy Soriano of CC Philippines passed away last…

Creative Commons just reached an exciting milestone. As of this week, there are four million Creative Commons–licensed videos on YouTube. That’s over forty years’ worth of footage to remix and reuse, all licensed under CC BY, the most permissive CC license. One thing that makes this mass of CC-licensed content really exciting is that all…

Last week, open access journal First Monday published an excellent research article (licensed CC BY-NC-ND) by Patryk Galuszka called Netlabels and Democratization of the Music Industry. If you’re not familiar with the term, a netlabel is a sort of lighter-weight record label. Netlabels distribute music recordings primarily over the Internet, many of them for free…