Yesterday RDFa reached Proposed Recommendation status at the World Wide Web Consortium, the final stage before becoming a W3C Recommendation. Using RDFa, one can make data in web pages rendered for humans also readable in a meaningful way by computers. This is important to Creative Commons, as we have always seen the promise of the…

Creative Commons is working with ISOC-Bulgaria to create Bulgaria jurisdiction-specific licenses from the generic Creative Commons licenses. CCi Bulgaria List Project Lead: Veni Markovski and Dragoslava Greve License draft (PDF). English explanation of substantive legal changes. (PDF) Subscribe to the discussion. More about ISOC-Bulgaria Founded in 1995, among its main aims is support free and…

Creative Commons is working with Multimedia Development Corporation (MDeC) to create Malaysia jurisdiction-specific licenses from the generic Creative Commons licenses. CC Malaysia Project Leads: Dr. Alina Ng Hasnul Hadi Samsudin Hasnul Nadzrin Shah Muid Latif License draft: License draft (PDF). English explanation of substantive legal changes (PDF). Post a message. Subscribe to the discussion. Read…

25 years ago Richard Stallman started the GNU (“Gnu’s Not Unix”) project to create a computer operating system like Unix (then ascendant in computer labs like the one Stallman worked in), but with source code free for programmers to run, study, share, and improve. Free software from the GNU project now powers in the range…

Creative Commons is working with Association for Technology and Internet to create Romania jurisdiction-specific licenses from the generic Creative Commons licenses. CCi Romania List Project Lead: Stefan Gavrilescu, Bogdan Manolea License draft (Version 3.0, PDF). English re-translation of the draft (PDF). English explanations of substantial legal changes (PDF). Post a message. Subscribe to the discussion.…