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Timothy Vollmer

Timothy Vollmer is Senior Manager for Public Policy. He coordinates public policy positions in collaboration with CC staff, international affiliate network, and a broad community of copyright experts. Timothy helps educate policymakers at all levels and across various disciplines such as education, data, science, culture, and government about copyright licensing, the public domain, and the adoption of open policies. Prior to CC, Timothy worked on information policy issues for the American Library Association in Washington, D.C. He is a graduate of the University of Michigan School of Information, and helped establish the Open.Michigan initiative.

Posts by Timothy Vollmer

Creative Commons Expands Documentation Project

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San Francisco, CA, USA — March 24, 2008 Creative Commons today announced the expansion of a documentation project to explain various facets of Creative Commons licensing. The initiative includes links and PDF downloads to information on critical CC specifications, recommendations, research studies and tutorials. Some of the topics covered include the CC+ and CC0 projects,…

PMOG shares player-generated content under CC-BY

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PMOG is the Passively Multiplayer Online Game, an interesting online gaming experience where players interact with each other with their clicks through the world wide web. PMOG.com explains: PMOG is an infinite game built on individual network histories, transforming our web surfing into ongoing social play. With a game heads-up display in Firefox, players can…

Simulated Comic Product hosts CC remix contest

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Simulated Comic Product is a great strip licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike license. Jump on over to the site to enter the remix contest that’s running until March 24: To celebrate the upcoming book launch, we’re going to have a contest! Have you ever read an SCP strip and thought “I can do…

Steve Trash is a "Rockin' Eco Hero"

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Over the past 25 years, “illusionist, eco-entertainer and kid comedian” Steve Trash has been sharing tips with kids about what we can do to make the world just a little bit greener. Steve offers his book The Magic of Ecology as a free PDF download on his website. The book is released under a Creative…

Creative Commons releases LiveContent 2.0

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Creative Commons is pleased to announce the release of LiveContent 2.0, a LiveDVD of Creative Commons-licensed multimedia content and free and open source software. LiveContent allows users to explore open content such as music, video, photography, books, and educational materials that can be freely used, copied, and built upon. From the press release: The LiveContent…