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Creative Commons Content Sought for Innovative New Pilot of Mobile Television in Finland
by raul About CC postSan Francisco, USA, and Helsinki, Finland – May 19, 2005 – Creative Commons, a nonprofit organization dedicated to building a body of creative works free to share and build upon, announced today that Creative Commons licensed content is being sought as part of a pilot of an innovative new content service – mobile television. The…
Creative Commons (CC) Certificate Content: Available in French and Spanish!
by Jennryn Wetzler Open Education postThe CC Certificate program offers training covering open licensing and the ethos of sharing. All CC Certificate content is openly licensed and built with the intention of adaptation and remix. While CC currently offers Certificate courses to address (1) educators, (2) academic librarians, and (3) cultural heritage communities (also known as GLAM: galleries, libraries, archives…
Boundless, the free alternative to textbooks, releases its content under Creative Commons
by Jane Park Uncategorized postBoundless, the company that builds on existing open educational resources to provide free alternatives to traditionally costly college textbooks, has released 18 open textbooks under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA), the same license used by Wikipedia. Schools, students and the general public are free to share and remix these textbooks under this license. The 18…
On Content Industries and Understanding Creative Commons
by fbenenson Uncategorized postA number of articles from CC insiders hit the blogs this week. I have one up at Media Rights, a site that focuses on social-justice documentaries and the activist filmmaker community. I focus my examples on how Creative Commons can help film makers reach greater audiences and media by framing them in light of the…
Creative Commons releases LiveContent 2.0
by Timothy Vollmer Uncategorized postCreative 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…
Creative Commons LiveContent 2.0 Demonstrates Autocuration of Open Content
by Timothy Vollmer About CC postSan Francisco, CA — March 10, 2008 Creative Commons today announced the release of LiveContent 2.0, a LiveDVD full 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.…
Source for Creative Commons Licensed (Live)Content
by kidproto Uncategorized postRussell from Worldlabel.com, a proud sponsor of the LiveContent project which you can help fill up with CC licensed content, sent over a link from mashable.com which lists 25+ sources of Creative Commons licensed content. While Creative Commons only provides free open content licenses and doesn’t have a database or store content, we have a…
Creative Commons and Fedora Release LiveContent CD
by cameron Uncategorized postWe are incredibly pleased to announce the release of LiveContent, a collaborative initiative to showcase Creative Commons-licensed media as well as free, open source software. LiveContent is a joint effort between Creative Commons and Fedora, Red Hat’s community-based open source platform. The LiveContent CD features a variety of Creative Commons-licensed media including audio, video, image,…
Creative Commons and Fedora Team Up To Deliver LiveContent Distribution
by cameron About CC postSan Francisco, CA — August 6, 2007 Creative Commons today announced the release of LiveContent, a collaborative initiative to showcase free, open source software and dynamic, Creative Commons-licensed multimedia content. Red Hat’s Fedora 7 will serve as the platform for Creative Commons LiveContent CD. The first LiveContent CD is now available at the Creative Commons…
FOSS + Creative Commons LiveContent for libraries
by Timothy Vollmer Uncategorized postCreative Commons is developing LiveContent, a project to connect and expand Creative Commons and open source communities. The first output of LiveContent will be ccLiveCD for libraries, which will package free and open source software (FOSS) with CC-licensed content. ccLiveCD aims to demonstrate an example of an easy-to-use, viable alternative to proprietary software and further…