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U.S. PIRG report finds students would perform better with open textbooks
by Jane Park Uncategorized postCenter for Public Interest Research, Inc. / CC BY The U.S. PIRG Education Fund released a report this week called, “Fixing the Broken Textbook Market: How Students Respond to High Textbook Costs and Demand Alternatives.” The report features responses to a survey administered to over 2,000 students across 163 college campuses in the U.S. in…
Help bridge our open communities: Open Coalition Project Coordinator Job
by Jane Park Uncategorized postConstruction of the Story Bridge, Brisbane, 1939 / State Library Queensland / No known copyright restrictions Last November, a bunch of us from Wikimedia, Mozilla, P2PU, OKFN, Creative Commons, School of Open, and other communities got together for a session at Mozfest called “Collaborations across the Open Space.” That session not only laid the groundwork…
Copyright Week: What happened to the Brazilian Copyright Reform?
by elliot Uncategorized postA few years ago, a major copyright reform in Brazil seemed imminent. What happened? On the Creative Commons Brazil blog, Mariana Giorgetti Valente and Pedro Nicoletti Mizukami have an excellent post on the complicated history of copyright reform in Brazil: In December 2007, the Brazilian Ministry of Culture — then under Minister Gilberto Gil’s administration…
Congress passes spending bill requiring free access to publicly funded research
by Timothy Vollmer Uncategorized postCC is now a Group on Earth Observations (GEO) Participating Organization
by puneet-kishor Uncategorized postAs of yesterday (January 15, 2014), the Group on Earth Observations approved Creative Commons as now a Participating Organization (PO) at its GEO-X Plenary in Geneva. GEO was launched in response to calls for action by the 2002 World Summit on Sustainable Development and by the G8 (Group of Eight) leading industrialized countries to exploit…
OER Summer Camp on Luxi Island
by Jane Park Uncategorized postThe following is a guest post by LIUPing and SUN Beibei, members of the CC China Mainland Affiliate team and the School of Open community. Below, they describe CC China Mainland’s experience with running a two-week open educational resources (OER) summer camp for the children of Luxi Island, a remote island off the coast of…
Letters for Bassel
by elliot Uncategorized post#FreeBassel / David Kindler / CC BY We’ve written several times on this blog about Bassel Khartabil, the Syrian Creative Commons community leader who’s been imprisoned since March 2012 without having had any charges brought against him. European Parliament members Charles Tannock and Ana Gomes recently submitted an official question to the Parliament leadership concerning…
Why we choose open
by cathy Uncategorized postI promise to keep this short. I wanted to share a note we received from CC donor Dorothea Salo: When I was a librarian hired to run an institutional repository, CC licenses helped me cut through copyright thickets with worried-but-interested faculty. CC’s unwavering support for free culture, and promotion of its benefits, demonstrated every day…
Copyright Week: Read-only access is not enough
by elliot Uncategorized postToday is the third day of Copyright Week, and today, we’re focusing on open access. As EFF put it in the Copyright Week principles: The results of publicly funded research should be made freely available to the public online, to be fully used by anyone, anywhere, anytime. This is a principle that Creative Commons has…
Google Image Search improves license filtering
by elliot Uncategorized postIf you use Google Image Search to look for CC-licensed photographs, you might have noticed an improvement to the interface this week. Rather than having to hunt for it in the advanced search options, you can now filter by CC license right from the “Search Tools” menu on the search results page. You can also…