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[Re-]Introducing Greg Grossmeier, Education Technology & Policy Coordinator
by mike Uncategorized postGreg Grossmeier was a CC intern, community assistant, and for the last year and a half, a volunteer fellow. He is rejoining CC staff as Education Technology and Policy Coordinator, initially focused on the Learning Resource Metadata Initiative. How did you get involved in CC initially? It all started back when I was a student…
Seven successful launch events on The Power of Open
by Jane Park Events postFrom June 16 to July 8, The Power of Open launched in seven cities around the world: Tokyo, Washington DC, Brussels, Rio de Janeiro, London, Paris, and Madrid. Thanks to the diversity of our CC community, each launch event was unique and inspiring, emphasizing openness as relevant to local culture and policy. Here we recap…
CC News: The Power of Open
by Jane Park About CC postStay up to date with CC news by subscribing to our weblog and following us on Twitter. The Power of Open: Stories of creators sharing knowledge, art, & data using Creative Commons Released a couple weeks ago, The Power of Open demonstrates the impact of Creative Commons through stories of successful use of our tools…
The Power of Open: over 400 million CC-licensed works, with increasing freedom
by mike Uncategorized postThe Power of Open, released last week, demonstrates the impact of Creative Commons through stories of successful use of our tools by artists, educators, scientists, and institutions of all types. The book also features two pages sketching the socio-economic value (separately, we’re looking at this in-depth; follow these posts) and numerical adoption of CC tools.…
Government
pageGovernment entities make information they create available to the public in various ways: online subject to terms of use, by removing copyright and related rights, through government policy and regulation, through the use of custom licenses, via freedom of information laws, informally via norms, through the use of CC licenses and public domain tools, and…
License or public domain for public sector information?
by mike Uncategorized postMike Masnick at Techdirt asks Does It Make Sense For Governments To Make Their Content Creative Commons… Or Fully Public Domain? Ideally all Public Sector Information (PSI; government content and data) would be in the public domain — not restricted by copyright or any related rights. Masnick points to the U.S. federal government’s good policy:…
4 Stars for Metadata: an Open Ranking System for Library, Archive, and Museum Collection Metadata
by mackenzie Uncategorized postThis post was written by participants of the LOD-LAM Summit which was held on June 2nd/3rd in San Francisco and is crossposted on the Open Knowledge Foundation blog and the Open bibliography and Open Bibliographic Data blog. For author information see the list at the end of this post. The library, archives and museums (i.e. LAM)…
Brazil introduces OER into federal legislation and adopts local government policy
by Timothy Vollmer Uncategorized postOER seminar at the Sao Paulo Legislative Assembly by reanetbr / CC BY There’s been some exciting announcements in support of open educational resources (OER) in Brazil over the last few weeks. First, legislation was introduced into Brazil’s House of Representatives. The bill deals with three main issues: It 1) requires government funded educational resources to be…
Pete Forsyth and the Wikimedia Public Policy Initiative: Open Education and Policy
by Timothy Vollmer Uncategorized postPete Forsyth lives and breathes wikis. He is owner and lead consultant at Wiki Strategies, and has extensive experience in working within online peer production communities, specifically the production of open educational resources (OER) using wiki-based web sites like Wikipedia. Forsyth was the Wikimedia Foundation’s first Public Outreach Officer and key architect of the Wikipedia Public Policy…
YouTube launches support for CC BY and a CC library featuring 10,000 videos
by Jane Park Uncategorized postYou may have already heard the great news—YouTube has added the Creative Commons Attribution license (CC BY) as a licensing option for users! Now when users upload video, they can choose to license it under CC BY or to remain with the default “Standard YouTube License.” Users may also change the license on existing videos…