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We Met Hindawi's Matching Giving Challenge! Thank You!
by allison Uncategorized postThanks to all who donated this week and had your gift automatically doubled by Hindawi! Your $3000 in donations have become $6000 thanks to Hindawi. Here’s why the open access scholarly journal publisher supports CC: “As an open access journal publisher we believe that it is important for our readers to be comfortable reusing and…
Robert Cook-Deegan of the Center for Genomics at Duke
by cameron Uncategorized postSharing becomes a slippery slope when it comes to genomics: we need massive amounts of data in order to understand the human genome, but issues of privacy, abuse, and the distrust of institutions stand in the way. So how do we resolve this? We talked to Robert Cook-Deegan, the director of the Center for Genomics,…
CC to talk at Global Education Conference
by Jane Park Uncategorized postCC BY by Joi The Global Education Conference is a week-long, online event hosting keynotes and various education tracks to “significantly increase opportunities for globally-connecting education activities and initiatives.” CC board Vice Chair, Esther Wojcicki, will give a keynote on “How to Spread Your Ideas Globally Using Creative Commons Licenses,” focusing on how CC licenses…
Belgian Band Wins Case Against Theater for Infringing Use of CC-Licensed Song
by lisak Uncategorized postThe CC BY-NC-ND license held its own in a Belgian court last week when a band called Lichôdmapwa won a lawsuit against a theater company in Brussels that commercially used a modified, unattributed version of one of their songs in an advertisement. One of the band members happened to hear the song on the radio…
Barcelona Events Wrap-up
by Jane Park Uncategorized postccNewsletter: Wikipedia Founder Jimmy Wales Wants You to Support CC!
by allison About CC postOur fall fundraising campaign is fully underway, and we'd like to start off this month's newsletter by encouraging all of you who use or support Creative Commons to donate today so we can continue to provide you with great tools for sharing and remixing on the web!
Hindawi wants to double your donation! What are you waiting for?
by allison Uncategorized postHindawi, open access scholarly journal publisher, wants to double your donation to Creative Commons! Starting right now, Hindawi is matching every dollar of the next $3000 given to CC. That means if you donate $10, $25, $75 to CC right now, your impact will be automatically doubled thanks to Hindawi. Judging by how fast we…
Meet our board members: Jimmy Wales
by lisak Uncategorized postMeet Creative Commons board member Jimmy Wales. You probably know him best as the founder of Wikipedia. Here, he talks to us about the importance of Creative Commons, why fundraising is hard, and his crazy travel schedule. Why are you on the CC board? As the founder of Wikipedia, I am very aware of the…
Big thank you to Squidoo!
by melissa Uncategorized postWe’re thrilled to announce a $15,000 gift from Squidoo, the popular publishing platform that allows you to create and share content with the world. So why are they supporting CC? Seth Godin, Squidoo’s Founder says: Creative Commons is doing something incredibly difficult and valuable: they are changing expectations. Before CC, the default mode for everything…
Flat World Knowledge's Eric Frank: Open Education and Policy
by Timothy Vollmer Uncategorized postAt the beginning of this year we announced a revised approach to our education plans, focusing our activities to support of the Open Educational Resources (OER) movement. In order to do so we have worked hard to increase the amount of information available on our own site – in addition to an Education landing page and the OER…