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2nd Annual Digital Media and Learning Competition
by Jane Park Uncategorized postLast week, the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, long-time supporter of CC, announced the second annual Digital Media and Learning Competition. The 2008 competition is a collaborative result of the MacArthur Foundation, the University of California, Irvine, Duke University, and HASTAC, a virtual and voluntary network of educators and innovators committed to improving…
Georgia
by michelle Uncategorized postNino Kuntseva-Gabashvili, Merab Labadze, and Zviad Sulaberidze; Business Intelligence and Valuation Group, Ltd.
Azerbaijan
by michelle Uncategorized postRamil Iskandarov and Elmari Mamishov, Azerbaijan Young Lawyers Union
Armenia
by michelle Uncategorized postCreative Commons is working with Center for Information Law and Policy (CILP) to create Armenia jurisdiction-specific licenses from the generic Creative Commons licenses. CCi Armenia List Project Lead: Movses Hakobyan License draft (PDF). English re-translation and explanation of substantive legal changes (PDF). Post a message. Subscribe to the discussion. Read the discussion archives. More About…
REMINDER: CC Salon LA Next Week (9/3/08): Xeni Jardin and GOOD Magazine
by cameron Events postA friendly reminder that we are hosting the latest CC Salon LA next week (9/3/08) at the FOUND Gallery in Silverlake (Google map) between 7:30PM-9:30PM. Joining us will be Xeni Jardin, Tech Culture Journalist and co-editor at Boing Boing, and Casey Caplowe, Creative Director of GOOD Magazine. Both will discuss how CC, and ‘openness’ in…
ABC (Australia) Launches CC-Friendly Social Media Site "Pool"
by cameron Uncategorized postGreat news coming in from our friends at CC Australia – the ABC, Australia’s national public broadcaster, just launched a CC-friendly social media space, Pool, which is designed to provide a “place for creative content makers to upload their work, publish and collaborate.” Pool offers users the ability to upload their content – whatever the…
Community Generated HowTos
by fbenenson Uncategorized postMolly Kleinman, the “multi-purpose” librarian, has started putting together some easy to digest HowTos on Creative Commons. In HowTo #1 she details some very reasonable examples of proper attribution: An Ideal Attribution This video features the song “Play Your Part (Pt.1)” by Girl Talk, available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial license. © 2008, Greg Gillis.…
Semantic Media Wiki Quick Reference Guide
by fbenenson Technology postCreative Commons uses Semantic Media Wiki for both our external wiki and our internal task and project management system. As opposed to a normal wiki where text is “flat”, the text and data inside a SMW can be structured in sophisticated ways that allow for meaningful querying of knowledge statements of the corpus. To give a…
Version 3.0 Austria now goes live!
by patricia Uncategorized postWe are very pleased to announce that Creative Commons Austria has successfully completed the versioning of the ported Creative Commons licensing suite in Austria. Following the versioning of Creative Commons Germany in late July 2008, Version 3.0 of the six standard Creative Commons licenses is now legally and linguistically adapted to Austrian law. A special…
CC Salon LA (9/3/08): Xeni Jardin and GOOD Magazine
by cameron Uncategorized postFor those who will be missing out on tonight’s amazing CC Salon SF, we have some good news (if you are based in LA) – we are ecstatic to announce that the CC Salon LA continues next month (9/3/08) with an amazing duo of presenters – joining us will be Xeni Jardin, Tech Culture Journalist…