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CC Licensing Guidebook for Government Agencies and NGOs
by michelle Uncategorized postCC Taiwan has produced a lovely and informative 36-page guidebook to CC licensing for government agencies and NGOs. The document is available to download in Taiwanese Mandarin. In other publication news, a translation of Lawrence Lessig’s book Free Culture is now available in Taiwanese Mandarin. The translator, Ching-Yi Liu, is a professor at the National…
Open Educational Resources Survey
by Jane Park Uncategorized postIn May of 2007, the Center for Educational Research and Innovation (CERI) of the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) published a report called, “Giving Knowledge for Free: The Emergence of Open Educational Resources.” This report published the findings from a study in 2006, which included the results of a survey taken by 193…
ccNewsletter #6 — CCi
by melissa Uncategorized postLooking for another way to stay abreast of current CC news? Subscribe to the bi-monthly ccNewsletter — a one stop shop for all the current CC related news you could want. This month’s newsletter highlights the amazing work of Creative Commons International’s (CCi) affiliate network as well as the most interesting and informative links from…
ccNewsletter #6 — CCi
by melissa Uncategorized postLooking for another way to stay abreast of current CC news? Subscribe to the bi-monthly ccNewsletter — a one stop shop for all the current CC related news you could want. This month’s newsletter highlights the amazing work of Creative Commons International’s (CCi) affiliate network as well as the most interesting and informative links from…
Code for a Cause at USC
by paulproteus Uncategorized postTwo weeks ago, I met David Hodge, a freshman at the University of Southern California. He has been working with USC Free Culture (part of Students for Free Culture) and the USC Association for Computing Machinery chapter to run a week-long programming competition to build software for OLPC’s XO laptop. That project is “Code for…
CC Salon LA, April 16 7:30PM
by cameron Uncategorized postHeads up to all LA based CC-heads – two weeks from today, April 16 at 7:30 PM, we are back at FOUND LA (Google Map) for another CC Salon. We’ve revamped our approach, focusing more on content creators and the issues they face and to say we are excited about the lineup would be an…
Lingro Adds CC-Licensed Multi-Lingual Dictionaries
by cameron Uncategorized postBack in December, we blogged about Lingro, a project that aims “to create an on-line environment that allows anyone learning a language to quickly look up and learn the vocabulary most important to them”. Lingro pools the open-content community for their definitions (including CC BY-SA licensed user submissions), ingraining it in a cycle of sharing…
Columbia Music Entertainment & Good Crew Offer CC-Licensed Vocal Tracks
by cameron Uncategorized postGood Crew, a pop-rock band from Japan, have released the vocal tracks for all the songs from their new album, Nippon Husky, under a CC BY-NC-SA license. While this in itself is great news (we always love to hear about people using licenses!) this is especially noteworthy in that Good Crew are signed to Columbia…
The Internet Archive Still Truckin'
by Jane Park Uncategorized postWired magazine recently pointed out that amidst all the hooplah about Google’s Book Search project, the Internet Archive hasn’t idled in their work a second. In fact, they’ve got people manually scanning in up to 1,000 public domain works a day—and the number of titles are almost at 350,000 and growing. The Internet Archive is…
Version 3.0 Croatia goes live
by michelle Uncategorized postCreative Commons Croatia has successfully completed the versioning of the ported Creative Commons licensing suite in Croatia. Version 3.0 of the six standard Creative Commons licenses is now legally and linguistically adapted to Croatian law and integrated into our licensing process. CC Croatia, lead by Diana Kovaèeviæ Remenariæ and Tomislav Medak and in affiliation with…