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Wired 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…
Creative 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…
“Kelly” is a CC-BY-NC licensed webcomic written and illustrated by Dan Goldman. The comic’s incredible mixed-media illustration reveals “a psychedelic psychodrama about love, truth and conflicting interior landscapes in a tiny shared New York apartment”. “Kelly” is serialized at ACT-I-VATE, an online comic collective.
We are again indebted to the graphical talents of Atty. Michael Vernon M. Guerrero, Deputy Project Lead of Creative Commons Philippines, for his beautiful “retroactively created” remixes of issues #1-4 of our bimonthly newsletter. Moreover, there’s a crisp maiden issue of the CC Philippines newsletter that mustn’t be missed. Happy reading!
Creative Commons is working with GRNET to create Greece jurisdiction-specific licenses from the generic Creative Commons licenses. CCi Greece List Public Lead: Theodoros Karounos, GRNET Legal Leads: Prodromos Tsiavos, Marinos Papadopoulos License draft (PDF, English). License draft (PDF, Greek). English explanation of substantive legal changes (PDF). Post a message. Subscribe to the discussion. Read the…
Creative Commons is working with Information Systems and Innovation Group (ISIG) – Department of Management to create UK: England & Wales jurisdiction-specific licenses from the generic Creative Commons licenses. CCi UK: England & Wales List Overall Project Lead: Professor Ian Angell Legal Project Leads: Mr. Andrew Murray and Dr. Prodromos Tsiavos Public Project Lead: Dr.…
Drip, a trip-hop group from the Philippines, will be releasing the first full-length Filipino CC licensed album, Identity Theft, this Saturday, 3/15, at 8PM at Magnet Café High Street, Bonifacio Global City, Taguig. Identity Theft will be released under a CC BY-NC-SA license and will released as an enhanced CD containing song stems as a…
The cool new video for Spoon‘s “You Got Yr. Cherry Bomb” was co-created by Ryan Junell – who you may know from his work on CC’s popular “Get Creative,” “Reticulum Rex,” and “Wanna Work Together?” clips, as well as for designing the Creative Commons logo. Check out some CC-licensed behind-the-scenes stills from the production on…
The second COMMUNIA workshop, Ethical Public Domain: Debate of Questionable Practices, will take place on Monday, March 31 in the geographic center of Europe: Vilnius, Lithuania. The workshop will host ten rounds of debates on issues concerning to the public domain and related policies and practices, followed by a press conference inviting the media and…
On May 28-30, The Center for Intellectual Property at the University of Maryland University College will be hosting a symposium focused on U.S. copyright monopoly, technological innovation and higher education institutions titled “Monopoly: Playing the Innovation Game”. The symposium will take place at the UMUC Inn and Conference Center in metro Washington D.C. Tied into…