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CC News: YouTube Launches Creative Commons Support
by Jane Park About CC postStay up to date with CC news by subscribing to our weblog and following us on Twitter. What better gift for your dad on Father's Day but a remix of his favorite videos? YouTube launches support for CC BY and a CC library featuring 10,000 videos You heard the great news last week—YouTube added the…
Creative Commons Qatar launches today!
by dona Uncategorized postOn Tuesday, 31st May at 6pm local time, Creative Commons Qatar will celebrate its official birth with a reception in a unique venue, the Museum of Islamic Art in Doha. The CC Qatar launch will be a celebration of Qatari and Arab creativity. Qatar has a flourishing and rapidly expanding creative scene, which will be…
CC News: Creative Commons Global Meeting 2011
by Jane Park About CC postStay up to date with CC news by subscribing to our weblog and following us on Twitter. Creative Commons Global Meeting 2011 Since the last global meeting of the Creative Commons community in Sapporo, we’ve seen the launch of CC0 and the Public Domain Mark, and a half-dozen more CC affiliate jurisdictions with many more…
36 monthly albums & more new music under Creative Commons
by Jane Park Uncategorized postIn the world of music, Creative Commons licenses continue to be used by upcoming and established musicians for everything from remix contests to album-a-month projects. And since CC-licensed music may be blaring from outerspace for the first time in history on NASA’s Endeavour mission, we thought it would be a good time to do a…
Cable Green joins Creative Commons as Director of Global Learning
by Timothy Vollmer Uncategorized postCable Green and family / CC BY Creative Commons is pleased to welcome Dr. Cable Green as Director of Global Learning. Most recently, Green was the Director of eLearning & Open Education for the Washington State Board for Community and Technical Colleges, where he provided leadership on strategic technology planning, openly licensing and sharing digital…
Creative Commons Global Meeting 2011
by Jane Park Uncategorized postDowntown Warsaw Skyline by DocentX / CC BY-SA Since the last global meeting of the Creative Commons community in Sapporo, we’ve seen the launch of CC0 and the Public Domain Mark, and a half-dozen more CC affiliate jurisdictions with many more in the works. To celebrate this and many other CC milestones, we are announcing…
Plaintext versions of Creative Commons licenses and CC0
by cwebber Uncategorized postLast Friday, we made plaintext versions of our core 3.0 (unported) licenses and CC0 available. This is something that some people have wanted for a long time. For example, Evan Prodromou made a draft of plaintext licenses a few years ago, but these never became official. But now we do have official plaintext versions. Here’s…
CC News: Creative Commons for Japan Relief
by Jane Park About CC postStay up to date with CC news by subscribing to our weblog and following us on Twitter. March may be over, but the madness isn't! CC is helping to shape Japan relief efforts, moving offices, and playing an important role in open government. Japan relief efforts use Creative Commons Regardless of CC related efforts, we…
Creative Commons CEO Cathy Casserly receives President's Award for OpenCourseWare Excellence
by Jane Park Uncategorized postCathy Casserly by Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching / CC BY The OpenCourseWare Consortium (OCWC), a community of over 250 member institutions worldwide committed to sharing their courses online, has voted to present Creative Commons CEO Cathy Casserly with the President’s Award for OpenCourseWare Excellence, a special recognition of her extraordinary contributions to…
Japan relief efforts use Creative Commons
by Jane Park Uncategorized postLast week we asked you to help support the Japanese relief effort. We would also like to highlight alternative ways you can help by pointing you to a few relief efforts that are using CC licenses. OLIVE for quake survivors OLIVE is a Wikipedia-like site that provides much-needed information for quake survivors in various languages.…