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Day 3: CC Taiwan

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Yesterday was another excruciatingly slow day for the campaign. We’ve now raised $6,818. At this rate over three days, we will fall short of our two week goal by a whopping $18,192, which will clearly not enable us to fund scholarships for all of our international volunteers who should be at the iSummit — to…

Our Virtual Make Over

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For those who haven’t already noticed, Creative Commons’ home on Kula 4 in Second Life is currently undergoing a complete make over – which is happening alongside our Real life office move! Thanks to the ideas of Professor Mark Perry (Learned Om) and Nic Suzor (Nic Marx) of CC Australia, and the work of our…

OECD report on CC declassified

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Participative Web: User-Created Content (pdf, 74 pages) mentions Creative Commons several times. According to the foreword: This report was presented to the Working Party on the Information Economy (WPIE) in December 2006 and declassified by the Committee for Information, Computer and Communications Policy in March 2007. Now the whole world knows … about User Generated…

Dapper: In Exchange for Traffic Back

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Dapper aims to make it easy to extract and reuse content from any website. They just released Dapper Version 2, providing a good excuse to mention their support for CC licensing which they rolled out in February: Another exciting part of today’s release is the ability to ascribe licenses to your content allowing you to…

Make Internet TV

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The Participatory Culture Foundation has a great site called Make Internet TV with tutorials on making and publishing digital video from equipment to promotion, including a nice one page guide to using Creative Commons licenses. All content on MITV.org is licensed under CC Attribution-ShareAlike. There’s currently a call for videos to be used on the…

Larry Lessig to attend South Africa’s ccSalon

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It’s a ccSalon… with a twist of sausage. Down south in South Africa we have the much-revered summer practice of the ‘braai’. The braai is just like a barbeque, except with a better selection of meat and southern blue skies. At a braai the norm is for people to bring their own meat and drink.…

Larry Lessig to attend South Africa’s ccSalon

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It’s a ccSalon… with a twist of sausage. Down south in South Africa we have the much-revered summer practice of the ‘braai’. The braai is just like a barbeque, except with a better selection of meat and southern blue skies. At a braai the norm is for people to bring their own meat and drink.…

Vote: NetSquared Innovation Awards

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Voting for the NetSqaured Innovation Awards, previously blogged here, runs today through April 14. Update: Voting has been extended through April 16 at 5PM PDT. You must register and vote for five to ten social enterprises. Twenty winners will receive expenses for two staff members to attend N2Y2 and participate in the NetSquared Technology Innovation…

Argentina

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Creative Commons is working with Bienes Comunes to create Argentina jurisdiction-specific licenses from the generic Creative Commons licenses. CCi Argentina List Project Lead: Professor Ariel Vercelli. License draft (PDF). English explanation of substantive legal changes. (PDF) Post a message. Subscribe to the discussion. Read the discussion archives. More about NGO Bienes Comunes Bienes Comunes is…

Your open source toolset

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Last fall we mentioned a great post by Wikipedia leader (and now CC board member) Jimmy Wales on why free knowledge requires free software and free file formats. Now Wikipedian Erik Möller weighs in with a practical post on Wikimedia’s open source toolset, which may be seen as a paean to open source media creation…