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Al Jazeera Announces Launch of Free Footage Under Creative Commons License
by Eric Steuer About CC postDoha, Qatar – January 13, 2009 Al Jazeera Network today announced the world’s first repository of broadcast-quality video footage released under the Creative Commons 3.0 Attribution license. Select Al Jazeera video footage – at this time, footage of the War in Gaza – will be available for free to be downloaded, shared, remixed, subtitled and…
CC+: Creative Commons and Commerce
page2007 — 8:00 mins This video explains how Creative Commons licenses can be used in conjunction with commercial licensing arrangements. License CC+: Creative Commons and Commerce by Creative Commons is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license. Please link to this page when providing attribution.
Get Creative!
page2002 CC’s signature animated film covers the basics of why we formed, what we do, and how we do it. Translations To view subtitled versions, or to contribute a translation, visit the dotSub page for this video. Assets Original Flash File Flash Movie Quicktime Ogg Theora Video Background Music Script All Assets (ZIP) License Get…
Science Commons
pageCreative Commons is in the midst of its 2008 fundraising campaign. Find out how you can support Creative Commons at our support site. In conjunction with Jesse Dylan’s original “A Shared Culture,” we are excited to present a short video explicating our sister project, Science Commons. Since “scientists are the ultimate remixers”, there needs to…
Creative Commons International and Wikimedia Germany in closer collaboration, shared office space
by michelle About CC postBerlin, Germany Building on existing collaborations with local Wikimedia projects, Creative Commons International (CCi) will be moving its current office in Berlin-Mitte to Berlin-Schöneberg to share workspace with Wikimedia Germany. The move reflects the organizations’ growing efforts and long-standing mutual support. Wikimedia Germany, the first independent national Wikimedia chapter, is known the world over for…
Creative Commons and Collective Intelligence / Program for the Future
by mike Events postMonday and Tuesday next week the Program for the Future Conference celebrates the 40th anniversary of Doug Engelbart’s famous Demo, which presaged much of modern computing, in 1968 (related in some ways, see Creative Commons 1967). From the conference website: Engelbart dreamed of technology and tools that increased our Collective Intelligence and a stunning example…
Commons Crossroads: CC Asia-Pacific Conference 2009
by michelle Events postRegional collaborations are strengthening CC projects worldwide. Regular conferences and outreach, coordinated on a regional level by CC Project Leads, are bringing visibility to local initiatives and promoting the ideals of sharing and free culture worldwide. Previous meetings have yielded clearer strategies and collaborations, as demonstrated by the recent Latam Commons, the growing COMMUNIA network,…
Los Angeles: GOOD December featuring Creative Commons collaborations
by Eric Steuer Events postIf you’re in Los Angeles over the next two weeks, GOOD is hosting a series called GOOD December from Friday, 12/5 through Friday 12/19 in their new space on Melrose Avenue. It’s open to the public from 11am-5pm every day and will offer salons, panel discussions, meals, and more. There will be occasional parties in…
Obama-Biden transition site Change.gov now under a Creative Commons license
by Eric Steuer About CC postChange.gov, the website of US president-elect Barack Obama’s transition team, has undergone some important and exciting changes over the past few days. Among them is the site’s new copyright notice, which expresses that the bulk of Change.gov is published under the most permissive of Creative Commons copyright licenses – CC BY. Except where otherwise noted,…
Pratham Books joins the Commons
by Jane Park Uncategorized postPratham Books is a nonprofit publisher started by the Pratham Education Initiative, which, since 1994, has been working to secure primary education for every child in India. “Pratham Books is a not-for-profit trust that seeks to publish high-quality books for children at a affordable cost in multiple Indian languages. Pratham Books is trying to create…