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Happy Birthday CC license suite!

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It’s hard to believe that it was 13 years ago today that we shipped the very first version of the CC license suite. Before then, without the CC licenses, the barriers to collaborating in a global commons were too high. The benefits of shared educational content or scientific research, or paving the way for creators…

CC10Musicians iPhone app from CC Korea

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CC Korea has given Creative Commons a cool 10th birthday present with the release of the CC10Musicians iPhone app (Android app coming soon). From CC Korea: We introduce 10 teams of musicians sharing their music under a Creative Commons License. From Brazil to Iceland, from Hip-Hop to Indie Rock, discover awesome music from all over…

We celebrated CC10 in San Francisco with style

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On Saturday, we toasted to 10 years of the Creative Commons licenses, which has enabled the sharing and reuse of roughly half a billion creative, educational, and scientific works. Larry Lessig and guest toast CC10 / DTKindler Photo / CC BY Many others joined in to celebrate at events around the world, and are still…

9th birthday of the CC license suite!

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Get Creative! (video) Happy Birthday CC! Today marks the 9th birthday of the CC license suite, as Version 1.0 was launched in 2002. Since then, more than 500 million works on the web have been made available under one of the CC licenses, free for the public to reuse, remix, or redistribute. This year we…

EFF's 20th Birthday Party

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For the past 20 years, our friends at the Electronic Frontier Foundation have been at the forefront of the intersection between technology and law, helping to define and fight for our rights in the digital age. We’d like to congratulate them on hitting the 20 year mark. To celebrate their 20th birthday, they’re throwing on…

We Met Twitter's $3k Matching Challenge! Happy Birthday CC!

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Thanks to everyone who donated to help us meet Twitter’s $3,000 matching giving challenge in record time! This is particularly great news, since today marks CC’s 7th birthday, so thanks to Twitter and thanks to everyone who donated – we’ve now raised a total of $6,000 toward our annual fundraising campaign! We’re honored to have…

dublab DJs announced for CC's SF Birthday Party!

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CC’s birthday is almost here! We hope you’ll join us at the San Francisco party next Thursday, December 18th, 9pm-2am, at 111 Minna Gallery (Map and Directions). We are pleased to announce the dublab DJs who will be performing live as part of the physical Into Infinity installation: Jimmy Tamborello, frosty, Professor Cantaloupe, and matthewdavid…

CC is Turning 6! SF Birthday Party Announced!

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To celebrate six exceptional years for CC and the December 31st wrap-up of our 2008 fundraising campaign, CC headquarters is hosting a birthday bash in San Francisco! The San Francisco party joins the ranks of other global birthday parties in Berlin, Brisbane, Guatemala, Seoul, and New York. The San Francisco event will be held on…