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$20,000 Open Textbook Challenge from the Saylor Foundation

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The Saylor Foundation has been known for organizing comprehensive curriculum for popular subject areas, and licensing the resources when they can under the CC Attribution license. Now with the launch of its Open Textbook Challenge, the Saylor Foundation aims to expand the amount of high-quality CC BY-licensed course materials by offering a $20,000 award for…

Winning poster designs for the Global Summit

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The Creative Commons Global Summit Poster Competition has been a huge success, with 38 entries from around the world! We thank each and every one of you who submitted a design and participated in the voting process. Three winning designs were chosen based on popular vote and by a panel of judges from our CC Poland team…

Open Government Data in Austria

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City Hall (Rathaus) by http2007 / CC BY For a while now, government data for the City of Vienna has been open for reuse under the CC Attribution license. In a more national effort, the City of Vienna, along with the Chancellor’s Office and the Austrian cities of Linz, Salzburg and Graz, recently coordinated their…

Support for Creative Commons grows in Russia

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Since Creative Commons Russia was initiated in March of last year, our Russian Affiliates have been working to make the CC licenses compatible with Russian law. Here, we give an overview of CC progress in Russia to date, while also celebrating the recent contribution of valued wartime images to Wikimedia Commons by Russian news agency…

CC News: The Power of Open

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Stay up to date with CC news by subscribing to our weblog and following us on Twitter. The Power of Open: Stories of creators sharing knowledge, art, & data using Creative Commons Released a couple weeks ago, The Power of Open demonstrates the impact of Creative Commons through stories of successful use of our tools…

CC News: YouTube Launches Creative Commons Support

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Stay 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…

Response to "Publishers Criticize Federal Investment in Open Educational Resources"

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On Tuesday, the Chronicle of Higher Education posted the article, “Publishers Criticize Federal Investment in Open Educational Resources.” We strongly support the U.S. Department of Labor including a CC BY requirement in their recent TAACCCT grant which makes available $2 billion to create open educational resources (OER) for career training programs in community colleges. As…