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Announcing the Open Policy Network grant-funded projects
UncategorizedLast year Creative Commons and a global coalition of organizations launched the Open Policy Network in order to support the creation, adoption, and implementation of policies that require that publicly funded resources are openly licensed resources. When open licenses are required for publicly funded resources, there is the potential to massively increase access to and…
Policy Projects at CC: Open Policy Network and Institute for Open Leadership
UncategorizedOver the last year we’ve been working on developing two new projects: the Open Policy Network and the Institute for Open Leadership. Both of these initiatives arise out of a direct identified need from the Creative Commons community. Let’s explain a bit more about each of these projects. Overview Over the last several years, Creative…
Join Creative Commons for Mozilla Service Week September 14-21
EventsMozilla Service Week is happening September 14-21, 2009, and during that week Mozilla is trying to bring people together to help teach one another about the web. Creative Commons is answering Mozilla’s call for participation by hosting an online help desk via our IRC channel. Our IRC channel (#cc on the Freenode network) is typically…
In Sapporo at Jon Phillips 4.0 Launch
UncategorizedPhoto by-sa Freddy B. Used with permission from Photographer. I’m in Sapporo for the CC Legal Day, Commons Research Mini-conference which the Metrics Project is but part, and to further promote the CC Case Studies project. As Greg outlined so clearly last week and I presented at the launch of CC Singapore a few days…
Timothy Vollmer and Rebecca Rojer are My 2008 CC Heroes
UncategorizedAnd, you can be too! 2008 is half over. Seriously, this is a massively overdue in praise, adulation and support for Tim “TVOL” Vollmer and Rebecca “RRR” Rojer who started last summer 2007 at Creative Commons as interns along with the oustanding still-CC-blog-superstar Cameron Parkins tasked with specific projects all have seen through this blog.…
Source for Creative Commons Licensed (Live)Content
UncategorizedRussell from Worldlabel.com, a proud sponsor of the LiveContent project which you can help fill up with CC licensed content, sent over a link from mashable.com which lists 25+ sources of Creative Commons licensed content. While Creative Commons only provides free open content licenses and doesn’t have a database or store content, we have a…