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#cc10 Featured Platform: Public Library of Science
by elliot UncategorizedThroughout the #cc10 celebrations, we’re profiling online platforms with Creative Commons integration. Today, Public Library of Science (PLOS) CEO Peter Jerram discusses the role that PLOS and Creative Commons play in the open access movement. Shared Facts and Open Access: A PLOS Salute to Creative Commons By Peter Jerram “Everyone is entitled to his own…
#cc10 Featured Content: John Wilbanks on GlaxoSmithKline
by elliot UncategorizedJohn Wilbanks / Nick Vedros / CC BY-SA In celebration of Creative Commons’ tenth anniversary, we asked various friends of CC to write about the role that open licensing plays in their fields. Today, John Wilbanks shows how the world’s largest pharmaceutical company made a big step in malaria research by sharing its data openly.…
CC10: Day 2
by jessica UncategorizedOn day 2 of CC10 we focus on what makes CC more than just a bunch of licenses – our community. We give a long over-due introduction to Creative Commons for those who haven’t met us yet, with a favorite resource from one of our global volunteer affiliates: CC Qatar presents Meet Creative Commons. At…
#cc10 Featured Content: Gautam John on Annual Haircut Day
by elliot UncategorizedIn celebration of Creative Commons’ tenth anniversary, we asked various friends of CC to write about their favorite CC-licensed content. Today, social entrepreneur and Pratham Books new projects manager Gautam John writes about two children’s books that took on lives of their own, thanks to CC licensing. On the 17th of November, 2008, we took…
#cc10 Featured Platform: deviantART
by elliot UncategorizedWords can make a deeper scar than silence can healilovestrawberries / CC BY-NC-ND Throughout the #cc10 celebrations, we’ll be profiling online platforms with Creative Commons integration. I reached out to Josh Wattles, longtime copyright lawyer and advisor in chief at deviantART, to get his perspective on how artists online use (or don’t use) CC licensing.…
CC10: Day 1
by jessica UncategorizedWelcome to the very first day of Creative Commons’ 10th birthday celebrations! Over the next 10 days we will be celebrating CC’s first decade with activities, events, tweets and competitions. As well as dozens of real world parties, we’ve set up a dedicated CC10 website as a hub for all things birthday. Each day on…
CC10: A party on every continent!
by jessica UncategorizedFIESTA 10 aniversario CC: CC Costa Rica wishes CC happy 10th birthday at Bar El Lobo Estepario, San Jose / Adrian Coto / CC BY As you know, any second now we’ll be officially launching CC’s 10th birthday celebrations. But the party has already started for our global community. Over the course of the 10…
#cc10 Featured Platform: Scribd
by elliot UncategorizedIn celebration of Creative Commons’ tenth anniversary, we’re writing about various platforms that host CC-licensed content. Today, we’re featuring document-sharing site Scribd. Most people reading this are probably quite familiar with Scribd. It’s an easy, reliable place to publish documents and presentations. A lot of professional publishers use it, including our friends at Pratham Books.…
#cc10 Featured Content: Cory Doctorow on Rudy Rucker
by elliot UncategorizedCory Doctorow / NK Guy / CC BY-SA In celebration of Creative Commons’ tenth anniversary, we asked various friends of CC to write about their favorite CC-licensed content. Today, blogger and science fiction author Cory Doctorow writes about the CC-licensed novels of one of the original cyberpunks. Rudy Rucker’s Wetware books: the finest high-weirdness of…
Africa's First 3.0 Licenses!
by aurelia UncategorizedUganda_16 / Matt Lucht / CC BY We are pleased to announce the launch of the Creative Commons 3.0 Uganda licenses. Since joining the Creative Commons family in March of 2011, the Ugandan team has been incredibly busy: hosting the African Regional Meeting, pulling together petitions for the Pan-African Intellectual Property Organization, and spreading the…