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Wired.com now releasing photos under CC Attribution-Noncommercial

We are thrilled to relay Wired.com’s announcement that from now on all Wired.com staff-produced photos will be released under a CC Attribution-Noncommercial license (CC BY-NC)! Wired.com’s Editor in Chief Evan Hansen says, “Creative Commons turns ten years old next year, and the simple idea of releasing content with “some rights reserved” has revolutionized online sharing … Read More “Wired.com now releasing photos under CC Attribution-Noncommercial”

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Welcoming Annette Thomas and Melanie Cornwell to CC

We are thrilled to announce today that Annette Thomas, CEO of Macmillan Publishers Ltd, has joined the Creative Commons Board of Directors, and that Melanie Cornwell, former Editorial Projects Director of Wired magazine, has joined CC staff as Vice President of Strategy. Annette comes to the Creative Commons Board with many years of experience in … Read More “Welcoming Annette Thomas and Melanie Cornwell to CC”

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CC Licenses and the Haiti Relief Effort, Continued

Late last month we looked at how our licenses were being used by both Google and Architecture for Humanity to keep content open, free, and fluid in their Haiti Relief efforts. As these efforts continue to grow more groups have turned to CC licenses to assist their goals, with three projects in particular catching our … Read More “CC Licenses and the Haiti Relief Effort, Continued”

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Open Design at Berlin's openeverything and CC Salon TONIGHT!

Join us tonight for the second installment of Openeverything Focus in Berlin. We’ll be talking with designers about how openness can augment their work — from publishing, design tools, community building, customization, and more. We’ll be hearing from Open Design pioneer Ronen Kadushin, whose work was recently featured in WIRED Magazine’s Mod That Table: High-End … Read More “Open Design at Berlin's openeverything and CC Salon TONIGHT!”

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Live from the NYPL & Wired Present: Lawrence Lessig, Shepard Fairey, and Steven Johnson

New Yorkers – next Thursday, February 26, Wired and Live from the NYPL will bring together Lawrence Lessig, Shepard Fairey, and Steven Johnson for a discussion about Lessig’s new book, Remix: Making Art and Commerce Thrive in the Hybrid Economy. The conversation will take place at 7:00pm at the Celeste Bartos Forum at the New … Read More “Live from the NYPL & Wired Present: Lawrence Lessig, Shepard Fairey, and Steven Johnson”

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Clive Thompson on the Hybrid T-Shirt Economy

A great article in the most recent WIRED, Clive Thompson on How T-Shirts Keep Online Content Free, discusses the growing hybrid economy developed by purveyors of free content looking for a stable source of income. Their answer? Schwag in general, t-shirts in particular: Increasingly, creative types are harnessing what I’ve begun to call “the T-shirt … Read More “Clive Thompson on the Hybrid T-Shirt Economy”

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WIRED on Arduino and Open Source Computing

WIRED Magazine just published a fascinating article by Clive Thompson on Arduino, a company that manufactures an open source computing platform of the same name. Schematics for the Arduino chip are released under a CC BY-SA license, meaning that home-brewed Arduino chips have popped up in “open source synthesizers, MP3 players, guitar amplifiers, and even … Read More “WIRED on Arduino and Open Source Computing”

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Back to School: Open Textbooks Gaining in Popularity

There’s been a whole lot of press on open textbooks lately, in addition to my own posts on the Flexbook and the Student PIRGs’ recent report encouraging open source textbooks as the right model for digital textbooks (versus the limited e-books that commercial publishers currently offer). The difference in open source and commercial e-books is … Read More “Back to School: Open Textbooks Gaining in Popularity”

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Wired.com now releasing photos under CC Attribution-Noncommercial

Welcoming Annette Thomas and Melanie Cornwell to CC

CC Licenses and the Haiti Relief Effort, Continued

Open Design at Berlin's openeverything and CC Salon TONIGHT!

Live from the NYPL & Wired Present: Lawrence Lessig, Shepard Fairey, and Steven Johnson

Clive Thompson on the Hybrid T-Shirt Economy

WIRED on Arduino and Open Source Computing

Back to School: Open Textbooks Gaining in Popularity

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