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  Games for the Brain

  Posted: November 14th, 2008, 5:43pm MST by Cameron Parkins

  LBL_TAG_TAGS:  brain games cc   [LBL_TAG_EDIT]

  Games for the Brain is a fun site that features a number of memory, quiz, and brain games all released under a CC BY-NC-SA license. A number of the games are embeddable, making them easily available for sharing while others reuse previously CC-licensed material. Whether it is an online destination to pass time, procrastinate, or hone your mental skills, Games for the Brain is a nice and simple addition to the growing landscape of CC-licensed content.

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  ccHost 5.0.1 released (Wed, 12 Nov 2008 12:47:24 GMT)

  Posted: November 12th, 2008, 7:47am MST

  LBL_TAG_TAGS:  cc   [LBL_TAG_EDIT]

  
  Released at Wed, 12 Nov 2008 12:47:24 GMT by fourstones
  Includes files: cchost-5.0.1.zip (1868580 bytes)
  [Download] [Release Notes]

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  Digital Photo Pro Covers Creative Commons

  Posted: July 7th, 2008, 6:28pm MDT by Fred Benenson

  LBL_TAG_TAGS:  cc   [LBL_TAG_EDIT]

  It has always been a goal of Creative Commons to integrate our licenses into communities of creators of all skill levels, from those of amateurs to those of experienced professionals. This is why it is wonderful to see the industry magazine Digital Photo Pro spotlight our licenses and the important implications that professional photographers should make when considering them:

  CC also has developed an incredibly passionate following and has been adopted by the online imaging heavyweight Flickr, which boasts an image library of more than two billion photos. The growing CC community aims to get content owners to think about image rights and to garner community support behind copyright owners. Leveraging this growing movement, CC has been pursuing two larger objectives to increase respect for copyright holders and to create a licensing/interaction model that lawmakers can reference as an alternate to the existing copyright framework more fitting to modern photographer/photo-publisher interaction.

  The article tackles the question of whether or not CC is “worth it” for photographers, professional or otherwise:

  Is CC enough? Whether you’re a professional photographer or not, one should realize the answer to this question is an individual choice and hardly black or white. Assigning a CC license to your photographs can provide benefits in the form of exposure and search-engine optimization when links are provided in any resulting attribution.

  Click here to read the full article.

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  Creative Commons licensing for public sector information

  Posted: January 31st, 2008, 1:30pm MST by Mike Linksvayer

  LBL_TAG_TAGS:  cc   [LBL_TAG_EDIT]

  Paul Keller from CC Netherlands on a tremendously informative new report:

  As part of the activities of Creative Commons Netherlands the Institute for information Law has been undertaking research into an number of issues connected to the use of the Creative Commons Licenses. In 2007 much of this research has focused on the use of Creative Commons licenses for the distribution of public sector information by government bodies. This research has been carried out by Mireille van Eechoud (whom a number of you will have met at last years iSummit where she gave a preliminary presentation on this topic) and Brenda van der Wal.

  This research has resulted in a Report titled Creative commons licensing for public sector information: Opportunities and pitfalls (pdf).

  While the report focusses on the situation in the Netherlands it should be of intrest to Creative Commons projects in other countries as well. Primarily because the Dutch regulatory framework for public sector information is derived from the European PSI directive and should thus be fairly similar to the regulatory framework in the rest of the EU countries.

  This report is well worth reading because it makes a very well structured argument (by comparing th elicense characteristics of the individual CC licenses to the objectives of both the Public Sector Information legislation and the Freedom of Information legislation in the Netherlands) for the use of the least restrictive licenses (CC-BY) and the Public Domain dedication (the report was written before the CC0 announcement) for public sector information. Given this the report underlines the need for adopting CC0 (at least the CC0 assert component) to the specificities (database rights, moral rights) of the European context.

  All the best from Amsterdam,
  Paul Keller

  Creative commons licensing for public sector information: Opportunities and pitfalls, M.M.M. van Eechoud & B. van der Wal, Institute for Information Law, 2007: [www.ivir.nl]

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  Lawrence Lessig to Give Final Presentation on Free Culture and Copyright

  Posted: January 29th, 2008, 7:10pm MST by Eric Steuer

  LBL_TAG_TAGS:  cc video movie   [LBL_TAG_EDIT]

  Creative Commons founder and Stanford professor Lawrence Lessig will give his final presentation on free culture, copyright, and the future of ideas at Stanford’s Memorial Auditorium on January 31st, 2008 at 1pm.

  The presentation is being recorded for the upcoming feature film Basement Tapes: The Making of a Pirate Movie, a documentary about copyright in the digital age.

  For more information about the event, please visit Events at Stanford and/or see our press release.

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  Open Educational Resources Aid Florida Reading Teachers

  Posted: January 28th, 2008, 10:10pm MST by Timothy Vollmer

  LBL_TAG_TAGS:  cc edu education   [LBL_TAG_EDIT]

  eSchools News reports that the state of Florida has recently added the open content reading website Free-Reading.net to its list of approved curriculum resources. Officials said Free-Reading.net is the first open instructional program granted bona fide state approval, and OER supporters see momentum building in the idea that a “public, collaborative, continuously modified online curriculum can be used in the classroom.” From the Free-Reading.net website:

  Free-Reading is an ongoing, collaborative, teacher-based, curriculum-sharing project. We’re looking to provide a reliable forum where teachers can openly and freely share their successful and effective methods for teaching reading in grades K-1 and for at-risk students in later grades.

  Free-Reading.net allows teachers to download, copy and share lessons with colleagues. The site strives “to make quality, research-based, explicit and systematic instruction for early reading widely available and free.” All the resources are free as in free beer as well as free as in free speech. The content is openly offered so as to be “used, reused, mashed-up, and shared again.”

  All of the Free-Reading.net content is published under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike license. This license grants users the right to copy, distribute, transmit and adapt the resource provided the original author receives credit. Users who alter, transform, or build upon the work must distribute their remixes under the same license.

  Last week, we wrote about the “Make Textbooks Affordable” campaign. This initiative “encourage[s] faculty to adopt open educational resources in their classrooms, which will provide significant benefit to students in making college education more affordable.” It’s inspiring to see primary education communities supporting open educational resources as well.

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  Wikimedia Commons Pictures of the Year

  Posted: January 26th, 2008, 4:04pm MST by Mike Linksvayer

  LBL_TAG_TAGS:  cc photo   [LBL_TAG_EDIT]

  The awesome Wikimedia Commons community just finished selecting its 2007 picture of the year:

  
  Newton2 / CC BY

  We neglected to mention last years’ winner:

  
  United States Air Force photo by Senior Airman Joshua Strang / public domain

  All content on Wikimedia Commons is free to use and remix, including commercially, often under liberal CC licenses or in the public domain. Explore!

  Via Brianna Laugher.

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  24/7: A DIY Video Summit

  Posted: January 25th, 2008, 3:18pm MST by Cameron Parkins

  LBL_TAG_TAGS:  cc   [LBL_TAG_EDIT]

  From February 8 - 10, the Institute for Multimedia Literacy at the University of Southern California will be holding a phenomenal series of panels and screenings focused on DIY video in the digital age, tittled “24/7: A DIY Video Summit“. Topics of discussion range from the artistry and aesthetics involved in this new form of film creation to the copyright debate surrounding it. With presenters ranging from media theorist Henry Jenkins, to documentary filmmaker/theorist Alexandra Juhasz, to our very own Lawrence Lessig (CEO) and Joichi Ito (Chairman of the Board), the folks behind 24/7 have compiled an amazing list of panels and screenings for those interested in how digital video is changing our perceptions of contemporary DIY video and film.

  Of particular note to those in the CC-community is the panel “DIY Media: The Intellectual Property Dilemma”, which features Yochai Benkler of Harvard Law, Lawrence Lessig, and Fred von Lohmann of EFF (moderated by Jen Urban, Director of the USC Intellectual Property and Technology Law Clinic) and the plenary session “Envisioning the Future of DIY”, which features Joi Ito, Benkler, Henry Jenkins, John Seely Brown and Lessig. You can read more about the panels here.

  The whole event is a must for anyone engaged with online video and the debate that surrounds it. You can register here for entrance to the panels and workshops. While a registration fee is required for full access, all screenings and the plenary session are free and open to the public.

  From USC:

  University of Southern California (USC) presents 24/7: A DIY Video Summit that will be held February 8-10, 2008. This dynamic three-day event will showcase media programs spread across four different venues on USC’s Los Angeles campus. It will house a screening series in viral, amateur and peer-to-peer video, a variety of academic panel presentations, a day of intensive do-it-yourself video workshops and birds-of-a-feather meetings.

  

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  Creative Commons Launches CC+ and CC0 Programs

  Posted: December 17th, 2007, 6:16pm MST by Eric Steuer

  LBL_TAG_TAGS:  cc   [LBL_TAG_EDIT]

  We are very excited to announce the launch of the CC+ (aka CC Plus) and CC0 (aka CC Zero) programs. These are major additions to the Creative Commons array of legal tools.

  In a nutshell, CC+ is a protocol to enable a simple way for users to get rights beyond those granted by a CC license.  Meanwhile, CC0 is a protocol that enables people to either assert that a work has no legal restrictions attached to it or waive any rights associated with a work so it has no legal restrictions attached to it. The program also provides an easy way to sign these assertions or waivers.

  Please read our press release about the launch of CC+ and CC0 for more information about how they work and who we’re collaborating with.

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  Wikipedia and Creative Commons next steps

  Posted: December 6th, 2007, 2:41pm MST by Lawrence Lessig

  LBL_TAG_TAGS:  cc   [LBL_TAG_EDIT]

  Last week the Wikimedia Foundation board took an important step toward giving Wikipedia the right to choose to migrate to a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike license. Credit goes to the Wikimedia Foundation and Free Software Foundation for having the wisdom and foresight to enable this progress. However, the real work has just begun. As Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales put it:

  Now, community, we have a lot to talk about. :)

  For Creative Commons, this means continuing a discussion concerning how the CC Attribution-ShareAlike license can be improved so as to not only be the best available license for a massively collaborative content project, but the best such license feasible.

  To start with, Wikimedia board member Erik Möller has posted a list of issues that we want to address — with input from across the CC community.

  One of these issues holds particular interest: Should the ShareAlike requirement be more precisely defined for “embedded” media, and if so, how? For example, if an image licensed under Attribution-ShareAlike is used to illustrate an article, must the article be similarly licensed? This has previously been discussed on the cc-licenses list, and we welcome the opportunity to drive that discussion to a happy conclusion.

  Tentatively the eventual outcome of these discussions will be a new version of the CC licenses. We’ll say version 3.5 for now — a significant improvement, but still within the framework of version 3.0 and folding in the work done so far on proposed version 3.01, thanks again to the Wikipedia community.

  The primary venue for this discussion focused on improving CC licenses is the cc-licenses list. We encourage you to subscribe and participate. Of course related discussion will and should continue on Wikimedia and other lists.

  Thanks again to the WMF and FSF, and thanks in advance to you, the community, for the work that is ongoing and about to begin!

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  NPG introduces a CC license for genome research

  Posted: December 6th, 2007, 2:14pm MST by Kaitlin Thaney

  LBL_TAG_TAGS:  cc science genome dna   [LBL_TAG_EDIT]

  From the Science Commons blog …

  In a move to make genome research more accessible, Nature Publishing Group (NPG) has introduced a new editorial policy that will put genome research published by Nature under a CC-BY-NC-SA license. The license grants readers the ability to share and remix the material under the following conditions: the work must be attributed to the author as specified by the author of licensor, cannot be used for commercial purposes, and that any derivative works be licensed under the same or a similar license. NPG’s editorial policy can be read in full here.

  An editorial posted today discusses some of the reasoning behind enacting this new author license policy.

  From the Nature editorial, “Shared genomes” (December 6, 2007):

  “In the continuing drive to make papers as accessible as possible, NPG is now introducing a ‘creative commons’ licence for the reuse of such genome papers. The licence allows non-commercial publishers, however they might be defined, to reuse the pdf and html versions of the paper. In particular, users are free to copy, distribute, transmit and adapt the contribution, provided this is for non-commercial purposes, subject to the same or similar licence conditions and due attribution. […]”

  More after the jump …

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  Wikipedia to be Licensed Under Creative Commons

  Posted: December 1st, 2007, 3:37pm MST by Zonk

  LBL_TAG_TAGS:  cc   [LBL_TAG_EDIT]

  sla291 writes "Jimmy Wales made an announcement yesterday night at a Wikipedia party in San Francisco : Creative Commons, Wikimedia and the FSF just agreed to make the current Wikipedia license compatible with Creative Commons (CC BY-SA). As Jimbo puts it, 'This is the party to celebrate the liberation of Wikipedia'."

  Read more of this story at Slashdot.

  

  

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  Help Translate CC Software

  Posted: November 28th, 2007, 6:14pm MST by Nathan Yergler

  LBL_TAG_TAGS:  cc translate port   [LBL_TAG_EDIT]

  As one of the staff members who helps answer general inquiries, I see quite a few messages that go something like, “Hey, I want to translate the license engine and deeds into my language! How do I do that?” Up until recently, we haven’t had a very good answer. Translations were handled by our international affiliates, who are already plenty busy porting the licenses to their respective jurisdictions. Unfortunately, the software we were using didn’t have a very strong community component — you were either a trusted translator or nothing at all.

  Today we’re able to ask you to help the affiliates by suggesting translations. With some greatly appreciated assistance from the folks at translate.org.za we’ve moved our translation infrastructure to Pootle.

  translate.creativecommons.org is now the home for all our internationalization efforts. See a language you can help with? See a missing translation or something not quite right? Create an account and suggest the correction. Pootle also provides a clear overview of the translation status for the site (hint: no language is 100% translated). So jump in, help CC communicate in your language!

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  LibriVox Releases 1,000th Public Domain Audio Book

  Posted: November 3rd, 2007, 3:27pm MDT by Timothy Vollmer

  LBL_TAG_TAGS:  cc   [LBL_TAG_EDIT]

   

  Congratulations to LibriVox, who’ve just released their 1,000th public domain audio book! Previously featured on this site, LibriVox has been a consistent supporter of access to open content by building a digital library of free public domain audio books.

  From their release:

  LibriVox, the free audio book project has just cataloged its 1,000th book: Murders in the Rue Morgue, by Edgar Allan Poe (read by Reynard T. Fox).

  LibriVox.org started in August 2005 with a simple objective: “to make all public domain books available as free audio books.” Thirteen people collaborated to make the first recording, Joseph Conrad’s Secret Agent.

  Two years later, LibriVox has become the most prolific audiobook publisher in the world - we are now putting out 60-70 books a month, we have a catalog of 1,000 works, which represents a little over 6 months of *continuous* audio; we have some 1,500 volunteers who have contributed audio to the project; and a catalog that includes Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice, Moby Dick, Darwin’s Origin of the Species, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, Einstein’s Relativity: The Special and General Theory, Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason, and other less well-known gems such as Romance of Rubber edited by John Martin. We have recordings in 21 languages, and about half of our recordings are solo efforts by one reader, while the other half are collaborations among many readers.

  Full announcement here.

   

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  Wikipages Goes CC

  Posted: September 21st, 2007, 3:06pm MDT by Cameron Parkins

  LBL_TAG_TAGS:  wiki cc business yellowpages   [LBL_TAG_EDIT]

  Wikipages.com, a “wiki-fied” business directory that allows anyone to add and edit entries on business listings, has recentlly gone CC by licensing all their content under a CC BY-SA licence. Although currently focused on the NYC-Metro area, Wikipages is gearing up to take on more cities in the immediate future.

  This is another fine example of the power of CC-licences at work. Offering an alternative to traditional yellow pages, Wikipages uses the open structure of a wiki to create a citizen-mobilized, and potentially more comprehensive, listing of businesses in metropolitan areas. By choosing CC-licensing, Wikipages furthers this goal by ensuring this information stays open not only in terms of contribution but distribution as well, a practice that can only lead to numerous benefits for both businesses and the public alike.

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  iCommons/OneWebDay Party NYC this Saturday: Party IRL!

  Posted: September 20th, 2007, 7:05pm MDT by Cameron Parkins

  LBL_TAG_TAGS:  cc party   [LBL_TAG_EDIT]

  Interested in free culture, technology, the Internet, Creative Commons, new media, and anything in between? If so, iCommons, is throwing a last minute party this Saturday (9/22) in New York City! If you are in the area, you should absolutely check it out.

  There will be video and music performances, drinks, and cool people abound. Its a free beer, free music party and with hosts Jimmy Wales (Wikipedia) and Susan Crawford (OneWebDay) this is not one to miss. Use codeword IRL for entry to the loft.

  

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  Progress on LiveContent v1.0

  Posted: July 19th, 2007, 8:03pm MDT by Timothy Vollmer

  LBL_TAG_TAGS:  cc creative commons   [LBL_TAG_EDIT]

  We’ve been working hard on developing LiveContent, an umbrella concept that works to expand access to dynamic CC-licensed content and free open source software. The first incarnation of LiveContent is taking shape in the form of a LiveCD, and you can help! We have an ISO image of the most current revision available here. Download ccLiveContent-LATEST, burn it to a CD, and give LiveContent a spin. Lend us your eyes and share your thoughts and suggestions on the LiveContent wiki.

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  The Open Content Library at GUADEC

  Posted: July 17th, 2007, 7:08am MDT by Jon Phillips

  LBL_TAG_TAGS:  cc creative commons library Books   [LBL_TAG_EDIT]

  I presented an updated tango-ified Open Content Library presentation that discussed some key projects that we are working on at Creative Commons at GUADEC in Birmingham, UK. GUADEC is the happening right now with major key open source developers focused in and around the GNOME desktop here. Check the CC Attribution 3.0 licensed presentation:

  I look forward to meeting with various developers to talk about integration of open content and Creative Commons licensing to further empower the content evolution. It makes sense, right, for free and open source software to play free and open content?

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  Music search, a cool web app for everyone

  Posted: July 15th, 2007, 12:01am MDT by Mike Linksvayer

  LBL_TAG_TAGS:  cc creative commons music   [LBL_TAG_EDIT]

  The OWL Music Search presentation at last week’s CC Salon San Francisco has been written up by CNET’s Webware, “cool web apps for everyone.”

  You can use OWL via CC Search or directly.

  Mark your calendar for the next CC Salon SF: August 8.

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  Cogniview Brings CC Licensing to PDF Output

  Posted: July 11th, 2007, 6:51pm MDT by Nathan Yergler

  LBL_TAG_TAGS:  cc pdf xmp tools metadata   [LBL_TAG_EDIT]

  This has already been picked up by at least one blogger, and I’ve been remiss in not blogging it earlier. Cogniview has developed an open source tool for embedding CC license metadata in PDF output. You can find a screencast and download information on their website.

  The CC PDF Converter takes a slightly different approach than most of the other tools we’ve seen. It’s installed as a Windows printer and allows the user to select a license when they “print” a PDF of their document. The tool embeds license metadata in the document as XMP and provides an optional facility for “stamping” the document with visible CC license information — either as a small image in the header or footer, or as a full-page deed appended to the document.

  Some additional details are available on Cogniview’s blog; anyone want to write a similar tool for Mac OS X or Linux?

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  Wellcome Images Launches With CC Licences

  Posted: July 10th, 2007, 2:46pm MDT by Cameron Parkins

  LBL_TAG_TAGS:  science cc creatice commons image   [LBL_TAG_EDIT]

  Wellcome Images, an online image repository “depicting 2,000 years of mankind and medicine”, recently launched their enormous collection online under a Creative Commons Attribution, Non-commercial Licence 2.0. From their press release:

  Launched on 15 June 2007, ‘Wellcome Images’ is the world’s leading source of images on the history of medicine, modern biomedical science and clinical medicine. All content has been made available under a Creative Commons License, which allows users to copy, distribute and display the image, provided the source is fully attributed and it is used for non-commercial purposes.

  Wellcome Images is constantly updated with new clinical, and biomedical and historical images from the Wellcome Library, Europe’s leading resource for the study of history of medicine which recently re-launched as part of the new and forthcoming Wellcome Collection.

  This is absolutely amazing news. Projects like Wellcome Images are phenomenal resources for those in the academic world, allowing students and teachers alike open access to a wealth of information. By utilizing CC-licensing, Wellcome Images is more able to fully realize the true spirit of academia - an unblocked and open pursuit of knowledge and understanding.

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  RAND Europe survey on Evaluation of Internet Self Regulation, including CC

  Posted: July 10th, 2007, 12:01pm MDT by Mike Linksvayer

  LBL_TAG_TAGS:  rand cc creative commons   [LBL_TAG_EDIT]

  A note from Chris Marsden of RAND Europe:

  I am working on a report for the European Commission on the efficacy of self- and co-regulation in various online sectors, looking at organisations such as Creative Commons, the W3C, and others.

  We’d be most grateful if CC members had time to participate in one part of the project, a survey:

  [web3.rand.org]

  Note that you do not need to fill in all the questions - you can simply press ‘Next’ to skip pages where you need to. It would help us if you could be very specific in answering question 5.

  Our assessment will cover self-regulatory organisations’ efficiency, effectiveness and sustainability in order to identify conditions under which such institutional arrangements can best stimulate innovation without compromising safety, security and fundamental rights. The ultimate aim is to support EC efforts to further these objectives by initiating and/or mediating self- and co-regulation.

  The evaluation will be based on documentary, quantitative, elite interview and electronic survey evidence, analyzed within a logical framework reflecting existing knowledge of the evolution of self-/co- regulation. The findings and recommendations will be validated by means of a key stakeholder workshop and reported in a form suitable for wide dissemination and discussion.

  Thanks to Veni Markovski of CC Bulgaria for bringing the survey to our attention.

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  Superstars on ccMixter

  Posted: July 6th, 2007, 2:35pm MDT by Victor Stone

  LBL_TAG_TAGS:  cc ccmixter creative commons   [LBL_TAG_EDIT]

  Salman Ahmad is the founder of one of the world’s most popular bands Junoon. A household name in South Asia, the band has sold over 25 million albums, played at the United Nations by special invitation and Salman and the band have been the subject of several BBC documentaries. Salman has now decided that his solo catalog should be released under Creative Commons and has signed a contract with Magnatune.

  In celebration Magnatune and Creative Commons are sponsoring a remix contest featuring Salman’s song “Natchoongi.” Submissions are currently being accepted through the end of July.

  Meanwhile BBE Records has announced the winners of the DJ Vadim remix contest and will be releasing these winning entries in a variety of media throughout the the year. Congratulations to grand prize winner Jr Eakee and all the other winners. Read more and listen to the winners here. This contest went so well that BBE and ccMixter have agreed to work together to release a lot more material into the Commons so keep an eye out for that.

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  Mozilla visits [CC-]Brazil

  Posted: July 1st, 2007, 8:57pm MDT by Mike Linksvayer

  LBL_TAG_TAGS:  cc brazil   [LBL_TAG_EDIT]

  Representatives of two of our favorite organizations recently got together — Mozilla and CC Brazil affiliate Centro de Tecnologia e Sociedade da Escola de Direito da Fundação Getulio Vargas no Rio de Janeiro. JT Batson from the Mozilla marketing team wrote about the meeting. Excerpt:
  

  At Mozilla, we often struggle to relate our core goal (promoting a innovation and choice on the web) to something meaningful for daily users. This challenge isn’t unique to Mozilla. One of the main goals of CTS is to ensure that their research and work, which if focused on development, innovation and democracy, is accessible to the average person. In addition to their many blogs aimed at general consumers, they also developed a real world approach to explaining the impact of copyright owners pushing for “permanent” copyright to materials by having 20 different musicians record different tracks from a high profile Brazilian classical musician whose family is fighting to extend the copyright on his work indefinitely. If the copyright expires on January 1, for example, the 20 new tracks will be released on the 2nd and then on the 3rd, the CTS team will promote a contest to see who can do the best remix of the tracks, which could never have been done before in mass because of the copyright. Rather that just issuing a press release bemoaning the problem, their work to make copyright expiration palatable to a broader audience is down right impressive (forgive my butchering of the example).

  That is from the first of several interesting posts about Mozilla’s trip to Brazil.

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  FOSS + Creative Commons LiveContent for libraries

  Posted: June 20th, 2007, 4:19pm MDT by Timothy Vollmer

  LBL_TAG_TAGS:  cc livecontent open source cclivecd   [LBL_TAG_EDIT]

  Creative Commons is developing LiveContent, a project to connect and expand Creative Commons and open source communities. The first output of LiveContent will be ccLiveCD for libraries, which will package free and open source software (FOSS) with CC-licensed content. ccLiveCD aims to demonstrate an example of an easy-to-use, viable alternative to proprietary software and further explore possibilities of the FOSS and Creative Commons movements within libraries.

  ccLiveCD will come loaded with lots of great content, including a live-boot Linux OS, a combination of free and open source productivity and creativity applications (such as OpenOffice, Inkscape, Gimp and VLC), open document templates, and a variety of Creative Commons-licensed multimedia and educational content.

  Worldlabel.com is providing the support for the development of this project and the distribution of the CD. Watch for ccLiveCD updates, and help further the LiveContent vision by contributing ideas, connections to other projects, and best-of-CC content on the wiki.

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  Swivel+Dapper+CC

  Posted: June 19th, 2007, 6:03pm MDT by Mike Linksvayer

  LBL_TAG_TAGS:  swivel Dapper cc graphs   [LBL_TAG_EDIT]

  Swivel+Dapper+CC = get free graphs delivered in widgets and feeds.

  Great to see two services integrating CC working together. See our most recent posts on Dapper and Swivel.

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  Nature Publishing Group launches free pre-print service for the biological sciences

  Posted: June 18th, 2007, 8:57am MDT by Kaitlin Thaney

  LBL_TAG_TAGS:  cc science   [LBL_TAG_EDIT]

  From the Science Commons blog …

  “Today Nature Publishing Group launches Nature Precedings – a free document sharing service for the sciences. The service further enables scientists to share their preliminary findings and research in a free environment, while allowing authors to retain copyright in their work. All accepted contributions are released under a Creative Commons Attribution license, allowing for the material to be reused and redistributed as long as it is attributed to the author under terms specified.

  This is the biological equivalent of the physics arXiv, but with a critical improvement. Placing pre-prints online solves the problem of an individual’s ability to access an article. But in the absence of an explicit copyright license, it’s unclear what that individual can actually do with the downloaded file. Nature’s choice to use CC-BY is a validation of the need to grant rights in advance to users, and of the CC-BY license in a truly Open Access service.

  The launch of this Web service is a promising step towards further facilitating the dissemination and open exchange of information in the biological sciences. Precedings features submissions from biomedicine, chemistry and the earth sciences. The Web service fulfills the role of a preprint server but accepts a wider array of document types, including unpublished manuscripts, presentations, white papers and supplementary findings. Curators from Nature Publishing Group review all submissions. Acceptance is determined by the document’s relevancy to the field and legitimacy.

  From Nature’s press release,

  ‘Helping scientists to communicate their ideas is central to Nature’s mission, and we are constantle seeking new ways to achieve this,” said Annette Thomas, Managing Director of Nature Publishing Group. “Precedings is an important new step for us and, we hope, the research community. We are particularly proud to have conceived and developed the service with the help of a group of such highly esteemed organizations; the British Library, the European Bioinformatics Institute (EBI), Science Commons, and the Wellcome Trust.’ […] “

  More after the jump …

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  UNU Media Studio Program adopts CC licences for websites

  Posted: June 14th, 2007, 11:22am MDT by Cameron Parkins

  LBL_TAG_TAGS:  media studio educommons cc   [LBL_TAG_EDIT]

  The United Nations University (UNU) Media Studio Program announced today that they have adopted a CC Attribution Non-commercial Share Alike (by-nc-sa) license for both their Media Studio and Online Learning websites. This phenomenal news is only strengthened by the desire that eventually, “the UNU will evolve into a 100% Creative Commons institution”. Although doing so would require a reworking of UNU’s intellectual property policy, a large task indeed, the intent to adopt CC licensing across the board at such an institution speaks millions for both the UNU and the CC movement as a whole.

  Below is a quote regarding UNU’s announcement from Creative Commons founder and CEO Lawrence Lessig:

  This is an extraordinarily important development. We at CC were very proud when MIT adopted CC licenses for all their courses (and by the end of this year, every MIT course will be online under a CC-BY-NC license). But I am especially proud than the UNU has taken this step. The UNU is, in my view, the most important international educational institution, symbolizing in practice and ideals, a world community. To see CC as part of that community is very rewarding to us, and our movement.

  UPDATE: Added text for specific license being used.

SourceForge.net: Project News

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  Project Wiki General Availability

  Posted: June 12th, 2007, 3:15pm MDT

  LBL_TAG_TAGS:  wiki cc project development   [LBL_TAG_EDIT]

  We're proud to announce the general availability of our new project wikis! These easy to use and fully-functional wikis, powered by Wikispaces, allow collaboration on project documentation and other dynamic content.
  
  
  [Read the full announcement] (2 comments)

Creative Commons Blog

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  PictureSandbox

  Posted: June 5th, 2007, 7:25pm MDT by Mike Linksvayer

  LBL_TAG_TAGS:  cc photos   [LBL_TAG_EDIT]

  April’s most sophisticated Flickr/CC mashup yet has relaunched with angel funding as PictureSandbox.com with cool tools to find and reuse CC licensed photos in lightboxes, cards, and more.

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  Science Commons in the news

  Posted: June 5th, 2007, 11:50am MDT by Kaitlin Thaney

  LBL_TAG_TAGS:  cc science commons   [LBL_TAG_EDIT]

  From the Science Commons blog …

  Information World Review and SPARC’s Open Access Newsletter both feature pieces this month highlighting a new set of online tools recently released by Science Commons and SPARC. The toolkit aims to help authors retain critical rights over their scholarly works.

  From IWR’s article, “Commons copyright targets scientists”, which was posted today:

  “[…]’This is about authors’ rights,’ said John Wilbanks, vice-president [for] Science Commons. ‘Right now, authors trade the most important rights – like the right to make copies of their own scholarly works – to traditional publishers. That trade has led to an imbalanced world of restricted access to knowledge, skyrocketing journal prices, and an inability to apply new technologies to the scholarly canon of knowledge.’”

  More after the jump …

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  SXSW podcasts now online

  Posted: June 4th, 2007, 11:19am MDT by Kaitlin Thaney

  LBL_TAG_TAGS:  science commons cc   [LBL_TAG_EDIT]

  From the Science Commons blog …

  Podcasts from this year’s Interactive component of SXSW are now available. Science Commons’ John Wilbanks moderated one of these very panels, exploring the social and legal ramifications of “Semantic Web” and “Web 2.0″ as it applies to scientific publishing. Joining Wilbanks for this panel was Matthew Cockerill (BioMed Central), Melissa Hagemann (Open Society Institute), Timo Hannay (Nature Publishing Group), and Amit Kapoor (Topaz).

  The podcast can be found on the SXSW Web site. We encourage you to visit SXSW 2007’s site for access to all of their telecasts from the event.

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  ((c)urve)music Remix Contest

  Posted: May 30th, 2007, 3:01am MDT by Victor Stone

  LBL_TAG_TAGS:  cc music   [LBL_TAG_EDIT]

  (©urve)music™* is a very cool UK label which specializes in chilly Latin jazz and collects brilliant vocalists like nobody’s business. They have agreed to throw several a cappellas and instrumental tracks into the Commons looking to gather enough material for a pair of all CC music remix albums later this year.

  ccMixter is only happy to oblige by hosting the source material as of this morning under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial license. We’ll be running the call for remixes as the (©urve)music™ Remix Contest. Check out the contest home page for the details.

  *Don’t get nervous, the ‘tm’ is for Talent Management.

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  Science Commons, SPARC Announce New Tools for Scholarly Publishing

  Posted: May 17th, 2007, 11:45am MDT by Kaitlin Thaney

  LBL_TAG_TAGS:  science commons cc   [LBL_TAG_EDIT]

  From the Science Commons blog …

  “Together with SPARC and MIT, we are proud to announce the release of a set of online tools designed to help authors retain rights over their scholarly works, including the right to self-archive their material.

  The Scholar’s Copyright Addendum Engine is one of these tools, making it easier for authors to select and attach an addendum to the standard copyright transfer form, allowing them to amend the traditional terms of agreement with publishers. The Addendum Engine makes this as simple as point-and-click.

  The tool can be found on the Science Commons, SPARC and MIT Web sites, and can also be readily implemented on university sites, such as our first adopter - Carnegie Mellon University. By providing the means to easily plug in the addendum generator on sites such as Carnegie Mellons, the tool takes on a new role, serving as a university toolkit.

  Through the Addendum Engine, authors can choose from an array of provided addenda, some of which have been consolidated in order to address the problem of addenda proliferation. This is true of the Science Commons and SPARC addenda, named “Access-Reuse”, a combination of the SPARC Author Addendum and the Science Commons Publish-Creative Commons Addendum.

  For details on specifying a default agreement and to integrate the addendum generator onto your Web site like Carnegie Mellon, click here.

  We invite you to take a look at the other addenda and materials part of this release. For more information about the launch, please read the official press release. You can also learn more about this project on our Web site, or by visiting SPARC and MIT. “

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  CC hardware

  Posted: May 14th, 2007, 11:16pm MDT by Mike Linksvayer

  LBL_TAG_TAGS:  cc hardware   [LBL_TAG_EDIT]

  Mark Hoekstra posted this cool photo (BY-NC-SA) on Geek Technique:

  

  This is part of a series on iPod hacking. A very Maker thing to do.

  (If you’re in the San Francisco area visit CC at Maker Faire this weekend.)

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  Slideshare.net and the CC Media Hosting Wishlist

  Posted: May 14th, 2007, 6:41pm MDT by Jon Phillips

  LBL_TAG_TAGS:  cc media host   [LBL_TAG_EDIT]

  Looks like a new great web 2.0 has emerged along the lines of scribd, but specifically for sharing slideshows. Welcome to the world of the commons, Slideshare! (rounds of massive applause)

  Here at CC we have been working on a Media Hosting Wishlist for sites like Slideshare to use as a guide for how to best support Creative Commons licensing, standards and technology. Looks like Slideshare supports users to select a default Creative Commons license for uploaded slide shows to be licensed under, as well as allowing for a per-item-upload license setting. Also, this site shows the license marking on uploaded slideshows with a link to the license you selected.

  While Slideshare doesn’t implement the Media Hosting Wishlist 100%, this list is a guide for sites to best support licensing and standards. The question of the day is how can your project better support this wishlist? Also, are there items missing from this wishlist. If so, surf on over to the list and hit edit. Its a wiki! :) Let us know if your site is in 100% compliance of this list and/or hoping to be a 100% adopter - let’s do lunch!

  Oh, and btw, here is a presentation I gave at CC Taiwan in January, that shows how Slideshare support Creative Commons licensing. Let your uploads commence!

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  Day 9: Worldwide growth

  Posted: May 6th, 2007, 10:39am MDT by Mike Linksvayer

  LBL_TAG_TAGS:  cc   [LBL_TAG_EDIT]

  
  iSummit 2005 group photo by Creative Commons / BY

  
  iSummit 2006 group photo by Fred Benenson / BY-SA

  
  You determine what 2007 looks like.

  More participation from our dedicated volunteers at the iSummit is not just a side effect of the last year’s growth, but a critical enabler of the spread of Creative Commons over the next year.

  Creative Commons International affiliates are crucial to the success of the iSummit and of Creative Commons globally. The iSummit is the one opportunity each year for these dedicated volunteers drawn from universities and cultural institutes to learn from each other face to face and plan for the challenges and opportunities facing the movement in the next year. Enabling these volunteers to participate in the iSummit is truly the most leveraged way to support Creative Commons at this time.

  Please help!

  If you need more convincing, check out the profiles we’ve run of CC activities in Hungary, Taiwan, Chile, France, Catalonia, Spain, Malaysia, Peru, and Argentina (more to come) and letters from Creative Commons founder and CEO Lawrence Lessig.

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  Creative Commons for Newspapers, Scientists, Film students and Wikipedia SEOers(!?)

  Posted: May 3rd, 2007, 12:38am MDT by Mike Linksvayer

  LBL_TAG_TAGS:  cc   [LBL_TAG_EDIT]

  Four articles turned up yesterday all advocating use of different Creative Commons licenses in different contexts, nicely demonstrating the not-really-niche-anymore scope covered by Creative Commons.

  Newspapers:
  

  In GateHouse’s case, they’ve reserved the right to commercialize, the right to preserve the content’s integrity, and the right of attribution. [Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs]

  It’s all “part of being a good partner on the web,” says Howard Owens, GateHouse Media’s Director of Digital Publishing. After GateHouse publications kept on receiving requests from local non-profit and community groups to republish GateHouse articles in their own newsletters, he pushed to license everything under Creative Commons, effectively stripping out the cumbersome request procedure and streamlining the whole process.

  There was simply no downside to licensing content under Creative Commons, adds Owens, who believes it would work just as well for a large newspaper publisher as for a small one.
  …
  The “web is a network economy,” says Owens, “Everybody online should use Creative Commons.” Sharing content through hyperlinks and other means is built into the architecture of the web. As ad dollars continue to migrate online, and content becomes more and more open, it will be difficult to facilitate the sharing content unless newspaper publishers loosen their belts and use a license like Creative Commons that clearly defines what is and isn’t allowed.

  We blogged about GateHouse Media a few months ago.

  Scientists:

  Scientists do not need, and indeed should not have, exclusive (or any) control over who can copy their papers, and who can make derivative works of their papers.

  The very progress of science is based on derivative works! It is absolutely essential that somebody else who attempts to reproduce your experiment be able to publish results that you don’t like if those are the results they have. Standard copyright, however, gives the copyright holders of a paper at least a plausible legal basis on which to challenge the publication of a paper that attempts to reproduce the results— clearly a derivative work!
  …
  The sort of copyright that we need is something like an “Attribution-Share Alike” Creative Commons license. We absolutely should not have, nor should journals have, any sort of exclusive right to prevent reuse of our papers. But we do need credit and citation.

  Film Students (PDF):
  

  2) The issue of auteur theory is easily solved through the use of CC licenses.
        a. As USC doesn’t believe in auteur theory, CC licenses would allow all
            students who worked on a given film the same rights towards free
            distribution.
  3) CC licenses allow for commercial restriction while allowing for free distribution
     and the ability to allow others to freely build upon work.
        a. It can be assumed that commercial viability is of utmost concern to SCA
            (in comparison between SCA’s IP policy and that of LMU) in continuing
            to allow special agreements with SAG and local insurance companies
                 i. CC licenses can specifically allow for that commercial restriction [Attribution-NonCommercial]

  Wikipedia SEOers:
  

  Don’t add photos to entries that are not Creative Commons licensed because those will get removed because of copyright infringement. Not just any Creative Commons license will do. It should allow for commercial use. [Attribution or Attribution-ShareAlike]

  Apart from the CC recommendation, this last article really points to the benefits of the Wikipedia community. Normally ’search engine optimization’ is associated with people basically attempting to scam the search engines’ anti-spam defenses, but most of the article’s tips on participating in Wikipedia are for the good — it’s hard to get any value out of Wikipedia without adding value for others, i.e., it’s hard to scam the Wikipedia community.

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  Science Commons News: Copyright and fair use in the blogosphere

  Posted: May 1st, 2007, 7:41am MDT by Kaitlin Thaney

  LBL_TAG_TAGS:  cc science   [LBL_TAG_EDIT]

  From the Science Commons blog:

  A recent incident in the blogosphere has sparked a discussion on the role of copyright and fair use laws in the digital world.

  Last week, Shelley Batts - a PhD student - was accused of a fair use violation for pulling a figure and a chart from a scientific paper to post on her blog. Soon after Batts posted the data on her site, she received a cease-and-desist letter via e-mail from lawyers from the Journal of the Science of Food and Agriculture, a journal owned by John Wiley. The representative who contacted her accused her of violating fair use by reproducing the material from the journal on her blog. Batts soon took down the figures, reproduced the data in an Excel format, and avoided legal penalty.

  Her experience raises a larger question, though. In the world of blogging where cutting and pasting is common practice, how do copyright and fair use laws apply? Katherine Sharpe addressed this very question on ScienceBlogs, calling on Springer Publishing’s Johannes Velterop and Science Commons’ John Wilbanks to comment. […]

  More after the jump …

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  Sony launches CC-enabled video site

  Posted: April 29th, 2007, 12:16pm MDT by Mike Linksvayer

  LBL_TAG_TAGS:  cc video sharing   [LBL_TAG_EDIT]

  Sony has launched eyeVio, a CC-enabled video sharing site, which looks like a very slick (massive use of DHTML, AJAX, rounded corners, and other Web 2.0 techniques) and Japanese language only YouTube.

  
  eyeVio enables choosing any of the six main CC licenses when uploading a video.

  Here’s the John Perry Barlow/Jack Valenti video played at the Creative Commons launch on December 16, 2002, embedding courtesy of eyeVio.

  Jack Valenti died last week. Creative Commons founder and CEO Lawrence Lessig paid respects on his blog.

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  Day 1

  Posted: April 27th, 2007, 12:37pm MDT by Melissa Reeder

  LBL_TAG_TAGS:  cc   [LBL_TAG_EDIT]

  It has been 24 hours since the launch of the CCi Scholarship Funding Campaign and the response has been incredible. $6,366 has been raised so far thanks to you! At this rate we’ll finish the campaign 6 days before the 2 week time period ends.

  

  There are several different ways you can participate and support CC. One way would be to visit the CC Store and check out one of our popular CC T-shirts. One of my personal favorites is the CC Logo shirt. Thank you again MikeBlogs for this amazing photo (CC BY).

  The reason that we are attempting this feat is to enable as many of the CCi Affiliates as possible to attend the critical iCommons iSummit in June. These dedicated volunteers have played a large role in the momentum behind CC and the global digital commons. And for this work we are forever thankful.
  

  Help us fund these people and all the new additions that we’ve welcomed into the CC family over the past year.

  
  
  Fred Benenson / BY-SA

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  You on Make Internet TV

  Posted: April 23rd, 2007, 3:30pm MDT by Mike Linksvayer

  LBL_TAG_TAGS:  cc tv   [LBL_TAG_EDIT]

  Make Internet TV, previously blogged here is now officially launched and has a call for videos:
  
  

  see the post

  Submission Requirements

  • Short (1-4 minutes)
  • Narrow Focus
  • Directly Related to Creating Internet Video.
  • Licensed as Creative Commons BY-SA
  • High Quality Video (we prefer having a copy that is higher than 320 by 240 pixels)
  • Make Sure We Can Get in Touch With You

  Spread your vlogging knowledge! This entire project is licensed under CC BY-SA.

  Also, congratulations to the Participatory Culture Foundation, producers of Make Internet TV, for being one of the Netsquared Innovation Award winners, as we recommended.

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  Enter the name of a mainstream artist…

  Posted: April 20th, 2007, 4:28pm MDT by Mike Linksvayer

  LBL_TAG_TAGS:  artist art cc   [LBL_TAG_EDIT]

  Jamendo has continued to add music and features at a torrid pace.

  Their latest feature is Jamendo+Radioblog, which allows navigating all 3041 albums available on Jamendo in one Flash-based web interface, including navigation by Creative Commons license.

  You can also type the name of a mainstream artist into the Jamendo+Radioblog interface and obtain recommendations for CC licensed music similar to that of the mainstream artist.

  Cool tools for open music, congratulations once again to Jamendo!

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  CC search archive.org and more with SpinXpress

  Posted: April 16th, 2007, 10:38pm MDT by Mike Linksvayer

  LBL_TAG_TAGS:  cc search   [LBL_TAG_EDIT]

  As recently promised we’ve added an exciting new CC-enabled search service to search.creativecommons.org.

  SpinXpress Get Media searches the Internet Archive’s massive audio and video collections as well as media at several other sites, including Magnatune, Flickr, and blip.tv and allows filtering searches by desired source, media type, and license.

  We’re extremely pleased that the Internet Archive’s collections are now easily searchable via search.creativecommons.org, as archive.org has been an important supporter of Creative Commons works from the beginning (check out ccPublisher for a cross plaform desktop application that helps you license and take advantage of archive.org hosting for your media).

  Jay Dedman of SpinXpress will be at Wednesday’s CC Salon San Francisco to present about CC integration with Get Media and other SpinXpress applications.

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  Most sophisticated Flickr/CC mashup yet

  Posted: April 15th, 2007, 12:59am MDT by Mike Linksvayer

  LBL_TAG_TAGS:  flickr cc photos photography   [LBL_TAG_EDIT]

  FlickrCash uses the Flickr API to search by CC license, build lightboxes, and keep a record of licensed photos you intend to use.

  Augustine Fou, creator of FlickrCash, tells us:

  I created FlickrCash because I found many really beautiful photos on Flickr but could not use them for “commercial” purposes like design work for clients, because there was no way to document I had a license to use it. FlickrCash is BOTH a search/find interface to more quickly find images on Flickr, and also a way to document that you have a license to use a specific image.

  Sample of image search (currently only searches Flickr repository):
  [flickrcash.com]

  Sample of archived license, available for inspection at any time:
  [flickrcash.com]

  With this publicly archived license the image buyer can definitively prove they have the right to use a specific image for a specific purpose — so they can use it for client design work. Both image owner and image buyer are named signatories to the agreement, and an official date/time stamp is obtained from the NIST Atomic Clock to document the exact time the license was executed.

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  Jamendo 3k, Integrating open content

  Posted: April 15th, 2007, 4:17pm MDT by Mike Linksvayer

  LBL_ENCLOSURE [LBL_DOWNLOAD]

  LBL_TAG_TAGS:  cc music   [LBL_TAG_EDIT]

  Another milestone for CC-centric music site Jamendo: 3,000 albums released, including 1,000 in the last three months.

  If you’re a Linux user the Rythmbox music player is a great way to explore these albums. It ships with a Jamendo plugin (and a Magnatune plugin), providing a seamless listening experience. Screenshot:

  

  Jono Bacon recently wrote about this in Making us win: Integrating open content:

  Sometimes we, the free software community, can get a little pre-occupied with the immediate landscape, and we often focus too much on Linux, free software ethics and open standards. These are essential, but there is a whole world of open content such as Jamendo, Magnatune, Open Clip Art, OpenStreetmap, Wikipedia, Freesound and much more at our fingertips. With such a rich tapestry of open content and a licensing infrastructure (Creative Commons as a great example) that makes it so simple to license and distribute such content, we have a huge opportunity to not only provide a free software Operating System, but to also hot rod it with oodles of free content.

  In the spirit of doing what I encourage others to do (be a CC tastemaker), two recently released Jamendo albums I recommend…

  Self-titlted “NeoRomantic Pop” by WhiteRoom from Quebec. Start with track 10, Simple Mood.

   
  If “improvisación experimental” from Spain appeals to you, check out En Busca Del Pasto’s Digresiones IV: Variaciones sobre un diaporama.

   

   
  Enjoyed that? Then head over to archive.org and listen to one of my favorite albums in the commons (public domain in this case), Miscel·lània Sonora, Joan Bagés i Rubí’s improvisational sound art from Barcelona.

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  Science Commons goes virtual

  Posted: April 13th, 2007, 3:33pm MDT by Kaitlin Thaney

  LBL_TAG_TAGS:  science cc   [LBL_TAG_EDIT]

  John Wilbanks will be giving a talk in the virtual world Second Life this Monday (4/16). Taking on avatar-form for his first official SL speaking engagement, Wilbanks will be giving an introduction to Science Commons. The talk - “Scientific Research and the Creative Commons Methodology” - will shed light on the application of CC copyright licenses in a research context for science. The talk will also examine the application of CC methods such as standard human-readable contracts and technology implementations of contracts to non-digital materials (such as DNA, stem cells, research animals).

  An avatar is required to attend this lecture, which can be acquired for free on Second Life’s Web site.

  The event will take place at the Science Center on Info Island II at 1 p.m. EST/ 10 a.m. SL time.

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  Make Internet TV

  Posted: April 11th, 2007, 2:33pm MDT by Mike Linksvayer

  LBL_TAG_TAGS:  cc tv   [LBL_TAG_EDIT]

  The Participatory Culture Foundation has a great site called Make Internet TV with tutorials on making and publishing digital video from equipment to promotion, including a nice one page guide to using Creative Commons licenses.

  All content on MITV.org is licensed under CC Attribution-ShareAlike.

  There’s currently a call for videos to be used on the site.

  Note that the PCF submitted the “Open Source, Open Standards” proposal for the NetSquared Innovation Awards. Go vote!

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  Science Commons News: EU Commissioner calls for emphasis on knowledge

  Posted: April 10th, 2007, 2:44pm MDT by Kaitlin Thaney

  LBL_TAG_TAGS:  science cc   [LBL_TAG_EDIT]

  From the Science Commons blog:

  A commissioner of Science and Research for the European Union has called for “knowledge” to be added as the fifth community freedom. The four other freedoms recognized from the EU Treaty are goods, services, capital and labor.

  Janez Potocnik proposed this idea at the launch of his green paper, “The European Research Area: New Perspectives”, last week. The paper outlines the components necessary to maximize the potential in the European Research Area (ERA) with a new emphasis - the movement of knowledge. […]

  More after the jump …

NewsForge

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  XMP making inroads in open source imaging software

  Posted: April 10th, 2007, 10:01am MDT by StoneLion

  LBL_TAG_TAGS:  image photo metadata cc xml   [LBL_TAG_EDIT]

  Two separate projects are attempting to build support for the Extensible Metadata Platform (XMP) in Linux. Not to be confused with the "Jabber protocol" XMPP, XMP is an XML-based metadata standard for digital images. Despite its historical connections to photography, other kinds of applications and data stand to benefit, too, making XMP-aware projects something we all should watch.

Creative Commons Blog

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  Vote: NetSquared Innovation Awards

  Posted: April 9th, 2007, 3:18pm MDT by Mike Linksvayer

  LBL_TAG_TAGS:  cc   [LBL_TAG_EDIT]

  Voting for the NetSqaured Innovation Awards, previously blogged here, runs today through April 14. Update: Voting has been extended through April 16 at 5PM PDT.

  You must register and vote for five to ten social enterprises. Twenty winners will receive expenses for two staff members to attend N2Y2 and participate in the NetSquared Technology Innovation Fund.

  Here are four projects with free culture connections to strongly consider voting for:

  • Open Community Radio: KRUU-LP 100.1 FM. Taking community radio to the next level with 99% locally produced content, running on 100% open source, promoting CC licensed content, and with a fantastic free culture interview show. More about KRUU in this previous post.
  • Telecommunications and Microfinances for The Poor and The Poorest. A project of Free Culture Peru.
  • OpenStreetMap. Street maps and other geodata under CC Attribution-ShareAlike.
  • Open Source, Open Standards Video. Why this is important.

  

  Addendum: In other voting news, Wikitravel (see our featured commoner interview with Wikitravel’s founders) is nominated for a Webby award in the travel category. Several other CC-friendly sites are also nominated, including Flickr in many categories. Anyone with some time to look at a lot of sites can vote. If you do, cast one for Wikitravel!

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  Work@CC: web developer/sysadmin

  Posted: April 4th, 2007, 6:45pm MDT by Mike Linksvayer

  LBL_TAG_TAGS:  cc sysadmin admin   [LBL_TAG_EDIT]

  Creative Commons is hiring a web developer/sysadmin (let’s call it a web engineer) for its San Francisco office. The technical requirements are broad but not deep — the ideal candidate would have the ability to learn quickly and willingness to tackle any technical task with gusto — from IT drudgework to developing cool web apps. See the job description for application details.

  Please forward to anyone who would be interested but just happens to be offline for a spell. What other excuse would they have for not reading the CC blog? :-)

  Also check out our openings for General Counsel and CC Learn Executive Director.

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  Videoblogging Week Report: Video Bumpers for Your CC Licensed Content

  Posted: April 4th, 2007, 5:18pm MDT by Jon Phillips

  LBL_TAG_TAGS:  cc   [LBL_TAG_EDIT]

  As mentioned before, Jay Dedman invited myself and Colette Vogel to speak about Creative Commons Licensing and the Podcasting Legal Guide as the kick-off event to this week, the annual international Videoblogging Week. Both Colette and I led a discussion with many popular videobloggers outside in a nice sunny park in mission bay in SF. We then went indoors where I discussed how Videobloggers can mark their video files with video bumpers (in accordance with our trademark policies of course), to signal to others how they may use original content.

  Please check out the video bumpers that people created last saturday and remember that marking your videos (and other content) visually before uploading to sites like Youtube and MySpace is important for signaling how you want your work used in accordance with a CC license of your choice. Don’t forget to “Leave Your Mark.”

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  ccSearch updated

  Posted: April 3rd, 2007, 6:57pm MDT by Mike Linksvayer

  LBL_TAG_TAGS:  cc   [LBL_TAG_EDIT]

  As part of an ongoing overhaul of creativecommons.org sites Alex Roberts has given search.creativecommons.org a very attractive new look.

  Keep an eye out for new CC-enabled search services. If you aspire to be one, check out ccSearch integration on our wiki.

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  Your open source toolset

  Posted: April 2nd, 2007, 7:05pm MDT by Mike Linksvayer

  LBL_TAG_TAGS:  cc open source   [LBL_TAG_EDIT]

  Last fall we mentioned a great post by Wikipedia leader (and now CC board member) Jimmy Wales on why free knowledge requires free software and free file formats.

  Now Wikipedian Erik Möller weighs in with a practical post on Wikimedia’s open source toolset, which may be seen as a paean to open source media creation software generally (Wikipedia leading the way).

  Erik specifically calls out Inkscape, a drawing application with contributions from now CC employee Jon Phillips (his open source contributions were crucial to getting a job here).

  Inkscape also happens to have a built-in feature enabling CC licensing of drawings, something we hope to see in many more content creation applications.

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  Open Content Licensing - Cultivating the Creative Commons

  Posted: April 2nd, 2007, 7:11am MDT by Eva

  LBL_TAG_TAGS:  cc   [LBL_TAG_EDIT]

  “What if Rupert Murdoch’s Fox … bought the rights to Socrates’ dinner parties?” - Richard Neville
  “Never in our history have fewer exercised more power over our culture than now.” - Professor Lawrence Lessig

  

  It is a great pleasure to announce the release of Open Content Licensing: Cultivating the Creative Commons, a new publication of Sydney University Press in conjunction with the Queensland University of Technology and the ARC Centre for Excellence for Creative Industries and Innovation. Edited by the Creative Commons Australia project lead, Professor Brian Fitzgerald, Open Content Licensing: Cultivating the Creative Commons brings together papers from some of the most prominent thinkers of our time on the internet, law and the importance of open content licensing in the digital age.

  Drawing on material presented at the Queensland University of Technology conference of the same name in January 2005, the text provides a snapshot of the thoughts of over 30 Australian and international experts – including Professor Lawrence Lessig, Futurist Richard Neville and the Hon Justice Ronald Sackville – on topics surrounding the international Creative Commons, from the landmark Eldred v Ashcroft copyright term decision to the legalities of digital sampling in a remix world.

  A PDF version of the book is available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivatives licence from the QUT e-Prints Archive. Hardcopies (also under a BY-NC-ND licence) can be ordered from the Sydney University Press. Individual chapters are available for free electronic downloaded here.

  For more information on the book and its contents, see here.

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  Swivel plots growth of CC at Flickr

  Posted: March 31st, 2007, 3:55am MDT by Mike Linksvayer

  LBL_TAG_TAGS:  cc   [LBL_TAG_EDIT]

  Collaborative data and graphing site Swivel (blogged here — copyrightable elements are under CC Attribution) now features a dataset mapping the growth of CC licensing at Flickr over the last eleven months:

  

  Photo: Franz Patzig / CC BY

  Explore 33 million CC licensed photos at Flickr.

  Challenge: add datasets for other CC enabled content repositories to Swivel.

  Updates:

  Beth Kanter remixes.

  Swivel explains.

  Jared Benedict writes about gathering the data and also making it available in tab delimited format and as a Google spreadsheet.

  Another challenge: Gather older data points from [web.archive.org]. In October 2004 there were fewer than 100,000 CC licensed images on Flickr.

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  For the myspace generation, Vivaldi lives

  Posted: March 28th, 2007, 5:56pm MDT by Mike Linksvayer

  LBL_TAG_TAGS:  cc music vivaldi   [LBL_TAG_EDIT]

  Magnatune founder (and CC board member) John Buckman in an opinion piece for Gig Magazine:

  In 1980, Classical music represented 20% of global music sales. In 2000, Classical had plummeted to just 2% of global music sales. What happened? Did all those people suddenly lose their taste for classical music? Or is something else going on?

  At Magnatune.com, an online record label I run, we sell six different genres of music, ranging from Ambient to Classical to Death Metal and World Music. Yet Classical represents a whopping 42% of our sales. Even more intriguingly, only 9% of the visitors to our music site click on “classical” as the genre they’re interested in, yet almost half of them end up buying classical music. What’s going on here?

  CC licensing is part of the answer, but go read the article for a number of other keen observations.

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  Why bloggers should use Creative Commons licenses

  Posted: March 28th, 2007, 5:31pm MDT by Mike Linksvayer

  LBL_TAG_TAGS:  cc bloggers   [LBL_TAG_EDIT]

  Paul Jacobson writes at iCommons.org on Why bloggers should use Creative Commons licences. Check out Jacobson’s extended argument, the core of which seems to be that unfortunately fair dealing/fair use will sometimes not be enough to avoid legal roadblocks to conversation; out of respect to your readers, bloggers engaged in conversation with you, and the health of the blogosphere, please explicitly grant more rights by choosing and applying a Creative Commons license for your blog.

  Bloggers were among the earliest adopters of CC licenses. If you have a blog and you’re reading this, chances are you’re an early adopter. If not, get on board now. If so, think about how Jacobson’s argument applies even more strongly to other conversational media, e.g., vlogs and podcasts, or consider choosing a more liberal CC license than the one you’re now using.

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  ccLabs Relaunched

  Posted: March 27th, 2007, 8:53pm MDT by Alex Roberts

  LBL_TAG_TAGS:  cc cclabs   [LBL_TAG_EDIT]

  ccLabs has relaunched with a fresh new look, more closely matching CC.org. It’s now easier to gauge how the license engine prototypes will look and feel in real life.

  Further updates to these license engines will be coming soon.

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  “The wiki is the center of my classroom”

  Posted: March 23rd, 2007, 9:00pm MDT by Mike Linksvayer

  LBL_TAG_TAGS:  wiki education cc math mathematics   [LBL_TAG_EDIT]

  That’s a quote from Wikis and Blogs in Education, one of three educational remixes from students of open content pioneer David Wiley.

  The other two are Interviewing Basics and the Open Water Project, an excellent disaster preparedness video that probably everyone should watch.

  Each project is licensed under CC Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike and incorporates CC licensed and public domain audio, images, and video as well as original materials.

  Via the Magnatune blog.

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  OPENSTUDIO: Open art project, open art community, both?

  Posted: March 22nd, 2007, 6:27pm MDT by Mike Linksvayer

  LBL_TAG_TAGS:  cc art   [LBL_TAG_EDIT]

  OPENSTUDIO, “an experiment in creativity, collaboration and capitalism” at MIT Medialab’s Physical Language Studio appears as a collaboration community for drawings (all are CC licensed) and an art project itself — some of the project’s features don’t feel quite right for either a physical or virtual environment — in the best sense, compelling examination of art in both environments.

  Here’s a screenshot of the little man that lives inside the little man that lives inside of me T-shirt by Luis Becerril to give you a taste:

  

  “Provenance” tracks virtual ownership, “history” shows source work, and who can argue with “artsonomy”?

  Explore OPENSTUDIO.

  Also check out their Content Licensing Survey. Is it a survey or an art project?

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  Kompoz

  Posted: March 21st, 2007, 7:54pm MDT by Mike Linksvayer

  LBL_TAG_TAGS:  cc music   [LBL_TAG_EDIT]

  The CC-enabled music collaboration space is heating up. The newest contestant is Kompoz, which features a project/workspace metaphor.

  Compare and contrast with Splicemusic, Jamglue, and ccMixter.

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  Show your support for Open Access

  Posted: March 21st, 2007, 3:35pm MDT by Kaitlin Thaney

  LBL_TAG_TAGS:  cc science   [LBL_TAG_EDIT]

  From the Science Commons blog:

  Last month’s National Day of Action for Open Access raised awareness on college campuses nationwide about public access for taxpayer-funded research. Coinciding with this outpouring of support was the presentation of over 24,000 signatures from around the world in support of open access to European research, presented to the European Commission.

  The momentum achieved was tremendous, but is only the beginning.

  Building off of the tens of thousands of signatories of the European petition, a number of leading American organizations are backing the Petition for Public Access to Publicly Funded Research in the United States.

  In signing this petition, whether as an individual or as an organization, you pledge your support for free and open access to research paid for by your tax dollars. We hope that this will demonstrate to leading policy makers and officials just how important this issue is. Doing so just may help change existing policies.

  We here at Science Commons encourage you to join us and over 1,870 other signatories in showing your support.

  To sign the petition, click here. For more information on current poicies and legislation regarding public access to taxpayer-funded research, including the Federal Research Public Access Act, visit the ATA’s Web site.

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  How Adobe’s “Apollo” Team is using CC

  Posted: March 20th, 2007, 5:56pm MDT by Melissa Reeder

  LBL_TAG_TAGS:  cc websire seb development develop   [LBL_TAG_EDIT]

  Adobe has recently released a new project called Apollo. According to their announcement Apollo is “the code name for a cross-operating system runtime that allows developers to leverage their existing web development skills (Flash, Flex, HTML, JavaScript, Ajax) to build and deploy rich Internet applications (RISs) to the desktop.

  To accompany the release Apollo team members Mike Chambers, Rob Dixon, and Jeff Scwartz wrote the “Apollo for Adobe Flex Developers Pocket Guide” which was published by O’Reilly. This pocket guide is available under Creative Commons BY-NC-SA version 2.5 license and is available for download here.

  The Apollo team concurrently launched a video site which hosts videos about Flex and Apollo development. The content of this site is also CC licensed. By CC licensing the pocket guide and video site Adobe’s Apollo team is encouraging the sharing of Apollo knowledge and experiences that everyone can use and build upon.

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  Google Summer of Code 2007!

  Posted: March 19th, 2007, 7:37pm MDT by Mike Linksvayer

  LBL_TAG_TAGS:  cc google code programming   [LBL_TAG_EDIT]

  Creative Commons is again participating in Google’s excellent Summer of Code program as a mentoring organization: students can earn $4500 for working on an open source application for the summer. Check out the CC Summer of Code page for ideas. Student applications are due March 24.

  Don’t hesitate to drop by #cc on the freenode IRC network or post to cc-devel if you want feedback on proposal ideas.

  Also note that Science Commons is providing mentors this year, see open access and semantic web for science project ideas.

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  Free Culture Timeline Chalkboard

  Posted: March 16th, 2007, 9:53pm MDT by Mike Linksvayer

  LBL_TAG_TAGS:  cc   [LBL_TAG_EDIT]

  
  Photo by believekevin, CC BY-SA.

  A query to the cc-community mailing list asking for resources on the history of the copyleft movement led to many good suggestions and turned up the cool chalkboard timeline pictured above. While impressive visually, the chalkboard only covers 1998-2007 and leaves much important stuff out (such as the launch of CC in December, 2002!). Take this as a challenge to find a longer chalkboard. :-)

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  One Big Thank You

  Posted: March 14th, 2007, 2:38pm MDT by Melissa Reeder

  LBL_TAG_TAGS:  cc party   [LBL_TAG_EDIT]

  To all the people that came out to the GOOD - CC party this past Monday - THANK YOU!

  The party was amazing. Truly. And rumor has it that it was also phenomenally successful in terms of dollars raised for CC. I will let you know what kind of numbers we’re talking about as soon as they come in from the awesome people at GOOD.

  All in all an epic night full of wonderful people, conversations, and dance moves. Thank you. We are honored to be surrounded by such a supportive community.

  So to GOOD Magazine, Moli, Six Apart, VJ Phi Phenomenon for his super cool live interactive video (all CC licensed content), DJ Filip Turbotito, The MisShapes, and of course you - thank you.

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  7 things you should know about CC

  Posted: March 10th, 2007, 11:02am MST by Kaitlin Thaney

  LBL_TAG_TAGS:  cc   [LBL_TAG_EDIT]

  Educause Learning Initiative (ELI) offers a crash course on CC this month in its “7 Things You Should Know About …” series.

  The series aims to provide basic information on emerging learning technologies or practices in a digestible, easy-to-read format. Past topics include Open Journaling, Digital Storytelling, YouTube and Virtual Worlds.

  Click here to read this month’s installment on ELI.

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  Ground Report Empowers Citizen Journalism with CC Attribution License

  Posted: March 9th, 2007, 5:19pm MST by Jon Phillips

  LBL_TAG_TAGS:  attribution cc   [LBL_TAG_EDIT]

  Ground Report is a new citizen journalism site that “Empowers Global Users to Self-Publish, Rate Content and Earn Money.” In a move that helps insure user generated content can flourish on the web, they bolster their reputation and community participation by licensing all user-generated content under a CC Attribution license.

  I’ve been working with them for only a short time and said this about their project in their press release: “GroundReport empowers authors at the grassroots level. It provides a vital link in the ‘ecosystem of sharing’ that Creative Commons enables through its licenses, which allow sharing, reuse, and remix - legally.”

  And, as I underlined in the above statement, as more sites come online like Ground Report, Metaweb’s Freebase, and Technorati’s Where’s the Fire, it is of the utmost importance to license content clearly and properly, so that interlinking and cross-promotion are built in and automagically happening across the large ecosystem we call the web.

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  Science Commons News: An Open Data project from Google?

  Posted: March 9th, 2007, 10:28am MST by Kaitlin Thaney

  LBL_TAG_TAGS:  science commons cc open data   [LBL_TAG_EDIT]

  From the Science Commons blog:

  In a recent BBC article, Google’s Chris DiBona talked about a new program under development to help ameliorate some of the transfer problems in moving enormous data sets - up to 120,000 gigabytes worth.

  The project has not been released to the public, but would involve taking massive data sets, copying the sets, and keeping the data in open form - whether under a Creative Commons license or some other format. […]

  More after the jump …

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  Science Commons News: Elsevier, HHMI and Open Access

  Posted: March 8th, 2007, 3:20pm MST by Kaitlin Thaney

  LBL_TAG_TAGS:  commons data science cc   [LBL_TAG_EDIT]

  From the Science Commons blog:

  Elsevier - a dominant subscription-based publisher - has made a deal with the Howard Hughes Medical Institute regarding Open Access.

  Announced today, the agreement will make author manuscripts of articles published in Elsevier and Cell Press journals available to the public (in PubMed Central) six months after publication. The conditions will be applied to articles published after September 1, 2007 on HHMI funded research.

  More after the jump …

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  CC is hiring for a new educational division

  Posted: March 7th, 2007, 1:30pm MST by Francesca Rodriquez

  LBL_TAG_TAGS:  cc edu education   [LBL_TAG_EDIT]

  A new division of Creative Commons, provisionally called CC Learn, will focus on on education, broadly defined — from kindergarten to graduate school, to lifelong learning. The mission of this new division will be to promote vigorous networks of Open Educational Resources: materials offered freely and openly for educators, students and self-learners to use, modify and re-use for teaching, learning and research. CC Learn is looking for an Executive Director.

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  CC is hiring for a new educational division

  Posted: March 7th, 2007, 1:30pm MST by Francesca Rodriquez

  LBL_TAG_TAGS:  cc edu education   [LBL_TAG_EDIT]

  A new division of Creative Commons, provisionally called CC Learn, will focus on on education, broadly defined — from kindergarten to graduate school, to lifelong learning. The mission of this new division will be to promote vigorous networks of Open Educational Resources: materials offered freely and openly for educators, students and self-learners to use, modify and re-use for teaching, learning and research. CC Learn is looking for an Executive Director.

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  ccHost 4.0 Official Release

  Posted: March 6th, 2007, 2:55pm MST by Victor Stone

  LBL_TAG_TAGS:  cchost olpc cc   [LBL_TAG_EDIT]

  We are proud to announce the official release of Creative Commons’ open source remix community project ccHost 4.0 which is now available for immediate download and install (it’s actually version 4.0.1 so if you downloaded 4.0 or 4.0 RC1 then you should upgrade immediately to get the last minute bug fixes). More information about this important release is here.

  Early adopters include the very important work being done by our friends at freeculture for their first content collection project for One Laptop Per Child. This installation is also technically interesting because the project’s requirements were decidedly untypical (for ccHost), namely anonymous uploading and blog-style reviewing/commenting as well as pulling music files from other websites. With less than a week to go before they launched and working together with an impressive team of volunteers we were able to customize the installation with a minimal amount of additional scripting and no changes to the base ccHost installation. A technical challenge easily met by ccHost for a great cause. It doesn’t get much better than this.

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  SXSW and CC

  Posted: March 5th, 2007, 4:20pm MST by Melissa Reeder

  LBL_TAG_TAGS:  cc conference scsw   [LBL_TAG_EDIT]

  SXSW is not just any conference. It’s a time for innovation, conversation, and collaboration. It’s also a week chock full of shows, events, get-togethers, and parties. So while you map out your SXSW week you should definitely add these two events to your route. Fun times.
  
  GOOD Magazine SXSW Party (CC FUNDRAISER)
  Double your CC support and gain entrance to an awesome SXSW party. When you subscribe to GOOD your $20 is matched by the wonderful folks over at Six Apart and then goes to CC. After you subscribe, email your first and last name to rsvp@goodmagazine.com so that you can get into the party. Open bar, dancing, music by the The Misshapes and DJ Filip Turbotito (of guns n bombs and ima robot), interactive visuals by VJ Phi Phenomenon, good times, and supporting CC. What more could you ask for? Joi Ito? He will be there too. Badges not required. This party is brought to you by GOOD and Moli.

  

  Tigerbeat6 Records SXSW Showcase
  Tigerbeat 6 Records, XLR8R Magazine, and CC have come together to bring you an awesomely good time at the Beauty Bar on Sat. March 17th. This is Tigerbeat6’s SXSW label showcase, so stop by and check out performances by Kid606, Drop the Lime, Clipd Beaks, Star Eyes, White Williams, and OonceOonce. No doubt that it will be a great way to either celebrate or get away from St. Patrick’s Day on Sixth St.

  

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  SXSW: Creative Commons, An Introduction

  Posted: March 2nd, 2007, 2:58pm MST by Jon Phillips

  LBL_TAG_TAGS:  sxsw cc   [LBL_TAG_EDIT]

  If you live in Austin, and/or will be at SXSW on March 14 (4:30-6:30 PM at Austin History Center), I’m giving a FREE introduction to Creative Commons in affiliation with EFF-Austin. Here is the quick blurb I wrote up about the presentation:

  In this presentation, Jon Phillips, Community Developer for Creative Commons, discusses how Creative Commons enables legal sharing, reuse, and remix. Contemporary relevant topics will be discussed in relationship to artists, musicians and attorneys. Come with your questions as this session will be highly interactive and focused on synthesis.

  Also featuring: Entertainment Lawyer Deena Kalai and Attorney Ed Cavazos, Fish & Richardson, P.C.

  For more information or to rsvp: rsvpcc at dcitexas.org

  Presented by EFF-Austin and The Digital Convergence Initiative.

  Jon Lebkowsky from EFF-Austin has written an article in Austin Chronicle which mentions this event and you may track the event on this upcoming.org posting.

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  DHTML wizard challenge met!

  Posted: March 1st, 2007, 12:30pm MST by Mike Linksvayer

  LBL_TAG_TAGS:  dhtml cc   [LBL_TAG_EDIT]

  A few days ago we announced a new version implemented in Flash of the ccLabs experimental Freedoms License Generator and issued a challenge to DHTML developers to equal the performance and visual improvements of the Flash version, using DHTML.

  That didn’t take long. Sylvain Zimmer of Jamendo (see our most recent post about Jamendo’s CC music portal) whipped up a DHTML version of the puzzle pieces interface used in the Freedoms License Generator that is just as slick and fast as our Flash version.

  The implementation is not complete — it doesn’t provide copy & paste license HTML — but it proves the point that Flash is unnecessary for this application. The next iteration of the ccLabs project will integrate Sylvain’s code with HTML and metadata generation.

  Thanks Sylvain!

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  Get 3.0 at ccLabs

  Posted: February 26th, 2007, 3:07pm MST by Mike Linksvayer

  LBL_TAG_TAGS:  cc   [LBL_TAG_EDIT]

  We’ve updated the experimental license choosers on ccLabs to support the new version 3.0 licenses and given one a visual and performance refresh:

  

  This involved re-writing the license chooser in Flash.

  DHTML wizards, take this as a challenge.

  Free software advocates, we understand that free Flash is important, and on the chooser page urge contriubutions to Gnash, a GPL Flash player and one of the Free Software Foundation’s high-priority projects.

  Flash hackers, download and improve GPL licensed sources for the chooser.

  Everyone else, try it out. There’s a feedback survey at the bottom of the license chooser page.

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  Dabble DB Commons

  Posted: February 26th, 2007, 1:28pm MST by Mike Linksvayer

  LBL_TAG_TAGS:  dabble db cc   [LBL_TAG_EDIT]

  Dabble has launched a free version of its innovative web database application. All content created with the free version, Dabble DB Commons, is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution license (the same as Swivel, mentioned last month).

  For license nerds, this is a good time to link to the Science Commons Databases and Creative Commons FAQ again.

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  ccHost Opportunities

  Posted: February 22nd, 2007, 3:04pm MST by Victor Stone

  LBL_TAG_TAGS:  cchost cc   [LBL_TAG_EDIT]

  The open source remix community project ccHost is proving to be more than an incubator for CC technologies; if you monitor the developer’s list you can’t help noticing the regularity of postings for job opportunities. The latest comes from Brett at Open Source Cinema…

  We’re looking for a PHP programmer to help with our CChost install at OpenSourceCinema.org… What we are in need of is some customization of our templates, and a bit of work on a custom module we wrote to take advantage of the blip.tv API…We have a budget to spend on some development, if anyone is interested or knows of some good folks through their respective projects…we’re trying to present our site at SXSW in about 2 weeks. :)

  You can contact Brett directly at brett at eyesteelfilm dot com and make sure to let us know how it goes.

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  “Open Art” show presented by Florida Free Culture

  Posted: February 16th, 2007, 1:18pm MST by Mike Linksvayer

  LBL_TAG_TAGS:  open art cc   [LBL_TAG_EDIT]

  About a year after Free Culture @ NYU’s Creative Commons Art Show 2006, Free Culture Florida is putting on Open Art, a Creative Commons art show in the University of Florida’s Reitz Union Gallery.

  The show will feature mixed media and prints. Digital versions of the latter may be viewed at the Open Art 2007 Flickr Pool.

  Two images to whet your appetite, each licensed under Attribution-ShareAlike. The cognitive dissonance inducing “ccPirate” by Karen Rustad + Nelson Pavlosky:

  

  Pretty “Azaleas” by Colleen Krichharr:

  

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  ccHost 4.0 RC

  Posted: February 15th, 2007, 1:03am MST by Victor Stone

  LBL_TAG_TAGS:  cc cchost   [LBL_TAG_EDIT]

  Are you thinking about hosting a web site dedicated to the CC remix culture? How about in the next few day?

  The official Release Candidate for the award winning ccHost 4.0 is now available (update: RC period is over, thanks to everybody who participated). The code has been running for a few weeks on ccMixter so we are confident of its stability, we just want to make sure we’ve got all the kinks out.

  This release marks a major step forward for ccHost with many features you’ve been seeing appear on ccMixter over the last few months: playlists (more), remix radio and publicize all enabled by the query/formatting engine which is now used for feeds, streaming and our sample pool api. Our own embedded MP3 player, a 2-4x performance boost, AJAX Everywhere and dozens more enhancements are hopefully enough to encourage folks into to giving it a try in the next few days and letting us know if you run into problems.

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  Version 3.0 — It’s Happening & With BY-SA Compatibility Language Too

  Posted: February 9th, 2007, 1:24pm MST by Mia Garlick

  LBL_TAG_TAGS:  cc   [LBL_TAG_EDIT]

  So it’s been a while since we discussed Version 3.0 but it is still happening. We’re putting the finishing touches on the new license drafts for the new US and new generic/unported licenses and working to make them public within the next 10 days.

  As you know, Creative Commons has long been hopeful of enabling interoperability between licenses that guarantee the same frictions. Back in November 2005, Larry described his vision of building an ecology of free licenses.

  Although it has not been possible to date to agree with other license stewards on the exact details necessary to make licenses that are equivalent to a specific CC license compatible yet, Creative Commons remains hopeful that it will be possible at a date in the future to secure the necessary agreement with license stewards for equivalent licenses. Because we would have to change our licenses to effect this and because we are reticient to version too often (not just because it requires a lot of work for all concerned but also because it adds complexity to a system designed to be simple), we propose to include the structure of compatibility as part of the Version 3.0 changes.

  Given it is the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike license that is most likely to be capable of compatibility with other existing flexible licenses, we are proposing to add new language to the “ShareAlike clause” of the BY-SA to establish the structure of compatibility.

  An amended version of the draft Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 (US) license has been posted to the cc-licenses list. Please post any comments you have to this list.

  Because we are anticipating that this will not be controversial or provoke much comment, we are hoping to roll out the Version 3.0 licenses by the end of next week with the BY-SA compatibility language included. So if you have comments or suggestions for improvement, please make them to the cc-licenses (subscription required) list as soon as possible.

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  KRUU, open source radio

  Posted: February 4th, 2007, 11:51pm MST by Mike Linksvayer

  LBL_TAG_TAGS:  open source radio cc kruu   [LBL_TAG_EDIT]

  KRUU in Fairfield, Iowa is a community radio station run on open source software. Richard Poynder recently profiled the station:
  

  Moore’s use of the term “open radio” caught my attention. What, I wondered, did he mean?

  Amongst other things, it seems, he meant that KRUU has made a commitment to use only Open Source software. As KRUU founder Roland Wells explained on Open Views, all KRUU’s PCs run on the GNU/Linux operating system, and the audio editing tools (Ardour and Audacity) used by DJs at the station are also Open Source. Likewise, the office suite used by Moore to administer the station (OpenOffice) is Open Source, and the station’s web site was built using Free BSD UNIX, and is hosted on the Open Source web server Apache.

  By using Open Source solutions rather than proprietary software, Wells told KRUU listeners, the station has saved “tens of thousands of dollars”.

  KRUU’s software philosophy seems to come from Open Views producer Sundar Raman and founder Roland Wells, as explained in the first broadcast of Open Views (which also features a short interview with me on Creative Commons; the program’s third broadcast features an hour on Creative Commons).

  Sundar Raman has since interviewed a number of people involved in Open Source, Open Culture, and Open Science, including most recently John Wilbanks of Science Commons (not yet archived). You can also see Raman’s influence showing up in music programming, e.g., Dance Show Friday Night playing CC-licensed music from Jamendo.

  Check out KRUU and Open Views!

  Station manager James Moore adds:
  

  Just thought you might like to know that since we began broadcasting last September, KRUU has offered a one-hour program seven days a week called The Open Source Radio Hour (5am-6am) featuring Creative Commons licensed material, primarily from jamendo.com or magnatune.com. so far.

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  Netwaves

  Posted: February 4th, 2007, 10:50pm MST by Mike Linksvayer

  LBL_TAG_TAGS:  cc music   [LBL_TAG_EDIT]

  Netwaves is an awesome Creative Commons music program broadcast on Radio Scorpio 106FM, Belgium’s oldest independent radio station. Announcements in Dutch, interviews conducted in English, music CC-licensed, drawn from the best of the netlabel scene. Every episode is downloadable from archive.org.

  Netwaves 13 features an interview with Lawrence Lessig.

  Netwaves is also producing offline events:
  

  I learned of Netwaves bia Black Sweater White Cat, which has added a pick of the day to their weekly CC music program broadcast on WBCR-LP in Massachusetts, which now follows BSWC with a Netwaves rebroadcast.

  For even more great CC licensed music from the Dutch-speaking world, check out Simuze.nl, which recently surpassed 1000 tracks and added a dedicated Simuze stream.

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  CC License info now available for your Flickr Moo Cards

  Posted: January 19th, 2007, 8:18pm MST by Francesca Rodriquez

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  Many of us share our images on Flickr, and some of us at Creative Commons were thrilled when Flickr introduced Moo Cards for purchase. Flickr describes Moo Cards as “tiny wonderful calling cards” for the real world. To make Moo Cards, log into your Flickr account and click on Moo in the “Do More With Your Photos!” box. You can choose a photo from your personal Flickr stream for the front of the Moo Card, and you can customize text for the back of the card. When you customize your text, Moo has introduced a CC License option that allows you to insert your CC license information and the CC logo on the back of the Moo Card.

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  Mosaickr: another day, another Flickr API/CC mashup

  Posted: January 19th, 2007, 6:50pm MST by Mike Linksvayer

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  Mosaickr helps you build mosaics from Flickr photos published under an Attribution license (and your own photos). The process is simple: 1) choose a master image, which will serve as a template for the mosaic, 2) choose images that will be used to fill in the mosaic and 3) download your mosaic.

  Any art form takes skill and patience. My first attempt using an image of (cc) stickers as the master and images tagged ‘cloud’ as fillers is not good enough to publish.

  Yesterday’s mashup.

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  Linux Kernel in a Nutshell: The Secret Goal

  Posted: January 18th, 2007, 6:53pm MST by Mike Linksvayer

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  Linux Kernel in a Nutshell (O’Reilly) by Greg Korah-Hartman is now available online under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike license in PDF and DocBook (easily modifiable source files for the book) formats.

  The author’s “Secret Goal (i.e. why I wrote this book and am giving it away for free online)”:
  

  I want this book to help bring more people into the Linux kernel development fold. The act of building a customized kernel for your machine is one of the basic tasks needed to become a Linux kernel developer. The more people that try this out, and realize that there is not any real magic behind the whole Linux kernel process, the more people will be willing to jump in and help out in making the kernel the best that it can be.

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  Lulu.tv revenue share 80/20 with videomakers

  Posted: January 16th, 2007, 12:15am MST by Mike Linksvayer

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  Speaking of advertising revenue sharing, user created (and CC licensed) video hosting site Lulu.tv (first blogged here last July) has expanded their revenue sharing program.

  A “shareholder” account (which qualifies for revenue sharing) is now free and the spit is 80 percent for users and 20 percent for Lulu.

  

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  Another Reason for Opening Access to Research

  Posted: January 11th, 2007, 12:43pm MST by Mia Garlick

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  Open access journal — the British Medical Journal — recently published an article by John Wilbanks, the Executive Director of one of CC’s projects: Science Commons. While much has been written about open access and it represents a welcome and increasing trend in scientific and academic publishing, John’s article provides a timely focus on how Web 2.0 and the Semantic Web can practically ensure that access is open and we reap the full benefits of it, after the legal barriers have been removed.

NewsForge

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  Creative Commons helps authors terminate copyright transfers

  Posted: January 10th, 2007, 1:00pm MST by StoneLion

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  Still seething over that bad book publishing deal you entered into in 1981? Good news: you might be able to rescue your manuscript and do something lucrative with it, thanks to Creative Commons (CC) and obscure portions of US copyright law. CC is beta testing a Web-based tool on its ccLabs site that helps authors through the tricky legal maze required to terminate a copyright transfer.

Creative Commons Blog

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  Public Library of Science at Net Tuesday in San Francisco

  Posted: January 4th, 2007, 8:32pm MST by Mike Linksvayer

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  CC Salon San Francisco is going bi-monthly. The next Salon will be in February featuring speakers from Flickr and BitTorrent.

  There’s a close substitute in January. Check out NetSquared’s Net Tuesday featuring the Public Library of Science, Tuesday, January 9 from 6-8PM at Citizen Space, 425 Second St., #300 in San Francisco:
  

  This month our two presenters will be from PLoS, The Public Library of Science. PLoS is a nonprofit organization of scientists and physicians committed to making the world’s scientific and medical literature a freely available public resource. PLoS is both an open-access advocate and an online publisher that publishes several peer-reviewed biomedical journals under the Creative Commons Attribution License. PLoS collaborates with Topaz in the development of open-source software to facilitate community-based annotation of scientific articles.

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  Swivel Adopts CC Licensing

  Posted: January 2nd, 2007, 8:29pm MST by Mia Garlick

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  Swivel is a site that is all about data. You can upload your data and have it made into graphs, you can find datasets, comment on them or rate them, or you can compare different datasets that have been uploaded to the site. As the site itself explains, it’s “a place where curious people explore data - all kinds of data.” Techcrunch recently featured a helpful article giving an overview of the site and how the data- and graph-curious can get the most out of it.

  One of the most viewed graphs featured on the site as of today is entitled “Wine and Violent Crime” to show that “In the last 30 years or so wine consumption and violent crime in the US have been moving in opposite directions. Let’s all get a glass and get less violent.” Another graph shows the battle of the search engines of Time Warner, AOL, Ask, Yahoo!, Google and Microsoft.

  Just in time for the holidays, Swivel announced that they had switched over to use Creative Commons licensing, the Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 license to be exact, in response to user feedback about the site. They have even set up a discussion group to discuss some of the legal issues surrounding data. It’s still in “preview” mode but it already sounds like a data- or copyright-wonks’ dream!

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  CC Business Mixer: Calling for Creative Commons Entrepreneurs

  Posted: December 22nd, 2006, 12:55pm MST by Francesca Rodriquez

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  Creative Commons and CC board member John Buckman will be hosting a CC Business Mixer on Thursday, Jan. 18th from 6pm-8pm at the Creative Commons offices in San Francisco. If you have an idea for a Creative Commons related business, this is your chance to present your idea to other like minded entrepreneurs and network with VCs. Have an idea you would like to present? Email John Buckman at johnbuckman@creativecommons.org.

  Details: Creative Commons Business Mixer for CC Entrepreneurs
  6pm-8pm, Thursday January 18th
  Creative Commons
  543 Howard Street, 5th Floor
  San Francisco

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  License compatibility wizard from CC Taiwan

  Posted: December 8th, 2006, 11:17pm MST by Mike Linksvayer

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  Creative Commons Taiwan created a cool license compatibility wizard in traditional Chinese and English based on the CC FAQ entry for I used part of a Creative Commons-licensed work, which Creative Commons license can I relicense my work under?

  

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  Romance, sarcasm, math, and language

  Posted: December 7th, 2006, 7:13pm MST by Mike Linksvayer

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  Red Hat Magazine has a great interview with Randall Munroe, creator of xkcd, a “webcomic of romance, saracasm, math, and language” that’s published under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial license. Excerpt:

  A former NASA contractor, Munroe now ekes out his living from xkcd. “I’m still sort of transitioning over to doing this full time,” he says, “A lot of my time I spend packing t-shirts, which is what I make my primary income off now. I’m always responding to email, reading forum posts, and having a regular life, being social, and getting outside and seeing interesting things.”

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  Munroe sees Creative Commons as the logical step in doing business today. “There’s this idea that there are the real business people who want to make money, versus the kids who want free stuff,” he says, “But no one seems to realize that Creative Commons serves both of those. It isn’t just an idealism of wanting culture to be free. It makes business sense.”

  The Internet, Munroe says, has changed the rules of cartoon syndication, “Bill Waterson worked for, what, 5 or 10 years on Calvin and Hobbes, before he really made it big. Now, any kid with a notebook or a Wacom tablet writes something and makes it available for free.”

  And making money?

  “Once you develop a big following, there are plenty of other opportunities for business. T-shirts. Merchandise. Speaking engagements.”

  Read the whole story and visit xkcd.com.

DC Math Group

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  math and creative commons

  Posted: February 25th, 2006, 5:08pm MST by Steven Viemeister

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  I have connected the two domains mathcommons.org and mathematicscommons.org to a hosting plan. I am still waiting to see how sciencecommons.org develops first