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Related tags: cc [+], studio [+], sharing [+], host [+], educommons [+]
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.
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!