# articles

feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=34123
title: Engage 2012 Student Video Competition
uri: Engage-2012-Student-Video-Competition
url: http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/34123
content:
<p>If you work with K-12 students in the United States (or if you are one), then you&#8217;ll want to know about this video competition. <a href="http://www.engage2012.org/">Engage 2012</a> asks young people to create short videos about political issues impacting their communities. All entries will be uploaded to YouTube under <a href="/licenses/by/3.0/">CC BY</a>, meaning lots of great fodder for <a href="/weblog/entry/33421">future remixes</a>.</p>
<p><iframe width="560" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/WqEzd4dc_Fs" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe></p>
<p><a href="http://www.engage2012.org/">From the website:</a></p>
<blockquote><p>Every four years, American voters decide who calls the White House home. And the road to the election is full of questions. How does the next presidential election affect you, your family, and your neighborhood?</p></blockquote>
<blockquote><p>Answers to this question appear in newspapers, on television, and on the radio. But we want to know what the story is in your community. There&#8217;s just one question: Can you tell us in two minutes?</p></blockquote>
<blockquote><p>The Engage in Democracy 2012 Student Journalism Challenge is a competition for K-12 students from across the United States and its territories. Our goal is to involve you in the political process.</p></blockquote>
<blockquote><p>To participate, shoot a video under two minutes in length using stories from around your community with a focus on one of these six big election topics:
<ul>
<li>Voter Turnout</li>
<li>Jobs and the Economy</li>
<li>Education Reform</li>
<li>Health Care</li>
<li>Energy and the Environment</li>
<li>Immigration</li>
</ul>
</blockquote>
<p>The contest is open through November 5.</p>


feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=34093
title: Budapest Open Access Initiative policy recommendations for the next 10 years
uri: Budapest-Open-Access-Initiative-policy-recommendations-for-the-next-10
url: http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/34093
content:
<div style="float:right;padding:10px"><a href="http://www.soros.org/openaccess/boai-10-recommendations"><img style="border:non" title="BOAI 10 year logo" src="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/image_preview.png" alt="" title="BOAI_logo" width="226" height="400" class="alignright size-full wp-image-34103" /></a></div>
<p>Ten years after the release of the <a href="http://www.soros.org/openaccess/read">Budapest Open Access Initiative</a>, OA advocates last week <a href="http://www.soros.org/openaccess/boai-10-recommendations">released updated recommendations</a> in support of open access around the world, touching on areas including policy, licensing, sustainability, and advocacy. Of particular interest are recommendations that urge funders to require open access when they make grants: &#8220;When possible, funder policies should require libre OA, preferably under a CC-BY license or equivalent.&#8221; When funding agencies institute open access policies for the grant funds they distribute, they increase the impact of the research produced. This is because the outputs can be widely reused under the <a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/">CC-BY license</a>, which allows for reuse for any purpose (even commercial) so long as attribution is given to the author. </p>
<p>The updated recommendation document includes a section on licensing and reuse (see the three listed below). The document &#8220;recommend[s] CC-BY or an equivalent license as the optimal license for the publication, distribution, use, and reuse of scholarly work.&#8221;</p>
<blockquote><p>OA repositories typically depend on permissions from others, such as authors or publishers, and are rarely in a position to require open licenses. However, policy makers in a position to direct deposits into repositories should require open licenses, preferably CC-BY, when they can.
</p></blockquote>
<blockquote><p>OA journals are always in a position to require open licenses, yet most of them do not yet take advantage of the opportunity. We recommend CC-BY for all OA journals.</p></blockquote>
<blockquote><p>In developing strategy and setting priorities, we recognize that gratis access is better than priced access, libre access is better than gratis access, and libre under CC-BY or the equivalent is better than libre under more restrictive open licenses. We should achieve what we can when we can. We should not delay achieving gratis in order to achieve libre, and we should not stop with gratis when we can achieve libre.</p></blockquote>


feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=34062
title: Work with CC: Director of Product Strategy
uri: Work-with-CC-Director-of-Product-Strategy
url: http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/34062
content:
<div style="padding:10px;float:right; max-width:300px" xmlns:cc="http://creativecommons.org/ns#" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/terms/" about="http://farm3.staticflickr.com/2090/2359312943_7e72b1f4f7.jpg">
<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/silwenae/2359312943/"><br />
<img src="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/2359312943_7e72b1f4f7-300x225.jpg" /></a><br />
<small><span property="cc:attributionName"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/silwenae/">Paul Cutler</a></span> / <a rel="license" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/">CC BY SA</a>.</small></div>
<p>Creative Commons is looking for an experienced, innovative, and technically inclined individual to drive product development at CC. This individual will play a highly influential role in the future of Creative Commons as we look to the next 10 years.</p>
<p>For those that have been paying attention, this is indeed a re-imagination of the <a href="http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/28240">previous solicitation for a Chief Technology Officer</a>. This role has expanded to be a more general direction setting position within CC vis-a-vis tools and products that will enable and sustain CC and its community.</p>
<p>Creative Commons started with a vision of leveraging the Internet to scale the sharing of our collective cultural, scientific, and educational output. To that end, there is an unimaginable number of freely licensed works to build upon, and to build services around, and 90% of the technical groundwork is laid (meaning, of course, there is still more than 90% of the way to go!). Now is an incredibly exciting time to lead the product and technology efforts of Creative Commons — be part of a great team, help communities yearning to share better and more effectively, and engage with developers around the world to help build a better future.</p>
<p>And it is an interesting place to work! Some unique aspects of the CC technical and product team:</p>
<ul>
<li>All software developed by CC is <a href="http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html">free software</a>; see our <a href="http://code.creativecommons.org/">source repositories</a> and <a href="http://code.creativecommons.org/issues">bug tracker</a>;</li>
<li>We have a small (two software engineers, one system administrator) technology team focused on maintaining and improving CC’s services (implemented using Python, CiviCRM, WordPress, MediaWiki, and other technologies); additionally technology suffuses all of our work, including when policy-oriented — the technology team and especially CTO are frequently called on to provide leadership on broad issues;</li>
<li>See our <a href="http://labs.creativecommons.org/">CC Labs blog</a> for occasional posts on the details of our technical work and thoughts on related happenings;</li>
<li>Watch recordings of past <a href="http://wiki.creativecommons.org/TechSummit">CC technology summits</a>;</li>
<li>Read about the <a href="http://wiki.creativecommons.org/CC_REL">CC Rights Expression Language</a>, a set of recommendations implemented across CC’s services and by many publishers.</li>
</ul>
<p>We’re accepting resumes through October 12. See the <a href="http://creativecommons.org/opportunities#dps">job posting</a>  for details.</p>


feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=34017
title: Europeana releases 20 million records into the public domain using CC0
uri: Europeana-releases-20-million-records-into-the-public-domain-using-CC
url: http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/34017
content:
<div style="float:right;padding:10px"><a href="http://www.europeana.eu/portal/"><img style="border:none" title="Europeana_logo_English_Horses" src="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/logo_English_Pearl.jpg" alt="" width="200" height="288" /></a></div>
<p>This week marks a momentous occasion, as <a href="http://www.europeana.eu/portal/">Europeana</a>&#160;&#8212; Europe&#8217;e digital library&#160;&#8212; <a href="http://pro.europeana.eu/web/guest/press-release?p_p_id=itemsindexportlet_WAR_europeanaportlet_INSTANCE_AtV7&#038;p_p_lifecycle=1&#038;p_p_state=normal&#038;p_p_mode=view&#038;p_p_col_id=column-2&#038;p_p_col_pos=1&#038;p_p_col_count=2&#038;_itemsindexportlet_WAR_europeanaportlet_INSTANCE_AtV7_itemId=1284453&#038;_itemsindexportlet_WAR_europeanaportlet_INSTANCE_AtV7_javax.portlet.action=setItemId">has released</a> 20 million records into the public domain using the <a href="http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/">CC0 Public Domain Dedication</a>. This release is the largest one-time dedication of cultural data to the public domain using CC0. The Europeana dataset consists of descriptive information from a huge trove of <a href="http://exhibitions.europeana.eu/">digitized cultural and artistic works</a>. Now, per the Europeana <a href="http://www.europeana.eu/portal/rights/terms-of-use.html">Terms of Use</a>, &#8220;all metadata (textual information on digitised cultural heritage) on the site are published without any restrictions on re-use.&#8221; The public domain data can be useful for cultural institutions, researchers, and application developers. By removing all copyright restrictions from the data, Europeana helps to promote innovation and economic activity.  From the <a href="http://pro.europeana.eu/web/guest/press-release?p_p_id=itemsindexportlet_WAR_europeanaportlet_INSTANCE_AtV7&#038;p_p_lifecycle=1&#038;p_p_state=normal&#038;p_p_mode=view&#038;p_p_col_id=column-2&#038;p_p_col_pos=1&#038;p_p_col_count=2&#038;_itemsindexportlet_WAR_europeanaportlet_INSTANCE_AtV7_itemId=1284453&#038;_itemsindexportlet_WAR_europeanaportlet_INSTANCE_AtV7_javax.portlet.action=setItemId">press release</a>:</p>
<blockquote><p>Importantly, the change represents a valuable contribution to the European Commission’s agenda to drive growth through digital innovation. Online open data is a core resource which can fuel enterprise and create opportunities for millions of Europeans working in Europe&#8217;s cultural and creative industries. The sector represents 3.3% of EU GDP and is worth over €150 billion in exports.
</p></blockquote>
<p>Europeana&#8217;s announcement was praised by <a href="http://ec.europa.eu/commission_2010-2014/kroes/index_en.htm">Neelie Kroes</a>, Vice-President of the European Commission, who said:</p>
<blockquote><p>Open data is such a powerful idea, and Europeana is such a cultural asset, that only good things can result from the marriage of the two. People often speak about closing the digital divide and opening up culture to new audiences but very few can claim such a big contribution to those efforts as Europeana&#8217;s shift to creative commons.
</p></blockquote>
<p>The Creative Commons Affiliate teams in the Netherlands and Luxembourg, through partner organizations Institute for Information Law (IViR), Kennisland, and the Bibliothèque nationale de Luxembourg provided expert support to Europeana during this process. Europeana has been at the forefront of exploring ways to share the European cultural record. They are one of the first adopters of CC&#8217;s <a href="http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/">Public Domain Mark</a> and continue to support a <a href="http://www.europeana.eu/portal/rights/public-domain-charter.html">vibrant, healthy public domain</a>.</p>


feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=33994
title: Remembering Lee Dirks
uri: Remembering-Lee-Dirks
url: http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/33994
content:
<p><img src="http://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/leedirks.jpg" width="200" height="250" style="float:right;padding-left: 10px" />Two years ago, I was trying to organize my first Creative Commons-sponsored event, a joint CC-USGS workshop titled <a href="http://punkish.org/geoweb/index.html">Law and the GeoWeb</a>. I ran into Lee in the keynote room at the <a href="http://www.codata2010.com">CODATA</a> conference in Cape Town and asked him to suggest a speaker from Microsoft. Lee said he would do better&#160;&#8212; he would host the entire workshop at his digs at Microsoft Research in Redmond, WA. Several conversations and emails later the workshop was made possible with generous provision of the facilities, food, and transportation, and the entire workshop was also <a href="http://research.microsoft.com/apps/video/default.aspx?id=147570">taped and archived for posterity</a>, all because of Lee&#8217;s spontaneous offer. At one point I asked him, &#8220;Why?&#8221; Lee replied that that&#8217;s what he did, he worked to promote conversations on free and open access to science. That is simply what Lee did.</p>
<p><a href="http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/people/ldirks/">Lee Dirks</a> and his wife Judy <a href="http://latino.foxnews.com/latino/news/2012/08/29/2-americans-peruvian-die-in-peru-highway-accident/">died this week in a car accident</a> in Peru. The scientific and education community engaged in open access lost a champion and a friend.</p>


feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=33974
title: CC China Mainland launches 3.0 licenses
uri: CC-China-Mainland-launches-3-0-licenses
url: http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/33974
content:
<p>After more than two years of hard work, the CC China Mainland 3.0 licenses are ready for use. Congratulations to Chunyan Wang and the entire CC China Mainland team. Thank you to everyone who helped create these licenses, including the community members who participated in the public discussion.</p>
<p style="text-align:center" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/terms/" xmlns:cc="http://creativecommons.org/ns#" about="http://farm7.staticflickr.com/6091/6302818553_e018b18ffe_z.jpg"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/dainismatisons/6302818553/in/photostream/"><img src="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/6302818553_e018b18ffe_z.jpg" alt="hack-2"/ /></a><br /><small><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/dainismatisons/6302818553/in/photostream/"><span property="dc:title">China</span></a> / <span property="cc:attributionName">Dainis Matisons</span> / <a rel="license" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/">CC BY</a></small></p>
<p>The China Mainland licenses are now available on the <a href="http://creativecommons.org/choose/?lang=zh_CN&#038;jurisdiction=cn">CC license chooser</a>. You can learn more about the CC China Mainland team and their work on the <a href="http://wiki.creativecommons.org/China_Mainland">CC wiki</a> and at <a href="http://creativecommons.net.cn/">http://creativecommons.net.cn/</a>. The CC China Mainland 3.0 licenses are one of the last 3.0 ports to conclude, with the few other remaining suites expected to be launched prior to publication of the version 4.0 licenses. As announced to affiliates at the <a href="http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/29639">CC Global Summit in Warsaw</a> almost a year ago, and reiterated last <a href="http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/29472">October</a> and this past <a href="http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/31648">February</a>, other than a very few ports then well underway, Creative Commons put the porting process on hold. This has allowed staff and our affiliates to focus more fully on the important work of versioning the license suite. We encourage all affiliates, CC community members and others interested in CC licenses to contribute to the <a href="http://wiki.creativecommons.org/4.0">4.0 discussions</a> currently in progress.</p>


feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=33874
title: Ongoing discussions: NonCommercial and NoDerivatives
uri: Ongoing-discussions-NonCommercial-and-NoDerivatives
url: http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/33874
content:
<p style="text-align:center">
<img alt="" src="http://mirrors.creativecommons.org/presskit/icons/nc.svg" class="aligncenter" width="64" height="64" />   <img alt="" src="http://mirrors.creativecommons.org/presskit/icons/nd.svg" class="aligncenter" width="64" height="64" /></p>
<p>A few days ago the Students for Free Culture (SFC) published a provocative blog post called <a href="http://freeculture.org/blog/2012/08/27/stop-the-inclusion-of-proprietary-licenses-in-creative-commons-4-0/">&#8220;Stop the inclusion of proprietary licenses in Creative Commons 4.0.&#8221;</a> The article urged Creative Commons to deprecate (meaning &#8220;retire&#8221; or similar), or otherwise change the way Creative Commons offers licenses containing the NonCommercial and NoDerivatives terms, because they &#8220;do not actually contribute to a shared commons.&#8221; </p>
<p>The SFC blog post raises important questions about the opportunities and challenges presented by the NC and ND licenses. The NC and ND licenses currently make up four of the six licenses in the <a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses">CC license suite</a>:</p>
<p style="text-align:center">
<a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/"><img alt="" src="http://mirrors.creativecommons.org/presskit/buttons/88x31/svg/by-nc.svg" class="aligncenter" width="120" height="42" /></a></p>
<p style="text-align:center">
<a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/"><img alt="" src="http://mirrors.creativecommons.org/presskit/buttons/88x31/svg/by-nc-sa.svg" class="aligncenter" width="120" height="42" /></a></p>
<p style="text-align:center">
<a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/3.0/"><img alt="" src="http://mirrors.creativecommons.org/presskit/buttons/88x31/svg/by-nd.svg" class="aligncenter" width="120" height="42" /></a></p>
<p style="text-align:center">
<a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/"><img alt="" src="http://mirrors.creativecommons.org/presskit/buttons/88x31/svg/by-nc-nd.svg" class="aligncenter" width="120" height="42" /></a></p>
<p>These issues have surfaced frequently over the years, in varied forums and by a variety of stakeholders. CC <a href="http://wiki.creativecommons.org/Defining_Noncommercial">studied the NC issue from 2008 to 2009</a>, investigating how online populations understand noncommercial use in the context of the NC licenses. The previous year, CC acknowledged the differences between the NC and ND licenses on the one hand, and <a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/">BY</a> and <a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/">BY-SA</a> on the other, by announcing placement of the <a href="http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/8051">free cultural works seal</a> on the BY and BY-SA deeds as part of an &#8220;effort to distinguish among the range of Creative Commons licenses&#8221;.  </p>
<p>At the same time, CC celebrates successful adoption of the NC and ND licenses, in part because those licenses signal a desire to be more open than the alternative of &#8220;all rights reserved.&#8221; Moreover, those adopters may eventually migrate to more open licenses once exposed to the benefits that accompany sharing.  But this duality opens CC to criticism (if not also confusion) about our identity and mission.</p>
<p>CC committed to addressing this issue most recently with the launch of the 4.0 license process following consultation with the CC affiliates at the 2011 Global Summit in Warsaw. We fully intend to engage in a manner that is inclusive of a wide range of voices and interests. In this way, CC will be best positioned to make informed, thoughtful decisions with the input of our community (defined in the broadest sense), our affiliates, and our adopters (both would-be and existing).</p>
<p>While the specific challenges to NC and ND are not tied to the 4.0 versioning process per se, they’ve been raised in the context of the <a href="http://wiki.creativecommons.org/4.0/NonCommercial">4.0 NonCommercial dialogue</a>. The <a href="http://http://wiki.creativecommons.org/4.0/Draft_2">decision not to change the definition of NonCommercial</a> itself in 4.0 now gives way to the broader policy discussion of the role that the NC (and ND) licenses serve, and CC&#8217;s stewardship of and communications around those licenses. </p>
<p>As license steward, we are accountable to our stakeholders and global community, and must be transparent about decisions and how we act (or not) on the proposals that have been put on the table. These proposals span a wide range and include more clearly differentiating the licenses aligned with the Definition of Free Cultural Works from those that are not, to providing more education to licensors about the consequences of license choice, to disassociating Creative Commons from the NC and ND licenses altogether, among others.</p>
<p>Here’s what you can expect from CC:</p>
<ul>
<li>
Please continue to use the <a href="http://lists.ibiblio.org/mailman/listinfo/cc-community">CC-Community list</a> (as opposed to the CC license development list) as the venue for discussions about the various options, proposals, and considerations for NC and ND. </li>
<li>
CC will collect, analyze and synthesize ideas and proposals, identify possible policy changes, and communicate potential implications of each. CC will look to these various proposals with the recognition that any policy change cuts across the entire community and organization, including education, data and science, legal, technical, etc. CC will share this information publicly in an easy to understand fashion that includes the relevant historical and contextual framing.</li>
<li>
CC will hold stakeholder consultations that include adopters, CC affiliates, funders, and the broader community. These might take the form of email discussions, community phone calls or IRC chats, etc.</li>
</ul>
<p>Other suggestions for actions are most welcome.</p>


feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=33813
title: Counting down to the Open Knowledge Festival (Sept 17-22)
uri: Counting-down-to-the-Open-Knowledge-Festival-(Sept-17-22)
url: http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/33813
content:
<p>We&#8217;re psyched to be a part of <a href="http://okfestival.org/">OKFestival: Open Knowledge in Action</a>. The OKFestival takes place September 17-22, 2012 in Helsinki, Finland, and features &#8220;a series of hands-on workshops, talks, hackathons, meetings and sprints&#8221; exploring a variety of areas including open development, open cultural heritage, and gender and diversity in openness. You can buy tickets to the festival for any number of days until September 16 at <a href="http://okfestival.org/early-bird-okfest-tickets/">http://okfestival.org/early-bird-okfest-tickets/</a>. The OKFestival <a href="http://okfestival.org/">website</a> has all the details, including the preliminary <a href="http://okfestival.org/onlineschedule/">schedule</a>.</p>
<p>We are particularly interested in and helped to shape the <a href="http://okfestival.org/open-research-and-education/">Open Research and Education</a> topic stream, where we are leading an &#8220;Open Peer Learning&#8221; workshop on Wednesday (Sept 19) from 11:30am to 3:30pm. For the workshop the <a href="http://schoolofopen.org/">School of Open</a> (co-led by Creative Commons and P2PU) is combining forces with the OKFN&#8217;s <a href="http://schoolofdata.org/">School of Data</a> to explore, test and develop learning challenges around open tools and practices in data, research, and education. Participation in the workshop is free (you don&#8217;t even have to buy a festival ticket), but space is limited, so <strong>RSVP</strong> at: <a href="http://peerlearningworkshop.eventbrite.com/">http://peerlearningworkshop.eventbrite.com/</a></p>
<p>The workshop will be held in <a href="http://okfestival.org/venue-photos/">this</a> awesome space, reserved for four HACK workshops:</p>
<p style="text-align:center" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/terms/" xmlns:cc="http://creativecommons.org/ns#" about="http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8022/7182550050_fbfa1ff24c_c.jpg"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/juhahuuskonen/7182550050/in/photostream/"><img src="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/hack-workshops.jpg"" alt="hack-2"/ /></a><br /><small><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/juhahuuskonen/7182550050/in/photostream/"><span property="dc:title">hack-2</span></a> / <span property="cc:attributionName">juhuu</span> / <a rel="license" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/">CC BY-NC-SA</a></small></p>
<p>For those of you able to come to Helsinki, look out for our CC staff reps, <a href="http://creativecommons.org/staff#jessicacoates">Jessica Coates</a> and <a href="http://creativecommons.org/staff#timothyvollmer">Timothy Vollmer</a>, along with many of our <a href="http://wiki.creativecommons.org/Europe">European affiliates</a> who will be holding a <a href="http://wiki.creativecommons.org/Europe/Meetings/2012/RM">regional meeting</a> on Day four of the fest. </p>
<p>For the rest of you, you can still participate in helping to build initiatives like the School of Open from wherever you are by visiting <a href="http://schoolofopen.org/">http://schoolofopen.org/</a> and signing up for the mailing lists there. </p>


feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=33832
title: European Commission wants to hear from you on “Opening Up Education”
uri: European-Commission-wants-to-hear-from-you-on-Opening-Up-Education
url: http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/33832
content:
<p style="text-align:center" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/terms/" xmlns:cc="http://creativecommons.org/ns#" about="http://www.flickr.com/photos/tiseb/4592786358/"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/tiseb/4592786358/"><img src="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/4592786358_947e161e05.jpeg"" alt="European Commission flags"/ /></a><br /><small><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/tiseb/4592786358/"><span property="dc:title">European Commission</span></a> / <span property="cc:attributionName">tiseb</span> / <a rel="license" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/">CC BY</a></small></p>
<p>The European Commission has opened a <a href="http://ec.europa.eu/dgs/education_culture/consult/open_en.htm ">public consultation period</a> on the topic of &#8220;Opening Education.&#8221; The objective of the consultation is to explore the perceived need for EU action to promote the use of Open Educational Resources (OER) and of Information Communication Technologies (ICT) in education. Interested stakeholders (including organizations, public bodies, citizens) can complete the <a href="http://ec.europa.eu/yourvoice/ipm/forms/dispatch?form=OpeningUpEducation">questionnaire on this consultation</a>. </p>
<p>From the <a href="http://ec.europa.eu/dgs/education_culture/documents/consult/open_en.pdf">summary document</a> (PDF): </p>
<blockquote><p>While OER and the use of ICT in education are high on the agenda of policy makers in the educational sphere, OER and ICT have not yet reached a critical threshold to be fully exploited across all education and training sectors. Several actions have been undertaken over the years by the EU and Member States, but in a fragmented, short-term manner, without prospects for long-term sustainability. A comprehensive initiative at EU level could match the scope, size and complexity of the challenges, and respond to the increasing demand to tap into the potential of OER and ICT to modernize education. Such a strategy could provide a significant push to improve the way educational content is produced, accessed and used to teach, learn or connect with peers.
</p></blockquote>
<p>The consultation period ends 13 November 2012. Following on from the <a href="http://www.unesco.org/new/en/communication-and-information/events/calendar-of-events/events-websites/World-Open-Educational-Resources-Congress">June 2012 UNESCO OER Declaration</a>, the EU consultation can be a productive vehicle for continuing the exploration of and support for Open Education in Europe and around the world. </p>


feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=33815
title: The Arab CC Community Celebrates with CC Iftars
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<p>Last week, Muslims all over the world celebrated <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eid_ul-Fitr">Eid al-fitr</a>, a festivity which marks the end of the holy month of Ramadan, dedicated to fasting and praying. Since 2010, Arab world&#8211;based Creative Commons communities have celebrated Ramadan by organizing <a href="http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/23315">&#8220;Creative Commons Iftars&#8221; (CC Iftar)</a> across the region.</p>
<p style="float:right; padding-left: 10px;"><a href="http://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/cciftar-qatar-large.jpg"><span xmlns:cc="http://creativecommons.org/ns#" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/terms/"><img src="http://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/cciftar-qatar.jpg" alt="CC Iftar Doha" title="CC Iftar Doha" width="250" height="167" /></span></a><br /><small><a href="http://www.creativecommons.qa/cc-qatar-reaching-out-in-compassion-and-charity-during-ramadan"><span property="dc:title">CC Iftar Doha</span></a> / <a href="http://www.creativecommons.qa/cc-qatar-reaching-out-in-compassion-and-charity-during-ramadan"><span property="cc:attributionName">CC Qatar</span></a> / <a rel="license" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/">CC BY-NC-SA</a></small></p>
<p>A CC Iftar is a social event where people gather to celebrate the breaking of the fast, socialize, and talk about innovation, creativity, and the open web. CC Iftars are built around the spirit of sharing which lies at the basis of Creative Commons&#8217; vision, and which people in Ramadan celebrate by breaking the fast together, partaking food, and giving to others.</p>
<p>This year, Creative Commons Arab communities have organized and celebrated CC Iftars in four Arab countries: Qatar, Tunisia, Morocco, and Iraq. <a href="http://www.creativecommons.qa/cc-qatar-reaching-out-in-compassion-and-charity-during-ramadan">CC Iftar Doha</a> kicked off in the Qatari capital on August 13 at <a href="http://www.k108hotel.com/">K108</a>, a restaurant that redistributes its proceeds to charities working on issues such as unprivileged children&#8217;s education. Guests at the CC Iftar Doha were asked to share their ideas about inspiration and the outcome was crafted into a collaborative art project.</p>
<p style="float:left; padding-right: 10px;"><a href="http://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/cc-iraq-cake-2-large.jpg"><span xmlns:cc="http://creativecommons.org/ns#" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/terms/"><img src="http://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/cc-iraq-cake-2.jpg" alt="CC Iftar Iraq" title="CC Iftar Iraq" width="250" height="167" /></span></a><br /><small><a href="http://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/cc-iraq-cake-2-large.jpg"><span property="dc:title">CC Iftar Iraq</span></a> / <span property="cc:attributionName">CC Iraq</span> / <a rel="license" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/">CC BY</a></small></p>
<p>The day after, August 14, it was CC&#8217;s Tunisian community&#8217;s turn to join the CC Iftar project, with the <a href="http://www.tuniculture.net/37197/571/179/tunisie---ong-liftar-de-creative-commons-de-tunis-consacrer-lesprit-du-partage-photos.html">first CC Iftar hosted in the country</a>. Since the third Arab regional meeting &#8220;Sharing the Spring&#8221; was held in the Tunisian capital in summer 2011 to <a href="http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/28063">celebrate Arab youth&#8217;s blossoming innovation and creativity</a>, Creative Commons Tunisia&#8217;s community&#160;&#8212; largely made up of photographers, cartoonists, musicians and techies&#160;&#8212; has been growing incredibly. Many community-led events, including the first <a href="http://ccsalontunis.tumblr.com/">CC Tunis Salon</a>, have been hosted in the country. CC Tunis community gathered in the beautiful location of the Sidi bou Said park with <a href="https://plus.google.com/photos/101932751256432792876/albums/5777058730363398913?banner=pwa">home-cooked food (and lots of cats!)</a> to discuss future projects to be held not only in the Tunisian capital but all across the country.</p>
<p>August 17 was our Moroccan community&#8217;s turn to host its first ever CC Iftar, with <a href="https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.371428392927401.81443.341553119248262&#038;type=1">lots of people attending the gathering in Rabat</a>. Morocco recently joined the broader CC Arab community by organizing <a href="http://www.opentaqafa.cc/">Open Taqafa</a> and the <a href="http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.357589894311251.77465.341553119248262&#038;type=3">first Creative Commons Salon in Casablanca</a>. The country has a vibrant artistic and musical scene, together with an high-skilled tech community, and many of these techies and artists are now joining their Arab peers&#8217; efforts to bring more open and collaborative culture to the Arab world. CC Iftar Morocco was a big step in the direction of getting more regional cooperation over common open-culture-related projects.</p>
<p style="float:right; padding-left: 10px;"><a href="http://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/cc-iraq-cake-large.jpg"><span xmlns:cc="http://creativecommons.org/ns#" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/terms/"><img src="http://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/cc-iraq-cake.jpg" alt="CC Iftar Iraq" title="CC Iftar Iraq" width="250" height="188" /></span></a><br /><small><a href="http://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/cc-iraq-cake-large.jpg"><span property="dc:title">CC Iftar Iraq</span></a> / <span property="cc:attributionName">CC Iraq</span> / <a rel="license" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/">CC BY</a></small></p>
<p>On the very same day, CC&#8217;s Iraqi community was also organizing <a href="https://www.facebook.com/Creative.Commons.Iraq">its first CC Iftar</a>. Bloggers from the Iraqi network for social media (INSM) coming from different parts of the country gathered in Baghdad to celebrate openness and sharing with a wonderful CC chocolate cake. For those who were not able to attend the event physically, a skype session was held in order to join the celebrations virtually. Our CC team in Iraq has a <a href="https://www.facebook.com/Creative.Commons.Iraq">Facebook page</a> around which the community is gathering. Some of its members are regulars at CC Arab regional meetings and we hope to be able to hold CC events in Iraq more regularly, in order to familiarize the broader Arab community with the beauty and cultural richness of the country.</p>
<p>Despite the instability, violence, and political unrest still happening in many places in the region, the Arab world still has a strong will to move forward, create, and share. The community-driven enthusiasm and self-organization skills showed by the CC groups in Qatar, Tunisia, Morocco and Iraq prove this; hopefully next year new communities will be able to join and old communities will be able to come back to action.</p>
<p>As we conclude Eid al-fitr this year, <a href="http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/33119">our thoughts go out once again</a> to Bassel Khartabil aka Safadi, CC Syria public lead. Bassel was one of the promoters of the CC Iftar project back in 2010, when he hosted an iftar in Damascus to celebrate cultural cooperation and sharing in a <a href="http://lb.creativecommons.org/cc-iftar-damascus/">remix project with CC Lebanon</a>. Bassel has been <a href="http://creativecommons.org/tag/bassel-safadi">detained by Syrian authorities since March 15th, 2012</a>. A campaign has launched to ask for his release and the response of Creative Commons&#8217; communities worldwide has been overwhelming. We encourage you to spread the word and follow updates on the campaign&#8217;s site <a href="http://freebassel.org/">freebassel.org</a> and on Twitter <a href="https://twitter.com/freebassel">@freebassel</a>.</p>


feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=34137
title: Internet Brands and Wikimedia: BY-SA Withstands Scrutiny
uri: Internet-Brands-and-Wikimedia-BY-SA-Withstands-Scrutiny
url: http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/34137
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<p style="text-align:center" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/terms/" xmlns:cc="http://creativecommons.org/ns#" about="http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File%3AYelabuga_Medieval_tower.jpg"><a href="http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File%3AYelabuga_Medieval_tower.jpg"><img src="http://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/medieval_tower.jpg" alt="Yelabuga Medieval Tower"/ /></a><br /><small><a href="http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File%3AYelabuga_Medieval_tower.jpg"><span property="dc:title">Yelabuga Medieval Tower</span></a> / <span property="cc:attributionName">Ерней</span> / Public Domain, via Wikimedia Commons</small></p>
<p>Every day, millions of people rely on CC licenses for all manner of sharing, from merely redistributing recordings or using images found on Flickr in presentations, to leveraging massive collaborative works developed on wikis in educational settings. All of this normally happens very quietly and without fuss or exception, so long as simple license conditions are respected and those involved have no other reason for complaint. But the exceptional (rare, that is) conflict proves the simple rule that CC licenses operate as designed and as advertised: disregard the license conditions and copyright is at issue; follow the conditions and copyright is not.</p>
<p>As an example of the former, almost exactly a year ago <a href="http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/28644">we announced</a> that the <a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/legalcode">Creative Commons Attribution ShareAlike (BY-SA) license</a> had been successfully <a href="http://wiki.creativecommons.org/Gerlach_vs._DVU">enforced in a case in Germany</a>.  There, a far-right political party had used a photo under BY-SA without providing proper attribution to the author and other information required by the license. The photographer sued to enforce the license, and the district court of Berlin agreed and issued an injunction against the user.</p>
<p>As an example of the latter, members of the <a href="http://wikitravel.org/en/Main_Page">Wikitravel</a> community (together with many who left long ago to found <a href="http://www.wikivoyage.org/">Wikivoyage</a>) recently announced plans to migrate to a new travel project hosted by the Wikimedia Foundation (meaning a new sibling project alongside <a href="http://www.wiktionary.org/">Wiktionary</a>, <a href="http://www.wikibooks.org/">Wikibooks</a>, <a href="http://wikisource.org/wiki/Main_Page">Wikisource</a>, <a href="http://www.wikipedia.org/">Wikipedia</a> and <a href="http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Our_projects">others</a>). All of these sites use BY-SA, which enables the reuse of content among those sites even when conflicts arise or differences of opinion exist about website administration or community management, for example. Indeed, BY-SA was designed precisely to enable this kind of reuse and repurposing of content. In this particular instance, Internet Brands, which currently runs WikiTravel, <a href="http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Internet_Brands_v_William_Ryan_Holliday.pdf">sued</a> (PDF) two Wikitravel volunteers for trademark infringement, unfair business practices and conspiracy, and seeks a court order enjoining them generally from doing anything that misleads the public into believing the new website is affiliated with Wikitravel, among other things.</p>
<p>Wikimedia Foundation decided to support those volunteers (who are also Wikimedia volunteers) in their legal defense, and in its <a href="http://blog.wikimedia.org/2012/09/05/wikimedia-foundation-seeks-declaratory-relief-in-response-to-legal-threats-from-internet-brands/">blog post</a> explained that it did not think it appropriate for Internet Brands to attempt to intimidate the volunteers from communicating freely on their dissatisfaction with IB&#8217;s management of the Wikitravel community. As a result, Wikimedia Foundation filed a separate <a href="https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/File:WMF_complaint_for_declaratory_judgement_September_2012.pdf">request for declaratory judgment</a> (PDF) seeking a declaration that, “under the terms of the CC License, [Internet Brands] may not restrict the use, reproduction, sale, or modification of content on the Wikitravel website in any manner other than requiring attribution to the creator of the content and that the content be maintained under the same licensing terms”. In addition, the Foundation argues that “[Internet Brands] has no lawful right, title or interest under the CC License to prevent use of such content created by volunteer users and administrators on the Wikitravel website”.</p>
<p>A few claims in the dispute provide the opportunity to highlight some important features of BY-SA and the other CC licenses. First, all CC 3.0 licenses contain mechanisms that protect licensors wanting to distance themselves from the projects and individuals reusing the CC-licensed content in ways allowed by the license, for any reason whatsoever. Our licenses contain a “no endorsement, no sponsorship” clause that prohibits users from implicitly or explicitly asserting or implying &#8220;any connection with, sponsorship or endorsement by&#8221; the author, the licensor or others to whom attribution is being provided, either for the licensee herself or the work as reused. Additionally, anyone modifying content (when allowed by the license, as BY-SA does) must clearly label or identify that changes have been made, thereby ensuring modifications are not wrongly associated with the original author. Finally, where the original author or licensor wants to completely disassociate themselves from particular reuses, they have the right to request that all attribution and mention of them be removed, and those reusing the work must do so to the extent practicable. These mechanisms provide effective tools for those concerned about being affiliated with permitted reuses of their works. </p>
<p>Second, an assertion in the dispute relates to whether proper attribution has been provided. While the factual underpinnings of this claim are not provided in the court filings and it does not appear the content is question is being used at this time, it&#8217;s worth mention that Creative Commons tools provide a sophisticated yet flexible method for reusers to provide proper attribution.  All CC licenses permit attribution to be provided in a manner “reasonable to the medium or means” used by the licensee, and for credit to be provided in a “reasonable manner.” This flexibility facilitates compliance by licensees – minimizing the risk that overly onerous and inflexible attribution requirements are simply disregarded as being too difficult – while at the same ensuring that credit is still provided. This makes it easy for reusers to “do the right thing.”</p>
<p>Whatever the decision the court makes regarding the other claims by Internet Brands against the Wikitravel volunteers, it is clear that under the terms of BY-SA, the Wikitravel content can and should be used on other websites, so long as the users comply with the requirements of the license.  </p>


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title: #cc10 Is Coming
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<p><a href="http://10.creativecommons.org/"><img src="http://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/cc10-700.png" width=700 height=324/></a></p>
<p><a href="http://10.creativecommons.org">Creative Commons is turning 10 this year!</a> We&#8217;ll be hosting parties around the world and sharing party favors online for a ten-day celebration, December 7 to 16.</p>
<p>To see a listing of the parties we have planned, visit the <a href="http://wiki.creativecommons.org/CC10">#cc10 wiki page</a>. There are more in the works, so stay tuned.</p>
<p>Do you want to celebrate CC&#8217;s tenth anniversary in your city? Host your own #cc10 event! Even if it&#8217;s just a happy hour after work, we&#8217;d love to hear about it and help you spread the word. Send us an email at <a href="mailto:press@creativecommons.org">press@creativecommons.org</a> and let us know what you&#8217;re planning. We&#8217;ll add it to <a href="http://wiki.creativecommons.org/CC10">our listing</a> and send you some special CC swag for the party (supplies are limited and we may not be able to ship to every location, but we&#8217;ll try).</p>


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feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=34311
title: Using Free and Open Educational Resources to Support Women and Girls in STEM
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url: http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/34311
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<p><strong><a href="http://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/OER-STEM-task-force-press-release.pdf">Download press release (PDF)</a></strong></p>
<p><strong>Mountain View, CA and Cambridge, MA</strong>&#160;&#8212; Creative Commons and the OpenCourseWare Consortium announce the formation of a task force to determine how open educational resources (OER) can support the success of girls and women in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) in support of the <a href="http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2012/09/24/fact-sheet-equal-futures-partnership-expand-women-s-political-and-econom">Equal Futures Partnership</a>, announced on September 24 by U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.</p>
<p>&#8220;The gender gap in participation in STEM areas around the world is significant,&#8221; said Cathy Casserly, CEO of Creative Commons. &#8220;We need to address the barriers to girls&#8217; success in STEM to ensure that the future is filled with bright, ambitious, well-educated people of both genders who are able to contend with future global challenges.&#8221;</p>
<p>The OER-STEM task force will examine how OER can attract and support girls in STEM education, including additional support services necessary to ensure high levels of success. OER are high-quality educational materials that are openly licensed and shared at no cost, allowing learners and educators to use, adapt, change and add information to suit their education goals. The task force will include experts in STEM education for girls and women along with experts in OER to determine specific projects that will advance achievement in these important areas.</p>
<p>&#8220;We are seeking innovative support solutions for girls to succeed in STEM subjects using open educational resources,&#8221; said Mary Lou Forward, Executive Director of the OpenCourseWare Consortium. &#8220;Since OER can be accessed freely by anyone, anywhere, and modified to fit different cultural contexts and learning needs around the world, we are looking at this issue from a global perspective.&#8221;</p>
<h2>About Creative Commons</h2>
<p><a href="http://creativecommons.org/">Creative Commons</a> is a globally-focused nonprofit organization dedicated to making it easier for people to share and build upon the work of others, consistent with the rules of copyright. Creative Commons provides free licenses and other legal tools to give everyone from individual creators to large companies and institutions a simple, standardized way to grant copyright permissions and get credit for their creative work while allowing others to copy, distribute and make specific uses of it.</p>
<h2>About the OpenCourseWare Consortium</h2>
<p><a href="http://www.ocwconsortium.org/">The OpenCourseWare Consortium</a> is an international group of hundreds of institutions and organizations that support the advancement open sharing in higher education. The OCW Consortium envisions a world in which the desire to learn is fully met by the opportunity to do so anywhere in the world, where everyone, everywhere is able to access affordable, educationally and culturally appropriate opportunities to gain whatever knowledge or training they desire.</p>


feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=34288
title: California passes groundbreaking open textbook legislation
uri: California-passes-groundbreaking-open-textbook-legislation
url: http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/34288
content:
<p>It&#8217;s official. In California, Governor Jerry Brown <a href="http://gov.ca.gov/news.php?id=17760">has signed</a> two bills (<a href="http://leginfo.ca.gov/pub/11-12/bill/sen/sb_1051-1100/sb_1052_bill_20120905_enrolled.html">SB 1052</a> and <a href="http://leginfo.ca.gov/pub/11-12/bill/sen/sb_1051-1100/sb_1053_bill_20120905_enrolled.html">SB 1053</a>) that will provide for the creation of free, openly licensed digital textbooks for the 50 most popular lower-division college courses offered by California colleges. The legislation was introduced by Senate President pro Tem Darrell Steinberg and passed by the California Senate and Assembly in late August.</p>
<p>A crucial component of the California legislation is that the textbooks developed will be made available under the <a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/">Creative Commons Attribution license</a> (CC BY):</p>
<blockquote><p>The textbooks and other materials are placed under a creative commons attribution license that allows others to use, distribute, and create derivative works based upon the digital material while still allowing the authors or creators to receive credit for their efforts.</p></blockquote>
<p>The CC BY license allows teachers to tailor textbook content to students&#8217; needs, permits commercial companies to take the resources and build new products with it (such as video tutorials), and opens the doors for collaboration and improvement of the materials. </p>
<p><iframe width="560" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/9nlyVR58jKs" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe> </p>
<p>Access to affordable textbooks is extremely important for students, as <a href="http://20mm.org/infographic-open-source-impact.html">textbook costs continue to rise</a> at four times the rate of inflation, sometimes surpassing the cost of tuition at some community colleges. So, in addition to making the digital textbooks available to students free of cost, the legislation requires that print copies of textbooks will cost about $20. </p>
<p>This is a massive win for California, and a most welcome example of open policy that aims to leverage open licensing to save money for California families and support the needs of teachers and students. We&#8217;ll continue to track this initiative and other Open Education Policies at our <a href="http://wiki.creativecommons.org/OER_Policy_Registry">OER registry</a>. </p>


feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=34328
title: US Department of Labor Invests in Open Educational Resources
uri: US-Department-of-Labor-Invests-in-Open-Educational-Resources
url: http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/34328
content:
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet tw-align-center"><p>$0: cost for reusing educational materials developed by <a href="https://twitter.com/search/%23TAACCCT">#TAACCCT</a> grantees thanks to @<a href="https://twitter.com/creativecommons">creativecommons</a> licensing. <a href="http://t.co/3qWIxjnw" title="http://1.usa.gov/S6ZcqQ">1.usa.gov/S6ZcqQ</a></p>
<p>&mdash; Hilda L. Solis (@HildaSolisDOL) <a href="https://twitter.com/HildaSolisDOL/status/248479318894866432" data-datetime="2012-09-19T17:51:00+00:00">September 19, 2012</a></p></blockquote>
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<p>In September, <a href="http://www.dol.gov/opa/media/press/eta/ETA20121885.htm">the Obama administration announced $500 million in grants</a> to community colleges around the country for the development of professional training programs under the new Trade Adjustment Assistance Community College and Career Training initiative (TAA-CCCT), run by the US Department of Labor in coordination with the Department of Education. This is the second round of grants in a four-year initiative totaling $2 billion.</p>
<p>For the first time in a federal initiative of this size, grantees are required to license the training materials they produce under the <a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/">Creative Commons Attribution licence</a>. <a href="http://www.dol.gov/_sec/media/speeches/20120919_TAACCT.htm">In her speech announcing the grants</a>, Secretary of Labor Hilda L. Solis stressed that the open-licensing requirement will make it easier for education providers to build on each other&#8217;s work.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s striking that this announcement comes within days of California&#8217;s first-of-its-kind <a href="http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/34288">open textbook legislation</a>. As more government agencies begin to require publicly funded learning resources to be openly licensed, the more impact those resources will have. As Ms. Solis put it in her speech,  &#8220;&#8216;We&#8217;re stronger when we work together&#8217; [is] not just a statement of American values. It&#8217;s also a winning strategy for growth.&#8221;</p>


feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=34345
title: September Board of Directors meeting
uri: September-Board-of-Directors-meeting
url: http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/34345
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<p>A meeting of the Creative Commons Board of Directors was held on 22-23 September 2012 at MIT in Cambridge, MA hosted by Media Lab Director (and CC Chairman) Joi Ito.</p>
<p>The Directors received an update on 4.0 license revisions and a report from the Audit Committee on the FY 2011 audit. A budget for 2013 was presented, as were fundraising projections through 2014.  The Board passed a resolution honoring former CC VP Mike Linksvayer for his outstanding contributions to the organization. </p>
<p>The Directors considered how CC could best implement its mission in the future and reviewed a strategic plan.  Project proposals in the areas of educational publishing, policy organizations, open licensing courseware and big data were also discussed.  The Board expressed its desire to incorporate technical innovation as the bedrock of all program activities and to focus more resources on development of innovative technical capabilities that would encourage the use of CC licenses in today’s platforms and digital devices.  Additional appointments to the Board were also proposed.</p>


feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=34417
title: CC Arab World Regional Meeting: December 11-15
uri: CC-Arab-World-Regional-Meeting-December-11-15
url: http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/34417
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<p>Creative Commons communities in the Arab world are planning to host the fourth CC Arab regional meeting #4 in Cairo (Egypt) from December 11 to 15, in cooperation with the <a href="http://arabdigitalexpression.org">Arab Digital Expression Foundation (ADEF)</a>.</p>
<p>This has been an exciting year from the CC Arab regional communities, with more and more countries joining our collaborative projects, meet-ups, and local and regional gatherings like the <a href="http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/33815">CC Iftar</a>.</p>
<p>The fourth regional meeting will be an opportunity to gather CC Arab world communities and have people working together on collaborative projects, workshops, and peer-produced ideas.</p>
<p><a href="http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/28409">Following a formula adopted last year in Tunis</a>, we will be hosting a set of workshops that are designed and produced by the regional community itself. In order to have better teamwork, workshops can accommodate only a limited amount of participants.</p>
<p>If you speak Arabic and you are based in the Arab region, and if you have an interest in openness, sharing culture and cooperation, please have a look at the <a href="https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups=#!topic/cc-arab-world/xkaJ0uWRL_Q">call for proposals</a>.</p>
<p>We are looking forward to hearing from you!</p>


feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=34360
title: School of Open builds community at the Open Knowledge Festival
uri: School-of-Open-builds-community-at-the-Open-Knowledge-Festival
url: http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/34360
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<div style ="float:left;padding:10px" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/terms/" xmlns:cc="http://creativecommons.org/ns#" about="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/Helsinki-School-of-Open-2-small.jpg"><img width="280" src="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/Helsinki-School-of-Open-2-small.jpg" alt="Helsinki Class group shot" />
<p><small><a href="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/Helsinki-School-of-Open-2-small.jpg"><span property="dc:title">Helsinki Class Group Shot</span></a> / <span property="cc:attributionName">Timothy Vollmer</span> / <a rel="license" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/">CC BY</a></small></p>
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<p>A few weeks ago a group of CC staffers traveled to the <a href="http://okfestival.org/">Open Knowledge Festival</a> in Helsinki, Finland to meet with our friends in the open knowledge and data community. There were many welcome outcomes from this &#8211; including our European regional meeting (expect a post on this soon) &#8211; not the least of which was our second <a href="https://p2pu.org/en/schools/school-of-open/">School of Open</a> workshop.</p>
<p>For those who haven&#8217;t heard of it yet, the School of Open is a collaboration between Creative Commons and <a href="http://p2pu.org/">P2PU</a> (Peer 2 Peer University). Its aim is to provide easily digestible educational exercises, resources, and professional development courses that help individuals and institutions learn about and employ open tools, such as the CC licenses. You can find out more at this <a href="http://wiki.creativecommons.org/School_of_Open">wiki page</a>.</p>
<p>During the second half of 2012, Creative Commons is holding School of Open workshops around the world, including Berlin, Palo Alto, Mexico City, London, and Jakarta. The idea behind these workshops is to bring together those interested in spreading the word about open knowledge, teach them about peer-learning and the role it can play in this, and (hopefully) start them down the track of creating their own peer-led course on open.</p>
<p>The <a href="http://peerlearningworkshop.eventbrite.com/">Helsinki workshop</a>, which ran on the Wednesday of the festival, was a joint project with the <a href="http://schoolofdata.org/">School of Data</a>, a similar initiative run by P2PU and the Open Knowledge Foundation to promote data literacy and data ‘wrangling’ skills. The workshop was a great success, with a full house of more than 25 attendees, including educators, programmers, digital technologists and enthusiasts. After introductions and explanations, about 12 chose to work on projects for the School of Open, while the rest broke off to take School of Data courses. </p>
<div style="float:right;padding:10px" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/terms/" xmlns:cc="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/Helsinki-School-of-Open-small.jpg"><img width="280" src="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/Helsinki-School-of-Open-small.jpg" alt="Helsinki Class Photo" />
<p><small><a href="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/Helsinki-School-of-Open-2-small.jpg"><span property="dc:title">Helsinki Class Photo</span></a> / <span property="cc:attributionName">Timothy Vollmer</span> / <a rel="license" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/">CC BY</a></small></p>
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<p>In just four hours, this School of Open team managed to complete the <a href="https://p2pu.org/en/groups/teach-someone-something-with-open-content/">&#8220;Teach someone something with open content&#8221;</a> challenge and get a good way through the <a href="https://p2pu.org/en/groups/make-a-course/content/bonus-task-playstorm/">&#8220;Make a P2PU course in half an hour&#8221;</a> mini-course. The result were outlines for several new P2PU courses, designed to teach people new skills entirely through CC-licensed and other open materials including <a href="https://p2pu.org/en/groups/making-music-and-sharing-it-openly/">&#8220;How to share and distribute a song&#8221;</a>. You can find all related notes and materials from the workshop <a href="http://etherpad.creativecommons.org/p/Okfest">here</a>. </p>
<p>Feedback from the participants in the workshop was great &#8211; everyone felt that by the end of the day they had a good understanding of the workings of the School of Open and the potential it had to provide learning resources for anyone and everyone. They also had some great feedback on ways to improve the school&#8217;s web interface, materials and structure, based on their own experiences and expertise. And they were all keen to continue to work on their courses and the School of Open.</p>
<p>Congratulations to all those who participated in the workshop on achieving so much in such a short amount of time. We look forward to seeing you around the School of Open discussion lists and events. For anyone else who wants to get involved, the best way to start is to <a href="http://groups.google.com/group/school-of-open">join the discussion list</a> and/or sign up for <a href="http://groups.google.com/group/school-of-open-announce">announcements</a>. You can also <a href="mailto:janepark@creativecommons.org">email</a> the <a href="http://creativecommons.org/staff#janepark">Project Manager</a> directly.</p>


feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=34268
title: Celebrate Open Access Week with CC
uri: Celebrate-Open-Access-Week-with-CC
url: http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/34268
content:
<p align="center"><a href="http://www.openaccessweek.org/"><img src="http://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/oaweek-600.jpg" width=600 height=60/></a></p>
<p>Next week, Creative Commons will be joining individuals, institutions, and publishers all over the world in celebrating <a href="http://www.openaccessweek.org/">Open Access Week</a>. Find out where you can find Creative Commons and its affiliates during OA Week, and share your own OA events in the comments.</p>
<h2><a href="http://www.arl.org/sparc/media/SPARC_World_Bank_OA_Week_2012_Kickoff_Speakers_Announced.shtml">Open Access Week 2012 Kickoff Webcast</a></h2>
<p>On Monday, CC founding board member Michael Carroll will be speaking at the open access week kickoff event hosted by SPARC and the World Bank.</p>
<h2><a href="http://www.unco.edu/cetl/faculty_development/workshops_2012-2013.html">Webinar: Creative Commons and the Future of Open Access</a></h2>
<p>On Tuesday, CC education technology and policy coordinator Greg Grossmeier will be speaking about CC licensing for open access publishing in a webinar hosted by the University of Northern Colorado Center for the Enhancement of Teaching and Learning.</p>
<h2><a href="http://blogs.lib.ucdavis.edu/pse/2012/10/08/join-us-for-open-access-week-2012-events/">Open Data and Open Access Panel</a></h2>
<p>If you&#8217;re in Northern California on Wednesday, join CC policy and data manager Timothy Vollmer, UC Davis university librarian and CC Science advisor MacKenzie Smith, and California Digital Library&#8217;s Carly Strasser for a discussion on advancements in open access and open data at UC Davis.</p>
<h2><a href="http://www.creativecommons.org.nz/open_access_2012/">CC New Zealand Guest Blog Series</a></h2>
<p>Courtesy of CC Aotearoa New Zealand, here&#8217;s a great collection of perspectives from thought leaders on the open access landscape in New Zealand.</p>
<h2><a href="http://www.arl.org/sparc/meetings/now-online-sparc-webcast-connecting-the-dots-betwe.shtml">Connecting the Dots Between Open Access and Open Educational Resources</a></h2>
<p>Watch an archived discussion hosted by SPARC, with CC director of global learning Cable Green and <a href="http://studentpirgs.org/">Student Public Interest Research Groups</a>&#8217; Nicole Allen.</p>
<h2>New Open Access Resources</h2>
<p><strong><a href="https://p2pu.org/en/groups/open-access-wikipedia-challenge/">Open Access Wikipedia Challenge</a></strong><br />
In this new School of Open challenge, learn how to reuse open access content to improve a Wikipedia article.</p>
<p><strong><a href="http://www.arl.org/sparc/media/HowOpenIsIt.shtml">HowOpenIsIt?</a></strong><br />PLOS, SPARC, and OASPA have just released the first iteration of a great reference guide for understanding open access standards. <a href="http://blogs.plos.org/blog/2012/10/01/tim-vollmer-of-creative-commons-on-howopenisit/">Timothy recently wrote about the guide</a> for the PLOS blog.</p>
<p><strong><a href="http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/node/8005">Good Practices for University Open-Access Policies</a></strong><br />Our friends at the Harvard Open Access Project have written a new guide for universities considering OA policies.</p>
<p><iframe width="480" height="360" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/L5rVH1KGBCY" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe></p>


feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=34550
title: School of Open builds curriculum at Creative Commons Palo Alto meeting
uri: School-of-Open-builds-curriculum-at-Creative-Commons-Palo-Alto-meetin
url: http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/34550
content:
<p>On October 5, Creative Commons and P2PU <a href="http://wiki.creativecommons.org/Open_Policy_Institute/2012_Convening">convened community advocates and policy leaders from the various &#8220;open&#8221; movements</a> to lay the curriculum framework for the <a href="http://schoolofopen.org/">School of Open</a>. If you haven&#8217;t heard of it yet, the School of Open is a community initiative that will provide online educational resources and professional development courses on the meaning and impact of “openness” in the digital age and its benefit to creative endeavors, education, research, and more. Participants gathered the day before for a convening on an <a href="http://wiki.creativecommons.org/Open_Policy_Institute">Open Policy Institute</a>, which will be blogged about separately in the coming weeks. </p>
<p>The meeting/workshop was extremely valuable in identifying existing needs around education and training on open policy, open education, open access, open science, and open culture. It was also a lot of fun! The full agenda and raw notes are at the <a href="http://etherpad.creativecommons.org/p/SOO_Oct_5">etherpad</a>, but here is a brief overview.</p>
<p>First, in <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/p2puniversity/sets/72157631786592059/">pictures</a>: </p>
<p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/p2puniversity/sets/72157631786592059/"><img src="http://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/schoolofopen-flickr.jpg" alt="" title="p2pu set screenshot" width="700" height="238" /></a></p>
<p>We broke out into groups and thought long and hard about the one person we&#8217;d really like to help as part of the School of Open. Who would actually come to take courses about &#8220;open&#8221; and what would they want to learn about? What questions would they have? The result was a set of detailed user scenarios spanning from Marcie the researcher working for a legislator to Maggie the wannabe rap star, from academic Professor Lovenchalk with questions about losing control over his work to elementary school teachers with questions about CC and copyright, and even to &#8220;optics nerds&#8221; on Wikipedia. You can check out all the user scenarios at Flickr. The <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/p2puniversity/sets/72157631786592049/">folder of user scenarios</a> will continue to grow with each workshop.</p>
<p>Based on our user scenarios, we outlined course ideas, potential partners, and existing resources. Course ideas included: Crash course on the basics of open for government officials; How to ensure that my film can be shared; Rights info and tagging for (cultural) curators; How to integrate Wikipedia authorship in your academic workflow; Intro to Open Textbooks; and OER for faculty: what&#8217;s in it for me? More courses outlined at the <a href="http://etherpad.creativecommons.org/p/SOO_Oct_5">pad</a>.</p>
<p>Everyone was excited for the potential of the School of Open to support existing efforts and demand. And we want you to join us! Whether you&#8217;re part of the CC, P2PU, Open Access, OER, free culture, or any other open communities, the School of Open exists to support your education needs. We are aiming for an ambitious (but not impossible!) official launch date of February 2013, with at least five facilitator-led courses and five peer-led courses. Help make this possible by joining in course development efforts!</p>
<h3>Where do I start?</h3>
<ol>
<li>Go to <a href="http://schoolofopen.org">http://schoolofopen.org</a> and get familiar with the project. What course do you want to take or build?</li>
<li>Join the discussion and introduce yourself and your field of &#8220;open&#8221; interest: <a href="https://groups.google.com/group/school-of-open">https://groups.google.com/group/school-of-open</a>. See if others are interested in building it with you. Someone might already be developing the course you want to create.</li>
<li>Register for a P2PU account at <a href="http://p2pu.org">http://p2pu.org</a>.</li>
<li>Start creating! You can create directly on the P2PU platform or use <a href="http://pad.p2pu.org">http://pad.p2pu.org</a> for collaborative editing. Just make sure to <a href="mailto:school-of-open@googlegroups.com">email the list</a> or the <a href="mailto:janepark@creativecommons.org">Project Manager</a> (that&#8217;s me) with a link to the working draft so we can help.</li>
</ol>
<p>We will be holding several virtual meetings (eg. webinars) to support course creators, so stay tuned for those!</p>
<p>For those of you who just want to receive key updates and find out when the School of Open officially launches, sign up for our <a href="http://groups.google.com/group/school-of-open-announce">announcements-only list</a>. </p>
<p>The School of Open is being run as an open community project &#8212; which means that you can help shape its direction and drive it forward. Find out more about that <a href="http://wiki.creativecommons.org/School_of_Open#Running_the_School_of_Open_openly">here</a>.</p>
<p>Also see: <a href="http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/34360">School of Open builds community at the Open Knowledge Festival</a></p>


feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=34566
title: British Columbia Government Lends Support to Open Textbooks
uri: British-Columbia-Government-Lends-Support-to-Open-Textbooks
url: http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/34566
content:
<div align="center" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/terms/" xmlns:cc="http://creativecommons.org/ns#" about="http://www.flickr.com/photos/gforsythe/8094691691/"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/gforsythe/8094691691/"><img width="480" height="640" src="http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8466/8094691691_2e7683383f_z.jpg" alt="Visual Notes of Honourable John Yap&#8217;s announcement at #opened12" /></a>
<p><small><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/gforsythe/8094691691/"><span property="dc:title">Visual Notes of Honourable John Yap&#8217;s announcement at #opened12</span></a> / <span property="cc:attributionName">Giulia Forsythe</span> / <a rel="license" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/">CC BY-NC-SA</a></small></p>
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<p>The government of British Columbia, Canada&#8217;s westernmost province, has announced its support for the creation of open textbooks for the 40 most popular first- and second-year courses in the province&#8217;s public post-secondary system. The texts will be available for free online, or at a low cost for printed versions, to approximately 200,000 students. The first texts under this project could be in use at B.C. institutions as early as 2013 for courses in arts, sciences, humanities, and business.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.bccampus.ca/">BCcampus</a>, a publicly funded collaborative information technology organization serving the higher-education system, will engage B.C. faculty, institutions, and publishers to implement the open textbook project through an open request for proposals.</p>
<p>David Porter, executive director for BCcampus, explained why CC licenses are crucial to this project. &#8220;Open licenses are integral to making textbooks free for students, and flexible enough for instructors to customize the material to suit their courses.&#8221;</p>
<p>B.C.&#8217;s minister of advanced education, John Yap, announced the project at the <a href="http://openedconference.org/2012/">Open Education Conference</a> in Vancouver. He said students could save up to $1,000 a year on textbooks if free, open versions were available for many of their courses, and he challenged other jurisdictions to follow British Columbia&#8217;s lead and support open educational resources: &#8220;By taking advantage of technology, more people can get the learning they need in the knowledge economy and access to new or better jobs.&#8221;</p>
<p>You might remember that a few weeks ago, we celebrated a <a href="http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/34288">similar piece of legislation in California</a>. The British Columbia legislation was actually based on California&#8217;s version. Taken together, these are exciting steps for the OER (open educational resources) movement. Since the textbooks produced in B.C. and California will be licensed under the <a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/">CC BY</a> license, their impact has the potential to spread far beyond the US and Canada, being reused and adapted by educators around the world.</p>
<p>B.C. is leveraging 21st-century technologies and licensing to ensure that its citizens have affordable access to high-quality post-secondary textbooks. Open licensing on publicly funded content ensures the greatest impact for the public dollar.</p>
<p><a href="http://www2.news.gov.bc.ca/news_releases_2009-2013/2012AEIT0010-001581.htm">Read the full press release</a>.</p>
<p>There was an <a href="http://open.bccampus.ca/oer-forum/">OER Forum</a> later that week.<a href="http://open.bccampus.ca/summary/"> Videos and images</a>.</p>


feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=34463
title: Ada Lovelace Day: Women, Tech, and OER
uri: Ada-Lovelace-Day-Women-Tech-and-OER
url: http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/34463
content:
<div style ="float:right;padding:10px" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/terms/" xmlns:cc="http://creativecommons.org/ns#" about="http://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=File:Ada_Lovelace_color.svg"><a href="http://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=File:Ada_Lovelace_color.svg"><img width="250" height="392" src="http://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/adalovelace_250.jpg" alt="Ada Lovelace" /></a>
<p><small><a href="http://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=File:Ada_Lovelace_color.svg"><span property="dc:title">Ada Lovelace</span></a> / <span property="cc:attributionName">Kaldari</span> / <a rel="license" href="/publicdomain/zero/1.0/">CC0</a></small></p>
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<p>Ada Lovelace&#160;&#8212; widely considered the first computer programmer&#160;&#8212; <a href="http://cssu-bg.org/WomenInCS/ada_lovelace.php">famously said</a>, &#8220;I never am really satisfied that I understand anything; because, understand it well as I may, my comprehension can only be an infinitesimal fraction of all I want to understand.&#8221; That quotation brings to mind the axiom that a curious mind is always asking more questions and learning is never complete. Every day, like Lovelace, I am all too aware that my knowledge is dwarfed by what I have yet to learn.</p>
<p>Around the world today, the technology community is <a href="http://findingada.com/">celebrating Lovelace and the many women in technology who&#8217;ve followed in her footsteps</a>. Here at Creative Commons, we think a lot about women in science and technology and the untapped potential we have yet to realize. In his speech to the United Nations a few weeks ago, President Obama spoke of the importance of women and girls in STEM fields (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics). <a href="http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2012/09/24/fact-sheet-equal-futures-partnership-expand-women-s-political-and-econom">The White House identified Creative Commons</a> as a key member of an emerging community of practice supporting girls in STEM.</p>
<p>A few days later, <a href="http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/34311">Creative Commons and the OpenCourseWare Consortium announced</a> that we&#8217;d formed a task force to determine how open educational resources (OER) can support the success of girls and women in STEM fields. As I said in that announcement, the challenges of the future will require bright, ambitious, well-educated people of both genders.</p>
<p>Many people reading this probably know that the OER movement played a pivotal role in my career. When I was at the Hewlett Foundation, we made a gamble in starting our <a href="http://www.hewlett.org/programs/education-program/open-educational-resources">OER initiative</a>. At that time, OER was an untested idea. Today, those early investments are paying off, with open-licensed resources benefitting women, men, boys, and girls around the world, many of whom wouldn&#8217;t otherwise have access to high-quality educational materials that can be localized and improved for teaching and learning.</p>
<p>But like Lovelace, we&#8217;re not yet satisfied. <a href="http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/34288">Last month&#8217;s groundbreaking open textbook legislation in California</a> was a huge step in the right direction, but it was just one step. We must keep the end vision in mind: together, we can democratize education through openly licenses resources, tools and processes. While we can&#8217;t create future Ada Lovelaces in a lab, we can provide for a culture of education that rises to the challenge of its most curious learners.</p>


feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=34428
title: Geoscience Australia to License Satellite Images Under CC BY
uri: Geoscience-Australia-to-License-Satellite-Images-Under-CC-BY
url: http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/34428
content:
<div style ="float:right;padding:10px" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/terms/" xmlns:cc="http://creativecommons.org/ns#" about="http://www.ga.gov.au/earth-observation/basics/gallery/images-from-space/image-archive.html"><a href="http://www.ga.gov.au/earth-observation/basics/gallery/images-from-space/image-archive.html"><img width="300" height="161" src="http://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/landsat-300.jpg" alt="Landsat 5, Tiwi Islands, Darwin, Australia" /></a>
<p><small><a href="http://www.ga.gov.au/earth-observation/basics/gallery/images-from-space/image-archive.html"><span property="dc:title">Landsat 5, Tiwi Islands, Darwin, Australia</span></a><br /><span property="cc:attributionName">Geoscience Australia</span> / <a rel="license" href="/licenses/by/3.0/au/">CC BY</a></small></p>
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<p><a href="http://www.ga.gov.au/">Geoscience Australia</a> <a href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/07/22/australia_landsat_free_images_online/">recently announced</a> that it will license all images from the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Landsat_program">Landsat 8 satellite</a> under <a href="/licenses/by/3.0/">CC BY</a>. (Geoscience Australia is a <a href="http://minister.ret.gov.au/MediaCentre/MediaReleases/Pages/AustraliaPartnershipSatelliteAccess.aspx">partner of the United States Geological Survey</a> in the Landsat program.)</p>
<p><a href="http://creativecommons.org.au/weblog/entry/3705">Creative Commons Australia reports</a>:</p>
<blockquote><p>The new Landsat 8 satellite is scheduled to be launched in early 2013, with GA’s full implementation being scheduled for May or June 2013.</p></blockquote>
<blockquote><p>Upon full implementation, which involves the deployment of major infrastructure upgrades by GA, data will be beamed from Landsat 8 on a daily basis to GA-operated ground stations in Alice Springs and Darwin. As soon as possible after receipt and processing, GA will make the satellite images publicly available free of charge.</p></blockquote>
<blockquote><p>GA will make the data available under a <a href="/licenses/by/3.0/au/">Creative Commons CC BY Australia 3.0 licence</a>, which will facilitate legal reuse of the images.</p></blockquote>
<blockquote><p>GA is expecting a major upsurge in demand for the images when its free to air service is up and running. Jeff Kingwell, Section Leader of GA&#8217;s National Earth Observation Group, has indicated this prediction is based on the experience of its senior partner Geological Survey where there was a 1000 fold usage increase on commencement of its free to air service online. &#8220;Our experience is that using the Creative Commons Attribution Licence&#160;&#8212; which is the default licence for GA information&#160;&#8212; makes the data more useful and easier to apply. For example, to help the Indonesian government to monitor forest management, GA supplies Landsat data from a number of foreign data archives. Since we can apply the same licence conditions to each data source, the information is much more useful and easier to share and reuse.&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<p>(<a href="http://creativecommons.org.au/weblog/entry/3705">Read the full article.</a>)</p>
<p>Here at Creative Commons, we applaud <a href="/government">governments and intergovernmental organizations licensing their information and data</a> under CC licenses (or the <a href="/about/cc0">CC0 public domain waiver</a>). Australia&#8217;s partnership with the United States in the Landsat program is a perfect example of why it&#8217;s important to use a license that&#8217;s open and internationally applicable.</p>


feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=34478
title: A Global, Pro Bono Week Tribute
uri: A-Global-Pro-Bono-Week-Tribute
url: http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/34478
content:
<div style ="float:left;padding:10px" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/terms/" xmlns:cc="http://creativecommons.org/ns#" about="http://www.flickr.com/photos/wwworks/4759535970/"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/wwworks/4759535970/"><img width="320" height="216" src="http://farm5.staticflickr.com/4115/4759535970_a0d6f918df_n.jpg" alt="Universal Thank You Note" /></a>
<p><small><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/wwworks/4759535970/"><span property="dc:title">Universal Thank You Note</span></a> / <span property="cc:attributionName">woodleywonderworks</span> / <a rel="license" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/">CC BY</a></small></p>
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<p>This week is <a href="http://www.probono.net/celebrateprobono/">Pro Bono Week</a> in the United States. We wish to take this opportunity to thank the many talented legal professionals on whom we count for impeccable, cutting-edge advice around the world on an array of issues, all on a volunteer basis.</p>
<p>CC leverages pro bono legal expertise on a number of important projects. For example, almost exactly <a href="http://wiki.creativecommons.org/Global_Summit_2011">one year ago</a>, Creative Commons formally embarked on the versioning of our license suite. This is one of the most important responsibilities we have as the steward of licenses relied upon by creators to share an <a href="http://wiki.creativecommons.org/Metrics">estimated one-half billion</a> works on the Internet (and counting). As with the development of the past four <a href="http://wiki.creativecommons.org/License_versions">license versions</a>, this <a href="http://wiki.creativecommons.org/4.0">undertaking</a> involves major policy decisions, complicated questions of international, regional and jurisdiction-specific law, and ambitious goals. Those include <a href="http://wiki.creativecommons.org/4.0/Internationalization">internationalization</a>, <a href="http://wiki.creativecommons.org/4.0/Compatibility">compatibility</a>, licensing of <a href="http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/26283">database rights</a> in Europe and elsewhere, and anticipating future impediments to sharing that take the form of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paracopyright">paracopyrights</a>, such as technical protection measures and other <a href="http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/25560">copyright-like rights</a>.</p>
<p>The issue of internationalization alone benefitted greatly from multiple efforts:  a law firm with international reach provided detailed research on license formalities under both common law and civil law copyright systems; database experts within our affiliate network responded to our inquiries on the details of licensing <em>sui generis</em> database rights in a way that would not have adversely impacted people in countries where those rights do not exist; and a law firm with offices in Asia and Europe provided detailed research on effective technological measures around the world.</p>
<p>The support CC receives in the form of pro bono services extends deep within the organization itself in equally important but less visible ways. This includes the legal expertise required to maintain a strong, compliant tax-exempt organization, upkeep and outreach involving our current licenses and public domain tools, working with affiliated organizations in more than 70 countries, and supporting intricate policy work that consistently pushes the envelope on <a href="http://www.communia-association.org/members-2/">public domain policy</a>, <a href="http://creativecommons.org/Education">education and open access initiatives</a>, and <a href="http://creativecommons.org/science">science and data</a>, to name just a few.</p>
<p>Here at Creative Commons, we find ourselves in the privileged and fortunate position of working daily with an impressive array of legal experts around the globe who lend insights, legal acumen, and depth of perspective to every dimension of our legal work. This effort and dedication in the aggregate makes our vision and reach possible, and our legal products among the most trusted, respected and robust of any offered. More amazingly still, the large majority of these experts provide assistance free of charge.</p>
<p>We count many among this amazing group:</p>
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<li>attorneys from prestigious law firms around the world, including (among others) <a href="http://www.wsgr.com/WSGR/Display.aspx?SectionName=locations/loc_paloalto.htm">Wilson Sonsini Goodrich &#038; Rosati</a>, <a href="http://www.lw.com/offices/sanfrancisco">Latham &#038; Watkins</a>, <a href="http://www.blakes.com/english">Blake Cassels &#038; Graydon LLP</a>, <a href="http://www.wilmerhale.com/offices/offices/office.aspx?officeid=1">WilmerHale</a>, and <a href="http://www.kilpatricktownsend.com/">Kilpatrick Townsend &#038; Stockton</a>;</li>
<li>sophisticated copyright experts who help make up our <a href="http://wiki.creativecommons.org/CC_Affiliate_Network">100+ member affiliate network</a> and lend their expertise from leading universities, organizations, and beyond; and
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<li>the legal experts on CC&#8217;s volunteer <a href="http://creativecommons.org/board">board of directors</a>, as well as <a href="http://creativecommons.org/staff#dianecabell">Diane Cabell</a>, CC&#8217;s long-serving corporate counsel who has been providing CC with pro bono advice since our founding.</li>
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<p>We extend our sincerest gratitude to all of those&#160;&#8212; both current and past&#160;&#8212; who have provided Creative Commons with volunteer legal assistance. As a direct consequence of this assistance, CC as well as our community of affiliates and adopters are all in the strongest position possible to maximize digital creativity, sharing, and innovation.</p>


feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=34718
title: CC News: British Columbia Embraces Open Textbooks
uri: CC-News-British-Columbia-Embraces-Open-Textbooks
url: http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/34718
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<p align="center"><a href="/weblog/entry/34718?utm_campaign=newsletter_1210&#038;utm_medium=blog&#038;utm_source=newsletter"><img alt="Creative Commons" border="0" src="http://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/cclogo-450.png" width=450 height=108 /></a><br />
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					<small><a href="/weblog/entry/34566?utm_campaign=newsletter_1210&#038;utm_medium=blog&#038;utm_source=newsletter"><img alt="John Yap Announcement (cropped)" height="160" src="http://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/201210-johnyap.png" width="250" /></a><br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/gforsythe/8094691691/" rel="cc:attributionURL"><span property="dc:title">John Yap #opened12 Announcement (cropped)</span></a><br /><span property="cc:attributionName">Giulia Forsythe</span> / <a href="/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/" rel="license">CC BY-NC-SA</a></small></p>
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British Columbia has just announced a <a href="/weblog/entry/34566?utm_campaign=newsletter_1210&#038;utm_medium=blog&#038;utm_source=newsletter"><strong>groundbreaking open textbook policy</strong></a>, providing for open textbooks for 40 popular college courses.</p>
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					<a href="/weblog/entry/34268?utm_campaign=newsletter_1210&#038;utm_medium=blog&#038;utm_source=newsletter"><img alt="Open Access Week logo" height="160" src="http://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/201210-oaweek.png" width="250" /></a><br />
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It&#8217;s open access week! Join Creative Commons and dozens of other organizations as we <strong><a href="/weblog/entry/34268?utm_campaign=newsletter_1210&#038;utm_medium=blog&#038;utm_source=newsletter">celebrate the OA movement</a></strong>.</p>
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On October 5, Creative Commons and P2PU convened community advocates and policy leaders  to <a href="/weblog/entry/34550?utm_campaign=newsletter_1210&#038;utm_medium=blog&#038;utm_source=newsletter"><strong>lay the curriculum framework for the School of Open</strong></a>.</p>
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					<a href="/weblog/entry/34463?utm_campaign=newsletter_1210&#038;utm_medium=blog&#038;utm_source=newsletter"><img alt="Ada Lovelace" height="160" src="http://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/201210-ada.jpg" width="250" /></a><br />
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					<span property="cc:attributionName">Kaldari</span> / <a href="http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/" rel="license">CC0</a></small></p>
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On Ada Lovelace Day, CC CEO Cathy Casserly reflects on <strong><a href="/weblog/entry/34463?utm_campaign=newsletter_1210&#038;utm_medium=blog&#038;utm_source=newsletter">the importance of women in science and technology</a></strong>.</p>
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Cost of reusing educational materials developed by grantees? $0. The US Departments of Labor and Education make a <strong><a href="/weblog/entry/34328?utm_campaign=newsletter_1210&#038;utm_medium=blog&#038;utm_source=newsletter">big investment in open educational resources</a></strong>.</li>
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Geoscience Australia recently announced that it will <strong><a href="/weblog/entry/34428?utm_campaign=newsletter_1210&#038;utm_medium=blog&#038;utm_source=newsletter">license all images from the Landsat 8 satellite under CC BY</a></strong>. Australia&#8217;s partnership with the United States in the Landsat program is a perfect example of why it&#8217;s important to use a license that&#8217;s open and internationally applicable.
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Our friends at the Free Music Archive are holding a <a href="http://videoremix.freemusicarchive.org/"><strong>video remix contest</strong></a>. Get your entry in by November 4! And stay tuned: next month, we&#8217;ll be announcing a special music contest in celebration of CC&#8217;s tenth anniversary.</li>
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<li>It&#8217;s official: Wikimedia&#8217;s Wiki Loves Monuments is the <a href="http://blog.wikimedia.org/2012/10/09/wiki-loves-monuments-breaks-guinness-world-record-for-largest-photo-competition/"><strong>world&#8217;s largest photo competition</strong></a>.</li>
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<li>CC&#8217;s Tim Vollmer <strong><a href="http://blogs.plos.org/blog/2012/10/01/tim-vollmer-of-creative-commons-on-howopenisit/">writes about HowOpenIsIt?</a></strong>, a new reference guide for understanding open access standards.</li>
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<li>Not only is this Open Access Week; it&#8217;s also Pro Bono Week. <strong><a href="/weblog/entry/34478?utm_campaign=newsletter_1210&#038;utm_medium=blog&#038;utm_source=newsletter">CC&#8217;s legal team takes a moment to say thanks</a></strong>.</li>
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feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=34643
title: Oppikirjamaraton: How to Write an Open Textbook in a Weekend
uri: Oppikirjamaraton-How-to-Write-an-Open-Textbook-in-a-Weekend
url: http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/34643
content:
<p>One Thursday a few weeks ago, just as most of us at Creative Commons were on our way home for the evening, we saw this startling tweet:</p>
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet tw-align-center" data-in-reply-to="251482277769519104"><p>@<a href="https://twitter.com/creativecommons">creativecommons</a> You need to know: ~30 maths enthusiasts begin a CC-BY course book hackathon in five hours in Helsinki, Finland.</p>
<p>&mdash; Joonas Mäkinen (@JoonasD6) <a href="https://twitter.com/JoonasD6/status/251486499290361858" data-datetime="2012-09-28T01:00:28+00:00">September 28, 2012</a></p></blockquote>
<p><script src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></p>
<p>Of course we had to learn more. I contacted Joonas M&#228;kinen to get more information, and he explained to me that he&#8217;d helped organize a team to write a secondary school mathematics textbook over a weekend, in an event called <a href="https://www.facebook.com/oppikirjamaraton">Oppikirjamaraton</a> (&#8220;textbook marathon&#8221;). The book was to be licensed <a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/">CC BY</a>, so that anyone could reuse or remix it in Finland or around the world.</p>
<p>The text&#160;&#8212; now in <a href="https://github.com/linjaaho/oppikirjamaraton-maa1/downloads">version .91 in GitHub</a>&#160;&#8212; is called <em>Vapaa Matikka</em>. The title translates as &#8220;Free Math,&#8221; but since <em>matikka</em> can also mean &#8220;<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burbot">burbot</a>,&#8221; the book&#8217;s title also reads as &#8220;free fish&#8221; and its slogan&#160;&#8212; <em>Matikka verkosta vapauteen</em>&#160;&#8212; could be either a rallying cry to keep educational resources free and open or an instruction to free a fish from a net.</p>
<div style ="float:right;padding:10px"><a href="http://www.arkin.fi/?cat=3"><img width="211" height="300" src="http://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/matika-300-211x300.jpg" alt="Vappa Matikka" /></a></div>
<p>But I was interested in more than math puns. I wanted to find out how the book sprint had gone, what the team was planning to do with the textbook, and what advice he had for others organizing similar events. This interview was conducted by email between October 2 and 5.</p>
<p><strong>What range of math concepts does the book cover?</strong></p>
<p>It is a text book for the first advanced level mathematics course in Finnish upper secondary (high) schools. Although people who just start the course have usually just finished their mandatory primary school studies, we decided to take quite a &#8220;for dummies&#8221; approach and try to minimize all the prerequisites.</p>
<p>We introduce rational numbers, go through the arithmetic of them and real numbers in general. Power rules and roots follow and lead to the very basics of equation solving and the concept of a function. The most important applications of all this are proportionality and percentage calculations. Even with the freedom of writing we had we were tied to the current curriculum.</p>
<p><strong>Tell me more about the curriculum requirements. Are they the same throughout Finland?</strong></p>
<p>There is one national curriculum and everyone follows it. The only standardized tests you get are your finals, or matriculation examinations as they are known here, so some book series approach topics in a slightly different order than others. There is some flexibility and writing a course book based on the curriculum was easy.</p>
<p>Doesn&#8217;t change the fact that the curriculum sucks, though. The first reaction from a lot of participants was: &#8220;Can we write a new curriculum first?&#8221; And I understand them. We don&#8217;t have wars over content as I&#8217;ve understood you have in the USA, though. It&#8217;s more about how certain topics are grouped together in courses.</p>
<p>In the case of advanced level mathematics, there are 10 national, mandatory courses that consist of approximately 18 75-minute lessons. Plus a few optional courses, plus a lot more if you&#8217;re in a science- or math-focused school. An example of a highly non-mathematical, non-systematic grouping would be for example a course which is supposed to cover sequences and trigonometric functions. These two have nothing in common at this level. They could if series expansions and complex numbers were taught earlier, but <em>nooooo</em>&#8230;</p>
<div xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/terms/" xmlns:cc="http://creativecommons.org/ns#" about="http://twitter.yfrog.com/z/od4h8uoj"><a href="http://twitter.yfrog.com/z/od4h8uoj"><img width="700" height="235" src="http://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/actualwriting.jpg" alt="Get the tech side done before you start, and that will save everybody&#8217;s nerves and time for the actual writing!" /></a>
<p><small><a href="http://twitter.yfrog.com/z/od4h8uoj"><span property="dc:title">Oppikirjamaraton</span></a> (Caption added) / <span property="cc:attributionName">Joonas M&#228;kinen</span> / <a rel="license" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/">CC BY</a></small></p>
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<div style ="float:right;padding:10px" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/terms/" xmlns:cc="http://creativecommons.org/ns#" about="http://www.flickr.com/photos/senjaopettaa/8032008814/"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/senjaopettaa/8032008814/"><img width="240" height="240" src="http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8316/8032008814_9a8321343d_m.jpg" alt="Vesa Linja-Aho" /></a>
<p><small><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/senjaopettaa/8032008814/"><span property="dc:title">Vesa Linja-Aho</span></a> / <span property="cc:attributionName">Senja Opettaa</span> / <a rel="license" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/">CC BY</a></small></p>
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<p><strong>What was the breakdown of participants? Was everyone involved an educator? Did participants have prior experience writing or editing textbooks?</strong></p>
<p>There were over 20 people who partook in writing that weekend. We had regular upper secondary teachers, university students (mathematics and computer science), a teacher of automotive electronics, my own private students, and even a couple of university professors working both locally and remotely. We had our own inner circle of enthusiastic grammar nazis, too, to help us actually write grammatically and typographically better materials than you see in some books by big publishers. The diversity of people involved turned out to be a great resource for producing a variety of problems and perspectives.</p>
<p>A few people had experience writing and publishing a &#8220;normal,&#8221; old-fashioned commercial book, but that experience didn&#8217;t seem to divide people into groups at all when we actually started working.</p>
<p><strong>How did you organize yourselves? Were people&#8217;s roles in the project determined before the weekend began?</strong></p>
<p><a href="http://linja-aho.blogspot.fi/">Vesa Linja-aho</a>, who got the idea of this booksprint/hackathon in the first place, was our de facto PR and bureaucracy guy. Lauri Hellsten promised to take the main role in creating much-needed graphics at the set. Other than them, no writer was predestined any specific work. Surely quite a few people had their own topics they really, really wanted to write about, but all in all the whole writing process was very spontaneous and dynamic.</p>
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet tw-align-center"><p>Video in English: <a href="http://t.co/pT9UxLvw" title="http://youtu.be/ThbUiky4AKA">youtu.be/ThbUiky4AKA</a> RT @<a href="https://twitter.com/slashdot">slashdot</a>: Teachers Write an Open Textbook In a Weekend Hackathon <a href="http://t.co/NLPKPhol" title="http://bit.ly/Rr78RZ">bit.ly/Rr78RZ</a></p>
<p>&mdash; Joonas Mäkinen (@JoonasD6) <a href="https://twitter.com/JoonasD6/status/252476091392991232" data-datetime="2012-09-30T18:32:45+00:00">September 30, 2012</a></p></blockquote>
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<p><small><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/senjaopettaa/8035948540/"><span property="dc:title">Lauri Hellsten</span></a> / <span property="cc:attributionName">Senja Opettaa</span> / <a rel="license" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/">CC BY</a></small></p>
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<p><strong>How much preparation happened ahead of time? Did you enter the weekend with an outline of the book? Schedules?</strong></p>
<p>After realizing that this could be a big thing we just sort of waited for our friends and friends&#8217; friends to fill out a Doodle poll about which weekend we should pick. I planned a table of contents beforehand to have something as a starting point, but it was modified very heavily during Friday and Saturday. <a href="https://twitter.com/mccjpt">Juhapekka Tolvanen</a> made us some LaTeX layout templates beforehand, and we also had one planning meeting but that was not really about content but more about technology: which version management systems we should use, etc. Most of the planning in general was just about getting potential sponsors, writing a press release, checking where we can actually do the writing work, did we have enough laptops, and so on.</p>
<p>One funny copyright anecdote: we had gathered up pretty much all available, related text books. You know, to check how others have explained this and that. Another reason was that in mathematics education (and obviously in other subjects too) there are usually many &#8220;pathological&#8221; examples and exercises that it&#8217;s good for everyone to go though, so you keep running into and using the same tasks again and again. Vesa Linja-aho had received a written decision earlier from the local copyright council that exercises do not constitute works and are thus are not copyrightable. Nevertheless, a teacher who had been writing one the books we had with us commented and reminded us on our Facebook page that it&#8217;s not right to copy others&#8217; work. We got some good laughs out of that.</p>
<div style ="float:left;padding:10px" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/terms/" xmlns:cc="http://creativecommons.org/ns#" about="http://www.flickr.com/photos/senjaopettaa/8035371993/"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/senjaopettaa/8035371993/"><img width="240" height="240" src="http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8031/8035371993_1b78776acb_m.jpg" alt="Siiri Anttonen" /></a>
<p><small><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/senjaopettaa/8035371993/"><span property="dc:title">Siiri Anttonen</span></a> / <span property="cc:attributionName">Senja Opettaa</span> / <a rel="license" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/">CC BY</a></small></p>
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<p><strong>What did you learn from the experience? What was more difficult than you expected? What advice would you give others planning a similar sprint?</strong></p>
<p>Get the tech side done before you start, and that will save everybody&#8217;s nerves and time for the actual writing! We used LaTeX to write and typeset the whole book and Github to handle versions, but hassling with both caused a lot of delays during the first two days. Most people were not familiar with Git and version conflicts and other funnies took maybe a half of our time. Just think what we could have achieved if everyone had had their laptops completely ready&#8230;</p>
<p>Some guys were still debating if we should add this and that during Saturday and Sunday, and that was something people should try to avoid. In sprints like this, it&#8217;s always the best to just keep writing more content – it&#8217;s always easier to comment out or edit something later on. Some arguments got pretty heated a couple of times, but that might also be the lack of sleep talking. Keep it cool and remember to have fun!</p>
<div style ="float:right;padding:10px" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/terms/" xmlns:cc="http://creativecommons.org/ns#" about="http://www.flickr.com/photos/senjaopettaa/8035291112/"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/senjaopettaa/8035291112/"><img width="240" height="240" src="http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8177/8035291112_1a5e1578b6_m.jpg" alt="Joonas M&#228;kinen" /></a>
<p><small><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/senjaopettaa/8035291112/"><span property="dc:title">Joonas M&#228;kinen</span></a> / <span property="cc:attributionName">Senja Opettaa</span> / <a rel="license" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/">CC BY</a></small></p>
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<p><strong>What&#8217;s next? Is there a revision or review period planned? Are there educators planning to teach from it?</strong></p>
<p>The immediate physiological response after finishing the marathon on Sunday was euphoria. Everyone agreed immediately to organize another sprint. The technical delays and lack of graphics artists made sure that our book didn&#8217;t reach the level of ready that we&#8217;d just send it to printing immediately, but it&#8217;s alive now: people keep sending &#8220;bug reports&#8221; over Github and all participants have continued to make improvements: fixing typos, adding exercises, fixing inconsistencies&#8230;</p>
<p>Our book is now version 0.9, and we&#8217;ll wait a couple of weeks till we say it&#8217;s appropriately ready for translations and focused printing. Though, we&#8217;ve already been hearing that the book has been used as a handbook by a couple of teachers, some have been giving their students exercises from the book and so forth. And of course I and other writers have used it as a resource, too, when teaching our own students. After some polishing we&#8217;re pretty sure it&#8217;ll be used in plenty of places. Another kick in popularity will come when we continue with the rest of the courses (since schools don&#8217;t like to switch book series between courses).</p>
<p>The project was so fun and well-received that we&#8217;ll have our next sprint on the second course soon!</p>


feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=34706
title: European Regional Meeting at OKFestival
uri: European-Regional-Meeting-at-OKFestival
url: http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/34706
content:
<div align="center" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/terms/" xmlns:cc="http://creativecommons.org/ns#" about="http://www.flickr.com/photos/kalexanderson/8009809258/"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/kalexanderson/8009809258/"><img width="500" height="333" src="http://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/euro-meetup.jpg" alt="Creative Commons Europe Regional Meeting in Helsinki" /></a>
<p><small><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/kalexanderson/8009809258/"><span property="dc:title">Creative Commons Europe Regional Meeting in Helsinki</span></a> / <span property="cc:attributionName">Kristina Alexanderson</span> / <a rel="license" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/">CC BY</a></small></p>
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<p>In September, a number of CC&#8217;s <a href="http://wiki.creativecommons.org/CC_Affiliate_Network">European affiliates</a> congregated at the <a href="http://okfestival.org/">Open Knowledge Festival</a> taking place in Helsinki, Finland, for a regional meeting. Held as a side event over one day of the festival, the meeting was attended by representatives of our affiliates in 17 different European countries.</p>
<p>Each meeting between our affiliates is an excellent opportunity to network and bridge the geographic, as well as cultural, distance between the various jurisdictions they represent. As such, it&#8217;s not surprising that one of the more significant outcomes from the meeting was a series of discussions starting between the affiliates after the actual meeting.</p>
<p>During the meeting itself, the affiliates got to hear about Creative Commons global strategy work from Jessica Coates, our Global Network Manager, and about policy work from Timothy Vollmer, our Manager of Policy and Data. Looking towards December, we also discussed Creative Commons&#8217; <a href="http://wiki.creativecommons.org/CC10">upcoming 10th birthday</a> and the activities and events taking place around it. One of the outcomes of the meeting was the idea to create a <a href="http://de.creativecommons.org/2012/10/03/cc10-mixtape-vorschlage-bitte/">Creative Commons mixtape with Creative Commons licensed music from around Europe</a>, covering the last 10 years, to be released around the 10th birthday.</p>
<p>In the weeks following the regional meetings, on the initiative of Alek Tarkowski (our lead for Creative Commons in Poland), the affiliates and regional coordinator put together a proposal to the <a href="http://eacea.ec.europa.eu/">European Union Education, Audiovisual &amp; Culture Executive Agency</a>&#8217;s (EACEA) call for proposals on support for organisations active at the European level in the field of culture. The activities of the proposal that we sent aim to encourage and support cultural institutions in their work to maximize public access to their cultural data and content. Through a series of workshops including experts of the network and participation from European museums, the European affiliates will develop guidelines and instructions on how to increase circulation of cultural data and content in the digital environment at the legal, technical, and organizational levels.</p>
<p>Such a cooperative approach to putting together a compelling proposal in such a short amount of time could not have happened without the ability to meet in person from time to time. While not a direct outcome of the meeting, it exemplifies the relevance of the regional and global meetings of Creative Commons, and the European group is already looking forward for when we next meet, at latest in about a year&#8217;s time for the next global summit.</p>


feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=34771
title: Call for the Release of Bassel Khartabil
uri: Call-for-the-Release-of-Bassel-Khartabil
url: http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/34771
content:
<p style="text-align:center" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/terms/" xmlns:cc="http://creativecommons.org/ns#" about="http://farm5.staticflickr.com/4018/4670781482_d072301ef0_z.jpg"><img src="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/bassel.jpg" alt="What open means to you" /><br /><small><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/joi/4670781482/in/photostream/"><span property="dc:title">Bassel</span></a> / <span property="cc:attributionName">joi</span> / <a rel="license" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/">CC BY</a></small></p>
<p>Earlier this year, <a href="http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/33119">Creative Commons issued a statement in support of Bassel Khartabil</a>, a longtime CC volunteer who has been detained by Syrian authorities since March 15. <a href="http://www.amnesty.org/en/library/asset/MDE24/076/2012/en/50fb59c2-c31e-4a98-bd27-61c423c87b38/mde240762012en.html">Amnesty International recently released a document</a> with information suggesting that Bassel has been ill-treated and even tortured. This morning, <a href="http://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/Call-for-release-of-Bassel-to-President-signed.pdf">we sent a letter</a> to President Bashar al-Assad, Minister of Foreign Affairs Walid al-Mu&#8217;allim, and Minister of Defense &#8216;Imad al-Fraij; urging that Bassel be released unless he is promptly charged with an internationally recognized criminal offense. We urge Syrian authorities to grant Bassel immediate access to his family, a lawyer of his choice, and all necessary medical treatment.</p>
<p>Bassel has played a crucial role in the open technology and culture communities, both in Syria and around the world. Through his service as <a href="http://wiki.creativecommons.org/Syria">Creative Commons&#8217; project lead in Syria</a> and his numerous contributions to the advancement of open source and related technologies, Bassel has spent his career working toward a more free Internet. Many of us at Creative Commons have become friends of Bassel&#8217;s over the years. All of us have benefited from his leadership and expertise.</p>
<p>Please stand with us in support of Bassel. <a href="http://www.amnesty.org/en/library/asset/MDE24/076/2012/en/50fb59c2-c31e-4a98-bd27-61c423c87b38/mde240762012en.html">Amnesty International has provided instructions</a> for contacting Syrian authorities. For more information, visit <a href="http://freebassel.org/">freebassel.org</a>.</p>
<p><strong><a href="http://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/Call-for-release-of-Bassel-to-President-signed.pdf">Read Creative Commons&#8217; call for the release of Bassel Khartabil (PDF).</a></strong></p>


feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=34852
title: Keeping MOOCs Open
uri: Keeping-MOOCs-Open
url: http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/34852
content:
<p>MOOCs&#160;&#8212; or <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massive_open_online_course"><strong>M</strong>assive <strong>O</strong>pen <strong>O</strong>nline <strong>C</strong>ourses</a>&#160;&#8212; have been getting a lot of attention lately. Just in the last year or so, there’s been immense interest in the potential for large scale online learning, with significant investments being made in companies (<a href="http://www.coursera.org/">Coursera</a>, <a href="http://www.udacity.com/">Udacity</a>, <a href="http://www.udemy.com/">Udemy</a>), similar non-profit initiatives (<a href="https://www.edx.org/">edX</a>) and learning management systems (<a href="https://www.canvas.net/">Canvas</a>, <a href="https://www.coursesites.com/">Blackboard</a>). The renewed interest in MOOCs was ignited after last year’s <a href="https://www.ai-class.com/">Introduction to Artificial Intelligence</a> course offered via Stanford University, when over 160,000 people signed up to take the free online course. The idea of large-scale, free online education has been around for quite some time. Some examples include David Wiley’s 2007 <a href="http://www.opencontent.org/wiki/index.php?title=Intro_Open_Ed_Syllabus">Introduction to Open Education</a>; <a href="http://connect.downes.ca/archive/08/09_15_thedaily.htm">Connectivism and Connective Knowledge</a>, led by George Siemens and Stephen Downes in 2008; <a href="http://wikieducator.org/Open_content_licensing_for_educators/Home">Open Content Licensing for Educators</a>; and many others.</p>
<p>A central component to these earlier iterations of the MOOC was the dual meaning of “open.” Justin Reich <a href="http://blogs.edweek.org/edweek/edtechresearcher/2012/05/all_moocs_explained_market_open_and_dewey.html">writes in EdWeek</a>,</p>
<blockquote><p>The original MOOCs&#8230;were &#8220;open&#8221; in two respects. First, they were open enrollment to students outside the hosting university. That is open as in &#8220;open registration.&#8221; Second, the materials of the course were licensed using Creative Commons licenses so their materials could be remixed and reused by others. That is open as in &#8220;open license.&#8221;
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<p>These dual characteristics of &#8220;open&#8221; are also core to Open Educational Resources (OER). Hewlett&#8217;s <a href="http://www.hewlett.org/programs/education-program/open-educational-resources">updated OER definition</a> begins: <em>&#8220;OER are teaching, learning, and research resources that reside in the public domain or have been released under an intellectual property license that permits their free use <strong>and</strong> re-purposing by others.&#8221;</em> That is, for an educational resource to be &#8220;open&#8221; it must be <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gratis_versus_libre">both gratis (available at no-cost) and libre (everyone has the legal rights to repurpose the resource)</a>. An OER cannot be freely available <strong>or</strong> openly licensed &#8211; it must be both freely available <strong>and</strong> openly licensed (or in the public domain) to be an OER.</p>
<p>The new cohort of MOOCs are distinct from the original MOOCs in that they are “open,&#8221; thus far, in only one respect: they are open enrollment. The new MOOCs have not yet openly licensed their courses. As MOOCs continue to develop course content and experiment with various business models, we think it’s crucial that they consider adopting open licenses as a default on their digital education offerings. In general, the value proposition can be enhanced for the new MOOCs and their users if the MOOCs openly license their courses. A few ideas about why this is important:</p>
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One goal of MOOCs is to serve tens / hundreds of thousands more people with high-quality educational content. By adopting Creative Commons (CC) licenses, MOOCs:</p>
<ul>
<li>can increase the reach of their materials by making the rights to use and adapt them crystal clear from the start;</li>
<li>will be able to serve even more learners because they’ll be granting legal permissions to use their course content in other educational settings; and</li>
<li>do not have to respond to individual permissions requests from users and can instead focus on delivering quality educational content to the largest number of students.</li>
</ul>
</li>
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<li>
Commercially-focused MOOCs can adopt CC licenses to make their MOOCs truly &#8220;open&#8221; (free of cost <strong>and</strong> free of most copyright restrictions) and still leverage the scale of these courses (with potentially tens of thousands of students) and the MOOC platform to charge for value-added services, such as the coordination of study groups, course certification, secure assessments, employee recruiting, and print-on-demand textbooks. </li>
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<p><small><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/gforsythe/7549370822/"><span property="dc:title">#jiscwebinar What Is A MOOC?</span></a> / <span property="cc:attributionName"> Giulia Forsythe</span> / <a rel="license" href="/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/">CC BY-NC-SA</a></small></p>
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<li>
MOOCs can provide features their users want by incorporating open licensing options. Recently, the education technology company Blackboard has permitted <a href="/weblog/entry/29633">users to upload educational content under the Creative Commons Attribution license</a>. Since many MOOCs want to support individuals who want to share their creations as well as open collaboration between course participants, it may be worthwhile for the MOOCs to support users with this easy-to-implement feature. </li>
<p></p>
<li>
By supporting open licensing, MOOCs will be positively contributing to the Open Educational Resources movement, reaffirmed in the <a href="/weblog/entry/33089">2012 Paris OER Declaration</a>. MOOCs can be leaders and innovators for OER, increase their enrollment numbers, and receive the goodwill that comes along with being an active participant in this global open education movement. </li>
<p></p>
<li>
Online education knows no language barriers, and a large percentage of MOOC participants are logging on from outside of North America (where most of the new initiatives are based). For example, in a recent MIT MOOC course with 155,000 registrations, <a href="http://sirjohn.ca/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/120925MOOCspaper2.pdf">students came from 160 countries</a> (PDF). If MOOCs want to continue to attract and serve an international audience, they might focus on multilingual course delivery. It should be noted that MOOCs that release course content under Creative Commons licenses (at least the licenses that do not contain the “NoDerivatives” condition) automatically grant permission for users to make translations of the materials. MIT Open CourseWare courses <a href="http://www.core.org.cn/OcwWeb/Global/AboutOCW/Translations.htm">have been translated into at least 10 languages</a>, including Spanish, Portuguese, Chinese, Thai, French, German, Vietnamese, and Ukrainian. Coursera and Udacity <a href="http://gigaom.com/video/udacity-amara-partnership/">have already partnered with</a> the crowdsourced captioning service Amara. </li>
<p></p>
<li>
Openly licensed MOOC resources can give rise to interesting new courses and educational products and services. For instance, materials released under a license like <a href="/licenses/by/3.0/">CC BY</a> can be repurposed and reused on sites like Wikipedia and hundreds of Open CourseWare projects. Adopting CC licensing can support the conditions necessary for innovation that is difficult to predict (or plan for). In the long run, supporting the open ecosystem is beneficial both for commercial and non-profit MOOC initiatives. In addition, many educators and learners want to be able to use the resources outside of the MOOC environment, and open licensing grants this permission in advance. CC licensing opens up a much broader range of pedagogical approaches that enable all MOOC participants, instructors and students alike the ability to generate, use, and share content with each other. </li>
<p></p>
<li>
Many MOOCs are concerned that their content will be “stolen” by competitors. However, this fear is speculative. There are features of the CC licenses that can help assuage the fears of MOOCs. For example, all the CC licenses provide for attribution to the original author, preservation of any copyright notice, and the URL to the original work. When MOOC material are licensed under a CC license permitting the creation of adaptations, the adapted resources must be clearly marked to indicate that changes have been made, and a credit &#8212; reasonable to the means and medium being used &#8212; that the MOOC material has been used in the adaptation. Also, CC licenses do not grant permission to use anyone’s trademarks or official insignia, nor do the licenses affect other laws that may be used to protect one’s reputation or other rights&#160;&#8212; those rights are all reserved and may be enforced separately by the MOOC. Finally, it should be noted that the original educational materials remain intact and preserved, exactly as released (most typically) on the MOOC website. So, there will be a record of the original publishing of the content. But beyond these features of the CC license, community and business norms make it very unlikely that competitor MOOCs will “swoop in” and republish full courses simply because the open license technically makes this a possibility. Norms of academic practice typically carry more weight than any legal restriction made possible through use of an open license. </li>
<p></p>
</ul>
<p>MOOCs should address copyright and licensing early on so they are clear to users how they can utilize and reuse educational materials offered on the site. MOOCs should choose to adopt an open license that meets their goals, but at minimum it is recommended that they choose a public, standardized license that grants to its users the <a href="http://opencontent.org/definition/">“4Rs” of open content</a>: the ability to Reuse, Revise, Remix, and Redistribute the resources. The more permissions MOOCs can offer on their content, the better. Online peer learning community P2PU has provided some useful documentation about <a href="http://info.p2pu.org/2010/05/25/how-to-choose-the-right-licence/">how to choose a license</a>. And CC maintains easy-to-understand information about <a href="http://wiki.creativecommons.org/Marking">how to properly implement the CC license</a> on websites and platforms. Of course, it is important for MOOCs and users of MOOCs to understand some of the copyright and intellectual property considerations that <a href="http://wiki.creativecommons.org/Before_Licensing">they should know about</a> before they adopt an open license for educational content. </p>
<p>MOOCs have captured the public mindshare as an interesting way to deliver high quality education to huge numbers of online learners. In order to maximize the educational benefits that MOOCs promise to provide, they must be “open” in both enrollment <strong>and</strong> licensing. MOOCs should seriously consider applying CC licenses to content they build, asking contributing Universities to openly licnese their courses, and making CC licensing part of their MOOC platforms. By doing so, they’ll be best positioned to serve a diverse set of users and support the flourishing open education movement.</p>


feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=34800
title: Open.Michigan leads real world School of Open class
uri: Open-Michigan-leads-real-world-School-of-Open-class
url: http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/34800
content:
<p style="text-align:center" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/terms/" xmlns:cc="http://creativecommons.org/ns#" about="http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8186/8139171889_a0375d6790_z.jpg"><img src="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/Victoria-Lungu.jpg" alt="Victoria Lungu Leading a School of Open Challenge" /><br /><small><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/openmichigan/8139171889/in/photostream/"><span property="dc:title">Victoria Lungu Leading a School of Open Challenge</span></a> / <span property="cc:attributionName">Open.Michigan</span> / <a rel="license" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/">CC BY</a></small></p>
<p>Last Friday, Open.Michigan <a href="https://open.umich.edu/blog/2012/10/31/michigan-student-leads-school-of-open-challenge/">helped a group of students get Creative Commons savvy</a> in an offline version of the School of Open&#8217;s &#8220;<a href="https://p2pu.org/en/groups/get-cc-savvy/">Get CC Savvy</a>&#8221; challenge, a course originally designed for independent online learners. For those yet unaware, the <a href="http://schoolofopen.org/">School of Open</a> is a growing community initiative that will provide educational resources and professional development courses on the meaning and impact of “openness” in the digital age and its benefit to creative endeavors, education, research, and more. Though offline School of Open workshops and activities have been held (see <a href="http://creativecommons.org/tag/school-of-open">previous School of Open updates</a>), they have primarily focused on creating new courses for the School; Open.Michigan&#8217;s <a href="http://victorialungu.weebly.com/1/post/2012/10/fun-fridays-2435.html">Fun Friday</a> session was the first time actual course material was taught in a real world group setting.</p>
<p>Victoria Lungu, student at the University of Michigan&#8217;s School of Information, who co-organized and led the session with her Open.Michigan colleagues, <a href="http://victorialungu.weebly.com/1/post/2012/11/fun-fridays-what-we-did-what-we-learned-what-next.html">writes</a> about how the event went below.</p>
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<p>Last Friday I ran a workshop at the University of Michigan where a group of eight worked through the P2PU School of Open challenge &#8220;<a href="https://p2pu.org/en/groups/get-cc-savvy/">Get CC Savvy</a>.&#8221; A year ago or even a few months ago, I would have never imagined taking part in such an exciting opportunity.</p>
<p>So what got me here? Well, to put it simply, a class with Kristin Fontichiaro at the School of Information and her choice to pair me with mentor Emily Puckett Rodgers at Open.Michigan. The class and mentorship were structured to give me the chance to explore my personal interest in open education and informal learning opportunities with a focus on information literacy and teaching.</p>
<p>After a few conversations and brainstorming sessions, Emily and I aimed to try and get the educational potential of the School of Open offline and into a group setting. It was an experiment to see how well an online and physical learning environment could work together. </p>
<p>We had some questions.</p>
<ul>
<li>Were the School of Open challenges able to support this kind of learning?</li>
<li>What benefits would there be to learning something like Creative Commons in this sort of setting?</li>
<li>
How do we record the evidence and learning that is taking place?</li>
</ul>
<p>We couldn&#8217;t answer these questions, or any of the other many questions we had. But we were ready to learn something from this event.</p>
<p>The session drew in participants of all different backgrounds from experts in CC/open licensing at Open.Michigan to students interested in librarianship, information policy, and even a student Wikipedian at the University of Michigan. The informal setting allowed for flexibility and creativity on how the session would evolve. I wanted participants to pick how they wanted to learn as long as they followed two measures of engagement: </p>
<ol>
<li>That they <a href="https://p2pu.org/en/groups/create/">created an account</a> with P2PU if they didn’t have one, and </li>
<li>To comment and engage with the actual challenge and its tasks in the discussion areas.</li>
</ol>
<p>I asked for participants to abide by these measures to encourage them to preserve evidence of the types of learning and questions that were inspired by the session and to encourage them to (hopefully) explore P2PU and the School of Open more at a later date. </p>
<p style="text-align:center" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/terms/" xmlns:cc="http://creativecommons.org/ns#" about="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/open.michigan-gets-cc-savvy-1.jpg"><img src="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/open.michigan-gets-cc-savvy-1.jpg" alt="open.michigan-gets-cc-savvy-1" /><br /><small><a href="http://victorialungu.weebly.com/1/post/2012/11/fun-fridays-what-we-did-what-we-learned-what-next.html"><span property="dc:title">University of Michigan students get CC savvy</span></a> / <span property="cc:attributionName">Victoria Lungu</span> / <a rel="license" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/">CC BY</a></small></p>
<p>As seen above, and as evidenced in the &#8220;<a href="https://p2pu.org/en/groups/get-cc-savvy/">Get CC Savvy</a>&#8221; challenge discussion fields, eight of us worked together to explore the content, ask questions, post comments, and discuss personal perspectives and experiences relating to Creative Commons. We were even lucky enough to have an audio clip captured (it can be found and listened to in the <a href="https://p2pu.org/en/groups/get-cc-savvy/content/the-right-license-for-the-job/?pagination_page_number=1#51372">discussion section of Task 3</a> in Get CC Savvy) and a fairly <a href="https://p2pu.org/en/groups/get-cc-savvy/content/elements-of-a-cc-license/?pagination_page_number=1#51358">immediate response</a> from Jane Park, CC Project Manager and P2PU founding volunteer, to one of the participants questions. The multimedia evidence and outside engagement really enhanced the experience and created a rich environment for learning. </p>
<p>While the hour and a half session allowed for this in-depth exploration of Creative Commons, it also taught us about how group dynamics and other factors impact the takeaways and experience. </p>
<ol>
<li>This experience was unique in that it actually had experts in the room, including Open Education Specialist <a href="https://p2pu.org/en/pkleymee/">Piet Kleymeer</a> who helped build the challenge. While this won’t always be the case for others who choose to develop workshops like this, it definitely allowed for a more dynamic conversation and avenues of exploration than if there had not been someone to field questions. Even though we were fortunate in this aspect, it makes me question how deeply one might explore content like Creative Commons in an online module without that facilitation.</li>
<li>Sometimes things built for individual work and short answer don’t always help facilitate a group effort to work through the material. Some of the exercise answers and singular tasks required more front-end effort to structure it into conversations to draw out the participatory aspect of the workshop. While P2PU and School of Open are not necessarily built to support live group workshops as a main source of learning, is there a better way to facilitate this method of learning the challenge content on P2PU?</li>
<li>Capturing the learning that happens in a group can be hard (especially when working through an online module). Early on, we were so involved in the conversation that we had hardly realized no one had captured the ideas we had discussed. Sometimes a discussion board might capture central ideas or themes but it cannot capture the dialogue and discussion that leads to ideas or encourage further exploration that happens in groups. Some of the best learning occurs in collaborative spaces and it is something that should be preserved and shared when possible.</li>
</ol>
<p>With all this in mind, would I do it again? Definitely. It is inspiring to participate in a conversation with minds that strive to understand, explore, and challenge ideas, new or mastered. The opportunity to see the group engagement play out before my eyes shows me the meaningfulness of the material and the ability of collaborative thought to spark interest beyond the framework of a challenge&#8211; where informal learning really starts to take shape. </p>
<hr />
<h3>Get Involved</h3>
<p>Kudos to Victoria and Open.Michigan for piloting this School of Open class! If you&#8217;d also like to contribute to building this initiative:</p>
<ol>
<li>Visit <a href="http://schoolofopen.org/">http://schoolofopen.org</a>. Register for a P2PU account and take or help improve one of the courses listed in various stages of development.</li>
<li>    Join the discussion and introduce yourself and your field of “open” interest: <a href="https://groups.google.com/group/school-of-open">https://groups.google.com/group/school-of-open</a>.</li>
<li>Create a course. You can create directly on the P2PU platform or use <a href="http://pad.p2pu.org">http://pad.p2pu.org</a> for collaborative editing. Just make sure to <a href="mailto:school-of-open@googlegroups.com">email the list</a> or the <a href="mailto:janepark@creativecommons.org">Project Manager</a> (that&#8217;s me) with a link to the working draft so we can help.</li>
</ol>


feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=34758
title: The OER Policy Registry Needs Your Help
uri: The-OER-Policy-Registry-Needs-Your-Help
url: http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/34758
content:
<p style="text-align:center" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/terms/" xmlns:cc="http://creativecommons.org/ns#" about="http://www.flickr.com/photos/opensourceway/5009661706/"><img src="http://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/opencollage.jpg" alt="Teaching Open Source Practices" /><br /><small><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/opensourceway/5009661706/"><span property="dc:title">Teaching Open Source Practices</span></a> / <span property="cc:attributionName">opensource.com</span> / <a rel="license" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/">CC BY-SA</a></small></p>
<p>It is an exciting time for the global open educational resources (OER) movement. In the past few months, several governments and institutions have shown their support for OER:</p>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/34288">California Passes Groundbreaking Open Textbook Legislation</a></li>
<li><a href="http://creativecommons.pl/open-educational-resources-in-the-digital-school-program/">National &#8216;Digital School&#8217; Program in Poland</a></li>
<li><a href="http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/34566">British Columbia Government Lends Support to Open Textbooks</a></li>
<li><a href="http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/34328">US Department of Labor Invests in Open Educational Resources</a></li>
<li><a href="http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/33089">UNESCO 2012 Paris OER Declaration</a></li>
</ul>
<p>Creative Commons believes that there is a clear role for government support of OER. When governments require open licenses on publicly funded resources, they ensure those resources benefit the most people possible. Publicly funded resources should be openly licensed resources. The public should have access to what it paid for.</p>
<p>Advocating for government OER policies is not always easy or straightforward. Earlier this year, <a href="http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/32072">CC announced</a> that we would coordinate and steward a collection of OER open policies. Since then, many members of the global OER community have been working together to compile a database of OER policies as well as toolkits, presentations, and other supporting materials. We call it the <strong><a href="http://wiki.creativecommons.org/OER_Policy_Registry">OER Policy Registry</a></strong>.</p>
<p>The policies in the OER Policy Registry are specific to OER, but may include general open access, ICT, or online learning policies that directly enable OER. There are currently over 60 policies, but we need your help to improve the registry.</p>
<p><strong>First</strong>, please <a href="http://wiki.creativecommons.org/Special:FormEdit/OER_Policy">add new</a> or edit existing OER open policies. We’ve put together some <a href="http://wiki.creativecommons.org/OER_Policy_Registry_Instructions">instructions</a> for navigating, editing, and adding to the policy registry. If you have any questions, please email: <a href="mailto:anna@creativecommons.org">anna@creativecommons.org</a></p>
<p><strong>Second</strong>, please help us spread the word! We need you and your networks to help the OER Policy Registry grow and flourish. Click <strong>Retweet</strong> below to share with your followers:</p>
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet tw-align-center"><p>60+ open policies in the new <a href="https://twitter.com/search/%23OER">#OER</a> Policy Registry. Find out how you can help. <a href="http://t.co/uw5FvkRY" title="http://bit.ly/SIQKgi">bit.ly/SIQKgi</a></p>
<p>&mdash; creativecommons (@creativecommons) <a href="https://twitter.com/creativecommons/status/265562441646219264" data-datetime="2012-11-05T21:13:14+00:00">November 5, 2012</a></p></blockquote>
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<p style="text-align:center">You can also share this announcement via <a href="http://identi.ca/notice/97724346">identi.ca</a> or <a href="https://www.facebook.com/creativecommons/posts/457198397660140">Facebook</a>.</p>
<p>Sharing our collective knowledge of existing OER open policies, in the same way we share open educational resources, will help OER advocates and policymakers learn about, craft and adopt their own OER open policies.  Thank you for your help!  If you have any suggestions or feedback please let us know.</p>


feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=34914
title: CC Europe urges European Commission to support Open Education
uri: CC-Europe-urges-European-Commission-to-support-Open-Education
url: http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/34914
content:
<p>In August <a href="http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/33832">we wrote</a> about the European Commission&#8217;s request for information on the topic <a href="http://ec.europa.eu/dgs/education_culture/consult/open_en.htm"><em>Opening Up Education</em></a>. The point of the consultation is to gauge the need for EU action to promote the adoption and use of Open Educational Resources (OER) and Information Communication Technologies (ICT) in education. Several Creative Commons affiliates in Europe have <a href="http://wiki.creativecommons.org/EC_Consultation_Opening_Up_Education">submitted a joint response</a> to the <a href="http://ec.europa.eu/yourvoice/ipm/forms/dispatch?form=OpeningUpEducation">survey</a>. The jurisdictions signing onto the response include <strong>Luxembourg, Denmark, Greece, Germany, Belgium, United Kingdom, Sweden, Czech Republic,  France, Portugal, Serbia, Poland, Netherlands, Finland, Bulgaria, and Ireland</strong>. </p>
<p>The joint response urges the Commission to support the recommendations in the <a href="/weblog/entry/33089">2012 Paris OER Declaration</a>, which was unanimously supported by UNESCO member nations at the <a href="http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/33089">World Open Educational Resources Congress</a> on 20-22 June 2012. As described in the <a href="http://ec.europa.eu/dgs/education_culture/documents/consult/open_en.pdf">consultation document</a> (PDF), “the EU will use the tools at its disposal (policy guidance, EU regulation whenever relevant, funding mechanisms, exchange of good practices and innovative pilots).” By leveraging these various tools in alignment with the suggestions laid out in the Paris Declaration, the Commission can be very effective in promoting the development and use of OER. Those recommendations urge UNESCO member nations to:</p>
<ol>
<li>Foster awareness and use of OER.</li>
<li>Facilitate enabling environments for use of Information and Communications Technologies (ICT).</li>
<li>Reinforce the development of strategies and policies on OER.</li>
<li>Promote the understanding and use of open licensing frameworks.</li>
<li>Support capacity building for the sustainable development of quality learning materials.</li>
<li>Foster strategic alliances for OER.</li>
<li>Encourage the development and adaptation of OER in a variety of languages and cultural contexts.</li>
<li>Encourage research on OER.</li>
<li>Facilitate finding, retrieving and sharing of OER.</li>
<li>Encourage the open licensing of educational materials produced with public funds.</li>
</ol>
<p>The European Commission is in a position to help coordinate, promote, and support most&#160;&#8212; if not all&#160;&#8212; of these recommendations. In addition, these recommendations align with the <a href="http://ec.europa.eu/europe2020/index_en.htm">Europe 2020 priorities</a>, especially in increasing effective investments in education by encouraging free open access to publicly funded educational content. </p>
<p>The Paris Declaration reaffirms OER as “teaching, learning and research materials in any medium, digital or otherwise, that reside in the public domain or have been released under an open license that permits no-cost access, use, adaptation and redistribution by others with no or limited restrictions.” The EC should support this definition of OER so that users of OER know the rights available to them and so that producers of OER get the credit they deserve. Since a clear legal framework is crucial to the success of OER, we strongly suggest that the  EC consider promoting the use of Creative Commons <a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/">licenses</a> and public domain tools like the <a href="http://creativecommons.org/about/cc0">CC0</a> Public Domain Dedication. CC licenses are globally applicable and are seen as the gold standard for open content licensing. It would be beneficial for the EC to adopt CC licenses because they are already <a href="http://wiki.creativecommons.org/IGO">established</a> and understood, instead of creating customized licenses that may not interoperate with existing solutions.</p>
<p>The full response is available <a href="http://wiki.creativecommons.org/EC_Consultation_Opening_Up_Education">here</a>. </p>


feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=34769
title: Course Creation 101 with P2PU
uri: Course-Creation-101-with-P2PU
url: http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/34769
content:
<p><a href="http://p2pu.org/">P2PU</a> is giving a webinar next week to help new and seasoned community members kickstart their courses, especially those just beginning to flesh out their ideas for a <a href="http://schoolofopen.org/">School of Open</a> course! P2PU Learning Lead, Vanessa Gennarelli, will give an overview of the P2PU course design, and then dive into the step-by-step process of creating a course on the P2PU platform. I will also go over some tips and guidelines specific to creating a course as part of the School of Open, a community initiative that will offer courses on the meaning and application of &#8220;open&#8221; on the web and offline environments.</p>
<p><img src="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/Course-Creation-101-image.jpg" alt="" title="Course Creation 101 image" width="450" height="275" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-35128" /></p>
<p><strong>What</strong>: Course Creation 101 with P2PU (a webinar)<br />
<strong>When</strong>: Wednesday, November 14 at <strong>11am US pacific / 2pm US eastern</strong><br />
<strong>Where</strong>: Collaborate room, no registration or log-in required; simply click the following link: <strong><a href="https://sas.elluminate.com/m.jnlp?password=M.201F591479750E670246FFFB9315F5&#038;sid=2008170">https://sas.elluminate.com/m.jnlp?password=M.201F591479750E670246FFFB9315F5&#038;sid=2008170</a></strong>. We recommend joining 5-10 minutes early to make sure you have the necessary system requirements.</p>
<p>If you can&#8217;t make this webinar, don&#8217;t worry; it will be recorded for posterity and linked from the <a href="http://info.p2pu.org">P2PU website</a>. You can also learn how to <a href="https://p2pu.org/en/groups/make-a-course/">Make a P2PU course in 1/2 hour</a> on your own while referencing these <a href="http://pad.p2pu.org/p/school-of-open-guidelines">School of Open guidelines</a>. P2PU has a <a href="http://help.p2pu.org/">help desk</a> for platform issues you might encounter, and School of Open has a <a href="https://groups.google.com/group/school-of-open">discussion list</a> for iterative feedback.</p>


feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=35179
title: Last Day to Support MediaGoblin!
uri: Last-Day-to-Support-MediaGoblin
url: http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/35179
content:
<p>If you follow Creative Commons&#8217; various social media outlets, you&#8217;ve probably heard us talking about <a href="http://mediagoblin.org/pages/campaign.html">GNU MediaGoblin&#8217;s crowdfunding campaign</a>. Today is the last day to support the campaign, so we wanted to give it one last shout-out.</p>
<p>CC alumnus Chris Webber is MediaGoblin&#8217;s lead developer. It&#8217;s an open-source media-hosting platform. It&#8217;s already CC-enabled, but Chris and his team have some exciting plans for its future, so they&#8217;re running a funding campaign with the help of our friends at the Free Software Foundation. Watch the video to see what&#8217;s on the horizon:</p>
<p><iframe width="560" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/XmlxATwyklc" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe></p>
<p>If you&#8217;d like to help spread the word, then click <strong>Retweet</strong> below:</p>
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet tw-align-center"><p>Today&#8217;s the last day to donate to @<a href="https://twitter.com/mediagoblin">mediagoblin</a>&#8216;s crowdfunding campaign. <a href="http://t.co/KUPh6fuJ" title="http://bit.ly/T5pTrI">bit.ly/T5pTrI</a>Support open media platforms!</p>
<p>&mdash; creativecommons (@creativecommons) <a href="https://twitter.com/creativecommons/status/266951900023357440" data-datetime="2012-11-09T17:14:27+00:00">November 9, 2012</a></p></blockquote>
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<p align="center">You can also spread the word on <a href="http://identi.ca/notice/97800238">identi.ca</a> and <a href="https://www.facebook.com/creativecommons/posts/239953702798847">Facebook</a>.</p>


feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=35072
title: World OER Map: Will You Help Build It?
uri: World-OER-Map-Will-You-Help-Build-It
url: http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/35072
content:
<div style ="float:right;padding:10px" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/terms/" xmlns:cc="/ns#" about="http://www.flickr.com/photos/aleutia/5465789487/"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/aleutia/5465789487/"><img width="320" height="197" src="http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5257/5465789487_8d39845dfe_n.jpg" alt="Global Map Test" /></a>
<p><small><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/aleutia/5465789487/"><span property="dc:title">Global Map Test</span></a> / <span property="cc:attributionName">Mike Rosenberg</span> / <a rel="license" href="/licenses/by/2.0/">CC BY</a></small></p>
</div>
<p><em>Here&#8217;s an exciting opportunity for the open education community. Susan D&#8217;Antoni, a long-time leader in Open Educational Resources (OER), is coordinating an important effort to map the global OER space.</em></p>
<p><em>You can join the list by sending an email to: <a href="mailto:oer-community-request@athabascau.ca">oer-community-request@athabascau.ca</a> and typing &#8220;subscribe&#8221; in the subject line. I have signed up to contribute. I hope you will too.</em></p>
<p><em>Read the complete announcement below for more information.</em></p>
<p>&#160;</p>
<p>Dear Colleagues,</p>
<p>The following invitation is extended to any of you who might be interested in a discussion of how the OER community at large might design, create and sustain an OER world map of institutional initiatives &#8211; to help us connect and communicate.</p>
<p>The objective of this conversation is to consider together whether the global OER community could design and build a world map of OER institutional initiatives.  </p>
<p>Over the past decade, there have been more and more initiatives in more and more countries.  It has become difficult to have a sense of the global OER landscape.  As we seek to communicate with stakeholders, as we seek to connect with potential partners and as we seek to learn from the experience of others, we might find useful a picture of the OER world – a global map of institutional and perhaps national initiatives as a starting point.  Over time, an “OER World Map” could be enhanced as the community wished and found feasible.</p>
<p>Maps can be effective in communicating a message visually. There are already several global maps that have been created for specific OER groups, such as, the Open CourseWare Consortium and the Open University OLnet project in the United Kingdom.</p>
<p>As many of you will remember, the former IIEP OER community showed enormous energy in its interaction.  And importantly, the community showed a capacity to self-organize.  A number of groups came together to translate the report of the group’s consensus on priorities to advance the OER movement.  If mapping the OER world were seen to be useful, perhaps the worldwide OER community could self-organize to build and maintain an OER world map together.</p>
<p>Our conversation is scheduled to take place online over a three-week period from 12 – 30 November.   At the conclusion of the discussion a draft report will be sent to everyone for review and comment.  </p>
<p>In addition to this international discussion in English, some groups have already decided to hold similar interactions in their own languages for their own communities or networks.  Their input will be shared with the international group, and incorporated into the final report of our collective deliberation and conclusions.  We hope others may also wish to organize separate discussions.  </p>
<p>I will be back in contact with further details before we begin.  I am very much looking forward to being back together again.</p>
<p>My best,</p>
<p><a href="mailto:oermapping@gmail.com">Susan</a></p>
<p>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;</p>
<p>Outline of the international discussion </p>
<p><strong>Week 1: What could an OER world map look like? (12- 16 November)</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>Why map the OER landscape?</li>
<li>Essential information and visual presentation</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>Week 2: Could a world map be built collaboratively? (19-23 November)</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>Organizational approach for collaboration</li>
<li>Ensuring the quality of the information</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>Week 3: Reflection and next steps (26-30 November)</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>Design of an “OER World Map”</li>
<li>Organization</li>
<li>Resources available/needed</li>
<li>Next steps</li>
</ul>
<p>Please: </p>
<ul>
<li>Send an email to <a href="mailto:oer-community-request@athabascau.ca">oer-community-request@athabascau.ca</a> and type &#8220;subscribe&#8221; in the subject line.</li>
<li>Share this announcement with your colleagues and networks.</li>
<li>Plan a parallel or follow up discussion in your own language and network and give your feedback for the final report of all the discussions.</li>
</ul>


feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=35165
title: Foundations Step into Open Data Sharing
uri: Foundations-Step-into-Open-Data-Sharing
url: http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/35165
content:
<p>In the past few weeks, the Foundation Center and the philanthropic world have taken two big steps forward in transparency. First, <a href="http://glasspockets.org/work/reportingcommitment/">15 of the nation’s largest foundations joined the “Reporting Commitment,”</a> agreeing to release grant information regularly through Foundation Center’s <a href="http://glasspockets.org/">Glasspockets</a> repository. Then last week, the Foundation Center relaunched <a href="http://www.issuelab.org/">IssueLab</a>, an extensive repository of third-sector research. IssueLab’s mission is to “gather, index, and share the collective intelligence of the social sector” more effectively.</p>
<p>All of the IssueLab metadata is licensed under <a href="/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/">CC BY-NC-SA</a> and all of the content is accessible (for reading, if not necessarily for other uses) for free. Everything released to Glasspockets under the Reporting Commitment is licensed under <a href="/licenses/by-nc/3.0/">BY NC</a>.</p>
<div style ="float:right;padding:10px" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/terms/" xmlns:cc="/ns#" about="http://www.flickr.com/photos/veisto/8159344155/"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/veisto/8159344155/"><img width="320" height="213" src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7134/8159344155_3bae863cfa_n.jpg" alt="OPEN" /></a>
<p><small><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/veisto/8159344155/"><span property="dc:title">Open/Closed</span></a> / <span property="cc:attributionName">Antti T. Nissinen</span> / <a rel="license" href="/licenses/by/2.0/">CC BY</a></small></p>
</div>
<p>Taken together, these initiatives present some interesting possibilities for the future of open data in the foundation space. Foundation Center president Bradford K. Smith discussed the implications of both initiatives in a <a href="http://pndblog.typepad.com/pndblog/2012/11/from-open-data-to-open-knowledge.html">blog post</a>:</p>
<blockquote><p>If you think foundations are only ATM machines and nonprofits just service providers, think again. With the launch of <a href="http://www.issuelab.org/">IssueLab</a>, there is one place you can go to find more than eleven thousand knowledge products published, funded, produced, and/or generated by foundations and nonprofits in the U.S. and around the globe.</p></blockquote>
<blockquote><p>Last month, the Foundation Center announced the Reporting Commitment, an effort by fifteen of America’s largest philanthropic foundations to make their grants data&#160;&#8212; who they give money to, how much, where, and for what purpose&#160;&#8212; available in an open, machine-readable format. Starting today, through IssueLab, the social sector can also access what it knows as a result of that funding. A service of the Foundation Center, IssueLab gathers, indexes, and shares the sector’s collective intelligence on a free, open, and searchable platform, and encourages users to share, copy, distribute, and even adapt the work. It’s a big step for philanthropy and “open knowledge.”</p></blockquote>
<p>Smith went on to explain why it’s important that these resources aren’t just freely available; they’re <em>openly licensed</em> too:</p>
<blockquote><p>Free is good, but IssueLab promotes openness in a number of other ways. First, the metadata&#160;&#8212; the abstracts and “tags” developed for all reports in the collection&#160;&#8212; is available under a Creative Commons license and can be grabbed and/or remixed by anyone as long as they use it for non-commercial purposes. Second, only work that is available for free is included in the IssueLab collection. These are public “assets,” in that the organizations which produced them already have tax-exempt status and/or have received government funding, and they should be easy for the public to find. Sorry but Kardashian Konfidential will not be found on IssueLab. Third, IssueLab itself is an open-source platform whose underlying codebase/framework is continually being improved by a community of developers. And fourth, our own developers embrace the Open Archives Initiative (OAI), which develops and promotes interoperability standards to facilitate the efficient dissemination of online content.</p></blockquote>
<p>Here at Creative Commons, we’re big proponents of foundations and other institutions sharing their data&#160;&#8212; and the works they produce or fund&#160;&#8212; under an open license. It makes sense for foundations to reciprocate the public’s trust by showing how philanthropic dollars have been spent, and the foundations that join in the Reporting Commitment make that information available much sooner and much more easily than it is under the federally-required information returns. By use of Glasspockets, the public can see and compare the activities of the participating foundations. Private foundations are tax-exempt because they are dedicated to the public benefit; those that share their data and research in ways that invite the reuse and contributions of others add a valuable new dimension to their public service.</p>


feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=35194
title: TAG 2012 Keynote: Growing Into Mission-Supporting Technology
uri: TAG-2012-Keynote-Growing-Into-Mission-Supporting-Technology
url: http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/35194
content:
<p>Today, I&#8217;m honored to be a keynote speaker at the Technology Affinity Group conference in Monterey, CA. I&#8217;ll be talking about my career and my experiences in the open space, and sharing three suggestions for the foundation community:</p>
<p><strong>Technology deserves a bigger place at the table.</strong> Technology is what drives the big innovations in the philanthropic world, but all too often, the technology people don&#8217;t have enough of a voice in a foundation&#8217;s leadership. That&#8217;s a problem that I think foundations need to address before they can work at full potential.</p>
<p><strong>Share by default.</strong> When foundations share their data, it&#8217;s often the exception rather than the rule. What if foundations made sharing <em>the default</em>? Yesterday, <a href="http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/35165">we blogged about</a> a group of foundations making a commitment to share their grant data regularly, openly, and in a usable format. I&#8217;ll be applauding the Reporting Commitment and urging other foundations to get onboard.</p>
<p><strong>Bake open into philanthropy.</strong> Every foundation wants to get the most good for its money. There&#8217;s a strong argument that grant dollars go further if they go toward openly-licensed work and resources.</p>
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<p>Do you have any questions or thoughts from the session? Share them in the comments.</p>


feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=35199
title: WIPO’s Broadcasting Treaty: Still Harmful, Still Unnecessary
uri: WIPO-s-Broadcasting-Treaty-Still-Harmful-Still-Unnecessary
url: http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/35199
content:
<p>Creative Commons has been involved in discussions at the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) over the last several years, and we’ve <a href="http://wiki.creativecommons.org/WIPO">made interventions</a> in support of the public domain, as well as other topics. </p>
<p>One issue in particular that is resurfacing at WIPO is a draft treaty for the <a href="http://www.wipo.int/pressroom/en/briefs/broadcasting.html">Protection of Broadcasting Organizations</a>, or “Broadcasting Treaty.” If passed, the Broadcasting Treaty would grant to broadcasters a separate, exclusive copyright-like right in the signals that they transmit, separate from any copyrights they or others may have in the content of the transmissions. Some advocates of the treaty support granting these rights to broadcasters for a minimum of 50 years (and others, for a minimum of 20). And, because these additional rights would add a layer of rights atop the underlying copyright in the works being broadcast, the Broadcasting Treaty would permit broadcasters to restrict access to works already licensed under a Creative Commons license, or in the public domain. This new set of rights would unnecessarily complicate the rights-negotiation process that Creative Commons has attempted to simplify. </p>
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<p>The Broadcasting Treaty has been on and off WIPO’s agenda since at least 1996. This is not the first time that CC has voiced its concern about the potentially harmful effects of a Broadcasting Treaty. In 2006, we signed a <a href="http://wiki.creativecommons.org/images/6/69/NGO_joint_statement_SCCR_15.pdf">letter of concern</a> (PDF) with 37 other organizations representing a broad range of information technology, consumer electronics and telecommunications companies, library associations, and civil society organizations. The letter told WIPO that if a treaty is deemed necessary, it should be based on a “signal-based” approach, focusing specifically on protecting broadcasting signals from intentional misappropriation or theft. The statement called for the inclusion of a mandatory baseline set of limitations and exceptions in order to ensure that uses of broadcasted content that are lawful under copyright law are not inhibited by the treaty. And in general, the letter questioned the need for a Broadcasting Treaty in the first place, suggesting that current legal frameworks already provide the necessary enforcement mechanism for “signal piracy” (unauthorized use of a broadcast, prohibited by the broadcaster). </p>
<h2>Why is a Broadcasting Treaty problematic for users of Creative Commons licenses?</h2>
<p>A <a href="http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0014/001464/146498e.pdf">report</a> (PDF) by Professor Patrícia Akester, commissioned by UNESCO, concluded that a Broadcasting Treaty could “prevent or restrict the flow of information with respect to materials which may not be protected by copyright, such as news of the day, or which are in the public domain, because their term of protection has expired or in relation to materials created by third parties who do not wish to prevent dissemination of the latter&#8230; . For example, a broadcast of a speech by a public official may be covered by the scope of the proposed Treaty, even though it may not be protected by copyright, and a broadcast of materials under a Creative Commons license may prevent users from fixing such materials.” Anyone who would want to use a broadcast would have been compelled to get permission from the broadcaster <em>in addition</em> to the copyright holder. This would negatively affect users of Creative Commons licenses. It would grant broadcasters an additional right above and beyond those rights granted to the copyright holder. So, even though CC licenses provide for a clear set of permissions in advance, broadcasters’ rights could trump those rights, requiring that a user get permission or pay a license fee to the broadcaster to use the broadcasted content. Most WIPO member nations have agreed to pursue the more limited signal-based approach, but it’s not clear whether this path would avoid interfering with the permissions granted from the Creative Commons licenses. </p>
<p>CC licenses forbid licensees from applying adding technological protection measures (<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_rights_management">DRM</a>) to a work if doing so prohibits other users from exercising the rights granted under the license. A broadcast treaty that authorizes application of DRM to their signals&#160;&#8212; depending on its final scope&#160;&#8212; would very likely conflict with that prohibition. Moreover, the Treaty permits countries to enact far-reaching anti-circumvention laws that stop users from breaking DRM to use the broadcast content&#160;&#8212; inclusive of any CC-licensed content, which by the terms of the license is expressly permitted. This may put licensees in a situation of either not being able to exercise rights granted under copyright via the CC licenses, or risk violating law when they circumvent the technological protection measure to do so. </p>
<p>Adding additional intellectual property rights via a broadcast right is bad policy and yet another representation of the expanding rights grab from entities who are not the copyright holder. And <a href="http://www.publicknowledge.org/blog/broadcast-treaty-vs-broadcast-law">said well by Public Knowledge</a>, “Intellectual property rights should go to authors or inventors, not middlemen.” This statement represents the underlying utility of Creative Commons since its inception: CC licenses provide powerful yet easy-to-implement solutions in order to reduce the legal transaction costs associated with sharing content. In addition, the Broadcasting Treaty could give rise to a sort of re-enclosure of the public domain by granting rights to broadcasters even after a user has placed a work in the public domain using the <a href="http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/">CC0 Public Domain Dedication</a>. </p>
<p>The creation of new “copyright-like” rights has been increasing over the last several years, to the detriment of creativity and innovation. The Broadcasting Treaty is a direct attack on the rights of creators to share their work as they see fit under the existing (and increasingly protectionist) copyright regime. As Mike Linksvayer <a href="http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/25560">wrote in 2010</a>, “With a proliferation of rights, it is harder to know who has exclusive control over what, or whether multiple parties have exclusive control over different rights over a work. This phenomenon of too many property claims forms what is sometimes called an anticommons&#160;&#8212; overlapping exclusive claims can prevent <em>anyone</em> from using a work&#160;&#8212; the opposite (thus “anti”) of a commons, in which <em>anyone</em> may use a work under a clear, easily discernible set of rules.” Creative Commons licenses have been a successful mechanism for creators who want to share to communicate their intentions clearly in an environment that has been increasingly hostile toward them. The Broadcast Treaty is antithetical to these methods of sharing and collaboration, but perhaps most harmful to CC-licensed works and to the public domain. </p>
<h2>Bottom line: A Broadcasting Treaty is not needed</h2>
<p>Is there need for such a treaty? Public interest advocates point out that the additional rights granted to broadcasters via a Broadcasting Treaty are simply not necessary because broadcasters already have legal remedies available to them to combat signal theft. An often cited example is the famous case of the Canadian company <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ICraveTV">iCraveTV</a>. iCraveTV decided to broadcast via the Internet 17 US-based channels on the grounds that local laws allowed it to transmit wireless broadcast cable signals without paying. And, because these channels were received at the Canadian border, iCraveTV argued it was exempt from paying royalties. Broadcasters in the US sued iCraveTV alleging copyright infringement. iCraveTV quickly settled, and the site shuttered shortly thereafter. </p>
<p>Copyright law already grants a complex bundle of rights to authors, and most of the time broadcasters are either copyright holders or licensees of copyrights. Public Knowledge <a href="http://www.publicknowledge.org/blog/broadcast-treaty-copyfraud-tech-neutrality">notes</a>, “broadcast signal piracy is almost always also copyright infringement and already illegal.” Similarly, Knowledge Ecology International <a href="http://keionline.org/node/1562">wonders why</a> the Broadcasting Treaty is necessary:  “[W]e have yet to hear a cogent explanation of the problem the treaty is supposed to solve, or how it will work. We have asked the US government and other countries to explain what piracy problem the broadcaster treaty is expected to solve that can&#8217;t be solved by enforcing existing copyright laws and related rights laws, and we are still waiting for an answer.” </p>
<p>Establishing a Broadcasting Treaty could in effect negate the permissions that users of Creative Commons licenses wish to communicate, and grant unwarranted rights to broadcasting organizations that have added little or no value to the underlying work being transmitted. The proposed benefit to society resulting from creation and enforcement of additional rights for broadcasters under a Broadcasting Treaty is unclear. If there is a dire need to create additional rights for broadcasting organizations, the data demonstrating this need should be presented and impartially evaluated. If there is no discernable reason backed up by data, then the treaty should be abandoned. </p>
<h2>What are the next steps?</h2>
<p>Right now WIPO has released a <a href="http://www.wipo.int/edocs/mdocs/copyright/en/sccr_25/sccr_25_10.pdf">working document</a> (PDF) on the draft treaty, to be discussed and negotiated at the upcoming WIPO Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights (SCCR) meeting taking place in Geneva 19-23 November. Creative Commons is considering developing an intervention for the meeting, as we have permission to attend and contribute to the WIPO proceedings alongside other NGOs. We urge WIPO to make these deliberations as transparent as possible so that the public knows about the discussions. The Electronic Frontier Foundation has already <a href="https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2012/08/negotiations-2014-wipo-broadcasting-treaty-are-back">raised concerns</a> that WIPO is pushing for a treaty to be signed quickly. And they also <a href="https://www.eff.org/sites/default/files/EFF_on_WIPO_Broadcast_Treaty.pdf">released a statement</a> (PDF) during the July SCCR meeting. WIPO should carefully consider the implications to the public interest and properly address the recommendations from civil society organizations.</p>


feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=35290
title: Building an Innovation-Based Economy with Creative Commons
uri: Building-an-Innovation-Based-Economy-with-Creative-Commons
url: http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/35290
content:
<p>In a <a href="http://www.brookings.edu/research/papers/2012/11/13-innovation-technology-west-friedman-valdivia">paper</a> released in conjunction with a <a href="http://www.brookings.edu/events/2012/11/13-innovation-agenda" target="_blank">panel</a> discussion, the Brookings Institution identifies promising policy ideas to encourage entrepreneurship and innovative growth in the technology industry.</p>
<blockquote><p>&#8220;We need to <i>improve knowledge transmission </i>through faster adoption of digital textbooks, more <b>widespread use of creative commons licenses for instructional materials developed with taxpayer dollars,</b> and policy changes that speed education innovation.&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<blockquote><p>&#8220;In an era of limited resources, educators must figure out how to do more with fewer financial resources. One action that would improve school efficiency and financing is to <b><i>have educational resources developed with taxpayer dollars be licensed under a creative commons license that would improve accessibility to instructional materials</i>. </b>Budget circumstances require schools to get more efficient, boost productivity, and make do with fewer financial resources. While this poses obvious problems for school districts, it also creates the possibility of making changes in business operations that are innovative and transformational.&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<blockquote><p>&#8220;Throughout each of these initiatives, <i>we should have metrics assessing education innovation implementation and impact</i>. We should determine how fast we are transitioning from paper to digital textbooks, <b>leverage the use of creative commons licenses</b>, and enforce changes in education policy and accreditation that encourage more innovative approaches to learning and achievement.&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<p>The report also endorses <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Research_Public_Access_Act">FRPAA</a> legislation that would <i>&#8220;mandate public dissemination of federally funded research within six months of publication </i>(for agencies with extramural funding exceeding $100 million).&#8221;<br />
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feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=35160
title: Introducing the CC Science Advisory Board
uri: Introducing-the-CC-Science-Advisory-Board
url: http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/35160
content:
<p>Creative Commons has formed a new <a href="http://creativecommons.org/science/board" title="More on the SAB.">Science Advisory Board (SAB)</a> to guide its science program and to provide overall strategic vision and focus. The SAB brings legal, institutional as well as domain-specific knowledge in the use and sharing of scientific tools and data. Our SAB is made up of eminent scholars and practitioners from different disciplines and four continents who have volunteered to provide us both the domain expertise as well as regional perspective to help create a truly globally responsive program. We are grateful to <strong>Gilberto Camara</strong>, <strong>Michael Carroll</strong>, <strong>Robert Chen</strong>, <strong>Juncai Ma</strong>, <strong>Peter Murray-Rust</strong>, <strong>Mackenzie Smith</strong>, and <strong>John Wilbanks</strong> for their time and insight.</p>
<p>Creative Commons works with scientists and institutions, providing education and outreach on the right technologies and licenses to maximize legal interoperability of scientific data and tools. Since most science is both cross-discipline and cross-border, legal interoperability of data and tools facilitates collaboration, enables reproducibility and verifiability, and makes it possible to extract a higher return on investment in publicly funded scientific programs through reuse of information.</p>


feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=35279
title: 500px Announces Creative Commons Licensing Options
uri: 500px-Announces-Creative-Commons-Licensing-Options
url: http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/35279
content:
<p><strong><a href="http://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/500px_creative_commons.pdf">Read the full press release. (PDF)</a></strong></p>
<p>This morning, photo-sharing platform <a href="http://500px.com/">500px</a> announced that it now offers Creative Commons licensing options. 500px has become a hub for talented photographers in recent years, and it&#8217;s great to see it join the ranks of CC-enabled platforms.</p>
<p>From the press release:</p>
<blockquote><p>&#8220;While our platform still defaults to full copyright protection as it always has, we want to give our photographers as much flexibility as possible to spread their work and build their profiles and businesses,&#8221; says Oleg Gutsol, CEO, 500px. &#8220;Our move to offer Creative Commons licensing is another way we’re providing additional services and value to meet the needs of our growing community.&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<blockquote><p>With tens of millions of high quality professional photos potentially now available through Creative Commons, 500px is planning for the increased traffic from bloggers, publishers and media outlets that have been clamoring to get at the content for several years.</p></blockquote>
<blockquote><p>&#8220;We’ve built content searching by keywords and applicable license right into the functionality,&#8221; says Gutsol. &#8220;Our hope is that this targeted searching makes it seamless for people to find the content they’re looking for.&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<blockquote><p>With this rollout, 500px joins the ranks of other prominent rich media communities such as Vimeo, SoundCloud and YouTube who already have Creative Commons in place.</p></blockquote>
<blockquote><p>&#8220;500px is a great addition to the family of CC-compatible media platforms,&#8221; Creative Commons CEO Cathy Casserly said. &#8220;500px caters to a talented and intelligent community of photographers, just the sort of users we&#8217;re always excited to see licensing their work under CC. I&#8217;ll be curious to see how creative people everywhere reuse and remix the work of 500px photographers.&#8221;</p></blockquote>


feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=35323
title: CC-Licensed Documentary Explores Personality Rights Issues
uri: CC-Licensed-Documentary-Explores-Personality-Rights-Issues
url: http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/35323
content:
<p>A few weeks ago, CC received an interesting email from filmmaker <a href="https://twitter.com/Annie_Berman">Annie Berman</a>. She told us about a CC-licensed documentary she&#8217;s been working on called <a href="http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/annieberman/the-faithful-the-king-the-pope-the-princess"><i>The Faithful</i></a>. The film explores issues of fandom and ritual, with Elvis Presley, Pope John Paul II, and and Princess Diana as its focal points.</p>
<p>As Annie was working the film, she contacted by Robert Sillerman&#160;&#8212; owner of the name, image, and likeness of Elvis Presley&#160;&#8212; for an interview. And suddenly, <i>The Faithful</i> was not only about the followers of iconic figures, but also about who owns their images.</p>
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<p><a href="http://vimeo.com/53135178">THE FAITHFUL Teaser, as seen at REMIX NYC</a> from <a href="http://vimeo.com/thefaithful">Fish in the Hand Productions</a> on <a href="http://vimeo.com">Vimeo</a>.</p>
<p>The film features an interview with CC founder Lawrence Lessig. In the clip below, Larry answers a pressing question: can Annie Berman make this film?</p>
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<p><a href="http://vimeo.com/53644517">Excerpts from Lawrence Lessig Interview, THE FAITHFUL</a> from <a href="http://vimeo.com/thefaithful">Fish in the Hand Productions</a> on <a href="http://vimeo.com">Vimeo</a>.</p>
<p>You can support the film on <a href="http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/annieberman/the-faithful-the-king-the-pope-the-princess">Kickstarter</a> through the end of November. For more CC-licensed projects, <a href="http://www.kickstarter.com/pages/creativecommons">visit our Kickstarter page</a>.</p>
<p><i><strong>Updated November 20:</strong> We incorrectly reported that Robert Sillerman initially contacted Annie Berman while she was working on the documentary. She contacted him.</i></p>


feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=35340
title: Paul Brest Named Creative Commons Chair
uri: Paul-Brest-Named-Creative-Commons-Chair
url: http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/35340
content:
<p><a href="http://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/Paul_Brest_Creative_Commons_chair.pdf"><strong>Read the full press release. (PDF)</strong></a></p>
<p>I&#8217;m delighted to announce that Paul Brest has been elected chair of the Creative Commons board. Paul will begin as chair in December, coinciding with CC&#8217;s <a href="http://10.creativecommons.org">tenth anniversary celebrations</a>.</p>
<p>Throughout his career, Paul has bridged the worlds of law, philanthropy, and academia, most recently as president of the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation and, before that, dean of Stanford Law School. He&#8217;s widely recognized as an expert on constitutional law, problem solving and decision making, and philanthropic strategy, having written books and taught classes at Stanford on these subjects.</p>
<p>I can&#8217;t think of a better choice than Paul. He has that rare combination of strong instincts and the knowledge and rigor to back those instincts up. He&#8217;s the leader we need to carry CC into the next decade.</p>
<p>I&#8217;d also like to take this opportunity to recognize <a href="http://creativecommons.org/board#joiito">Joi Ito</a> for his years of service as chair. During Joi&#8217;s time as chair, he&#8217;s helped CC grow as an organization, both in global influence and in its relevance to a changing technology landscape.</p>
<p>Please join me in thanking Joi and welcoming Paul.</p>


feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=35351
title: Africa’s First 3.0 Licenses!
uri: Africa-s-First-3-0-Licenses
url: http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/35351
content:
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<p>We are pleased to announce the launch of the Creative Commons 3.0 Uganda licenses. Since joining the Creative Commons family in March of 2011, the Ugandan team has been incredibly busy: hosting the <a href="http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/33267">African Regional Meeting</a>, pulling together petitions for the Pan-African Intellectual Property Organization, and spreading the news about CC licenses. While doing all these great activities, they&#8217;ve also completed one of the last 3.0 ports.</p>
<p>The licenses are available through the <a href="/choose/?field_jurisdiction=ug">license chooser</a>, and like all of our licenses, are intended for use anywhere in the world. The Uganda 3.0 licenses are important as the first 3.0 licenses in Africa and one of the last 3.0 ports before the launch of the new 4.0 licenses.</p>
<p>Creative Commons would like to extend a huge thanks to the whole <a href="http://wiki.creativecommons.org/Uganda">CC Uganda team</a>; The National Book Trust of Uganda (NABOTU); the Centre for Health, Human Rights and Development (CEHURD); and especially to Primah Kwagala for leading the porting team.</p>


feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=35459
title: CC10: A party on every continent!
uri: CC10-A-party-on-every-continent
url: http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/35459
content:
<div style ="float:center;padding:10px" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/terms/" xmlns:cc="/ns#" about="http://www.flickr.com/photos/47993455@N00/8245827765/"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/47993455@N00/8245827765/"><img width="600" src="http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8200/8245827765_04e23993e1.jpg" alt="FIESTA 10 aniversario CC"/></a>
<p><small><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/47993455@N00/8245827765/"><span property="dc:title">FIESTA 10 aniversario CC: CC Costa Rica wishes CC happy 10th birthday at Bar El Lobo Estepario, San Jose</span></a> / <span property="cc:attributionName">Adrian Coto</span> / <a rel="license" href="/licenses/by/2.0/">CC BY</a></small></p>
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<p>As you know, any second now we&#8217;ll be officially launching CC&#8217;s 10th birthday celebrations. But the party has already started for our global community.</p>
<p>Over the course of the 10 days of CC10, more than 25 events celebrating CC&#8217;s first decade will be held around the world, on every continent except Antarctica (we&#8217;re working on that one). These global events are arguably the most important part of our CC10 celebrations, as they are hosted by and bring together our community, the people who make CC happen. Most are being run by our local <a href="http://wiki.creativecommons.org/Affiliates">affiliate teams</a>, although a few are run by other friends of CC, like the <a href="http://dunedin.linux.net.nz/Main/HomePage" target="_blank">Dunedin Linux Users Group</a> or the <a href="http://library.auraria.edu/" target="_blank">Auraria Library</a> in Denver. They include all kinds of events in all kinds of places &#8211; from a <a href="http://wiki.creativecommons.org/Creative_Commons_10_years_-_Working_with_CC_in_Schools" target="_blank">teachers&#8217; breakfast</a> in Stockholm to a <a href="http://wiki.creativecommons.org/Conference_and_Cocktail!" target="_blank">Conference and Cocktails</a> in Nairobi. CC HQ is having it&#8217;s own party on 8 December here in San Francisco, with speakers, DJs and fun activities &#8211; but we are completely overshadowed by the <a href="http://wiki.creativecommons.org/CC10">dozens of parties happening in the rest of the world</a>. </p>
<p>We <em>think</em> the first party (there are so many it&#8217;s hard to keep track) was <del datetime="2012-12-07T16:23:33+00:00">a <a href="http://platform4.dk/node/959">film screening in Aalborg</a> on 13 November hosted by <a href="http://www.creativecommons.dk/">CC Denmark</a> and <a href="http://platform4.dk/">KinoPlatform</a>. Between then and now we&#8217;ve had parties</del> in  <a href="http://wiki.creativecommons.org/CC_%2B10_Costa_Rica" target="_blank">Costa Rica</a> (you can see photos of it already up in our <a href="http://www.flickr.com/groups/2138128@N21/pool/with/8245827765/#photo_8245827765">CC10 Flickr group</a>). Between then and now we&#8217;ve had <a href="http://www.creativecommons.org.nz/2012/11/creative-commons-is-turning-ten/" target="_blank">New Zealand</a>, <a href="http://wiki.creativecommons.org/Creative_Commons_Venezuela_Focus_Group">Venezuela</a> and, just last night, <a href="http://cc-braai-sa.eventbrite.com/" target="_blank">South Africa</a> &#8211; and there are many more in the coming week. The final event that we know of during the CC10 week will be a party at the <a href="http://www.global-congress.org/">Global Congress on IP and the Public Interest</a> in Rio de Janeiro, on 15 December (beating <a href="http://wiki.creativecommons.org/CC_Korea_Hope_Day">Korea</a>, <a href="http://wiki.creativecommons.org/CC_Salon_Muscat">Oman</a> and <a href="http://wiki.creativecommons.org/10_ans_de_partage_avec_Creative_Commons">Paris</a> by its timezone). But even that will be trumped by <a href="http://creativecommons.jp/cc10/" target="_blank">CC Japan&#8217;s Anniversary Party</a> in Tokyo on December 22. </p>
<p>So hop over to our <a href="http://wiki.creativecommons.org/CC10">CC10 wiki page</a> to see if there&#8217;s a party near you.</p>
<p>For all those hosting a CC10 event around the world, CC&#8217;s CEO Cathy Casserly has this message.</p>
<p><iframe width="560" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/sPuSg53RFb0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe></p>
<blockquote style="border: 2px solid #666; padding: 10px; background-color: #ccc;"><p>Want to hold your own CC10 party? There&#8217;s nothing to it. Just get a few friends together and listen to some CC music, watch some CC films, or read some CC books &#8211; or better yet, share, remix and recreate them. Then add your party to our events wiki, putting &#8220;CC10&#8243; in the event type, and it will automatically be copied to our CC10 website and spread throughout our network. And for good measure, let us know by emailing press@creativecommons.org. You can download all the CC10 logos and everything else you might need for promotion from our <a href="http://wiki.creativecommons.org/CC10" target="_blank">wiki</a>.</p></blockquote>
<p>Correction: CC Denmark was incorrectly marked as being 13 November &#8211; it is 13 December.</p>


feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=35450
title: #cc10 Featured Platform: Scribd
uri: cc10-Featured-Platform-Scribd
url: http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/35450
content:
<p>In celebration of <a href="http://10.creativecommons.org/">Creative Commons&#8217; tenth anniversary</a>, we&#8217;re writing about various platforms that host CC-licensed content. Today, we&#8217;re featuring document-sharing site <a href="http://www.scribd.com/">Scribd</a>.</p>
<p>Most people reading this are probably quite familiar with Scribd. It&#8217;s an easy, reliable place to publish documents and presentations. A lot of professional publishers use it, including <a href="http://www.scribd.com/prathambooks">our friends at Pratham Books</a>. One thing that&#8217;s neat about Scribd is its embed feature: you can insert documents into a website, just like YouTube videos or Flickr photos.</p>
<p>I asked Scribd content and community manager Taylor Pipes to recommend a few of his favorite CC-licensed works on Scribd, and I also asked him a few questions.</p>
<p><a title="View Street Photography an eBook by Alex Coghe on Scribd" href="http://www.scribd.com/doc/81546252/Street-Photography-an-eBook-by-Alex-Coghe" style="margin: 12px auto 6px auto; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,Sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; -x-system-font: none; display: block; text-decoration: underline;">Street Photography an eBook by Alex Coghe</a><iframe class="scribd_iframe_embed" src="http://www.scribd.com/embeds/81546252/content?start_page=1&#038;view_mode=scroll&#038;access_key=key-51pqcefuorgpj5ep87x" data-auto-height="false" data-aspect-ratio="0.706697459584296" scrolling="no" id="doc_22857" width="400" height="600" frameborder="0"></iframe></p>
<p><strong>How much of the content on Scribd is CC-licensed? Has that number stayed constant or changed since you implemented CC licensing?</strong></p>
<p>Most of the content published on Scribd is CC-licensed, as we encourage authors to use CC licenses when possible. We&#8217;ve seen the number of CC-licensed works on Scribd grow by over 100% year over year. While our library encompasses over 25 million documents, 20 million of them have been uploaded utilizing the Creative Commons license.</p>
<p><strong>Have there been any unexpected results to CC licensing on Scribd? People reusing each other&#8217;s documents in surprising or unusual ways?</strong></p>
<p>Probably the most powerful result of CC licensing has been the proliferation of embedded Scribd documents around the web. We have more than 10 million Scribd document embeds now, and many of those are from bloggers or other independent writers. Because of Creative Commons licenses, these bloggers are able to integrate the content of these works on Scribd into their own writing.</p>
<p><a title="View Free Culture by Lawrence Lessig on Scribd" href="http://www.scribd.com/doc/2022538/Free-Culture-by-Lawrence-Lessig" style="margin: 12px auto 6px auto; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,Sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; -x-system-font: none; display: block; text-decoration: underline;">Free Culture by Lawrence Lessig</a><iframe class="scribd_iframe_embed" src="http://www.scribd.com/embeds/2022538/content?start_page=1&#038;view_mode=scroll&#038;access_key=key-ay2py8nkewldkexkzpa" data-auto-height="false" data-aspect-ratio="0.667029379760609" scrolling="no" id="doc_72935" width="400" height="600" frameborder="0"></iframe></p>
<p><strong>Since Scribd launched, have your community&#8217;s attitudes toward sharing changed?</strong></p>
<p>We&#8217;ve definitely seen an increase in user understanding and awareness of the sharing now possible with social media. Authors have realized that allowing users to remix and re-publish their content is a great way to help their content go viral and get distribution around the web. We are in an entirely different place with publishing, which is truly astonishing. The amount of change and disruption that has occurred in the last few years is a testament to the radical innovation stemming from mobile. We feel quite strongly that our work, especially with CC-documents and publications, is helping to write a new chapter in publishing.</p>
<p><strong>Taylor&#8217;s favorite CC-licensed works on Scribd</strong></p>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://www.scribd.com/doc/100638806/Journalist-Field-Guide-To-Mobile-Reporting">Journalist Field Guide to Mobile Reporting</a></li>
<li><em><a href="http://www.scribd.com/doc/2022538/Free-Culture-by-Lawrence-Lessig">Free Culture</a></em> by Lawrence Lessig</li>
<li><em><a href="http://www.scribd.com/doc/239919/Simple-Nature-by-Benjamin-Crowell">Simple Nature</a></em> by Benjamin Crowell</li>
<li><em><a href="http://www.scribd.com/doc/81546252/Street-Photography-an-eBook-by-Alex-Coghe">Street Photography</a></em> by Alex Coghe</li>
</ul>


feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=35440
title: #cc10 Featured Content: Cory Doctorow on Rudy Rucker
uri: cc10-Featured-Content-Cory-Doctorow-on-Rudy-Rucker
url: http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/35440
content:
<div style ="float:left;padding:10px" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/terms/" xmlns:cc="http://creativecommons.org/ns#" about="http://www.flickr.com/photos/doctorow/4117542378/"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/doctorow/4117542378/"><img width="213" height="320" src="http://farm3.staticflickr.com/2517/4117542378_649b0d1661_n.jpg" alt="Cory Doctorow" /></a>
<p><small><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/doctorow/4117542378/"><span property="dc:title">Cory Doctorow</span></a> / <a href="http://nkguy.com/"><span property="cc:attributionName">NK Guy</span></a> / <a rel="license" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/">CC BY-SA</a></small></p>
</div>
<p><em>In celebration of <a href="http://10.creativecommons.org/">Creative Commons&#8217; tenth anniversary</a>, we asked various friends of CC to write about their favorite CC-licensed content. Today, blogger and science fiction author <a href="http://craphound.com/">Cory Doctorow</a> writes about the CC-licensed novels of one of the original cyberpunks.</em></p>
<h2>Rudy Rucker&#8217;s <em>Wetware</em> books: the finest high-weirdness of the<br />
golden age of cyberpunk</h2>
<p>Rudy Rucker is one of the modern heroes of science fiction, one of the original cyberpunks. The early cyberpunks only had a few writers who could be meaningfully called punks &#8212; writers like John Shirley and Richard Kadrey &#8212; but there was only one who could truly be called <em>cyber</em>: Rudy Rucker. Rucker is a mad professor, a mathematician and computer scientist with a serious, scholarly interest in the limits of computation and the physics and mathematics of higher-dimension geometry.</p>
<div style ="float:right;padding:10px"><a href="http://www.rudyrucker.com/wares/"><img width="200" height="301" src="http://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/rucker_cover.jpg" alt="The Ware Tetralogy" /></a></div>
<p>But that&#8217;s just about the only thing you can describe as &#8220;serious&#8221; when it comes to Rucker. He&#8217;s a gonzo wildman, someone for whom &#8220;trippy&#8221; barely scratches the surface. His work is shot through with weird sex, weird drugs, weird brain chemistry, and above all, weird science.</p>
<p>The <a href="http://www.rudyrucker.com/wares/">Ware Tetralogy</a> is comprised of four novels written between 1982 and 2000, and I gobbled them up as they came out. They describe a future dominated by intensely weird and eerily scientifically plausible self-modifying cluster organisms that use evolutionary algorithms to bud offspring, rising to contend with humanity for dominance of the Earth and its envrions. They also get very, very high. On math. And they screw. A lot. Not like weasels. Not, in fact, like <em>anything</em>. Because Rudy Rucker is NOT LIKE ANYTHING.</p>
<p>Rucker is a tremendously prolific writer and editor who is publishing some of his finest work today (I&#8217;ve got his latest, the independently published <a href="http://www.rudyrucker.com/turingandburroughs/">Turing and Burroughs</a> sitting at the top of my to-be-read pile as I write this). But the Ware books remain at the core of what I think of as the fiction that shaped who I am as a writer and thinker. And they&#8217;re <a href="http://www.rudyrucker.com/wares/rucker_ware_tetralogy_cc2010_2.pdf">available as a free, CC-licensed download</a> (PDF).</p>


feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=35481
title: CC10: Day 1
uri: CC10-Day-1
url: http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/35481
content:
<p><a href="http://10.creativecommons.org/"><img src="http://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/cc10-700.png" width=700 height=324/></a></p>
<p>Welcome to the very first day of Creative Commons&#8217; 10th birthday celebrations!</p>
<p>Over the next 10 days we will be celebrating CC&#8217;s first decade with activities, events, tweets and competitions. As well as <a href="http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/35459">dozens of real world parties</a>, we&#8217;ve set up a dedicated <a href="http://10.creativecommons.org" target="_blank">CC10 website</a> as a hub for all things birthday. Each day on this site we will be showcasing highlights from the CC community &#8211; some of our favorite users, platforms and resources. Like an advent calendar, these featured items will be &#8216;revealed&#8217; as each day of the CC10 website goes live, along with the events for that day and following days, and other exciting announcements and materials. You&#8217;ll be able to navigate backwards to previous days using the dates at the top of the page.</p>
<p>We kick off our CC showcase today looking at the world of CC and text, with a <a href="http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/35440">blog post</a> from one of CC&#8217;s longest running and most vocal supporters &#8211; <a href="http://craphound.com/">Cory Doctorow</a>. Cory introduces us to one of his favorite CC-licensed works, <a href="http://www.rudyrucker.com/blog/2007/08/25/what-is-wetware/">Rudy Rucker’s Wetware books</a>, which he calls &#8220;the finest high-weirdness of the golden age of cyberpunk.&#8221; We also bring you an interview with Taylor Pipes of <a href="http://www.scribd.com/">Scribd</a>, a digital document sharing platform with more than 25 million texts, an amazing 80% of which are CC-licensed. And finally, we give you all (or at least those of you who speak Swedish) a primer on the CC licenses, what they mean and which is best for you, with <a href="http://www.creativecommons.se/" target="_blank">CC Sweden</a>&#8216;s <a href="https://www.iis.se/docs/Creative-Commons-Webb.pdf" target="_blank">Välj rätt licens! poster</a>.</p>


feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=35556
title: CC10: Day 2
uri: CC10-Day-2
url: http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/35556
content:
<p><a href="http://10.creativecommons.org/"><img src="http://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/cc10-700.png" width=300 /></a></p>
<p>On day 2 of <a href="http://10.creativecommons.org">CC10 </a>we focus on what makes CC more than just a bunch of licenses &#8211; our community. </p>
<p>We give a long over-due introduction to Creative Commons for those who haven&#8217;t met us yet, with a favorite resource from one of our global volunteer affiliates: <a href="http://www.creativecommons.qa/">CC Qatar</a> presents <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P1j0OA9N4hs">Meet Creative Commons</a>. At the same time, we <a href="http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/35540">discuss</a> CC&#8217;s geek-cred with Josh Wattles, adviser to one of our oldest artist communities &#8211; <a href="http://www.deviantart.com/">deviantART</a> &#8211; and we examine how a simple licensing decision can create community around a work, with <a href="https://twitter.com/gkjohn">Gautam John</a> of <a href="http://prathambooks.org/">Pratham Books</a>.</p>
<p>Most importantly, today we get our <a href="http://wiki.creativecommons.org/CC10">CC10 community parties</a> started. Not 1, not 2, but 3 separate birthday events are happening around the world tonight. <a href="http://de.creativecommons.org/2012/11/20/am-8-12-feiert-berlin-10-jahre-creative-commons/">CC Berlin</a> brings us keynotes, talks, interviews and a DJ, in a party themed around the success and impact CC has built over the past 10 years. Meanwhile <a href="http://www.creativecommons.be/?q=relaunch">CC Belgium</a> is rebooting itself with a showcase of Creative Commons artists and projects. And finally, <a href="http://wiki.creativecommons.org/CC10_San_Francisco">CC Headquarters</a> has its own party in San Francisco, where CC staff, Board and community members will participate in interactive exhibits, live remixing (brought to you by <a href="http://globallives.org/">Global Lives</a> and <a href="http://dublab.com/">Dublab</a>) and general good-cheer. We&#8217;ll have a tweet wall at the event &#8211; so if you want to be part of it, just <a href="https://twitter.com/creativecommons">tweet us</a> your birthday wishes after 5pm San Francisco time tonight.</p>


feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=35538
title: #cc10 Featured Content: Gautam John on Annual Haircut Day
uri: cc10-Featured-Content-Gautam-John-on-Annual-Haircut-Day
url: http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/35538
content:
<p><em>In celebration of Creative Commons’ tenth anniversary, we asked various friends of CC to write about their favorite CC-licensed content. Today, social entrepreneur and <a href="http://prathambooks.org/">Pratham Books</a> new projects manager <a href="http://twitter.com/gkjohn">Gautam John</a> writes about two children&#8217;s books that took on lives of their own, thanks to CC licensing.</em></p>
<p>On the 17th of November, 2008, we took <a href="http://blog.prathambooks.org/2008/11/on-joining-commons.html">one small and very tentative step</a> into the world of the commons and released six of our books under a very restrictive <a href="/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/">CC BY-NC-SA license</a>. And that point, the entire Creative Commons universe was exciting and held much possibility but was, simultaneously, a vast unknown for us. Initially, our books were used by the One Laptop Per Child project in Nepal and that in itself was a wonderful outcome for us.</p>
<p><a title="View Annual Haircut Day on Scribd" href="http://www.scribd.com/doc/8057714/Annual-Haircut-Day" style="margin: 12px auto 6px auto; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,Sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; -x-system-font: none; display: block; text-decoration: underline;">Annual Haircut Day</a><iframe class="scribd_iframe_embed" src="http://www.scribd.com/embeds/8057714/content?start_page=1&#038;view_mode=scroll&#038;access_key=key-a751b396zogc8tumhyu" data-auto-height="false" data-aspect-ratio="1.13333333333333" scrolling="no" id="doc_21847" width="400" height="600" frameborder="0"></iframe></p>
<p>Over the course of the next year, we engaged with our community and with the wider world of open content and Creative Commons licenses and realised that the license we chose was far too restrictive for the content to have any real community-driven impact and <a href="http://wiki.creativecommons.org/Case_Studies/Pratham_Books">we settled on</a> the <a href="/licenses/by/3.0/">CC BY</a> and <a href="/licenses/by-sa/3.0/">CC BY-SA</a> licenses as our new defaults. While we were sure that making these our default licenses was a good choice, we weren’t entirely sure what the outcomes of such a decision would be. In hindsight, we are very very glad we made the choices we did.</p>
<p>Looking at two of our more popular books, <a href="http://www.scribd.com/doc/8057714/Annual-Haircut-Day"><em>Annual Haircut Day</em></a> and <a href="http://www.scribd.com/doc/8057773/The-Moon-and-the-Cap-English"><em>The Moon and the Cap</em></a>, we were amazed that they have been read, in just two languages, via one single online channel (Scribd), more than 35,000 times. While these numbers were stunning, they were only the start of an amazing journey that they took all thanks to Creative Commons licenses.</p>
<p>Soon, we started to receive <a href="http://www.scribd.com/collections/2647987/Creative-Commons-Derivatives">community translations</a> of these books in languages that we would never have published in (German, French, Spanish and Lojban), and in languages that we would have wanted to publish in but could not (Assamese, for example). It didn’t stop there. We were amazed when a national radio station decided to make <a href="https://soundcloud.com/prathambooks">studio quality audiobooks</a> out of these two books and a few others in many many Indian languages and make them available under an open (if slightly more restrictive) license, and specifically make them available to the visually impaired community in India. We began to wonder where this would go and soon we heard from Bookshare who had converted these books (and others) to <a href="https://www.bookshare.org/search?keyword=noni+pratham&#038;search=Search">formats specifically for the visually impaired</a> – DAISY and Braille books.</p>
<p><iframe width="100%" height="166" scrolling="no" frameborder="no" src="https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Ftracks%2F4155456"></iframe></p>
<p>At which point, we thought that this was fantastic that we had achieved a degree of inclusivity that would not have been otherwise possible and thought it to be a closed chapter. But as things go, the community was just beginning. Next up was a series of applications based on these books for the <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/chand-ka-tohfa/id364806474?mt=8">iPhone</a> and <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/annual-haircut-day/id366029373?mt=8">iPad</a>, for <a href="http://uk.androlib.com/android.application.com-annualhaircutdaypckg-jmDxi.aspx">Android</a> <a href="http://uk.androlib.com/android.application.com-chandkatohfa-jnwiB.aspx">devices</a>, for <a href="http://www.appup.com/browse-apps/search?keyword=noni">Intel devices</a>, and even for <a href="http://wp7applist.com/en-US/app/23384/memetales-moon-and-the-cap">Windows Phone 7</a>! It goes without saying that none of this would have been possible for us using a traditional licensing model and it was Creative Commons licenses that made it all possible.</p>


feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=35540
title: #cc10 Featured Platform: deviantART
uri: cc10-Featured-Platform-deviantART
url: http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/35540
content:
<div style="float:right; padding:10px" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/terms/" xmlns:cc="/ns#" about="http://ilovestrawberries.deviantart.com/art/Words-can-make-a-deeper-scar-than-silence-can-heal-304231903"><a href="http://ilovestrawberries.deviantart.com/art/Words-can-make-a-deeper-scar-than-silence-can-heal-304231903"><img width="300" height="246" src="http://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/deviant_wordscanmake.jpg" alt="Words can make a deeper scar than silence can heal"/></a>
<p><small><a href="http://ilovestrawberries.deviantart.com/art/Words-can-make-a-deeper-scar-than-silence-can-heal-304231903"><span property="dc:title">Words can make a deeper scar than silence can heal</span></a><br /><a href="http://ilovestrawberries.deviantart.com/"><span property="cc:attributionName">ilovestrawberries</span></a> / <a rel="license" href="/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/">CC BY-NC-ND</a></small></p>
</div>
<p><em>Throughout the <a href="http://10.creativecommons.org/">#cc10</a> celebrations, we&#8217;ll be profiling online platforms with Creative Commons integration. I reached out to Josh Wattles, longtime copyright lawyer and advisor in chief at <a href="http://www.deviantart.com/">deviantART</a>, to get his perspective on how artists online use (or don&#8217;t use) CC licensing.</em></p>
<p><em>deviantART is a massive community, with members ranging from young amateurs to well-known professionals. Josh told me that about 5% of uploads each day are CC licensed, which translates to about 1450 individual artists. Altogether, there are 15-16 million CC-licensed artworks on dA.</em></p>
<p><em>Josh explained me that in a lot of ways, deviantART grew up alongside filesharing. The first artworks shared on dA were skins for mp3 players. Josh &#8212; himself a longtime copyright lawyer who&#8217;s worked with the EFF and LimeWire &#8212; told me that he always saw CC licensing as a natural fit for the dA community. Or as he put it, &#8220;When it first started, Creative Commons was part of your citizenship on the Internet if you were a geek.&#8221;</em></p>
<p><em>I also asked him to recommend some favorite CC-licensed works from the deviantART community. A few of them are sprinkled throughout this interview; the rest are <a href="http://moonbeam13.deviantart.com/favourites/52596782">in this gallery</a>.</em></p>
<p><strong>How did deviantART make the decision to implement CC licensing options? Was the community asking for it? Was there any pushback?</strong></p>
<p>Some of the members of deviantART community first suggested that we implement it. But it was <a href="http://creativecommons.org/tag/mia-garlick">Mia Garlick</a> [former general Counsel of CC] who was really responsible for driving it.</p>
<div style="float:left; padding:10px" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/terms/" xmlns:cc="/ns#" about="http://deevad.deviantart.com/art/fantasy-tree-house-323500303"><a href="http://deevad.deviantart.com/art/fantasy-tree-house-323500303"><img width="300" height="169" src="http://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/deviant_treehouse.jpg" alt="fantasy tree house"/></a>
<p><small><a href="http://deevad.deviantart.com/art/fantasy-tree-house-323500303"><span property="dc:title">fantasy tree house</span></a> / <a href="http://deevad.deviantart.com/"><span property="cc:attributionName">Deevad</span></a> / <a rel="license" href="/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/">CC BY-NC-ND</a></small></p>
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<p>We had her at the first (and last) deviantART conference in 2005. She gave a talk, and it was really well-attended and straightforward. She said, &#8220;All this is is a license, you&#8217;re not dedicating anything to the public domain, all you&#8217;re doing is giving the public a license for reuse. Pick a license if you want to use it, and if you don&#8217;t want to use it, don&#8217;t.&#8221;</p>
<p>And so, in the submission process, there was an opportunity to select a CC license. We did no additional messaging beyond that implemetaiton. It just seemed like the right thing to do, and so we did it.</p>
<p><strong>Do you think that visual artists are more reluctant to share their work openly than musicians or other types of artists?</strong></p>
<p>It&#8217;s more complicated or visual artists, because there&#8217;s not a one-size-fits-all approach. It&#8217;s easy for a musician to say, &#8220;With the exception of tracks that I license to some record company, everything I do I&#8217;m just going to keep out there as open and available, because that will drive people to my venues for concerts.&#8221;</p>
<p>For a visual artist, let&#8217;s say you create a work on commission. You might not be at liberty to make the decision to license it under CC. On some level, the person who commissioned you has an opinion about what the distribution pattern for the work should be. There&#8217;s immediately a category where you can&#8217;t apply a default practice. And you can&#8217;t even apply a default practice under the ctegory of commissioned work, because each type of commission is different.</p>
<div style="float:right; padding:10px" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/terms/" xmlns:cc="/ns#" about="http://thecitizen-dv.deviantart.com/art/5-Social-Darwinism-212402671"><a href="http://thecitizen-dv.deviantart.com/art/5-Social-Darwinism-212402671"><img width="300" height="212" src="http://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/deviant_darwin.jpg" alt="5. Social Darwinism"/></a>
<p><small><a href="http://thecitizen-dv.deviantart.com/art/5-Social-Darwinism-212402671"><span property="dc:title">5. Social Darwinism</span></a> / <a href="http://thecitizen-dv.deviantart.com/"><span property="cc:attributionName">thecitizen-dv</span></a> / <a rel="license" href="/licenses/by-sa/3.0/">CC BY-SA</a></small></p>
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<p>deviantART excels at providing every artists, regardless of their level, with a platform in which to communicate with each other, work with each other, and request work from each other. And people request all kinds of stuff. They say, &#8220;I want a little avatar that looks like a pony, and I&#8217;ll give you 50 virtual points for it,&#8221; which amounts to slightly over 50 cents. In that interaction, it would be silly to say to the person you gave the pony to, &#8220;Now you have exclusive rights for the entire internet and the world.&#8221; The intention of the parties in that situation is that you can go off and draw a pony for someone else. On the other hand, the guy who draws the ponies isn&#8217;t going to put it up as a free file for everyone to use, because he just got paid 50 cents for one, and maybe someone else wants to pay 50 cents for it. It&#8217;s a more complicated decision path.</p>
<p>On the other hand, CC is a brilliant way to ensure wide-scale distribution of content on the internet. I advise artists that some portion of their work should clearly be available for that kind of distribution, just on a promotional level. It&#8217;s useful to have some portion of your work out there, but it&#8217;s going to take a fairly sophisticated artist with a fairly sophisticated business purpose and model to see the rationale of that and the efficacy of it.</p>
<p><strong>Since deviantART implemented CC licensing, have you seen community&#8217;s attitudes about sharing change?</strong></p>
<p>There&#8217;s always been a lot of sharing, but it&#8217;s not necessarily under a CC license. When someone puts their works on Facebook or Tumblr, there&#8217;s a <i>de facto</i> sharing going on with an implied agreement about how they&#8217;d like their work to be reused. It would be great if there were a CC license attached to it, to establish a benchmark of the rights that the person is trying to convey by putting it on the internet.</p>


feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=35542
title: #cc10 Featured Content: John Wilbanks on GlaxoSmithKline
uri: cc10-Featured-Content-John-Wilbanks-on-GlaxoSmithKline
url: http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/35542
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<p><small><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/wilbanks/3971363371/"><span property="dc:title">John Wilbanks</span></a> / <span property="cc:attributionName">Nick Vedros</span> / <a rel="license" href="/licenses/by-sa/2.0/">CC BY-SA</a></small></p>
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<p><i>In celebration of <a href="http://10.creativecommons.org/">Creative Commons’ tenth anniversary</a>, we asked various friends of CC to write about the role that open licensing plays in their fields. Today, John Wilbanks shows how the world&#8217;s largest pharmaceutical company made a big step in malaria research by sharing its data openly.</i></p>
<p><a href="http://www.gsk.com/">GlaxoSmithKline</a> (GSK) is perhaps not the first name most think of when they think of Creative Commons. Large pharmaceutical companies aren&#8217;t always the avant-garde commoners.</p>
<p>Yet in 2010, GSK made an amazing move. They took a set of 13,500 chemicals that their internal screens had shown to be active against malaria and <a href="http://www.nature.com/news/2010/100120/full/news.2010.20.html">put them in the public domain under CC0</a>. They also made sure the data were technically available by <a href="https://www.ebi.ac.uk/chemblntd/#tcams_dataset">depositing the set at a government data repository</a>.</p>
<p>This isn&#8217;t how it&#8217;s usually done in the pharmaceutical industry, needless to say.</p>
<p>But something beautiful has happened in the intervening years. Something that is totally natural to those of us who live and breathe the commons, something mindboggling to those who don&#8217;t.</p>
<p>The data are being used to try to find a cure for malaria. By people who would otherwise be locked out of the process. A nonprofit foundation invested in a lab to <a href="http://openwetware.org/wiki/OSDDMalaria:GSK_Arylpyrrole_Series:Story_so_far">take some of the compounds forward for investigation</a>. They&#8217;re working together in an <a href="http://malaria.ourexperiment.org/">open lab notebook</a>. And now 400 of the best candidate drugs are available as a <a href="http://www.nature.com/news/data-sharing-aids-the-fight-against-malaria-1.10018">&#8220;malaria box&#8221; that anyone can request to work on their optimization</a>.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s still a long way from a cure for malaria. Drug discovery is hard, mainly because we don&#8217;t understand biology well enough to predict what&#8217;s going to happen with most compounds when we put them into practice. Our bodies are too complicated for the businesses trying to cure them.</p>
<p>But this is a methodological revolution: deploying the commons as an organizational structure to deal with that complexity. And it was driven, in the beginning, by the moment that the world&#8217;s largest pharmaceutical company became a commoner.</p>
<p style="text-align:center" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/terms/" xmlns:cc="/ns#" about="http://openwetware.org/wiki/Image:Compounds_of_Interest_in_Update.png"><a href="http://openwetware.org/wiki/Image:Compounds_of_Interest_in_Update.png"><img width="600" height="317" src="http://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/gsk_compounds_600.png" alt="Compounds of Interest in Update"/></a><br /><small><a href="http://openwetware.org/wiki/Image:Compounds_of_Interest_in_Update.png"><span property="dc:title">Compounds of Interest in Update</span></a> / <a href="http://openwetware.org/wiki/User:Matthew_Todd"><span property="cc:attributionName">Matthew Todd</span></a> / <a rel="license" href="/licenses/by-sa/2.5/">CC BY-SA</a></small></p>
<p><i><a href="http://weconsent.us/">John Wilbanks</a> currently runs the Consent to Research project (CtR), a massive clinical research study in which people take the data they can gather about their own health and donate it for computational analysis. Mr. Wilbanks is also one of the founders of the Access2Research petition. As part of CtR, Mr. Wilbanks is a Senior Fellow in Entrepreneurship at the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, a Research Fellow at Lybba, and supported by Sage Bionetworks. Mr. Wilbanks has worked at Harvard’s Berkman Center for Internet &#038; Society, the World Wide Web Consortium, the US House of Representatives, and most recently Creative Commons. Mr. Wilbanks also started a bioinformatics company called Incellico, which is now part of Selventa.</i></p>


feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=35621
title: CC10: Day 3
uri: cc10-Day-3
url: http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/35621
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<p style="text-align:center" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/terms/" xmlns:cc="http://creativecommons.org/ns#" about="http://www.flickr.com/photos/webbstjarnan/8253335408/"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/webbstjarnan/8253335408/"><img src="http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8339/8253335408_1e6552514f.jpg" alt="cc10" width="500" height="208" border=0 /><br /><small><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/webbstjarnan/8253335408/"><span property="dc:title">cc10</span></a> / <span property="cc:attributionName">Webbstjärnan.SE</span> / <a rel="license" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/">CC BY</a></small></a></p>
<p>Welcome to Day 3 of #cc10. Today, Commoners are celebrating in <a href="http://wiki.creativecommons.org/CC10_Wikipedia_Editathon">Mexico City</a> and <a href="http://wiki.creativecommons.org/Creative_Commons_Indonesia_-_CC_Salon">Jakarta</a>, and here on the Creative Commons blog, we&#8217;re celebrating Creative Commons in science.</p>
<p><a href="http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/35542">In his guest blog post</a>, John Wilbanks applauds sharing where you might not expect it, explaining how the world&#8217;s largest pharmaceutical company used open data sharing to make a huge step in malaria research.</p>
<p>Today&#8217;s featured platform is the Public Library of Science (PLOS). <a href="http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/35545">PLOS CEO Peter Jerram explains</a> how open licensing is key to the sharing and development of scientific knowledge.</p>
<p>Finally, a trip to the origins of CC and an amazing example of the possibilities of international sharing: it&#8217;s the <a href="http://ikitap.kz/books/Erkin_madeniet/index.html">Kazakh translation of Larry Lessig’s <i>Free Culture</i></a>.</p>


feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=35545
title: #cc10 Featured Platform: Public Library of Science
uri: cc10-Featured-Platform-Public-Library-of-Science
url: http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/35545
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<p><i>Throughout the <a href="http://10.creativecommons.org">#cc10</a> celebrations, we&#8217;re profiling online platforms with Creative Commons integration. Today, <a href="http://www.plos.org/">Public Library of Science (PLOS)</a> CEO Peter Jerram discusses the role that PLOS and Creative Commons play in the open access movement.</i></p>
<p><a href="http://www.plos.org/"><img src="http://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/PLOS-icon.jpg" width="300" height="300" align="right" border="0"/></a><strong>Shared Facts and Open Access:  A PLOS Salute to Creative Commons</strong></p>
<p>By Peter Jerram</p>
<p>&#8220;Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not his own facts.&#8221; This quote, attributed to the late U.S. Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan, is usually applied in the political arena as a warning to partisans about allowing ideology to trump more objective, quantitative realities – things like a country&#8217;s GNP, its unemployment rate or balance of trade. Without a foundation for dialogue built on the same basic facts, self-governance falters, he warned.</p>
<p>Moynihan&#8217;s core idea works equally well to describe the realities facing those of us involved in scientific discovery and publishing where the sheer size of today&#8217;s biomedical and environmental challenges makes collaborative research based on a shared set of facts an absolute necessity. Indeed it is not enough to just share those facts, we must be also able to share, and collaborate over ideas, claims, and arguments, for science to function effectively.</p>
<p>Roughly a decade ago, the founders of <a href="http://www.plos.org/about/open-access/">PLOS</a>, Pat Brown, Harold Varmus, and Michael Eisen, recognized the importance of unrestricted and immediate access to the scholarly record in biology, medicine and related fields. That&#8217;s why, from the onset of its publishing efforts, PLOS applied the <a href="/licenses/by/3.0/">Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY)</a> to all its articles. Under this license, authors retain ownership of copyright, and allow anyone to download, reuse, reprint, modify, distribute, and copy the content as long as the original authors and sources are cited. No permission is required from the authors or from PLOS for subsequent researchers to take these findings, add a novel element, and move to the next critical stage of discovery. CC BY is a revolutionary legal tool that continues to enable the Open Access movement to accelerate scientific discovery on every continent. This rapid growth is reflected by the fact that <a href="http://www.plosone.org/">PLOS ONE</a> is now the world&#8217;s largest online journal.</p>
<p>We believe that this movement from limited access to an era of open science, fueled by the exponential growth of the internet, has as great a potential for advancing the tools and capabilities of our research as did the determination of the structure of the DNA molecule by Francis Crick and James D. Watson in 1953. Indeed, without openness and data sharing across public and private sector labs and national borders, there would have been no <a href="http://www.ornl.gov/sci/techresources/Human_Genome/project/about.shtml">Human Genome Project</a>.</p>
<p>The advent of Open Access set the stage for the development of new methods for designing clinical trials and advancing personalized medicine through endeavors such as the European Union co-funded <a href="http://www.eu-acgt.org/">ACGT</a> (Advancing Clinico-Genomic Clinical Trials on Cancer). In 2010, this consortium completed its creation of an open source translational data infrastructure documenting clinical trials for cancer for the benefit of both oncologists and cancer researchers. <a href="http://eu-acgt.org/en/documents/publications.html">Among other advances</a>, the ACGT knowledge grid assisted in bringing about major progress toward a cure for a pediatric cancer of the kidneys known as nephroblastoma.</p>
<p>In the US, another exciting Open Access biomedical research model exists in <a href="http://www.cancercommons.org/">Cancer Commons</a>, founded by <a href="http://www.cancercommons.org/message-from-founder/">Marty Tenenbaum</a> (a PLOS Board Member) with the aim “to engage cancer researchers, patients, and physician in order to reduce delays in getting promising investigational drugs into the clinic and knowledge back to the patients.” A recent Cancer Commons project led to the determination of four molecular subtypes in lung cancer tumor cells. Working with shared data and clinical methodologies, researchers correlated these subtypes with different genetic aberrations and drugs that may potentially treat them. The resulting <a href="http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0031906">research paper</a>, A Novel Classification of Lung Cancer into Molecular Subtypes, was published in PLOS ONE in 2012.</p>
<p>The work of Creative Commons ensures that these projects can use the papers we publish without requiring the additional time and cost that asking special permissions would require. It ensures that translators and educators know they are free to use the research we publish and it allows Wikipedia editors to enrich this critical reference work with text and resources from the research literature. On the occasion of its 10th anniversary, PLOS salutes Creative Commons for its pioneering work in establishing the legal and technological tools that enable Open Access science publishing to flourish.</p>
<p><i>Peter Jerram is the CEO of PLOS.</i></p>


feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=35503
title: #cc10 Featured Content: Global Lives Project
uri: cc10-Featured-Content-Global-Lives-Project
url: http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/35503
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<div style="float:left; padding:10px" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/terms/" xmlns:cc="/ns#" about="http://www.flickr.com/photos/globallives/4599177451/"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/globallives/4599177451/"><img width="320" height="213" src="http://farm2.staticflickr.com/1205/4599177451_39dfb47b69_n.jpg" alt="David Evan Harris"/></a>
<p><small><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/globallives/4599177451/"><span property="dc:title">David Evan Harris</span></a> / <span property="cc:attributionName">Joel Young</span> / <a rel="license" href="/licenses/by-sa/2.0/">CC BY-SA</a></small></p>
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<p>Video artist and activist David Evan Harris sees sharing as a key component of his work. &#8220;The fact that we use Creative Commons licenses to guarantee that our work is in the commons is an essential ingredient in the production itself,&#8221; he told me. &#8220;It communicates something to our volunteers and people who work with us. It communicates that it isn&#8217;t about enriching one person, and it&#8217;s not about producing a proprietary work that only a few people will see.&#8221;</p>
<p>David is the founder and executive director of the <a href="http://globallives.org/">Global Lives project</a>, an organization that produces videos documenting the lives of people around the world. <a href="http://globallives.org/en/videos/">The project&#8217;s first undertaking</a> consists of ten videos &#8211; each following one person for 24 hours, with no cuts. Global Lives presents the videos in the form of gallery exhibitions, with the ten videos playing simultaneously. In essence, the visitor is creating her own remix of all ten videos by choosing what to watch as she wanders through the exhibition (if you were at <a href="http://www.flickr.com/groups/2138128@N21/">the CC10 celebration in San Francisco</a>, you got a taste of the exhibition on the fourth floor).</p>
<p><iframe width="560" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/3uFdO8k6IHA" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe></p>
<p>But Global Lives isn&#8217;t just a gallery exhibition: the videos are <a href="http://archive.org/details/globallives">available online</a> as complete, uncompressed downloads. Nor is it just art. Lately, in fact, David&#8217;s been most interested in its potential in the education world.</p>
<div style="float:right; padding:10px" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/terms/" xmlns:cc="/ns#" about="http://www.flickr.com/photos/dtkindler/8259574126/"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/dtkindler/8259574126/"><img width="320" height="213" src="http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8059/8259574126_0bf81b697b_n.jpg" alt="Global Lives"/></a>
<p><small><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/dtkindler/8259574126/"><span property="dc:title">Global Lives</span></a> / <span property="cc:attributionName">David Kindler</span> / <a rel="license" href="/licenses/by/3.0/">CC BY</a></small></p>
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<p>Part of what&#8217;s striking about Global Lives is the possibilities for use that go far beyond its original context. Global Lives videos have been used by educators all around the world, some of whom have even gone so far as to create their own cuts of Global Lives videos to demonstrate certain ideas to their students &#8211; a video of all ten subjects eating breakfast, for example, or coming home from work. Peace Corps volunteers have used Global Lives videos as training before leaving on assignments. &#8220;One of our translators is a Malawian who lives in the UK, and she shows the Malawi video to her daughter as a bedtime story, so her daughter can get an idea of what it would be like to grow up in Malawi.&#8221;</p>
<p>Talking with David, his excitement about these uses is contagious. He showed me a mock up of a site redesign that he and his team are working on. In the new Global Lives site, users will be able to watch multiple videos at once, leave timestamped comments, and even create and share their own mixes of Global Lives content. It&#8217;s amazing to see so many possibilities for sharing and reuse grow out of a simple idea &#8211; that watching how people live helps you understand them.</p>
<p>Global Lives is now gearing up for a second set of videos &#8211; this one called <i>Lives in Transit</i> and focusing on the lives of people who work in transportation &#8211; and <a href="http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/896398266/globally-collaborative-filmmaking-lives-in-transit?ref=card">asking for donations through Kickstarter</a>.</p>


feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=35505
title: #cc10 Featured Platform: Vimeo
uri: cc10-Featured-Platform-Vimeo
url: http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/35505
content:
<p><i>In honor of <a href="http://10.creativecommons.org/">Creative Commons&#8217; tenth anniversary</a>, we&#8217;re profiling several media platforms with CC integration. <a href="http://vimeo.com/creativecommons">Vimeo has supported CC licensing since 2010</a>, and has accumulated over two million CC-licensed videos. When I spoke with <a href="http://vimeo.com/blakewhitman">VP of creative development Blake Whitman</a>, he told me that Vimeo&#8217;s staff and community had been talking about CC for years prior. &#8220;We knew that this would be perfect for the type of community that Vimeo has. There&#8217;s a lot of remixing going on, and it made a lot of sense for us to incorporate it. We thought it was a great web standard that needed to be solidified in our space.&#8221;</i></p>
<p><i>I also asked Blake to recommend some of his favorite CC-licensed videos on Vimeo. Two of those are embedded in this interview; the rest are listed below.</i></p>
<p><strong>Tell me more about how CC licensing fits into the Vimeo community.</strong></p>
<p>The beginnings of Vimeo were really about sharing and collaboration, doing projects together, and sharing life&#8217;s moments. It&#8217;s evolved over time &#8211; as we added HD and other featured that attract higher-end creators &#8211; but that ethos has always stayed the same. We&#8217;ve always given users the option to make their vidoes available for download. It&#8217;s important that when people make their content available for download, there&#8217;s a clear way for the creator to indicate how they&#8217;d like that content to be used.</p>
<p>For a long time, we didn&#8217;t have that. You could make it explicit in the description that there was a CC license on it, but since it wasn&#8217;t built into Vimeo, it wasn&#8217;t being used consistently. When people download videos, they should know what the rights are that the creators are intending.</p>
<p><iframe src="http://player.vimeo.com/video/22439234?badge=0" width="500" height="281" frameborder="0" webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen></iframe>
<p><a href="http://vimeo.com/22439234">The Mountain</a> from <a href="http://vimeo.com/terjes">TSO Photography</a> on <a href="http://vimeo.com">Vimeo</a>.</p>
<p><strong>How much did you publicize the CC implementation? Were there any hiccups or pushback from the community?</strong></p>
<p>There&#8217;s always a period of learning for anything new, but we work very hard to make it clear. It&#8217;s crucial that people understand how the licenses work &#8211; and not just for videos. I want users to understand CC licensing on a deeper level, as a part of sharing on the Internet at large.</p>
<p><strong>Do you think that Creative Commons has changed the Vimeo community&#8217;s attitudes about sharing?</strong></p>
<p>It&#8217;s always changing and evolving, as smaller communities within Vimeo expand and contract and branch out.</p>
<p>People are open willing to share, and CC is a model that makes sense. Look how many people are allowing their content to be used for commercial purposes. And that&#8217;s pretty amazing, that people are that open to allow for people to make money from the stuff that they create, as long as they&#8217;re cited. That&#8217;s great, and I think it&#8217;s really important.</p>
<p><iframe src="http://player.vimeo.com/video/14912890?badge=0" width="500" height="281" frameborder="0" webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen></iframe>
<p><a href="http://vimeo.com/14912890">Everything is a Remix Part 1</a> from <a href="http://vimeo.com/kirbyferguson">Kirby Ferguson</a> on <a href="http://vimeo.com">Vimeo</a>.</p>
<p><strong>Blake&#8217;s favorite CC-licensed videos on Vimeo:</strong></p>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://vimeo.com/22439234">The Mountain</a></li>
<li><a href="https://vimeo.com/31158841">Murmuration</a></li>
<li><a href="https://vimeo.com/14190306">Marcel The Shell With Shoes On</a></li>
<li><a href="https://vimeo.com/23079092">Jellyfish Lake</a></li>
<li><a href="https://vimeo.com/32875422">Sense of Flying</a></li>
<li><a href="https://vimeo.com/36519586">A Story for Tomorrow</a></li>
<li><a href="https://vimeo.com/27505192">Grand Finale</a></li>
<li><a href="https://vimeo.com/14912890">Everything is a Remix</a></li>
<li><a href="https://vimeo.com/31484170">I Look I Move</a></li>
<li><a href="https://vimeo.com/30081785">Right Here All Over (Occupy Wall St)</a></li>
<li><a href="https://vimeo.com/31423544">Beat</a></li>
<li><a href="https://vimeo.com/7942520">Phoenix &#8211;  A Take Away Show</a></li>
</ul>


feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=35519
title: CC10: Day 4
uri: CC10-Day-4
url: http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/35519
content:
<p align="center"><iframe width="560" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/8w0LlDniv98" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><br />
<small><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8w0LlDniv98">CC 10th Anniversary</a> / <a href="http://wiki.creativecommons.org/Philippines">Creative Commons Philippines</a> / <a href="/licenses/by/3.0/">CC BY</a></small></p>
<p>On day 3 of our CC10 celebrations we focus on film. </p>
<p><a href="/weblog/entry/35503">David Evan Harris tells us about Global Lives</a>, a collective of filmmakers worldwide building an open source video library of human experience. </p>
<p><a href="/weblog/entry/35505">We talk to Blake Whitman</a>, VP of Creative Development at one of the world&#8217;s largest video sharing platforms, <a href="http://vimeo.com">Vimeo</a>, about why Creative Commons is an essential tool for creation in the digital age. </p>
<p>Finally, we delve into <a href="http://www.blendernation.com/">Blendernation</a>, the free open source 3D animation community built around the <a href="http://www.blender.org/">Blender</a> platform, with <a href="http://www.renderfarm.fi">Renderfarm.fi</a>&#8216;s <a href="http://www.blendernation.com/2012/01/28/big-buck-bunny-loves-creative-commons/">Big Buck Bunny Loves CC</a>.</p>


feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=35721
title: CC10: Day 5
uri: CC10-Day-5
url: http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/35721
content:
<p style="text-align:center" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/terms/" xmlns:cc="http://creativecommons.org/ns#" about="http://cc.tedic.org/2012/12/07/festejamos-los-10-anos-de-creative-commons/"><a href="http://cc.tedic.org/2012/12/07/festejamos-los-10-anos-de-creative-commons/"><img src="http://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/copiar.jpg" alt="FESTEJAMOS LOS 10 AÑOS DE CREATIVE COMMONS" width="400" height="401" border=0 /><br /><small><a href="http://cc.tedic.org/2012/12/07/festejamos-los-10-anos-de-creative-commons/"><span property="dc:title">Festajamos los 10 A&#241;os de Creative Commons</span></a> / <span property="cc:attributionName">CC Paragray Community</span> / <a rel="license" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/">CC BY</a></small></a></p>
<p>Welcome to day 5 of <a href="http://10.creativecommons.org/">CC10</a>! Today, CC communities are celebrating in <a href="http://wiki.creativecommons.org/Creative_Commons_10_years_-_Working_with_CC_in_Schools">Stockholm</a> and <a href="http://wiki.creativecommons.org/CC10_Israel_%26_Public_Domain_Day">Haifa</a>. And here on the Creative Commons blog, we&#8217;re discussing governmental and institutional adoption of CC licenses and public domain tools.</p>
<p><a href="/weblog/entry/35563">CC&#8217;s Timothy Vollmer acknowledges several achievements around the world in governmental CC adoption</a>, and <a href="/weblog/entry/35700">we revisit one of the biggest announcements of the year</a>, Europeana&#8217;s decision to release its record data under the CC0 public domain waiver. Finally, browse the <a href="http://opendatahandbook.org/">Open Data Handbook</a>, the definitive legal and technological guide to open data from our friends at the <a href="http://okfn.org/">Open Knowledge Foundation</a>.</p>
<p>We&#8217;re also excited to unveil a new <a href="http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/35672">CC music mix</a> that Dublab has put together in honor of CC10. Listen to the mix while you <a href="http://www.flickr.com/groups/2138128@N21/">browse photos from the worldwide celebrations</a>.</p>


feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=35700
title: #cc10 Featured Platform: Europeana
uri: cc10-Featured-Platform-Europeana
url: http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/35700
content:
<p><a href="http://www.europeana.eu/portal/"><img src="http://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/europeana-150.jpg" width="150" height="216" align="right" border="0"/></a><a href="http://10.creativecommons.org/">Throughout the #cc10 celebrations</a>, we&#8217;re highlighting different CC-enabled media platforms, to show the breadth and diversity of the CC world. Today, as we&#8217;re talking about <a href="/weblog/entry/35563">governmental and institutional adoption of CC tools</a>, it seemed appropriate to discuss <a href="http://www.europeana.eu/portal/">Europeana</a>, the massive digital library of European history and culture.</p>
<p>For people who get excited about open cultural data, one of the most exciting moments of 2012 came in September, when <a href="http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/34017">Europeana announced that it was releasing its metadata to the public domain under the CC0 waiver</a>. This release of 20 million records represents one of the largest one-time dedications of cultural data to the public domain.</p>
<p>While the data was previously available through the Europeana website, dedicating it to the public domain multiplies its usability. From the <a href="http://pro.europeana.eu/web/guest/press-release?p_p_id=itemsindexportlet_WAR_europeanaportlet_INSTANCE_AtV7&#038;p_p_lifecycle=1&#038;p_p_state=normal&#038;p_p_mode=view&#038;p_p_col_id=column-2&#038;p_p_col_pos=1&#038;p_p_col_count=2&#038;_itemsindexportlet_WAR_europeanaportlet_INSTANCE_AtV7_itemId=1284453&#038;_itemsindexportlet_WAR_europeanaportlet_INSTANCE_AtV7_javax.portlet.action=setItemId">press release</a>:</p>
<blockquote><p>This release, which is by far the largest one-time dedication of cultural data to the public domain using CC0 offers a new boost to the digital economy, providing electronic entrepreneurs with opportunities to create innovative apps and games for tablets and smartphones and to create new web services and portals.</p></blockquote>
<blockquote><p>Europeana&#8217;s move to CC0 is a step change in open data access. Releasing data from across the memory organisations of every EU country sets an important new international precedent, a decisive move away from the world of closed and controlled data.</p></blockquote>


feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=35563
title: CC at 10: Government Resources + Open Licensing = Win
uri: CC-at-10-Government-Resources-Open-Licensing-Win
url: http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/35563
content:
<p>On this 10th anniversary of CC, there’s much to celebrate: Creative Commons licenses and tools have been embraced by millions of photographers, musicians, videographers, bloggers, and others sharing countless numbers of creative works freely online. One area of growth in use of CC licenses and public domain tools is for government works. Government adoption of Creative Commons may prove to be one of the most significant movements looking into the future. Said well by <a href="http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/12448">David Bollier</a>, “Governments are coming to realize that they are one of the primary stewards of intellectual property, and that the wide dissemination of their work—statistics, research, reports, legislation, judicial decisions—can stimulate economic innovation, scientiﬁc progress, education, and cultural development.” If governments around the world are going to unleash the power of hundreds of billions of dollars of publicly funded education, research and scientific resources, we need broad adoption of open policies aligned with the belief that the public should have access to the resources they paid for. At a fundamental level, <a href="http://www.americanprogress.org/issues/labor/news/2012/02/07/11167/dramatically-bringing-down-the-cost-of-education-with-oer/">“all publicly funded resources [should be] openly licensed resources.”</a> </p>
<div style="float:right; padding:10px" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/terms/" xmlns:cc="/ns#" about="http://www.flickr.com/photos/xaf/2289377358/"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/xaf/2289377358/"><img width="400" height="300" src="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/eu-parliament.jpeg" alt="European Parliament"/></a>
<p><small><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/xaf/2289377358/"><span property="dc:title">European Parliament (Brussels)</span></a> / <span property="cc:attributionName">Xaf</span> / <a rel="license" href="/licenses/by/2.0/">CC BY</a></small></p>
</div>
<p>CC licenses and tools have been implemented by <a href="http://wiki.creativecommons.org/Government">government entities and public sector bodies</a> around the world. And over the last few years, there’s been an increasing focus in governments aligning to the principle that the public should have access to the materials that it pays for. These funding mandates, which require that grantees release content produced with grant funds under an open license, has been a increasingly commons way for governments to support openness. Legislation involving the open licensing of publicly funded educational materials has been passed in <a href="http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/27698">Brazil</a>, <a href="http://creativecommons.pl/open-educational-resources-in-the-digital-school-program/">Poland</a>, the <a href="http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/34288">United States</a>, and <a href="http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/34566">Canada</a>. The UK has championed an <a href="http://www.rcuk.ac.uk/media/news/2012news/Pages/120716.aspx">open access policy</a> for publicly funded research under the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license. Governments in <a href="http://www.ausgoal.gov.au/creative-commons">Australia</a> and <a href="http://nzgoal.info/">New Zealand</a> have opted for comprehensive open licensing policies for all government-produced works, by default releasing public information and data under CC BY. The Dutch government has taken this one step further, opting to release government information <a href="http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/21473">directly into the public domain</a> using the CC0 Public Domain Dedication.</p>
<p>In addition to governments, other publicly-minded institutions like philanthropic foundations and <a href="http://wiki.creativecommons.org/IGO">intergovermental organizations</a> are supporting open licensing. Several foundations have already implemented or are considering requiring open licensing on the outputs of their grant funds, including the <a href="http://www.hewlett.org/programs/education-program/open-educational-resources">William and Flora Hewlett Foundation </a>, the <a href="http://www.opensocietyfoundations.org/grants/open-educational-resources-initiative">Open Society Foundations</a>, and the <a href="http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/23831">Bill &#038; Melinda Gates Foundation</a> already require their grantees to release content they build with grant money under open licenses. And CC <a href="http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/33044">continues to explore</a> how to evaluate current copyright policies within the foundation world and suggest how foundations (and their grantees) can benefit from open licensing for their grant funded materials. Intergovernmental organizations like the <a href="http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/27703">Commonwealth of Learning</a> and the <a href="http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/32335">World Bank</a> have adopted open licensing policies to share their publications too. </p>
<p>Open advocates &#8211; whether it be in support of open sharing of publicly funded educational materials, open access to scientific research articles, access to a huge trove of cultural heritage resources from libraries and museums, or open licensing for public sector information and government datasets &#8211; have been increasingly active over the last few years, particularly in working to educate policymakers about the importance and benefits of open licensing. These efforts include the development of declarations such as the <a href="http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/34093">Budapest Open Access Initiative</a>, <a href="http://www.capetowndeclaration.org/">Cape Town</a> and <a href="http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/33089">Paris</a> Declarations on Open Educational Resources, the <a href="http://infojustice.org/washington-declaration-html">Washington Declaration on Intellectual Property and the Public Interest</a>, the <a href="http://pantonprinciples.org/">Panton Principles</a>, and many others. Advocates have been key in communicating the need for governments to consider open licensing, whether it be for <a href="http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/31283">federal agencies</a>, governing bodies like the <a href="http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/31466">European Commission</a>, or through multilateral negotiations such as <a href="http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/29666">WIPO</a>. And the grassroots open community has been extremely active in raising awareness of open licensing, whether it be through the tireless work of <a href="http://wiki.creativecommons.org/CC_Affiliate_Network">CC Affiliates</a>, the broad network of open data activists from the <a href="http://okfn.org/">Open Knowledge Foundation</a>, legal experts championing <a href="https://public.resource.org/8_principles.html">Open Government Data Principles</a>, and persons participating in events from <a href="http://openaccessweek.org">Open Access Week</a> to <a href="http://www.publicdomainday.org/">Public Domain Day</a>. All of these actions have rallied around the common theme that governments and public bodies should release content they create or fund under open licenses, for the benefit of all. </p>
<p>Since the beginning of Creative Commons, governments and public sector bodies have leveraged CC licenses and public domain tools to share their data, publicly funded research, educational and cultural content, and other digital materials. But if adoption of CC licenses on behalf of governments has not been a core mechanism for proactively sharing resources, promoting effective spending, and championing innovation, it is clearly now central to any forward-looking strategy. A massive amount of work is ahead, and with a committed community of advocates, interested governmental departments, and open minded policymakers, we can together work toward a close integration of open licensing inside the public sector. If we do so, governments can better support their populations with the information they need, increase the effectiveness of the public’s investment, and contribute to a true global commons. </p>


feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=35672
title: Dublab Celebrates #cc10 with a New Music Mix
uri: Dublab-Celebrates-cc10-with-a-New-Music-Mix
url: http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/35672
content:
<p>In celebration of the tenth anniversary of Creative Commons, our good friends at <a href="http://dublab.com/">Dublab</a> created an awesome #cc10 music mix. The continuous blend includes 22 tracks by esteemed artists like <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bradford_Cox">Bradford Cox</a>, <a href="http://www.luckydragons.org/">Lucky Dragons</a>, <a href="http://www.nitejewel.com/">Nite Jewel</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dntel">Dntel</a>, and <a href="https://soundcloud.com/matthewdavid">Matthewdavid</a>. The mix is available for free download and is available to the world under CC&#8217;s <a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/us/">BY-NC</a> license.</p>
<p>Creative Commons and Dublab have a long history of working together, and Dublab is behind a wide variety of amazing and inspiring CC-licensed music and visual art. Learn more by visiting Dublab&#8217;s <a href="http://dublab.com/about/">website</a> and reading about some of the <a href="http://creativecommons.org/tag/dublab">projects</a> Dublab and CC have collaborated on.</p>
<p>Below are the track listing and a SoundCloud widget for Dublab&#8217;s #cc10 mix. Download and share it!</p>
<p><iframe width="100%" height="166" scrolling="no" frameborder="no" src="https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Ftracks%2F70760494"></iframe></p>
<p>[01] Carlos Niño &amp; Miguel Atwood Ferguson – “8 Moons Blue”<br />
[02] Nobukazu Takemura – (Unknown Title)<br />
[03] Lucky Dragons – &#8220;13&#8243;<br />
[04] Nite Jewel &amp; Julia Holter – &#8220;What We See&#8221;<br />
[05] Yoko K – &#8220;Into Infinity &#8216;Ear&#8217; Loop #1&#8243;<br />
[06] Golden Hits – &#8220;Pillowillow&#8221;<br />
[07] Tujiko Go – &#8220;Into Infinity &#8216;Ear&#8217; Loop #1&#8243;<br />
[08] Yuk. &amp; Teebs – &#8220;Estara&#8221;<br />
[09] asonic garcia – “Endless Realm (Bun/Fumitake Tamura remix)&#8221;<br />
[10] Dntel – &#8220;Guardian&#8221;<br />
[11] Wake – &#8220;Duckbag&#8221;<br />
[12] Javelin – &#8220;dublab decade jamz&#8221;<br />
[13] DJ Lengua – &#8220;Waterbeat&#8221;<br />
[14] Derrick Winston – &#8220;Jawhar&#8221;<br />
[15] James Pants – &#8220;Tonight, By The Moonlight&#8221;<br />
[16] Matthewdavid – &#8220;Jingle 3&#8243;<br />
[17] Kentaro Iwaki – &#8220;Into Infinity &#8216;Ear&#8217; Loop #5&#8243;<br />
[18] Lucky Dragons – &#8220;Real Fire&#8221;<br />
[19] High Places – (Unknown Title)<br />
[20] Bradford Cox aka Atlas Sound – (Unknown Title)<br />
[21] Feathers – &#8220;Eldritch&#8221;<br />
[22] The Long Lost – &#8220;You Own Backyard&#8221;</p>


feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=35749
title: We celebrated CC10 in San Francisco with style
uri: We-celebrated-CC10-in-San-Francisco-with-style
url: http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/35749
content:
<p>On Saturday, we toasted to 10 years of the Creative Commons licenses, which has enabled the sharing and reuse of roughly half a billion creative, educational, and scientific works. </p>
<p style="text-align:center" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/terms/" xmlns:cc="http://creativecommons.org/ns#" about="http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8216/8258511545_eb044c79d5_z.jpg"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/dtkindler/8258511545/in/pool-2138128@N21/"><img src="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/8258511545_eb044c79d5_z.jpg" alt="" border=0 /><br /><small><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/dtkindler/8258511545/in/pool-2138128@N21/"><span property="dc:title">Larry Lessig and guest toast CC10 / </span></a><span property="cc:attributionName">DTKindler Photo</span> / <a rel="license" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/">CC BY</a></small></a></p>
<p>Many others joined in to celebrate at <a href="http://10.creativecommons.org/">events around the world</a>, and are still celebrating through December 16 (the actual birthday of the CC license suite). You can see all of the pictures from these events at the <a href="http://www.flickr.com/groups/2138128@N21/pool/">CC10 Flickr pool</a>.</p>
<p>With 350 people registered for the event, the celebration in San Francisco spanned three floors of the SF Planning and Urban Research Association downtown. Each floor featured different CC projects, including a video installation by the <a href="http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/35503">Global Lives project</a> (consisting of ten videos &#8211; each following one person for 24 hours) and Dublab&#8217;s <a href="http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/35672">custom cc10 remix of CC licensed music</a> and multimedia. </p>
<div style="float:right; padding:10px" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/terms/" xmlns:cc="http://creativecommons.org/ns#" about="http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8213/8258489983_8886280eaa.jpg"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/dtkindler/8258489983/in/pool-2138128@N21/"><img src="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/8258489983_8886280eaa1.jpg" alt="" border=0 />
<p><small><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/dtkindler/8258489983/in/pool-2138128@N21/"><span property="dc:title">CC hearts cupcakes / </span></a><span property="cc:attributionName">DTKindler Photo</span> / <a rel="license" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/">CC BY</a></small></p>
<p></a></div>
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p>We&#8217;re about to DJ / VJ at the Creative Commons 10th birthday party in San Francisco. Exciting! <a href="https://twitter.com/search/%23CC10">#CC10</a> + <a href="http://t.co/fNKeaYX5" title="http://dublab.com/cc10">dublab.com/cc10</a></p>
<p>&mdash; dublab (@dublab) <a href="https://twitter.com/dublab/status/277570783587467264" data-datetime="2012-12-09T00:30:06+00:00">December 9, 2012</a></p></blockquote>
<p>In addition, the food and drink was CC themed, starting with the CC cupcakes on the ground floor and ending with signature CC cocktails in the Remix Lounge on the top floor. </p>
<p>Longtime CC musician Colin Mutchler, one of CC&#8217;s <a href="http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/9898">original success stories</a>, introduced Creative Commons co-founder Larry Lessig, who gave an unscripted speech expressing his appreciation for the past 10 years, followed by CC CEO Cathy Casserly who expressed excitement for the next ten. Cathy, Larry, and all other <a href="http://creativecommons.org/board">CC Board</a> members were present for the festivities. </p>
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p>Congrats on 10 years, @<a href="https://twitter.com/creativecommons">creativecommons</a>! Where would <a href="https://twitter.com/search/%23openscience">#openscience</a> be without CC? <a href="https://t.co/fQU53IhL" title="https://creativecommons.net/donate/">creativecommons.net/donate/</a> by @<a href="https://twitter.com/lessig">lessig</a>: <a href="http://t.co/QBo38DUj" title="http://twitter.com/lessig/status/277578627124715521/photo/1">twitter.com/lessig/status/…</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/search/%23cc10">#cc10</a></p>
<p>&mdash; Open Science Fedn (@openscience) <a href="https://twitter.com/openscience/status/277584729480519680" data-datetime="2012-12-09T01:25:31+00:00">December 9, 2012</a></p></blockquote>
<p>Creative Commons continues to make a difference in all sectors of society. Please join in celebrating our 10th anniversary, and consider <a href="https://creativecommons.net/donate/?utm_campaign=2012fund&#038;utm_source=blog1&#038;utm_medium=blog">donating</a> to help us celebrate many more years to come!</p>
<p style="text-align:center" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/terms/" xmlns:cc="http://creativecommons.org/ns#" about="http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8067/8257278626_0876f8504b_z.jpg"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/sixteenmilesofstring/8257278626/in/pool-2138128@N21/"><img src="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/8257278626_0876f8504b_z.jpg" alt="" border=0 /><br /><small><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/sixteenmilesofstring/8257278626/in/pool-2138128@N21/"><span property="dc:title">Creative Commons 10th Birthday Celebration San Francisco / </span></a><span property="cc:attributionName">tvol</span> / <a rel="license" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/">CC BY</a></small></a></p>


feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=35535
title: A #cc10 Birthday Song Contest from Free Music Archive
uri: A-cc10-Birthday-Song-Contest-from-Free-Music-Archive
url: http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/35535
content:
<p align="center"><a href="http://freemusicarchive.org/"><img src="http://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/fma-birthday.jpg" width=500 height=400 border="0"/></a></p>
<p><a href="http://freemusicarchive.org">Our friends at Free Music Archive</a> have just announced a contest to dethrone one of the most notoriously copyrighted songs of all time.</p>


feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=35531
title: #cc10 Featured Content: Jason Sigal on Chris Zabriskie
uri: cc10-Featured-Content-Jason-Sigal-on-Chris-Zabriskie
url: http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/35531
content:
<p><i>In celebration of <a href="http://10.creativecommons.org/">Creative Commons&#8217; tenth anniversary</a>, we asked various friends of CC to write about their favorite CC-licensed works. Today, Jason Sigal tells the story of how Chris Zabriskie started licensing his music under <a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/">CC BY</a> and, in the process, opened new professional doors in his music career.</i></p>
<h2>Happy 10th, CC! From the Free Music Archive</h2>
<p><strong>By Jason Sigal</strong></p>
<div style="float:right; padding:10px" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/terms/" xmlns:cc="/ns#" about="http://www.flickr.com/photos/jdalton/4434741540/"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/jdalton/4434741540/"><img width="320" height="214" src="http://farm5.staticflickr.com/4053/4434741540_a33dea589b_n.jpg" alt="Jason Sigal"/></a>
<p><small><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/jdalton/4434741540/"><span property="dc:title">Jason Sigal</span></a> / <span property="cc:attributionName">John Dalton</span> / <a rel="license" href="/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/">CC BY-NC-SA</a></small></p>
</div>
<p>The <a href="http://freemusicarchive.org/">Free Music Archive</a> is a curated library of music that wants to be shared, and Creative Commons makes it all possible. Our project was born out of a simple idea from the freeform noncommercial radio station <a href="http://wfmu.org/">WFMU</a>: radio has always offered free access to quality music, and we all stand to benefit when others are encouraged to spread the word. We joined forces with a coalition of likeminded curators who specialize in everything from <a href="http://freemusicarchive.org/curator/xeroxed">contemporary Indonesian netaudio</a> to <a href="http://freemusicarchive.org/curator/CPDP/">early cylinder recordings</a> to <a href="http://freemusicarchive.org/curator/Music_from_the_Isabella_Stewar/">Western classical</a>, and we provide a platform for artists who utilize the full range of Creative Commons licenses.</p>
<p>Each element of the CC licensing suite is a powerful tool for musicians to leverage copyright in ways they find beneficial. For some, like <a href="http://www.ibiblio.org/jimmy/folkden-wp/">Roger McGuinn</a> of The Byrds, Creative Commons ensures that his re-recordings of public domain folk songs can be shared in a manner befitting the folk tradition. For the mythical 80s cassette underground duo <a href="http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Smersh/Smersh_Library_Sampler/">Smersh</a>, CC BY-NC-ND serves an archival purpose, as every digital copy ensures the preservation of sounds once confined to small batches of decaying analog tape. For the Russian duo Monokle &#038; Galun and the Japanese netlabel Bunkai-Kei, CC BY-NC-SA encourages remixes like <a href="http://bunkai-kei.com/special/cccd/">Creative Commons Compilation Data</a>, where artists were challenged to make new songs by remixing other netlabel releases.</p>
<p><object width="300" height="50"><param name="movie" value="http://freemusicarchive.org/swf/trackplayer.swf"/><param name="flashvars" value="track=http://freemusicarchive.org/services/playlists/embed/track/32218.xml"/><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="sameDomain"/><embed type="application/x-shockwave-flash" src="http://freemusicarchive.org/swf/trackplayer.swf" width="300" height="50" flashvars="track=http://freemusicarchive.org/services/playlists/embed/track/32218.xml" allowscriptaccess="sameDomain" /></object></p>
<p>Creative Commons helps creators find each other, and we&#8217;re always inspired to hear about <a href="http://freemusicarchive.org/curator/Video/blog/Underwater_Soundtracks_Interview_With_Filmmaker_Danny_Cooke">collaborations</a> <a href="http://freemusicarchive.org/member/jason/blog/Anti-iPhone_Game_Banned_From_App_Store_--_Creative_Commons_licensed_featuring_music_by_Minusbaby">sparked</a> <a href="http://freemusicarchive.org/member/happypuppyrecords/blog/Slipping_Skates_Impact_on_Egypt">by</a> <a href="http://freemusicarchive.org/member/jason/blog/Emergency_Songs#welovejapan">CC</a>. Creative Commons also makes it possible to bypass what Lessig has termed the &#8220;permission culture,&#8221; and this is where things get really interesting. For example, we&#8217;re seeing a lot of innovative models from artists under the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license. Attribution is not part of traditional copyright, but since hyperlinks function as a form of online currency, it is a wonderful added protection afforded by the Creative Commons licensing suite.</p>
<div style="float:left; padding:10px" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/terms/" xmlns:cc="/ns#" about="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Chriszabriskie_2008.jpg"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Chriszabriskie_2008.jpg"><img width="320" height="212" src="http://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/Chriszabriskie_320.jpg" alt="Chris Zabriskie"/></a>
<p><small><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Chriszabriskie_2008.jpg"><span property="dc:title">Chris Zabriskie</span></a> / <span property="cc:attributionName">Chris Zabriskie</span> / <a rel="license" href="/licenses/by/2.0/">CC BY</a></small></p>
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<p>Last year, <a href="http://chriszabriskie.com/">Chris Zabriskie</a> — an <a href="http://freemusicarchive.org/music/chris_zabriskie">FMA artist</a> who specializes in cinematic soundscapes, ambient piano compositions and minimal synth music — found the Attribution requirement so powerful that he decided to drop the NonCommercial clause from his work. In a post entitled <a href="http://freemusicarchive.org/member/chriszabriskie/blog/Why_I_Went_CC_BY">Why I Went CC BY</a>, he explained his reasoning: &#8220;There are 48 hours of new video being uploaded just to YouTube every minute. Somebody, somewhere, always needs music for their project. Let people do what they want with your music, and they&#8217;ll promote you.&#8221; His inbox was flooded with requests from fellow creators: &#8220;People with Etsy stores making videos to advertise their new, handmade products. Filmmakers who, while the goal of making their short film isn&#8217;t monetary, one day might press up some DVDs. And if that dude&#8217;s free Flash game gets really popular, he&#8217;ll want to sell it in the App Store.&#8221; He included some examples of work by &#8220;people I&#8217;m not going to sue,&#8221; and <a href="http://chriszabriskie.com/credits/">he keeps a list</a> that now includes big names like the Cartoon Network, New York Public Library, Gizmodo, and Mashable alongside independent feature films and shorts. &#8220;Malleable Objects,&#8221; a short documentary on the artist Margaret Craig, is embedded below.</p>
<p><iframe src="http://player.vimeo.com/video/39742876?badge=0&amp;color=ffffff" width="500" height="281" frameborder="0" webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen></iframe>
<p><a href="http://vimeo.com/39742876">Malleable Objects</a> from <a href="http://vimeo.com/markangelawalley">Mark &amp; Angela Walley</a> on <a href="http://vimeo.com">Vimeo</a>.</p>
<p>Zabriskie emailed the FMA earlier this year to describe how his decision paid off in ways he never expected: &#8220;I&#8217;ve scored several feature films, a number of shorts, and am doing a bunch of other contract work for people and projects all around the world.&#8221; Along with the new commissions, &#8220;a shocking number of folks from filmmakers to ad agencies to churches have been paying to license some of my existing stuff&#8221; either as a means to bypass the Creative Commons Attribution requirement, or simply because they have the means to support the music that helped make their work possible. Though he says he has no plans to leave his dream job, (which happens to include both music composition and video editing), Chris Zabriskie has allowed his music to spread freely to the point where he could afford to focus on music full time.</p>
<p>These are just a few of the many models made possible by Creative Commons licensing. Thanks to Creative Commons, creators have choices beyond traditional copyright. Over the course of the past decade, these choices have facilitated collaborations and spawned the creation of countless new works. Happy birthday, CC. We look forward to what the next ten years will bring!</p>
<p><em><a href="http://twitter.com/therewasaguy">Jason Sigal</a> is former director of the <a href="http://freemusicarchive.org/member/jason">Free Music Archive</a> and a DJ at <a href="http://wfmu.org/playlists/JI">WFMU</a>. He writes music for <a href="http://lamedrivers.com/">Lame Drivers</a> under the CC BY-NC-SA license.</em></p>


feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=35642
title: CC10: Day 6
uri: CC10-Day-6
url: http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/35642
content:
<p style="text-align:center" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/terms/" xmlns:cc="http://creativecommons.org/ns#" about="http://www.flickr.com/photos/dtkindler/8258483007/"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/dtkindler/8258483007/"><img src="http://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/ccheart.jpg" alt="CC hearts cake" width="700" height="300" border=0 /><br /><small><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/dtkindler/8258483007/"><span property="dc:title">CC hearts cake / </span></a><span property="cc:attributionName">David Kindler</span> / <a rel="license" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/">CC BY</a></small></a></p>
<p>Today, an exciting announcement. In honor of CC&#8217;s tenth birthday, <a href="http://www.freemusicarchive.org/">our friends at Free Music Archive</a> are launching a competition to find a new birthday song &#8211; one that can be shared and sung without paying a cent. <a href="/weblog/entry/35535">Read about the contest</a> and start working on your entry.</p>
<p>Keeping on the music theme, <a href="/weblog/entry/35531">guest blogger Jason Sigal tells the story of Chris Zabriskie</a>, a musician who opened a lot of professional doors when he decided to start licensing his music CC BY. And we highlight a <a href="http://creativecommons.cashmusic.org/">Guide to Creative Commons </a>produced by <a href="http://cashmusic.org/">CASH Music</a>, a nonprofit that builds open source tools to empower artists and their fans find a more viable and sustainable future for music.</p>
<p>Today&#8217;s also a big day for CC10 events, with 5 separate events on 3 continents &#8211; two US parties from CC friends Redhat (in <a href="http://tricc10.eventbrite.com/">Raleigh</a>) and the <a href="http://library.auraria.edu/">Auraria Library</a> (in Denver); talks and debates in <a href="http://cc10uk.eventbrite.com/">London </a>and <a href="http://centrumcyfrowe.pl/2012/zapraszamy-na-2-urodziny-centrum-cyfrowego/">Warsaw</a>; and a classic CC Salon in <a href="http://www.creativecommons.qa/you%E2%80%99re-invited-creative-commons-10-year-anniversary">Qatar</a> with a special guest, CC&#8217;s CEO Cathy Casserly.</p>


feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=35840
title: CC10: Day 7
uri: CC10-Day-7
url: http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/35840
content:
<p style="text-align:center" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/terms/" xmlns:cc="http://creativecommons.org/ns#" about="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/A92Ke3jCMAALwKw.jpg:large"><a href="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/A92Ke3jCMAALwKw.jpg:large"><img src="http://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/cc10poster_700.jpg" alt="Happy Birthday CC10" width="700" height="394" border=0 /><br /><small><a href="https://twitter.com/saidRmdhani/status/278531014870052864/"><span property="dc:title">CC Happy Birthday CC10 / </span></a><span property="cc:attributionName"><a href="https://twitter.com/saidRmdhani/status/278531014870052864/photo/1/large">@saidRmdhani</a></span></small></a></p>
<p>On day 7 of our CC10 celebrations we have an exciting <a href="http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/35710">announcement</a>: the <a href="http://www.sbctc.ctc.edu">Washington State Board for Community and Technical Colleges</a> (SBCTC) has <a href="http://www.sbctc.ctc.edu/general/documents/2012_12_06_I-DEA_grant_final.pdf">announced</a> a 3.5 million dollar grant from the <a href="http://www.gatesfoundation.org/Pages/home.aspx">Bill &#038; Melinda Gates Foundation</a> for a new program to help adult English language learners improve their language skills — Integrated Digital English Acceleration (I-DEA). Importantly, all online learning modules developed for I-DEA will be made available under a Creative Commons Attribution license —  the most liberal of our licences, allowing all teachers around the country and the world to reuse, remix and reinterpret them. </p>
<p>In honor of this announcement, we focus on education for today&#8217;s <a href="http://10.creativecommons.org">CC10</a> featured platform and resource. We take a look at <a href="http://wikieducator.org/Open_content_licensing_for_educators/Home">Open content licensing for educators</a>, one of the many courses provided by <a href="http://wikieducator.org/Main_Page">Wikieducator</a>, a community-developed resource of free elearning content &#8211; created by the public, for the public. The Open content licensing for educators course, an initiative of the <a href="http://wikieducator.org/OERF:Home">OER Foundation</a>, has been running all this week, training educators both how to make full use of the wealth of educational resources now available for free download under CC and other open licenses, and how to share their own materials with others.</p>
<p>We also celebrate a milestone by another great community-created platform, as <a href="http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/35812">Wikicommons hits 15 million files</a>, just in time for CC10. <a href="http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page">Wikicommons </a>is one of the world&#8217;s oldest and largest resources of CC licensing and public domain media, from photos to videos to sound files. It&#8217;s the source of all the media you find on <a href="http://www.wikipedia.org">Wikipedia</a>, and its files are used extensively by cultural and educational institutions to share and create open education resources. Check out our <a href="http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/35812">post</a> on this great achievement to see two videos by our friends at <a href="http://www.wikiafrica.org/">WikiAfrica</a>, explaining how and why a cultural institution might want to share their resources on Wikicommons.</p>
<p>Finally &#8211; everyone should take a moment to appreciate the fabulous CC10 poster above by <a href="https://twitter.com/saidRmdhani/status/278531014870052864/">@saidRmdhani</a>. It was produced by attendees to our <a href="http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/34417">Arab World Regional Meeting</a>, which has been running all this week in Cairo, and finishes up today. Congratulations to all the attendees, and we can&#8217;t wait to hear more about your workshops.</p>


feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=35812
title: Wikimedia Commons Reaches 15 Million Files
uri: Wikimedia-Commons-Reaches-15-Million-Files
url: http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/35812
content:
<div style="float:right; padding:10px" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/terms/" xmlns:cc="/ns#" about="http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:17W_Aug_14_1996_0124Z.png"><a href="http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:17W_Aug_14_1996_0124Z.png"><img width="250" height="300" src="http://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/storm.jpg" alt="17W Aug 14 1996 0124Z"/></a>
<p><small><a href="http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:17W_Aug_14_1996_0124Z.png/"><span property="dc:title">17W Aug 14 1996 0124Z</span></a><br /><span property="cc:attributionName">United States National Oceanic and<br />Atmospheric Administration / Public Domain</span></small></p>
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<p>Just in time for <a href="http://10.creativecommons.org/">CC10</a>, <a href="http://commons.wikimedia.org/">Wikimedia Commons</a> just announced its fifteen millionth upload. That&#8217;s fifteen million files that anyone can reuse, remix, and share <a href="http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Licensing">for commercial or noncommercial purposes</a>, many of them licensed <a href="/licenses/by/3.0/">CC BY</a> or <a href="/licenses/by-sa/3.0/">CC BY-SA</a>.</p>
<p>The fifteen millionth file, pictured to the right, is a public domain photograph of Tropical Depression Seventeen-W, produced by the United States National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. In a way, the photo is the perfect distillation of why an archive like Wikimedia Commons is important. The photo was already in the public domain, but it&#8217;s more useful when catalogued in a well-maintained repository.</p>
<p><a href="http://blog.wikimedia.org/2012/12/10/15-million-free-media-files-on-wikimedia-commons/">As Peter Weiss explained the significance of the announcement</a>, much of the growth of the Wikimedia Commons collection can be attributed to adoption by <a href="http://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM">galleries, libraries, museums, and archives (GLAMs)</a>. When cultural institutions share their collections in a form that others can access and reuse, everyone&#8217;s better off for it.</p>
<p>These two videos from <a href="http://www.wikiafrica.org/">WikiAfrica</a> explain why a cultural institution might want to share artifacts in Wikimedia Commons, and how to do it.</p>
<p><iframe width="560" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/CPWc18LswRM" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe></p>
<p><iframe width="560" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/ZpYmtRmPdUc" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe></p>
<p>Congratulations to Wikimedia Commons on this amazing milestone, and thanks for being a part of the CC family.</p>


feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=35710
title: $3.5 million grant funds creation of CC BY resources for adult English learners
uri: 3-5-million-grant-funds-creation-of-CC-BY-resources-for-adult-English
url: http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/35710
content:
<p>Just in time for <a href="http://10.creativecommons.org/">Creative Commons&#8217; 10th birthday celebration</a> of its license suite, the <a href="http://www.sbctc.ctc.edu">Washington State Board for Community and Technical Colleges</a> (SBCTC) <a href="http://www.sbctc.ctc.edu/general/documents/2012_12_06_I-DEA_grant_final.pdf">announced</a> a 3.5 million dollar grant from the <a href="http://www.gatesfoundation.org/Pages/home.aspx">Bill &#038; Melinda Gates Foundation</a> for a new program &#8212; Integrated Digital English Acceleration (I-DEA) &#8212; that will help adult English language learners improve their language skills while simultaneously providing career and college readiness training through technology-based tools and resources.</p>
<p style="text-align:center" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/terms/" xmlns:cc="http://creativecommons.org/ns#" about="http://farm3.staticflickr.com/2745/4079309979_d10b188084_z.jpg"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/grahamstanley/4079309979/in/photostream/"><img src="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/4079309979_d10b188084_z.jpg" alt="cc10" border=0 /></a><br /><small>by <span property="dc:title"></span><span property="cc:attributionName">blogefl</span> / <a rel="license" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/">CC BY</a></small></p>
<p>The I-DEA program targets community college learners in the state&#8217;s lowest three levels of English as a Second Language courses, and aims to help learners achieve their language goals in tandem with career goals &#8212; with fewer hours of instruction than traditional programs that teach basic language skills separately from job-specific skills. </p>
<p>I-DEA derives its dual approach from the state&#8217;s I-BEST model (Integrated Basic Education and Skills Training), which U.S. Department of Education Under Secretary Martha Kanter recognized as furthering adult education faster than any other program: &#8220;51 percent of I-BEST students completed a certificate in two years, vs. 14 percent of the comparison group&#8230;&#8221; (<a href="http://www.changemag.org/Archives/Back%20Issues/2011/May-June%202011/first-in-the-world-full.html">Change Magazine of Higher Learning</a>).</p>
<p>A significant part of this grant is that all online learning modules developed will be made available openly under a <a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/">Creative Commons Attribution license</a>, allowing anyone to access, reuse, translate, and remix the modules as long as attribution is given. I-DEA learning modules will be added to the <a href="https://sites.google.com/a/sbctc.edu/opencourselibrary/">Open Course Library</a>, Washington State&#8217;s collection of high quality CC BY-licensed educational resources for its 82 highest enrolled community college courses. </p>
<p>The grant also includes the creation of new technology tools, laptop computers on loan, Internet access, and online advising and tutoring. From the press release:</p>
<blockquote><p>Among other goals, college and partner community-based organizations (CBOs) will create open source curriculum and identify best practices of technology-enhanced instruction that allow more students to be served with less in-class instruction. Courses and techniques developed with the grant will be open sourced, allowing colleges and CBOs in Washington and around the world to replicate I-DEA.</p></blockquote>
<p>This is fantastic news that couldn&#8217;t come at a better time. Thank you for this birthday gift to CC! Thanks to the SBCTC for spearheading this initiative and to the Bill &#038; Melinda Gates Foundation for making it possible.</p>
<p>For more details, including a list of the initial 10 colleges to receive and implement the grant, see the press release (<a href="http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&#038;rct=j&#038;q=&#038;esrc=s&#038;source=web&#038;cd=1&#038;cad=rja&#038;ved=0CC0QFjAA&#038;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.sbctc.ctc.edu%2Fgeneral%2Fdocuments%2F2012_12_06_I-DEA_grant_final.pdf&#038;ei=923HUOCGC6nOiwL61YDwCQ&#038;usg=AFQjCNEJnKqqqcho1uCt5nd6wYKJY9WR6A&#038;bvm=bv.1354675689,d.cGE">pdf</a>).</p>


feed_id: http://creativecommons.org/?p=35875
title: #cc10 Featured Platform: Jamendo
uri: cc10-Featured-Platform-Jamendo
url: http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/35875
content:
<div style="float:right; padding:10px" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/terms/" xmlns:cc="/ns#" about="http://www.flickr.com/photos/joi/2590436629/"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/joi/2590436629/"><img width="320" height="213" src="http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3255/2590436629_0dc741b085_n.jpg" alt="Pierre G&#233;rard"/></a>
<p><small><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/joi/2590436629/"><span property="dc:title">Pierre G&#233;rard</span></a> / <span property="cc:attributionName">Joi Ito</span> / <a rel="license" href="/licenses/by/2.0/">CC BY</a></small></p>
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<p><em>Throughout CC&#8217;s <a href="http://10.creativecommons.org/">tenth anniversary celebrations</a>, we&#8217;re highlighting various media platforms with CC implementation. For today, we spoke with <a href="http://jamendo.com/">Jamendo</a> cofounder and managing director Pierre G&#233;rard.</em></p>
<p><em>If you&#8217;re not familiar with Jamendo, it&#8217;s a community of musicians and tool for discovering new music. Unlike most other CC-enabled platforms, CC is integral to Jamendo: every songs is licensed under CC. For many songs, users can purchase commercial rights through the Jamendo PRO service.</em></p>
<p><em>In honor of CC10, Pierre and his team created <a href="http://www.jamendo.com/list/p89079526/cc10">a special #cc10 playlist</a> of their top ten CC-licensed songs. Pierre had this to say about the playlist:</em></p>
<blockquote><p>We looked back at these 8 years of existence for Jamendo; we have been blessed by the talent of so many artists that it’s hard to choose! They have made our catalog a very rich and diverse world of free music. Thanks to them, we were able to select popular songs created by artists from different parts of the world to create a playlist very diverse in terms of music genres. The most important was to choose artists that support and believe in Creative Commons, and all of these artists have promoted the concept for years.</p></blockquote>
<p><strong>Tell me a bit about the history of Jamendo. Was Creative Commons licensing part of your plan from the beginning?</strong></p>
<p>Yes, CC licensing was in the first business model of the company. When we created Jamendo in 2004, we based our concept on free music for consumers and professional licensing, even though it took years to launch our licensing service (Jamendo PRO). Creative Commons was really the seed of Jamendo. We wanted to create a new model in the digital world where there are so many opportunities for artists to promote and share their music. We knew that some of them also have huge potential and would be able to generate revenue from their music.</p>
<p><strong>Jamendo is unique among most of the media platforms we work with, in that all uploads are CC-licensed. Has that policy caused confusion among users?</strong></p>
<p>Yes; we also need to evangelize and explain how CC licenses can be used. Some have been confused in the past because they were used to the &#8220;you-are-not-allowed policy&#8221; that stems from traditional copyright. The concept of CC is so much different and needs to be explained. But it&#8217;s quite easy and users understand that it is so much easier and fair.</p>
<div style="float:right; padding:10px"><object width="200" height="300" classid="clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000" codebase="http://fpdownload.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=7,0,0,0" align="middle"><param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always"/><param name="wmode" value="transparent"/><param name="movie" value="http://widgets.jamendo.com/en/album/?album_id=90449&amp;playertype=2008&amp;refuid=1011928"/><param name="quality" value="high"/><param name="bgcolor" value="#FFFFFF"/><embed src="http://widgets.jamendo.com/en/album/?album_id=90449&amp;playertype=2008&amp;refuid=1011928" quality="high" wmode="transparent" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" width="200" height="300" align="middle" allowscriptaccess="always" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer"/>&nbsp;&nbsp;</object><a href="http://pro.jamendo.com/" style="display:block;font-size:8px !important;">Royalty-free music for professional licensing</a></div>
<p><strong>We love hearing interesting reuse stories. Do you have any examples of tracks that got reused in surprising or amazing ways under the CC license?</strong></p>
<p>We are often asked to participate in very interesting projects that are made possible by the openness of Creative Commons. We helped a Jamendo member create a compilation of CC artists in order to raise money for the victims of the tsunami in Japan. <a href="http://www.jamendo.com/en/artist/427932/ccmixter-jamendo">We&#8217;ve also worked with ccMixter</a> to have our communities remix Christmas songs! Last year, we had the pleasure to see CC Spanish rock band Stormy Mondays win a contest organized by NASA and get its song <a href="http://www.jamendo.com/en/list/a90449/sunrise-number-1">&#8220;Sunrise Number 1&#8221;</a> played in space in the Endeavour space shuttle!</p>
<p><strong>What advice might you give a musician who&#8217;s unsure about sharing her work under a CC license?</strong></p>
<p>There is nothing to lose and so much to gain! Music is everywhere and there is no actual way for an artist to prevent his or her music from being distributed. At the end of the day, &#8220;giving away your music for free&#8221; under a CC license creates more value in terms of fans, popularity and even money.</p>
<p><strong>Where will the music industry be ten years from now? Will open licensing be the default?</strong></p>
<p>It&#8217;s very likely that we see a strong growth in open licensing but I am sure it will be the default. I like to compare open licensing with open-source software. The IT industry has seen a lot of changes since the launch of free licenses: new companies have emerged with new business models but the old ones are still there even though they’ve also had to evolve.</p>
<p>In 10 years, majors will still be there but they will also have learned some lessons. I am sure the place (or market share) of open licensing for music will grow with more and more artists publishing their music under CC and I hope that Jamendo will still play a big part in this new ecosystem.</p>


feed_id: http://creativecommons.org/?p=35877
title: European CC Affiliates Celebrate #cc10 with a Mixtape of Inspiring CC-Licensed Music
uri: European-CC-Affiliates-Celebrate-cc10-with-a-Mixtape-of-Inspiring-CC
url: http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/35877
content:
<p><strong>Guest blog post by Teresa Nobre, Legal Project Lead at <a href="http://www.creativecommons.pt/">Creative Commons Portugal</a></strong></p>
<p><img src="http://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/cc10_mixtape_300.jpg" width=300 height=300 align="right" />One of the opportunities for Creative Commons to continue its rapid evolution is more collaboration between the various affiliates. In September, representatives of CC’s <a href="http://wiki.creativecommons.org/CC_Affiliate_Network">affiliates</a> in 17 different European countries attended a <a href="http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/34706">regional meeting</a> and discussed, among other things, <a href="http://10.creativecommons.org/">Creative Commons&#8217; 10th birthday</a>. Most of the affiliates were already planning activities and events in their own countries; nevertheless, we felt that it was important to find a way to celebrate this important date as a regional network. Since the majority of the affiliates are volunteers, we cannot commit ourselves to carry out as many common actions as we would like. With other priorities in both the national and regional agendas, this activity could not require much planning and execution. The idea of creating a mixtape with Creative Commons&#8211;licensed music from around Europe &#8211; where each affiliate just had to suggest one or two tracks from her own country &#8211; seemed, therefore, a good option and got the general agreement of all those present at the meeting.</p>
<p>Back to our home countries, we relied on the network mailing list to get everyone involved. We did not nominate an official project lead and we did not establish any requirements other than the music being the affiliate&#8217;s preferred CC-licensed music. We could have decided to use the mixtape to promote just music licensed with one of CC&#8217;s free culture licenses (<a href="/licenses/by/3.0/">CC BY</a> and <a href="/licenses/by-sa/3.0/">CC BY-SA</a>), but we wanted to get as many affiliates involved as possible and we knew that adding such limitation would only make searching for work more difficult. After all, only a very few of us work in the music industry (the others are lawyers, open content advisors, entrepreneurs, academic researchers, engineers, etc.) and not all of us are familiar with our national CC-licensed music.</p>
<p>Some affiliates went on asking for suggestions to their local communities and some even did contests to find their national CC-licensed music that would make into the compilation. Not all the European affiliates were able to get involved in the project, but those involved were really motivated and even found time to send contributions in respect to other European countries. In total, 16 affiliates worked together, devoting much more time than they initially thought they had available, to make this mixtape happen.</p>
<p>The resulting mixtape showcases the talent of 20 artists from 20 European countries: Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Denmark, France, Germany, Greece, Iceland, Israel, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, and the UK. The tracks are from genres as diverse as electronic, folk, classic, drum &#038; bass, rock, ska and tango, and they sound awesome together (despite the fact that they were compiled by a non-musician lawyer!). Give it a listen! It is available for download under various Creative Commons licenses at <a href="http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Creative_Commons/CC-10_Europe_Mixtape/">Free Music Archive</a>, <a href="https://soundcloud.com/cc-europe/sets/cc-europe-mixtape-side-a">SoundCloud</a>, and the <a href="http://archive.org/details/nwscomp005">Internet Archive</a>. The album artwork is licensed under a <a href="/licenses/by/3.0/">Creative Commons Attribution license</a>.</p>
<p><iframe width="100%" height="450" scrolling="no" frameborder="no" src="https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Fplaylists%2F2935082"></iframe></p>


feed_id: http://creativecommons.org/?p=35535
title: A #cc10 Birthday Song Contest from Free Music Archive
uri: 2012-12-14-A-cc10-Birthday-Song-Contest-from-Free-Music-Archive
url: http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/35535
content:
<p align="center"><a href="http://freemusicarchive.org/member/ange/blog/The_New_Happy_Birthday_Song_Contest"><img src="http://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/fma-birthday.jpg" width=500 height=400 border="0"/></a></p>
<p><a href="http://freemusicarchive.org/member/ange/blog/The_New_Happy_Birthday_Song_Contest">Our friends at Free Music Archive</a> have just announced a contest to dethrone one of the most notoriously copyrighted songs of all time. From FMA&#8217;s blog:</p>
<blockquote><p>The Free Music Archive wants to wish <a href="http://creativecommons.org/">Creative Commons</a> a <a href="http://10.creativecommons.org/">Happy 10th Birthday</a> with a song. But there&#8217;s a problem. Although &#8220;Happy Birthday To You&#8221; is the most recognized song in the English language and its origins can be traced back to 1893, it remains under copyright protection in the United States until 2030. It can cost independent filmmakers <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2005/10/16/movies/16rams.html">$10,000 to clear the song for their films</a>, and this is a major stumbling block hindering the creation of new works of art. The 1987 PBS Civil Rights documentary, Eyes on the Prize is but <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Happy_Birthday_to_You#Copyright_issues_and_public_performances">one notable example</a>.</p></blockquote>
<blockquote><p>While this has made for many inspiring <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QZBzh7wi-OM">creative alternatives in film and restaurant chains alike, it&#8217;s time to dethrone that old ditty and create a new national repository of </a><a href="http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Happy_Birthday_Song_Contest/The_New_Birthday_Song_Contest/">alternate Birthday song compositions</a>. All submissions will be licensed under a <a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/">Creative Commons Attribution</a> license so that they may be freely incorporated into new works of art as long as the artist and the Free Music Archive are properly attributed.</p></blockquote>


feed_id: http://creativecommons.org/?p=35903
title: CC10: Day 8
uri: CC10-Day-8
url: http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/35903
content:
<p align="center"><a href="http://10.creativecommons.org/"><img src="media/6c3262f6.CC10-ivan.png" data-original-source="http://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/CC10-ivan.png" width="450" height="450"/></a><br /><a href="http://twitter.com/ivanlanin">@ivanlanin</a></p>
<p>Wow. There are not one, but <em>four</em> CC10 mixes of Creative Commons&#8211;licensed music!</p>
<ul>
<li><a href="/weblog/entry/35672">Dublab #cc10 mix</a> (for the <a href="/weblog/entry/35749">San Francisco party</a>)</li>
<li><a href="http://www.progolog.de/2012/12/13-peter-withoutfield-10-yrs-creative-commons-mixtape/">pEtEr Withoutfield &#8211; Creative Commons Mixtape</a> (for the <a href="http://de.creativecommons.org/2012/11/30/am-8-12-in-berlin-10-jahre-creative-commons-party/">Berlin party</a>)</li>
<li><a href="/weblog/entry/35877">#cc10 Europe mixtape</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.jamendo.com/en/list/p89079526/cc10">#cc10 mix</a> by Jamendo staff</li>
</ul>
<p>That&#8217;s enough CC music to get you well into the weekend. Meanwhile, <a href="http://article.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.foss.opensourcetreffen.announce/113">the German CC community is celebrating in Munich</a>, and here on the blog, we&#8217;re celebrating the do-it-yourself spirit of the CC community.</p>
<p><a href="/weblog/entry/35877">CC Portugal&#8217;s Teresa Nobre</a> explains the #cc10 Europe project and gives a little glimpse into the life of a CC European affiliate. And <a href="/weblog/entry/35875">Jamendo&#8217;s Pierre G&#233;rard</a> talks about the history of Jamendo and encourages musicians to let their music be free.</p>
<p>Finally, we&#8217;re featuring <a href="https://p2pu.org/en/schools/school-of-open/">The School of Open</a>, CC&#8217;s new collaboration with P2PU, where anyone can create new courses. <a href="http://creativecommons.org/tag/school-of-open">This year, The School of Open has grown</a> from a simple idea into a vital resource for the open community.</p>


feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=35906
title: #cc10 Antarctica!
uri: cc10-Antarctica
url: http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/35906
content:
<p style="text-align:center" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/terms/" xmlns:cc="http://creativecommons.org/ns#" about="http://icecube.wisc.edu/"><a href="http://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/CC10-antarctica.jpg"><img src="http://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/CC10-antarctica-600.jpg" alt="CC10 Antarctica" width="600" height="398" border=0 /><br /><small><a href="http://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/CC10-antarctica.jpg"><span property="dc:title">CC10 Antarctica</span></a> / <span property="cc:attributionName">Nils Irland / IceCube Neutrino Observatory</span> / <a rel="license" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/">CC BY</a></small></a></p>
<p>Remember when Jessica said we were <a href="/weblog/entry/35459">&#8220;working on&#8221; a CC10 meetup in Antarctica?</a> She wasn&#8217;t kidding. We got in touch with our friends at the <a href="http://icecube.wisc.edu/">IceCube Neutrino Observatory</a>, and before we knew it, IceCube researchers Nils Irland, Blaise Kuo, and Felipe Pedreros were toasting Creative Commons from the geographic South Pole.</p>
<p>&#8220;Nils is part of our IT team and was down to help replace some servers,&#8221; IceCube communications manager Laurel Norris told us in an email. &#8220;Blaise and Felipe are just now starting their stint as winterovers &#8211; meaning they will be at the South Pole for the entire winter (24 hour darkness). Aside for a short trip to the coastal research station of McMurdo, they will not leave the South Pole until Nov 2013.&#8221;</p>
<p>As it turns out, IceCube researchers spend a lot of time thinking about the future of open. In its <a href="http://icecube.umd.edu/PublicData/policy/IceCubeDataPolicy.pdf">data policy (PDF)</a>, IceCube echoes the Antarctic Treaty&#8217;s provision that &#8220;to the greatest extent feasible and practicable, scientific observations and results from Antarctica shall be exchanged and made freely available.&#8221; For information on data sharing in Antarctica, see our <a href="http://wiki.creativecommons.org/Case_Studies/Polar_Information_Commons">case study on Polar Commons</a>.</p>
<p>And with that, we now know of <a href="http://10.creativecommons.org">31 CC10 gatherings around the world</a>, on every continent. There have been <a href="http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/35903">five CC10 mixtapes</a>, a <a href="http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/35929">CC10 iPhone app</a>, a <a href="http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/35879">world-famous virtual singer going CC</a>, and who knows what will happen in the next three days. This community is mind-boggling.</p>
<p><em>We&#8217;re humbled by the worldwide outpour of support we&#8217;ve seen for CC&#8217;s tenth anniversary. Please join us as we take on the next decade together, and <a href="https://creativecommons.net/donate/?utm_campaign=2012fund&#038;utm_source=blog2&#038;utm_medium=blog">donate $25 to Creative Commons</a>.</em></p>


feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=35929
title: CC10Musicians iPhone app from CC Korea
uri: CC10Musicians-iPhone-app-from-CC-Korea
url: http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/35929
content:
<p><a href="http://cckorea.org/xe/?mid=main">CC Korea</a> has given Creative Commons a cool 10th birthday present with the release of the <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/kr/app/cc10musicians-free-music-streaming/id587501415?l=en&#038;mt=8">CC10Musicians iPhone app</a> (Android app coming soon). From CC Korea:</p>
<blockquote><p>We introduce 10 teams of musicians sharing their music under a Creative Commons License. From Brazil to Iceland, from Hip-Hop to Indie Rock, discover awesome music from all over the genre, all over the world. CC10Musicians App allows you to listen to the 10 selected artists&#8217; work on live streaming and share some spread-worth music with your Facebook and Twitter friends.</p></blockquote>
<p>The app looks (and sounds) great, and is easy to use. Many thanks to CC Korea for a fantastic birthday gift!</p>
<p><a href="https://itunes.apple.com/kr/app/cc10musicians-free-music-streaming/id587501415?l=en&#038;mt=8" rel="attachment wp-att-35931"><img src="https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/cc-korea.jpg" alt="cc korea" width="600" height="448" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-35931" /></a></p>


feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=35879
title: Hatsune Miku Joins the CC Community
uri: Hatsune-Miku-Joins-the-CC-Community
url: http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/35879
content:
<p><em>&#8220;Hatsune Miku has inspired thousands of people to create their own musical recordings and remixes. It&#8217;s fitting that she&#8217;d become CC-licensed, joining forces with a movement that lives to make sharing and remixing easier. I&#8217;m thrilled to welcome to welcome Hatsune to the ranks of CC-licensed works.&#8221;</em><br />&#8211;Catherine Casserly, Creative Commons CEO</p>
<p><em>&#8220;Crypton’s Hatsune Miku is an amazingly unique, inspiring and successful example of how sharing pulls together in community to empowers and explosion of creativity. It&#8217;s one of my favorite projects. I&#8217;m so excited that Creative Commons can now be part of that story.&#8221;</em><br />&#8211;Joi Ito, Creative Commons board member, Director at the MIT Media Lab</p>
<div style="float:right; padding:10px" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/terms/" xmlns:cc="/ns#" about="http://piapro.net/en_for_creators.html"><a href="http://piapro.net/en_for_creators.html"><img width="250" height="388" src="http://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/miku_250.jpg" alt="Hatsune Miku"/></a>
<p><small><a href="http://piapro.net/en_for_creators.html"><span property="dc:title">Hatsune Miku</span></a> / <span property="cc:attributionName">Crypton Future Media</span> / <a rel="license" href="/licenses/by-nc/3.0/">CC BY-NC</a></small></p>
</div>
<p>In celebration of the <a href="http://10.creativecommons.org/">tenth anniversary of Creative Commons</a>, we are happy to announce that <a href="http://piapro.net/en_for_creators.html">Hatsune Miku has joined the CC community!</a></p>
<p><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hatsune_Miku">Hatsune Miku</a> is the first and most famous virtual singer. What sets Miku apart from other &#8220;characters&#8221; is the original &#8220;remix-free&#8221; license for users. Since her debut in 2007, Miku have been remixed and cherished by fans, resulting in 170,000+ videos on YouTube, 95,000 songs, and 500,000+ artworks created by the community.</p>
<p>Hatsune Miku also played the major role at TOYOTA USA and Google Chrome TV commercials. She has performed sold-out shows with 3D images not only in Japan, but also in Los  Angeles, Hong Kong, Taipei, and Singapore. To deal with growing demands from the world, Crypton Future Media Inc., which gave a birth to Hatsune Miku and owes her character, has decided to adopt the <a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/">CC BY-NC</a> license on December 14th.</p>
<p><em>&#8220;The creative culture using Hatsune Miku and related community will spread worldwide by applying a CC license to the illustration of Hatsune Miku. I hope that this encourages cross-border collaborations among creators and enables them to deepen their understanding of each other&#8217;s culture and respect to creators through their works and creation.&#8221;</em><br />&#8211;Hiroyuki Ito, CEO of Crypton Future Media, Inc.</p>


feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=35903
title: CC10: Day 8
uri: 2012-12-15-CC10-Day-8
url: http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/35903
content:
<p align="center"><a href="http://10.creativecommons.org/"><img src="http://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/CC10-ivan.png" width="450" height="450"/></a><br /><a href="http://twitter.com/ivanlanin">@ivanlanin</a></p>
<p>Wow. There are not one, but <strike><em>four</em></strike> <strong>five</strong> CC10 mixes of Creative Commons&#8211;licensed music!</p>
<ul>
<li><a href="/weblog/entry/35672">Dublab #cc10 mix</a> (for the <a href="/weblog/entry/35749">San Francisco party</a>)</li>
<li><a href="http://www.progolog.de/2012/12/13-peter-withoutfield-10-yrs-creative-commons-mixtape/">pEtEr Withoutfield &#8211; Creative Commons Mixtape</a> (for the <a href="http://de.creativecommons.org/2012/11/30/am-8-12-in-berlin-10-jahre-creative-commons-party/">Berlin party</a>)</li>
<li><a href="/weblog/entry/35877">#cc10 Europe mixtape</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.jamendo.com/en/list/p89079526/cc10">#cc10 mix</a> by Jamendo staff</li>
<li><a href="http://badpandarecords.wordpress.com/2012/12/14/cc/">#cc10 mix</a> by Bad Panda Records</li>
</ul>
<p>That&#8217;s enough CC music to get you well into the weekend. Meanwhile, <a href="http://article.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.foss.opensourcetreffen.announce/113">the German CC community is celebrating in Munich</a>, and here on the blog, we&#8217;re celebrating the do-it-yourself spirit of the CC community.</p>
<p><a href="/weblog/entry/35877">CC Portugal&#8217;s Teresa Nobre</a> explains the #cc10 Europe project and gives a little glimpse into the life of a CC European affiliate. And <a href="/weblog/entry/35875">Jamendo&#8217;s Pierre G&#233;rard</a> talks about the history of Jamendo and encourages musicians to let their music be free.</p>
<p>Finally, we&#8217;re featuring <a href="https://p2pu.org/en/schools/school-of-open/">The School of Open</a>, CC&#8217;s new collaboration with P2PU, where anyone can create new courses. <a href="http://creativecommons.org/tag/school-of-open">This year, The School of Open has grown</a> from a simple idea into a vital resource for the open community.</p>
<p><em>Edited Dec 14 to add Bad Panda&#8217;s #cc10 mix to the list.</em></p>


feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=35875
title: #cc10 Featured Platform: Jamendo
uri: 2012-12-15-cc10-Featured-Platform-Jamendo
url: http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/35875
content:
<div style="float:right; padding:10px" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/terms/" xmlns:cc="/ns#" about="http://www.flickr.com/photos/joi/2590436629/"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/joi/2590436629/"><img width="320" height="213" src="http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3255/2590436629_0dc741b085_n.jpg" alt="Pierre G&#233;rard"/></a>
<p><small><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/joi/2590436629/"><span property="dc:title">Pierre G&#233;rard</span></a> / <span property="cc:attributionName">Joi Ito</span> / <a rel="license" href="/licenses/by/2.0/">CC BY</a></small></p>
</div>
<p><em>Throughout CC&#8217;s <a href="http://10.creativecommons.org/">tenth anniversary celebrations</a>, we&#8217;re highlighting various media platforms with CC implementation. For today, we spoke with <a href="http://jamendo.com/">Jamendo</a> cofounder and managing director Pierre G&#233;rard.</em></p>
<p><em>If you&#8217;re not familiar with Jamendo, it&#8217;s a community of musicians and tool for discovering new music. Unlike most other CC-enabled platforms, CC is integral to Jamendo: every songs is licensed under CC. For many songs, users can purchase commercial rights through the Jamendo PRO service.</em></p>
<p><em>In honor of CC10, Pierre and his team created <a href="http://www.jamendo.com/list/p89079526/cc10">a special #cc10 playlist</a> of their top ten CC-licensed songs. Pierre had this to say about the playlist:</em></p>
<blockquote><p>We looked back at these 8 years of existence for Jamendo; we have been blessed by the talent of so many artists that it’s hard to choose! They have made our catalog a very rich and diverse world of free music. Thanks to them, we were able to select popular songs created by artists from different parts of the world to create a playlist very diverse in terms of music genres. The most important was to choose artists that support and believe in Creative Commons, and all of these artists have promoted the concept for years.</p></blockquote>
<p><strong>Tell me a bit about the history of Jamendo. Was Creative Commons licensing part of your plan from the beginning?</strong></p>
<p>Yes, CC licensing was in the first business model of the company. When we created Jamendo in 2004, we based our concept on free music for consumers and professional licensing, even though it took years to launch our licensing service (Jamendo PRO). Creative Commons was really the seed of Jamendo. We wanted to create a new model in the digital world where there are so many opportunities for artists to promote and share their music. We knew that some of them also have huge potential and would be able to generate revenue from their music.</p>
<p><strong>Jamendo is unique among most of the media platforms we work with, in that all uploads are CC-licensed. Has that policy caused confusion among users?</strong></p>
<p>Yes; we also need to evangelize and explain how CC licenses can be used. Some have been confused in the past because they were used to the &#8220;you-are-not-allowed policy&#8221; that stems from traditional copyright. The concept of CC is so much different and needs to be explained. But it&#8217;s quite easy and users understand that it is so much easier and fair.</p>
<div style="float:right; padding:10px"><object width="200" height="300" classid="clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000" codebase="http://fpdownload.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=7,0,0,0" align="middle"><param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always"/><param name="wmode" value="transparent"/><param name="movie" value="http://widgets.jamendo.com/en/album/?album_id=90449&amp;playertype=2008&amp;refuid=1011928"/><param name="quality" value="high"/><param name="bgcolor" value="#FFFFFF"/><embed src="http://widgets.jamendo.com/en/album/?album_id=90449&amp;playertype=2008&amp;refuid=1011928" quality="high" wmode="transparent" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" width="200" height="300" align="middle" allowscriptaccess="always" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer"/>&nbsp;&nbsp;</object><a href="http://pro.jamendo.com/" style="display:block;font-size:8px !important;">Royalty-free music for professional licensing</a></div>
<p><strong>We love hearing interesting reuse stories. Do you have any examples of tracks that got reused in surprising or amazing ways under the CC license?</strong></p>
<p>We are often asked to participate in very interesting projects that are made possible by the openness of Creative Commons. We helped a Jamendo member create a compilation of CC artists in order to raise money for the victims of the tsunami in Japan. <a href="http://www.jamendo.com/en/artist/427932/ccmixter-jamendo">We&#8217;ve also worked with ccMixter</a> to have our communities remix Christmas songs! Last year, we had the pleasure to see CC Spanish rock band Stormy Mondays win a contest organized by NASA and get its song <a href="http://www.jamendo.com/en/list/a90449/sunrise-number-1">&#8220;Sunrise Number 1&#8221;</a> played in space in the Endeavour space shuttle!</p>
<p><strong>What advice might you give a musician who&#8217;s unsure about sharing her work under a CC license?</strong></p>
<p>There is nothing to lose and so much to gain! Music is everywhere and there is no actual way for an artist to prevent his or her music from being distributed. At the end of the day, &#8220;giving away your music for free&#8221; under a CC license creates more value in terms of fans, popularity and even money.</p>
<p><strong>Where will the music industry be ten years from now? Will open licensing be the default?</strong></p>
<p>It&#8217;s very likely that we see a strong growth in open licensing but I am not sure it will be the default. I like to compare open licensing with open-source software. The IT industry has seen a lot of changes since the launch of free licenses: new companies have emerged with new business models but the old ones are still there even though they’ve also had to evolve.</p>
<p>In 10 years, majors will still be there but they will also have learned some lessons. I am sure the place (or market share) of open licensing for music will grow with more and more artists publishing their music under CC and I hope that Jamendo will still play a big part in this new ecosystem.</p>


feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=35972
title: CC10: Day 9
uri: CC10-Day-9
url: http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/35972
content:
<p align="center"><a href="http://10.creativecommons.org/"><img src="http://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/cc10korea-600.jpg" width="600" height="277" border="0"/></a><br /><a href="http://www.cckorea.org/xe/?document_srl=518054"><small>Creative Commons Korea</small></a></p>
<p>It&#8217;s getting hard to keep up with all of the CC10 commotion. Today, the CC community is celebrating in <a href="http://wiki.creativecommons.org/CC_Salon_Muscat">Muscat</a>, <a href="http://wiki.creativecommons.org/10_ans_de_partage_avec_Creative_Commons">Paris</a>, <a href="http://wiki.creativecommons.org/CC10_and_Freenet">Rio de Janeiro</a>, and <a href="http://wiki.creativecommons.org/CC_Korea_Hope_Day">Seoul</a>.</p>
<p>Not to be outdone by the <a href="/weblog/entry/35877">#cc10 Europe mixtape</a>, Creative Commons Korea has created a <a href="/weblog/entry/35929">#cc10 iPhone app</a> featuring ten musicians who license their work under CC. Bad Panda Records has put together a <a href="http://badpandarecords.wordpress.com/2012/12/14/cc/">#cc10 mix of its own</a>, and dublab made a <a href="http://vimeo.com/55491617">video mixtape</a>. Meanwhile, the <a href="/weblog/entry/35906">IceCube Neutrino Observatory had a gathering in honor of CC</a>, meaning there have now been CC10 celebrations on every continent in the world.</p>
<p>And here on the blog, we&#8217;re celebrating the diverse group of artists and creators who use Creative Commons licensing. <a href="/weblog/entry/35882">Behance founder and CEO Scott Belsky</a> explains why artists don&#8217;t need to be afraid of open licensing. And we welcome one of the newest members of the family of CC-licensed works, <a href="/weblog/entry/35879">virtual pop star Hatsune Miku</a>. Finally, we highlight <a href="http://openattribute.com/">Open Attribute</a>, a browser plug-in that makes attribution easy.</p>


feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=35882
title: #cc10 Featured Platform: Behance
uri: cc10-Featured-Platform-Behance
url: http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/35882
content:
<div style="float:right; padding:10px" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/terms/" xmlns:cc="/ns#" about="http://www.flickr.com/photos/transmitnow/5452429074/"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/transmitnow/5452429074/"><img width="320" height="212" src="http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5097/5452429074_cdb14dc946_n.jpg" alt="Scott Belsky" /></a>
<p><small><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/transmitnow/5452429074/"><span property="dc:title">Scott Belsky</span></a> / <span property="cc:attributionName">transmitNOW events</span> / <a rel="license" href="/licenses/by-nc/2.0/">CC BY-NC</a></small></p>
</div>
<p><em>Throughout CC&#8217;s <a href="http://10.creativecommons.org/">tenth anniversary celebrations</a>, we&#8217;re profiling media platforms with CC integration, and talking to the people behind those platforms to see what role CC plays in their communities.</em></p>
<p><em><a href="http://www.behance.net/">Behance</a> is a platform and community for designers and other creative people. Behance is a major hub for designers to be seen; its <a href="http://www.behance.net/testimonials">testimonials page</a> has dozens of stories, both of designers who got work by sharing their portfolios on Behance and of big-name companies who used it to find talent. Most interestingly, Creative Commons licensing is the default on Behance. When you select &#8220;All Rights Reserved&#8221; for a project, you&#8217;re warned that &#8220;This will limit your exposure.&#8221;</em></p>
<p><em>I wanted to know why Behance placed so much importance on CC licenses, so I reached out to founder and CEO Scott Belsky. I also asked Scott to pick a few of his favorite CC-licensed projects on Behance. A few of those are sprinkled throughout this blog post; the rest are listed at the end.</em></p>
<p style="text-align:center" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/terms/" xmlns:cc="http://creativecommons.org/ns#" about="http://www.behance.net/gallery/Jellyfish-Madness/6164965"><a href="http://www.behance.net/gallery/Jellyfish-Madness/6164965"><img src="http://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/behance_jellyfish.jpg" alt="Jellyfish Madness" width="600" height="400" border=0 /><br /><small><a href="http://www.behance.net/gallery/Jellyfish-Madness/6164965"><span property="dc:title">Jellyfish Madness</span></a> / <span property="cc:attributionName">Alexander Semenov</span> / <a rel="license" href="/licenses/by-nc/3.0/">CC BY-NC</a></small></a></p>
<p><strong>How much of the content on Behance is CC-licensed? Has that number stayed constant or changed since you implemented CC licensing?</strong></p>
<p>Over 75% of content published on Behance is CC-licensed. We implemented CC-licensing from the very beginning, and it is by far the preferred copyright setting. Those that choose otherwise are often doing so at their client&#8217;s request or for some other contractual concern.</p>
<p><strong>For some artists and designers, the argument for CC licensing a portfolio might not be obvious. Can you tell me any success stories users have had with open licensing, or examples of interesting conversations you&#8217;ve had with users about how they use CC?</strong></p>
<p>The primary driver of CC licensing is a desire to share broadly with reasonable restrictions. Behance is a global platform of over a million creative professionals from around the world. One of the primary benefits of being on Behance is the constant stream of inspiration and opportunities. There have been all sorts of collaborations &#8211; many of them non-commercial and born out of love &#8211; that are the result of CC-licensing. We want Behance to be the wind at the backs of creative careers, and CC has been a primary ingredient in the growth and values of Behance.</p>
<p style="text-align:center" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/terms/" xmlns:cc="http://creativecommons.org/ns#" about="http://www.behance.net/gallery/Inspiration-Pad/430578"><a href="http://www.behance.net/gallery/Inspiration-Pad/430578"><img src="http://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/behance-pad.jpg" alt="Inspiration Pad" width="600" height="416" border=0 /><br /><small><a href="http://www.behance.net/gallery/Inspiration-Pad/430578"><span property="dc:title">Inspiration Pad</span></a> / <span property="cc:attributionName">Marc Thomasset</span> / <a rel="license" href="/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/">CC BY-NC-ND</a></small></a></p>
<p><strong>Since Behance started, have you seen creators&#8217; attitudes about sharing changing?</strong></p>
<p>Sharing is the new &#8220;networking.&#8221; Rather than focus on business card exchanges and networking receptions, the creative community builds professional networks by sharing their creations, feedback, and resources. Look no further than GitHub, a platform for sharing amongst the development community that likely facilitates as many career opportunities as traditional resumes. In Behance, we see a growing value for transparency and attribution. Many thousands of projects are published every single day, and we&#8217;re helping organize the data around this creative work. We&#8217;re also trying to help people sort through the work and find talent.</p>
<p>If you create something in this world, you should get credit for it. The creative industry has never valued attribution, especially when it comes to advertising and entertainment. But the power is shifting away from agencies and middlemen to the creatives themselves. It&#8217;s an exciting trend, but it depends on a continued culture of transparency and sharing.</p>
<p><strong>Scott&#8217;s favorite CC-licensed projects</strong></p>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://www.behance.net/gallery/Steam/3770330">Steam</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.behance.net/gallery/Inspiration-Pad/430578">Inspiration Pad</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.behance.net/gallery/Wired-Magazine-Typographic-Illustration/6015931">Wired Magazine &#8211; Typographic Illustration</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.behance.net/gallery/Jellyfish-Madness/6164965">Jellyfish Madness</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.behance.net/gallery/Backgrounds-and-fractals/5628177">Backgrounds and Fractals</a></li>
</ul>


feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=36005
title: CC10: Day 10
uri: CC10-Day-10
url: http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/36005
content:
<p><iframe src="http://player.vimeo.com/video/55491617?badge=0&amp;color=ffffff" width="500" height="281" frameborder="0" webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen></iframe>
<p><a href="http://vimeo.com/55491617">CC10 &#8211; dublab&#8217;s Creative Commons 10th Birthday Video Mix</a> from <a href="http://vimeo.com/user339153">dublab</a> on <a href="http://vimeo.com">Vimeo</a>.</p>
<p>Ten years ago today, the first Creative Commons licenses were released. Over the past ten days, <a href="http://10.creativecommons.org/">the CC community has celebrated around the world</a> with concerts, discussions, hackathons, and parties. People in the community have <a href="/weblog/entry/35903">put together mixtapes</a>, <a href="/weblog/entry/35929">created iPhone apps</a>, and blogged about why CC is important to them. <a href="/weblog/entry/35906">And then this happened</a>.</p>
<p>We&#8217;ve seen three major announcements: <a href="/weblog/entry/35879">Hatsune Miku becoming CC licensed</a>, <a href="/weblog/entry/35710">a huge grant for open education for adult English language learners</a>, and <a href="/weblog/entry/35812">Wikimedia Commons reaching 15 million files</a>.</p>
<p>We&#8217;ve had friends of CC blog about their favorite CC-licensed works: <a href="/weblog/entry/35440">Cory Doctorow on one of his biggest influences</a>, <a href="/weblog/entry/35542">John Wilbanks on an important public domain dataset from an unlikely source</a>, <a href="/weblog/entry/35531">Jason Sigal on a musician who built a career on open licenses</a>, and <a href="/weblog/entry/35538">Gautam John on a CC-licensed children&#8217;s book that took on a life of its own</a>.</p>
<p>Today, <a href="/weblog/entry/35884">we talk with Jonathan Worth about the future of open education</a>, and <a href="/weblog/entry/35886">Claudio from Bad Panda Records shares his favorite CC-licensed songs</a>. And we leave you with a <a href="http://co.creativecommons.org/2012/12/05/guia-de-bolsillo-creative-commons/">pocket guide for the road</a>, courtesy of CC Colombia.</p>
<p>The past ten days have been a testament to the depth and diversity of the Creative Commons community. CC&#8217;s greatest strengths are the depth and diversity of material in the commons, and the multitude of the commoners themselves. If you get excited about what this community can do together, then consider <a href="https://creativecommons.net/donate/?utm_campaign=2012fund&#038;utm_source=blog3&#038;utm_medium=blog">making a donation to CC today</a>.</p>
<p>Thanks.</p>


feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=35886
title: #cc10 Featured Platform: Bad Panda Records
uri: cc10-Featured-Platform-Bad-Panda-Records
url: http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/35886
content:
<p align="center"><a href="http://badpandarecords.wordpress.com/"><img src="http://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/panda.jpg" width=400 height=400 border="0"/></a></p>
<p>Each day during <a href="http://10.creativecommons.org/">CC&#8217;s tenth anniversary celebration</a>, we&#8217;ve featured a different platform that hosts CC-licensed content, ranging from music to science to education. Today, we feature a favorite of ours, <a href="http://badpandarecords.wordpress.com/">Bad Panda Records</a>.</p>
<p>Bad Panda is a netlabel that releases one song a week, all under <a href="/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/">CC BY-NC-SA</a>. <a href="http://badpandarecords.bigcartel.com/">Bad Panda also offers CDs and LPs</a> of many of the featured artists. Founded in 2010, Bad Panda has quickly grown into a major hub of the <a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%23ccmusic">#ccmusic</a> community.</p>
<p>We contacted Bad Panda founder Claudio and asked him a few questions. We asked him to suggest a few of his favorite Bad Panda tracks, which are listed at the end of the interview. He also put together his own <a href="http://badpandarecords.wordpress.com/2012/12/14/cc/">#cc10 mixtape</a>, which you can enjoy at his site.</p>
<p><strong>Tell me a bit about how Bad Panda started. Was CC licensing a part of the plan from the beginning?</strong></p>
<p>It started with the idea of re-imagining what could be a label in the year 2010 &#8211; building the label from the bottom up without any financial help, just using tools that internet people is building. CC licensing is definitely a part of the plan, it wouldn&#8217;t have been possible otherwise. Completely inspired by Lawrence Lessig&#8217;s words and by a meeting with Joi Ito in Rome around december 2009.</p>
<p><strong>CC has clearly become a more viable option for musicians than it was a few years ago. Do you think artists are less reluctant to share now? Is it because people understand CC better now than they used to, or because of changes in the landscape?</strong></p>
<p>It&#8217;s probably both reasons even if honestly still see some people confused at how CC works, especially here in Italy (and some speculations as well).</p>
<p><strong>Do you have any stories of surprising ways in which people have reused music that was featured on Bad Panda?</strong></p>
<p>Dumbo Gets Mad was in BBC&#8217;s Planet Earth, a <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ub78qJiCixo">choreographed dance</a> somewhere in the USA, and a <a href="http://vimeo.com/33640130">short featuring Possimiste</a>.</p>
<p><strong>Claudio&#8217;s favorite CC-licensed songs</strong></p>
<p><iframe src="http://player.vimeo.com/video/52056926?badge=0&amp;color=ffffff" width="500" height="281" frameborder="0" webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen></iframe>
<p><a href="http://vimeo.com/52056926">Dumbo Gets Mad &#8211; Radical Leap</a> from <a href="http://vimeo.com/dumbogetsmad">Dumbo Gets Mad</a> on <a href="http://vimeo.com">Vimeo</a>.</p>
<p><iframe width="100%" height="166" scrolling="no" frameborder="no" src="https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Ftracks%2F47028260"></iframe></p>
<p><iframe width="100%" height="166" scrolling="no" frameborder="no" src="https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Ftracks%2F57743622"></iframe></p>


feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=35884
title: #cc10 Interview: Jonathan Worth’s Connected Classroom
uri: cc10-Interview-Jonathan-Worth-s-Connected-Classroom
url: http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/35884
content:
<div style="float:right; padding:10px"><a href="http://twitter.com/jonathan_worth/"><img src="http://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/jw_300.jpg" width=300 height=287 border=0/><br /><small>Jonathan Worth</small></a></div>
<p>As a well-known British portrait photographer, Jonathan Worth has taken photographs of <a href="http://jonathanworth.com/shot-list">hundreds of famous people</a>. But don&#8217;t take his photography classes if you&#8217;re hoping to meet Jude Law. &#8220;I see that I am quite a commodity for a university: I&#8217;m one step away from someone who&#8217;s incredibly famous. And there&#8217;s a misguided assumption that because I have photographed famous people, that I am somehow connected and friends with them.&#8221; Today, Jonathan is offering his students at Coventry University a different kind of connectedness, a kind that&#8217;s less about celebrity and more about building a community of peers.</p>
<p>Along with fellow photographer Matt Johnston, Jonathan teaches a course at Coventry College called <a href="http://phonar.covmedia.co.uk/">#PHONAR</a> (photography and narrative). Although thousands of people have participated in the course over the Internet and all of the lectures and course materials are licensed CC BY-SA, <a href="http://jonathan-worth.blogspot.com/2012/11/ouch-not-mooc.html">he doesn&#8217;t consider it a MOOC</a>. But it might be a hugely important step in the development of open education.</p>
<p>When we interviewed Jonathan for <em><a href="http://thepowerofopen.org/">The Power of Open</a></em> a few years ago, he was cautiously optimistic about the possibilities for photographers in a more connected world. &#8220;We don&#8217;t have all the answers,&#8221; he said, &#8220;but CC&#160;[&#8230;] helps me take advantage of the things working against me.&#8221;</p>
<p>When Jonathan was approached to teach an undergraduate photography class, he was excited about it, but also leery of how to teach young photographers as they enter a world in which professional opportunities are far from a guarantee. &#8220;<em>Me as supplier</em> doesn&#8217;t work. I used to think that my product was photographs, and that was it. It doesn&#8217;t work that way. I can&#8217;t control my images on the internet. And so when I stopped trying to do that, it changed the way that I thought about myself and what I do.</p>
<p>&#8220;I said, &#8216;I&#8217;ll write these classes so long as they&#8217;re not the same classes that I&#8217;d done before, which were written in the 70s.&#8217; It would be morally bereft of me to do that.&#8221;</p>
<p>And so Jonathan set out to put the classes together, asking himself some tough questions about what it means to be a photographer today, and what it means to be a teacher too. &#8220;I agreed to do the classes, so long as they put front and center that my old business model and career structure were gone. No one&#8217;s written what it means to be a 21st century photographer. No one&#8217;s written that book. That also meant that I wasn&#8217;t necessarily the best teacher in the world. I had to learn my craft as a teacher, but I didn&#8217;t know all the answers. So I couldn&#8217;t sit there and spout off the answers.&#8221;</p>
<p>Jonathan explained to me that he saw the class as an opportunity to explore these complicated issues with his students as part of a broader community. And involving that community necessarily meant licensing the course openly, because that allowed him and his students to engage with a broader community.</p>
<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m trying not to use the word &#8216;open&#8217; now,&#8221; Jonathan told me. &#8220;I prefer the word &#8216;connected.&#8217;&#8221; And connected the classes are: Jonathan regularly collaborates with luminaries from the photography world&#160;&#8212; Steve Pyke and Chris Floyd have been recent guests&#160;&#8212; but so have people from other fields. &#8220;Cory Doctorow, he&#8217;s obviously not a photographer. But photographers don&#8217;t have all the answers. I was looking around&#160;&#8212; authors are making some ground. Musicians are lightyears ahead of us.&#8221;</p>
<p>But here&#8217;s the secret sauce of of Jonathan&#8217;s connected classroom: each of those contributors brings their own communities into the fold. And Jonathan sees those connections as the real value of conducting the class openly. &#8220;That abundance of people is not a burden. I have 20 people in the room, and one person who tunes in for one of my classes, and they look at one of my students&#8217; work, and they tell one of their friends about it, they&#8217;ve amplified the classroom experience for that student. They&#8217;re bringing attention to the student. They&#8217;re bringing support. That&#8217;s what the students need, to have that network.&#8221;</p>
<p><strong>Related</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>BBC: <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/in-pictures-20495489">Photography and Open Education</a></li>
<li>Jonathan Worth: <a href="http://jonathan-worth.blogspot.com/2012/11/ouch-not-mooc.html">OUCH not MOOC</a></li>
</ul>


feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=35773
title: Next Steps: NonCommercial and NoDerivatives Discussion
uri: Next-Steps-NonCommercial-and-NoDerivatives-Discussion
url: http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/35773
content:
<p>In the last few months there has been quite a bit of discussion about what CC should do with the non-free licenses. Some have called for Creative Commons to retire or otherwise change the way we offer licenses containing the NonCommercial and NoDerivatives conditions because those licenses do not create a true commons of open content that everyone is free to use, redistribute, remix, and repurpose. These suggestions have been made by the <a href="http://freeculture.org/blog/2012/08/27/stop-the-inclusion-of-proprietary-licenses-in-creative-commons-4-0/">Students for Free Culture</a>, <a href="http://questioncopyright.org/future_of_creative_commons">QuestionCopyright.org</a>, the <a href="http://blog.okfn.org/2012/10/04/making-a-real-commons-creative-commons-should-drop-the-non-commercial-and-no-derivatives-licenses/">Open Knowledge Foundation</a>, and others. </p>
<p>Creative Commons offers <a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/">6 licenses</a>. The BY and BY-SA licenses are considered “Free” because they grant to users a <a href="http://freedomdefined.org/Definition">set of freedoms</a> including: </p>
<ul>
<li>the freedom to use the work and enjoy the benefits of using it</li>
<li>the freedom to study the work and to apply knowledge acquired from it</li>
<li>the freedom to make and redistribute copies, in whole or in part, of the information or expression</li>
<li>the freedom to make changes and improvements, and to distribute derivative works</li>
</ul>
<p>There are four CC licenses that are considered “non-free” because they do not provide for all of the freedoms listed above. The CC licenses that contain the NonCommercial and/or NoDerivatives terms are considered non-free. These licenses are BY-NC, BY-ND, BY-NC-SA, BY-NC-ND. </p>
<p>Back in August we wrote a <a href="http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/33874">blog post</a> about the ongoing discussion around NonCommercial and NoDerivatives and promised to keep the conversation going. We noted that these issues have surfaced frequently over the years, and we reminded readers that CC <a href="http://wiki.creativecommons.org/Defining_Noncommercial">studied the NonCommercial issue</a> and has worked to try to clearly mark and otherwise communicate the differences between the Free and non-free licenses. For example, CC has placed a <a href="http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/8051">“Definition of Free Cultural Works” seal</a> on the BY and BY-SA license deeds. We also included it in the most recent <a href="http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/33430">upgrade of our license chooser</a>.</p>
<p>We’re taking a close look at the arguments and recommendations from the various individuals and groups and have generated a few TO-DO items to attempt to address the issues raised. We have aggregated these <a href="http://wiki.creativecommons.org/NC_ND_discussion">proposed actions</a> on the CC wiki. We’d appreciate any feedback you have&#8211;you can do this over at the <a href="http://lists.ibiblio.org/mailman/listinfo/cc-community">CC-Community email list</a> or the <a href="http://wiki.creativecommons.org/Talk:NC_ND_discussion">wiki Talk page</a>. </p>
<p>Some of the draft actions include the following (you can read more about them on the <a href="http://wiki.creativecommons.org/NC_ND_discussion">wiki page</a>):</p>
<ul>
<li>Improve information about which CC licenses align with definitions of &#8220;Free licenses&#8221;</li>
<li>Revive the color-coded “license spectrum” graphic</li>
<li>Provide descriptive examples of adoptions of Free and non-free licenses</li>
<li>Gather feedback about changing the name of &#8220;NonCommercial&#8221; to “Commercial Rights Reserved”</li>
</ul>
<p>This last point warrants a specific mention here, as it would be a big (and potentially sensitive) change to the branding of the Creative Commons NonCommercial licenses. This proposal is for a simple renaming of the &#8220;NonCommercial&#8221; license element to “Commercial Rights Reserved,” without any change in the definition of what it covers. Renaming it to something that more accurately reflects the operation of the license may ensure that it is not unintentionally used by licensors who intend something different. For more information about the idea and rationale behind this proposal, please see the <a href="http://wiki.creativecommons.org/Commercial_Rights_Reserved">CC wiki page on the topic</a>.</p>
<p>Again, if you have feedback on the proposed actions or other ideas that haven’t been captured here, please contribute to the <a href="http://lists.ibiblio.org/mailman/listinfo/cc-community">CC-community list</a>, the <a href="http://wiki.creativecommons.org/Talk:NC_ND_discussion">wiki Talk page</a>, or in the comments below. We appreciate your thoughts and suggestions. </p>


feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=36023
title: Legal Assistance for Game Developers: New Project from New Media Rights
uri: Legal-Assistance-for-Game-Developers-New-Project-from-New-Media-Righ
url: http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/36023
content:
<p>Our friends at <a href="http://www.newmediarights.org/">New Media Rights</a> are putting together an ambitious project, a collection of videos called Legal Assistance for Game Developers (LAGD). NMR is in the last days of an <a href="http://www.indiegogo.com/newmediarightsgames">Indiegogo campaign</a> to fund the next season of LAGD videos.</p>
<p>From NMR:</p>
<blockquote><p>The goal of the LAGD videos is to empower indies as well as people who want to enter the “mainstream” game industry with information on how they can prevent problems before they happen. Free access to this information up front, as well as access to direct legal services means that indie developers can spend more time making successful, innovative games and less time dodging legal threats.</p></blockquote>
<blockquote><p>In season two, we’d like to do episodes on some of these topics:</p></blockquote>
<blockquote><ul>
<li>Cloning games: what you can do if your game has been cloned OR what you can get away with cloning</li>
<li>Privacy policies and data collection in mobile games</li>
<li>Putting together your own contracts without a lawyer in the indie games industry</li>
<li>An introduction to contracts in the mainstream game industry</li>
<li>FTC disclosure and advertising requirements</li>
<li>Venture financing and mergers/acquisitions</li>
</ul>
</blockquote>
<p>Interviewees include luminaries like Valve cofounder Gabe Newell, Gish designer Edmund McMillen, and IGN cofounder Peer Schneider.</p>
<p><iframe width="560" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/WS1iHBDRlGA?hl=en_US&amp;list=PLAA68315319E332A3" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe></p>
<p>Intriguingly, NMR has chosen a sliding-scale approach to CC licensing. All videos are currently licensed CC BY-NC. If the fundraiser reaches $20,000, the videos will be licensed CC BY-SA. At $30,000, CC BY, and at $50,000, NMR will release the videos into the public domain under the CC0 waiver.</p>
<p>But if you&#8217;re interested, act quickly. <a href="http://www.indiegogo.com/newmediarightsgames">The fundraiser ends on Friday</a>.</p>
<p><strong>Read more:</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>San Diego City Beat: <a href="http://www.sdcitybeat.com/sandiego/article-11255-geek-vs-troll.html">Geek vs. Troll</a></li>
</ul>


feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=36047
title: Should Instagram Adopt CC Licensing?
uri: Should-Instagram-Adopt-CC-Licensing
url: http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/36047
content:
<p>A few days ago, Ryan Singel wrote a <a href="http://www.wired.com/opinion/2012/12/creative-commons-and-sharing-web/">thought-provoking piece</a> for Wired, suggesting that users pressure Facebook&#160;&#8212; and, by extension, its recent acquisition Instagram&#160;&#8212; to adopt Creative Commons licensing options.</p>
<div style="float:right; padding:10px" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/terms/" xmlns:cc="/ns#" about="http://i-am-cc.org/instagram/mkorbit/147872"><a href="http://i-am-cc.org/instagram/mkorbit/147872"><img width="306" height="306" src="http://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/electricity_306.jpg" alt="#electricity" /></a>
<p><small><a href="http://i-am-cc.org/instagram/mkorbit/147872"><span property="dc:title">#electricity</span></a> / <span property="cc:attributionName">mkorbit</span> / <a rel="license" href="/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/">CC BY-NC-SA</a></small></p>
</div>
<blockquote><p>Creative Commons embodied an ethos of sharing that went beyond just show-and-tell. It&#8217;s been a vital part of sharing on the net, which has given all of us access to no-cost printing presses in the form of blogs; cheap ways to create, edit, and share videos and photos; and democratized distribution channels such as YouTube and Reddit.</p></blockquote>
<blockquote><p>[&#8230;] Facebook is about Facebook. Sharing to them means sharing &#8230; on Facebook. Connecting with other people means connecting with other people &#8230; on Facebook. Like the old joke about fortune cookies, you have to append &#8220;on Facebook&#8221; to get the real meaning.</p></blockquote>
<blockquote><p>Instagram is still young, so perhaps it can buck its corporate master. But it&#8217;s yet to show a commitment to doing right by users and the public, and the recent decision to prevent Twitter users from seeing Instagram photos inside Twitter makes it highly unlikely the company considers being part of a larger sharing culture a priority.</p></blockquote>
<p>The column&#160;&#8212; along with a <a href="http://www.csmonitor.com/Innovation/Latest-News-Wires/2012/1218/Instagram-uproar-A-testing-ground-for-Facebook-video">controversial update to Instagram&#8217;s privacy policy</a>&#160;&#8212; has triggered a wave of discussion online. <a href="https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2012/12/instagrams-new-terms-service-sell-your-photos">From Kurt Opsahl at EFF:</a></p>
<div style="float:right; padding:10px" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/terms/" xmlns:cc="/ns#" about="http://i-am-cc.org/instagram/pinot/147686"><a href="http://i-am-cc.org/instagram/pinot/147686"><img width="306" height="306" src="http://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/reflection_306.jpg" alt="Reflection in the rice field" /></a>
<p><small><a href="http://i-am-cc.org/instagram/pinot/147686"><span property="dc:title">Reflection in the rice field</span></a> / <span property="cc:attributionName">pinot</span> / <a rel="license" href="/licenses/by/3.0/">CC BY</a></small></p>
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<blockquote><p>Some of these problems are less pressing if the photo is intended to be public, and some users may actually want the opportunity for their photos to get wide spread fame and fortune. For those users, the better way forward is enabling users to <a href="http://techcrunch.com/2012/08/24/gives-your-instagram-pictures-a-creative-commons-license-with-i-am-cc/">easily license</a> their photos with Creative Commons.</p></blockquote>
<blockquote><p>Other photo services offer revenue sharing with their users. For example, Yahoo&#8217;s <a href="http://www.flickr.com/">Flickr</a> not only offers the ability to mark photos with a Creative Commons license, but also has an opt-in <a href="http://www.flickr.com/help/gettyimages/">program with Getty Images</a> for users who want to commercialize the photos. While imperfect (Getty requires exclusive rights, and is incompatible with CC licenses), there is something to the notion of sharing the revenue with the user.</p></blockquote>
<p>Alyson Shontell at Business Insider takes the debate a step further, with the provocative suggestion that <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/instagram-creative-commons-sharing-2012-12">Instagram should require its users to license their photos under CC <em>by default</em></a>:</p>
<blockquote><p>Of course, this will enrage a lot of people. Facebook has been reprimanded for pushing privacy boundaries too far, and not all Instagram users may feel comfortable sharing their photos with the world.</p></blockquote>
<blockquote><p>But really, they already are. This just puts a legal framework around that sharing.</p></blockquote>
<p>In all the flurry of attention, there&#8217;s one important point to keep in mind: <em>Creative Commons licenses don&#8217;t cancel out user agreements.</em> That is, when you upload media to Flickr or YouTube, it&#8217;s subject to the terms you agreed to when you signed up for those services, regardless of whether you license it under CC.</p>
<div style="float:left; padding:10px" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/terms/" xmlns:cc="/ns#" about="http://www.flickr.com/photos/milenamariposa/8288955780/"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/milenamariposa/8288955780/"><img width="306" height="306" src="http://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/rain_306.jpg" alt="raining..." /></a>
<p><small><a href="http://i-am-cc.org/instagram/mkorbit/147872"><span property="dc:title">raining&#8230;</span></a> / <span property="cc:attributionName">Denise Weerke</span> / <a rel="license" href="/licenses/by-nc/2.0/">CC BY-NC</a></small></p>
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<p>To put it a different way, when I upload a video to YouTube and license it CC BY, I&#8217;m entering two different agreements at once: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/static?gl=US&#038;template=terms">one with YouTube</a> (see <em>6. Your Content and Conduct</em>) and one with any potential user via the CC license. It&#8217;s a good idea to be conscious about the agreements you&#8217;re making when you use any online service. There have even been <a href="http://wiki.creativecommons.org/CC-inspired_projects_for_Terms_of_Service_and_Privacy_policies">various projects</a> <a href="http://tos-dr.info/">over the years</a> to make terms of service and privacy policies as easy to read and understand as CC license deeds.</p>
<p>Of course, that&#8217;s not to say that there&#8217;s no value in media platforms adopting CC licensing natively. Indeed, platforms are where we&#8217;ve seen the most rapid uptake in CC adoption and the most potential for reuse. Have you ever uploaded a photo to Flickr and seen it show up on a blog post days or years later? That quick, painless reuse is only possible because Flickr makes it easy to search and sort photos by CC license. Users on other sites&#160;&#8212; including both Facebook and Instagram&#160;&#8212; sometimes add CC license info to their profiles manually. That&#8217;s better than nothing, but without a consistent, platform-wide implementation, finding those CC-licensed uploads can be very difficult.</p>
<p>And if the discussions over the past few days have shown anything, it&#8217;s that the demand exists for native CC implementation in Instagram. <a href="http://i-am-cc.org/">i-am-cc.org</a>, the third-party archive of CC-licensed Instagram shots, has grown to nearly 5000 users in just a few months. A search for <a href="http://www.flickr.com/search/?q=Instagram&#038;m=tags&#038;l=cc&#038;ss=2&#038;ct=6&#038;mt=all&#038;w=all&#038;adv=1"> CC-licensed Instagram photos published on Flickr</a> yields 167,000 results. The popularity of these solutions demonstrates that many Instagram users are willing to jump through a few hoops to share their photos under CC.</p>
<p>For our recent <a href="http://10.creativecommons.org/">tenth anniversary celebrations</a>, we profiled several media platforms that support CC licensing. Nearly all of the people we talked to said that user demand was a major factor in their decisions to use CC. We would be thrilled if Facebook and Instagram decided to start supporting CC licensing, but ultimately, your voice matters more than ours does.</p>


feed_id: http://creativecommons.org/?p=36201
title: Syria Deeply: CC-Licensed News Aggregator
uri: Syria-Deeply-CC-Licensed-News-Aggregator
url: http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/36201
content:
<p><a href="http://syriadeeply.org"><img src="http://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/syria.png" width=256 height=256 border=0 align="right"/></a>In January 2009, Al Jazeera launched a pioneering initiative: <a href="/weblog/entry/12049">the first news repository licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license</a>. At the time, restrictions imposed by the Israeli military in Gaza prevented international news outlets from reaching the Strip and reporting from within. Al Jazeera, which had the advantage of being the only news outlet with a correspondent on the ground, came up with a creative solution by making its exclusive footage available to be used, remixed, translated and re-broadcasted by everybody, including competitors.</p>
<p>Three years later, a similar situation is happening with Syria. Shortage of news is dramatic and reports from within the country are rare and often require that journalists&#8217; lives are put at risk in order to gather information. This is why it is key to have initiatives such as <a href="http://syriadeeply.org">Syria Deeply</a>, a news aggregator launched two weeks ago by a team of journalists and technologists headed by seasoned reporter <a href="http://twitter.com/Lara">Lara Setrakian</a>.</p>
<p>Syria Deeply is a news platform that aims to redesign the user experience of the Syria story, for greater understanding and engagement around a complex global issue.‬ The platform is part news aggregator, part interactive backgrounder, part original reporting and feature stories. And the great news is that the content on the site is entirely <a href="/licenses/by/3.0/">CC BY</a>&#8211;licensed, in order to encourage sharing and viral distribution.</p>
<p>This is a major step in crisis reporting and will allow a wider audience to become more aware of the dramatic situation in Syria, fostering a better understanding of a complex issue by adding context and historical information to the headlines.</p>
<p>&#8220;I believe technology is the key to getting more and better news to a broader audience,&#8221; says Setrakian. Open licensing can support this process and spread more and better understanding on Syria-related issues.</p>


feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=36193
title: Creative Commons Asia Pacific Regional Meeting
uri: Creative-Commons-Asia-Pacific-Regional-Meeting
url: http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/36193
content:
<p><img src="http://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/jakarta.jpg" width=700 height=370 /></p>
<p>In November, representatives from CC projects in Asia Pacific nations came together in Jakarta, Indonesia. Every second year we gather in person to combine powers and plan for the future &#8211; and this time affiliates in <a href="http://www.cckorea.org/">South Korea</a>, <a href="http://creativecommons.net.cn/en/">China Mainland</a>, <a href="http://creativecommons.tw/">Taiwan</a>, <a href="http://hk.creativecommons.org/">Hong Kong</a>, <a href="http://wiki.creativecommons.org/Vietnam">Vietnam</a>, <a href="http://wiki.creativecommons.org/Philippines">Philippines</a>, <a href="http://twitter.com/CCMalaysia">Malaysia</a>, <a href="http://creativecommonssingapore.wordpress.com/">Singapore</a>, <a href="http://creativecommons.org.au/">Australia</a>, and <a href="http://www.creativecommons.org.nz/">New Zealand</a> were hosted by <a href="http://creativecommons.or.id/">CC Indonesia</a>.</p>
<p>From legal matters to community building and sustainability, we dedicated a whole day to discussions on a range of key issues and challenges for us as individual affiliates and as part of the regional and global CC community. Some fantastic work has been going on in each jurisdiction, and 2013 could be a year of projects across borders. Strategic areas include breaking down language barriers through translation work, developing messaging for government and education sectors, and creating mentoring relationships among teams. The massive diversity in our region is actually a strength, especially for all the CC volunteers out there who might want to work on projects from another country &#8211; and all of this will inform our 2013 roadmap (to be posted online).</p>
<p>The second day was a public program for CC representatives and local speakers to run sessions on open government, open data, OER, the creative arts and general tips for beginners. CC Indonesia had a special reason to celebrate since they had recently <a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/deed.id">translated the license chooser and deeds into Bahasa Indonesian</a>, and could present on them for the first time. A <a href="http://kunci.or.id/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/budaya-bebas.pdf">translation of Lawrence Lessig&#8217;s <em>Free Culture</em></a> (PDF) had also been launched in February by friends from <a href="http://kunci.or.id/">KUNCI Cultural Studies Center</a> in Yogyakarta. Followers around the country submitted reviews of the Indonesian text in the hope of snapping up one of the 15 travel scholarships to Jakarta. The CC Indonesia project is run out of <a href="http://wikimedia.or.id/wiki/Wikimedia_Indonesia">Wikimedia Foundation&#8217;s Indonesian arm</a>, and so the keynote speaker <a href="http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Board_of_Trustees">Kat Walsh</a> expertly intersected both communities as the Chair of the Wikimedia Foundation and a CC Legal Council. The best moments included stand up comedian <a href="http://pandji.com/">Pandji Pragiwaksono</a>, <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-LdtO1K3xnM">#SKUBYB</a> boys and girls rapping, a dance performance by CC Malaysia, <a href="http://adhitiasofyan.wordpress.com/">Adhitia Sofyan</a> on acoustic guitar and the giant dancing <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ondel-ondel">Ondel-ondel</a> puppets.</p>
<p>For more, see the the <a href="http://wiki.creativecommons.org/The_2012_Creative_Commons_Asia_Pacific_Conference_and_Creative_Commons_Indonesia_Launching">program and presentations</a>, <a href="http://wikimedia.or.id/wiki/Konferensi_Creative_Commons_Asia_Pasifik_2012_dan_Peluncuran_Creative_Commons_Indonesia/Notulensi_Diskusi_Publik#G._CC_in_Education">public session notes</a>, <a href="http://www.flickr.com/search/?q=CCIDAP2012">Flickr photos</a>, and <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y8_0JciedDE">roundup video</a>.</p>
<p><iframe width="420" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/Y8_0JciedDE" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe></p>


feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=36081
title: São Paulo Legislative Assembly Passes OER Bill
uri: São-Paulo-Legislative-Assembly-Passes-OER-Bill
url: http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/36081
content:
<p>Last year we <a href="http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/27698">wrote about</a> the introduction of an OER bill in Brazil. Yesterday, the State of São Paulo approved PL 989/2011, which establishes a policy whereby educational resources developed or purchased with government funds must be made freely available to the public under an open copyright license. The Governor must sign the bill for it to become law. You can view the bill text (Portuguese) linked from the <a href="http://www.al.sp.gov.br/spl_consultas/consultaDetalhesProposicao.do?idDocumento=1040323#inicio">State Assembly website</a>.</p>
<div style="float:right; padding:10px" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/terms/" xmlns:cc="/ns#" about="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Brasao_Estado_SaoPaulo_Brasil.svg"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Brasao_Estado_SaoPaulo_Brasil.svg"><img width="200" height="232" src="http://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/Brasao_Estado_SaoPaulo_Brasil.svg_.png" alt="Sao Paulo State seal" /></a>
<p><small><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Brasao_Estado_SaoPaulo_Brasil.svg"><span property="dc:title">Brasao Estado Sao Paulo Brasil</span></a><br />Public Domain</small></p>
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<p>State-funded educational materials must be made available on the web or on a government portal. They must be licensed for free use, including copying, distribution, download and creation of derivative works, provided that the author retains attribution, the materials are used non-commercially, and the materials are licensed under the same license as the original. Essentially, the legislation language suggests a CC <a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/">BY-NC-SA</a> license, even if not specifically stated.</p>
<p>Congratulations to the State of São Paulo for passing this law. We&#8217;ve seen <a href="http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/35563">similar policies</a> enacted in Poland, Canada, and the United States. PL 989/2011 will set a powerful positive precedent for other countries to follow, and São Paulo will be contributing to the worldwide movement to create a shared commons of high-quality Open Educational Resources.</p>
<p>For more information on these developments see the <a href="http://rea.net.br/site/aprovado-pl-9892011-sobre-disponibilizacao-de-recursos-educacionais-abertos/">Recursos Educacionais Abertos site</a>.</p>


feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=36078
title: School of Open: Highlights from the Class of 2012
uri: School-of-Open-Highlights-from-the-Class-of-2012
url: http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/36078
content:
<p style="text-align:center" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/terms/" xmlns:cc="http://creativecommons.org/ns#" about="http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8049/8095112337_e88120a841_z.jpg"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/p2puniversity/8095112337/in/set-72157631786592029/"><img src="http://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/class-of-2012.jpg" alt="cc10" border=0 /></a><br /><small><span property="dc:title">Class of 2012</span> by <span property="cc:attributionName">P2PU</span> / <a rel="license" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/">CC BY-SA</a><br />(See <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/p2puniversity/sets/72157631786592029/with/8095112337/">all Class of 2012</a> workshop participants)</small></p>
<p>It&#8217;s been an exciting year for <a href="http://schoolofopen.org/">School of Open</a>, from the P2PU residency in Berlin, to the curriculum building meeting in Palo Alto, to the various course building workshops we ran in Helsinki, London, Mexico City, Berlin, and more. Our community, which started off with two active volunteers at the beginning of July, has since grown into a diverse group of voices and interests. However, we all share the common goal of furthering openness in our respective fields, and helping others to take advantage of open resources to further their own goals &#8212; whether they are teachers, artists, researchers, or students. </p>
<p>Below are highlights from the &#8220;<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/p2puniversity/sets/72157631786592029/with/8095112337/">Class of 2012</a>,&#8221; and below that is what you can expect from the School of Open community in 2013 &#8212; because the world <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2012_phenomenon">didn&#8217;t end after all</a>. </p>
<h3>2012 highlights</h3>
<p><em>Note: The &#8220;we&#8221; pronoun used below refers to the School of Open community collectively, which consists of volunteers from the CC and P2PU communities &#8211; and beyond!</em></p>
<div style="float:left;padding:10px" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/terms/" xmlns:cc="http://creativecommons.org/ns#"><img width="" src="http://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/school-of-open-building-day-1.jpg" alt="school-of-open-building-day-1" />
<p><small><a href="http://instagram.com/p/NJSPfaQMXf/"><span property="dc:title">Building the School of Open</span></a> / <span property="cc:attributionName">mollyali</span> / <a rel="license" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/">CC BY</a></small></p>
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<ul>
<li>During the <a href="http://info.p2pu.org/2012/08/07/berlin-is-over-school-of-open-is-not/">P2PU residency in Berlin</a>, we put our heads together and figured out the what, how, and who of the School &#8212; including basic governance structure and logistics, philosophy, guidelines, and an initial set of short courses for independent learning. </li>
<li>These courses are Teach Someone Something with Open Content (part one and two); Get Creative Commons Savvy; and the Open Access Wikipedia Challenge. Lots of people have taken these courses already, and <a href="https://p2pu.org/en/schools/school-of-open/">you can, too</a>.</li>
<li>We planned the curriculum for more courses with a fantastic group of open advocates and experts at a two-day <a href="https://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/34550">Convening on an Open Policy Institute and School of Open</a> in Palo Alto.</li>
<div style ="float:right;padding:10px" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/terms/" xmlns:cc="http://creativecommons.org/ns#" about="http://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/Helsinki-School-of-Open-2-small.jpg"><img width="200" src="http://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/Helsinki-School-of-Open-2-small.jpg" alt="Helsinki Class group shot" />
<p><small><a href="http://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/Helsinki-School-of-Open-2-small.jpg"><span property="dc:title">Helsinki Class Group Shot</span></a> / <span property="cc:attributionName">Timothy Vollmer</span> / <a rel="license" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/">CC BY</a></small></p>
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<li>We also held smaller course building workshops and discussion sessions at the Open Knowledge Festival, the Mozilla Festival, the Open Ed Conference, the Summit on Open Strategies, and the CC- Africa, Europe, Asia-Pacific, and Latin America regional meetings. You can see all events on our <a href="http://wiki.creativecommons.org/School_of_Open#Roadmap">roadmap</a>.</li>
<li>We held our first real world course sprint at the Open Video Forum, resulting in the draft course, <a href="https://p2pu.org/en/groups/a-look-at-open-video">A Look at Open Video</a>. (A course sprint is like a <a href="http://booki.flossmanuals.net/a-webpage-is-a-book/what-is-a-book-sprint/">book sprint</a>, but the end result is a course instead of a book.) </li>
<li>We also <a href="http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/34800">held our first real world class</a> in Ann Arbor, Michigan, based on Get CC Savvy.</li>
<li>We discussed and settled on a <a href="https://groups.google.com/d/topic/school-of-open/URBCJAhl8pM/discussion">course review process</a> for all School of Open courses&#8230;</li>
</ul>
<p>&#8230;in the spirit of open governance, because we <a href="http://wiki.creativecommons.org/School_of_Open#Running_the_School_of_Open_openly">strive to work as openly and transparently</a> as our name makes us out to be!</p>
<h3>What to expect in 2013</h3>
<p></p>
<p style="text-align:center" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/terms/" xmlns:cc="http://creativecommons.org/ns#" about="http://farm3.staticflickr.com/2052/2179891296_eb477e1784_z.jpg?zz=1"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/library_of_congress/2179891296/in/photostream/"><img src="http://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/blimp.jpg" alt="" border=0 /></a><br /><small><span property="dc:title"></span> <span property="cc:attributionName">The Library of Congress</span> / <a href="http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/195_copr.html#noknown">No known copyright restrictions</a><br /></small></p>
<p>In 2013:</p>
<ul>
<li>We will officially launch our first set of courses during <a href="http://www.openeducationweek.org/">Open Education Week</a>! (<strong>March 11-15</strong>). We have 16 courses in development: the bulk of these will be designed for independent learning, such as <a href="https://p2pu.org/en/groups/get-cc-savvy/">Get CC Savvy</a>, but a few, such as Copyright 4 Educators, will be facilitated for a set period of time beginning in March. You can check out the full list of draft courses at <a href="http://schoolofopen.org/">http://schoolofopen.org</a>.</li>
<li>We will run more offline workshops around the world. In fact, we are developing a course to prepare people for the delivery of workshops on open culture and related topics in informal spaces.</li>
<li>We will run additional course sprints. We have one in mind around open science data (watch out Bay Area) and another on open video (Berlin or London).</li>
</ul>
<p>With the development of 16 courses; the running of offline workshops in cool spaces; and the emergence of the course sprint &#8212; we have a very full year ahead of us! If you would like to help shape any of the courses or activities above, join us at <a href="https://groups.google.com/group/school-of-open">https://groups.google.com/group/school-of-open</a> and introduce yourself and your area of interest. Additional ways to get involved and more info at <a href="http://schoolofopen.org/">http://schoolofopen.org</a>.</p>
<p>That&#8217;s all folks! We wish you a wonderful holiday and a happy new year.</p>


feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=36185
title: New Zealand Open Data Conference
uri: New-Zealand-Open-Data-Conference
url: http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/36185
content:
<p>As research communities worldwide look for new ways to make the scientific process and its data and results more open and participatory, New Zealand is showing us how it is done.</p>
<p>In July 2010, <a href="http://ict.govt.nz/guidance-and-resources/information-and-data/nzgoal" title="The New Zealand Government Open Access and Licensing framework">The New Zealand Government Open Access and Licensing framework</a> (NZGOAL) approved by the Cabinet provided guidance for agencies to follow when releasing copyright works and non-copyright material for re-use by others. NZGOAL seeks to standardise the licensing of government copyright works for re-use via Creative Commons New Zealand law licences and recommends the use of ‘no-known rights’ statements for non-copyrighted material.</p>
<p>Then in August 2011, the <a href="http://ict.govt.nz/programme/opening-government-data-and-information/declaration-open-and-transparent-government" title="Declaration on Open and Transparent Government">Declaration on Open and Transparent Government</a> was also approved by the Cabinet whereby the government committed to actively release high value public data &#8220;to enable the private and community sectors to use it to grow the economy, strengthen the social and cultural fabric, and sustain the environment&#8230; to encourage business and community involvement in government decision-making.&#8221;</p>
<p>And earlier this month in December 2012, a report of the Education and Science Committee presented to the House of Representatives of the 50th Parliament an <a href="http://www.parliament.nz/NR/rdonlyres/FD34151C-744B-4B49-86F2-6FE5850123AE/256992/DBSCH_SCR_5695_Inquiryinto21stcenturylearningenvir.pdf" title="Inquiry into 21st century learning environments and digital literacy">Inquiry into 21st century learning environments and digital literacy</a>. Among its recommendations were that the Government:</p>
<blockquote>
<ul>
<li>review the intellectual property framework for (NZ) education system to resolve copyright issues that have been raised, including considering Creative Commons policy.</li>
<li>consider the advantages and disadvantages of whether all documentation produced by the Ministry of Education for teaching and learning purposes should be released under a Creative Commons licence.</li>
</ul>
</blockquote>
<p>In keeping with this spirit, a group of researchers committed to bringing an Open Research conference to Australia and New Zealand are organizing a <a href="http://sites.google.com/site/nzauopenresearch/home" title="three day event February 6-8, 2013 in Auckland.">three day event February 6-8, 2013 in Auckland.</a></p>
<p>The purpose of this conference is to explore new, open models of research that speed up the effective transfer of research results and improve economic, environmental and social impacts. A growing community of researchers around the world are investigating new commercial and academic models to enhance the reach of their research. These new ways of doing research openly are akin to changes happening in the IT and business world, where open innovation has enabled people to achieve more together than they ever could alone.</p>
<p>Creative Commons plays a key role in promoting openness in science. Events such as this one in Auckland demonstrate the concern about open science that the community shares with Creative Commons. In the end, only good things can come out of openness, sharing and broad participation. Creative Commons is very pleased to see this event take place, and wishes it utmost success.</p>


feed_id: https://creativecommons.org/?p=35435
title: Happy Public Domain Day
uri: Happy-Public-Domain-Day
url: http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/35435
content:
<p>Each year on January 1st, copyright protection expires for millions of creative works, allowing those works to be used by anyone without restriction or need for permission. On this <a href="http://www.publicdomainday.org/">Public Domain Day</a>, we celebrate the rich creative works that have risen into the public domain, and mourn the massive number of works that could have been in the public domain but which aren&#8217;t due to unreasonable copyright extension or the chilling effects created by <a href="http://www.communia-association.org/2012/12/27/the-little-prince-and-the-public-domain/">Byzantine copyright term schemes</a>. The excellent <a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/">Public Domain Review</a>&#8211;which catalogs and offers some interesting insight, explanation, and analysis into unique and unusual treasures in the public domain&#8211;has profiled some great works from the <a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/2012/12/11/class-of-2013/">Class of 2013</a>. But in other countries, <a href="https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20121214/07565721387/uss-public-domain-class-2013.shtml">nothing will enter the public domain</a> again this year. </p>
<div style="float:right; padding:10px" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/terms/" xmlns:cc="/ns#" about="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Lewis_Hine_Power_house_mechanic_working_on_steam_pump.jpg"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Lewis_Hine_Power_house_mechanic_working_on_steam_pump.jpg"><img width="285" height="400" src="http://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/345px-Lewis_Hine_Power_house_mechanic_working_on_steam_pump.jpg" alt="Power House Mechanic Working on Steam Pump, by Lewis Hine" /></a>
<p><small><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Lewis_Hine_Power_house_mechanic_working_on_steam_pump.jpg"><span property="dc:title">Power House Mechanic Working on Steam Pump, by Lewis Hine</span></a><br />Public Domain</small></p>
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<p>While copyright terms continue to be extended and policymakers support a detrimental enforcement agenda, there has been no shortage of encouraging work in support of a robust and expanded public domain. </p>
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<li>The Internet Archive announced this year a <a href="http://blog.archive.org/2012/08/07/over-1000000-torrents-of-downloadable-books-music-and-movies/">massive trove</a> of over 1,000,000 mostly public domain content available for download over Bittorrent. In similar fashion, video archivist Rick Prelinger pointed us toward a big collection of <a href="http://boingboing.net/2012/03/19/trove-of-free-public-domain-h.html">public domain video footage</a>.</li>
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<li><a href="http://musopen.org/">Musopen</a> continues to be a promising project initially dedicated to providing copyright free music content: music recordings, sheet music and a music textbook.</li>
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<li>There’s ongoing efforts to educate the public about the public domain. The Public Domain Review published the <a href="http://publicdomainreview.org/guide-to-finding-interesting-public-domain-works-online/">Guide to Finding Interesting Public Domain Works Online</a>, and P2PU is working on developing the <a href="https://p2pu.org/en/groups/applied-open-discovering-and-contributing-to-the-public-domain/ ">Public Domain Detective</a> course.
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<li>At the international policy arena, the public domain continues to be a topic on the agenda at venues like WIPO, where there have been discussions about how to support access to the public domain. The <a href="http://www.communia-association.org/">Communia Association</a> has been at the forefront in championing support for broad access to public domain materials, and has been urging policymakers around the world to adopt liberal policies promoting wide access to public domain content. Communia&#8211;of which CC has been a longtime member&#8211;has been a key participant to these conversations at WIPO. CC has also been <a href="http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/32670">involved</a>. </li>
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<li>Communia published <a href="http://www.communia-association.org/2012/04/14/the-digital-public-domain-foundations-for-an-open-culture/">“The Digital Public Domain: Foundations for an Open Culture”</a> as well as a <a href="http://communia-project.eu/final-report/">comprehensive report</a> detailing the efforts of the group during the three years it operated as the European Thematic Network on the Digital Public Domain. </li>
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<li>Creative Commons continues to offer tools in support of the public domain. These include the <a href="http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/">CC0 Public Domain Dedication</a>, which is a tool for authors to waive all copyright and related rights, thus putting their work in the public domain prior to the expiration of copyright. This is a crucial tool in use around the world for high profile projects. In September of this year, Europeana <a href="http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/34017">released 20 million records</a> into the public domain using CC0. This release is the largest one-time dedication of cultural data to the public domain using CC0, and the dataset consists of descriptive information from a huge trove of digitized cultural and artistic works. In addition, the <a href="http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/">Public Domain Mark</a> is used to mark works already in the worldwide public domain, such as for very old works where it is clear that the copyright has already expired. </li>
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<li>In fact, more libraries are <a href="http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/31853">releasing metadata under CC0</a>, and public domain <a href="http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/33768">may become the norm</a> for libraries in sharing their data.</li>
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As you can see, there’s a ton of positive work being done to help increase our access to creative content in the public domain. But the work is not done: the longer we do not have access to these works the less rich our culture will be moving ahead. Let’s keep working on it and demanding access to content that could (and should) be available to all.</p>


feed_id: http://creativecommons.org/?p=36271
title: Lawrence Lessig’s WSJ Article on Bassel Khartabil
uri: Lawrence-Lessig-s-WSJ-Article-on-Bassel-Khartabil
url: http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/36271
content:
<p style="text-align:center" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/terms/" xmlns:cc="http://creativecommons.org/ns#" about="http://farm5.staticflickr.com/4018/4670781482_d072301ef0_z.jpg"><img src="http://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/bassel.jpg" alt="Bassel" /><br /><small><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/joi/4670781482/in/photostream/"><span property="dc:title">Bassel</span></a> / <span property="cc:attributionName">joi</span> / <a rel="license" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/">CC BY</a></small></p>
<p>Today in the Wall Street Journal, <a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887324669104578204300433143478.html">Creative Commons co-founder Lawrence Lessig has a thoughtful piece</a> about Bassel Khartabil, the longtime CC volunteer who has been detained by Syrian authorities since March.</p>
<blockquote><p>In late 2012, <a href="http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2012/11/26/the_fp_100_global_thinkers?page=0,18#thinker19">Foreign Policy named Mr. Khartabil one of this year&#8217;s top 100 thinkers</a>. The magazine singled him out for &#8220;fostering an open-source community in a country long on the margins of the Internet&#8217;s youth culture.&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<blockquote><p>But Mr. Khartabil wasn&#8217;t able to accept that honor. He was arrested in March by Syrian authorities because of his work and has been held&#160;&#8212; at times in utter isolation&#160;&#8212; ever since. His family fears the very worst.</p></blockquote>
<blockquote><p>Mr. Khartabil isn&#8217;t a partisan, aligned with one Syrian faction against another. He represents a future, aligned against a totalitarian past. The Syrian government is fearful of the potential threat to the totalizing control that defines the modern Syrian state. The government thus wants to shut the free-software, free-culture movement down, in a way that only a totalitarian regime can.</p></blockquote>
<p>Please join us in urging Syrian authorities to release Bassel. Sign the letter of support and follow the most recent updates at <a href="http://freebassel.org/">freebassel.org</a>.</p>
<p><strong>Related</strong></p>
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<li><a href="/weblog/entry/34771">Call for the Release of Bassel Khartabil</a></li>
<li><a href="/weblog/entry/33119">Please help us Free Bassel, open source developer and CC volunteer</a></li>
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feed_id: http://creativecommons.org/?p=36266
title: Join Creative Commons During Open Education Week (March 11-15)
uri: Join-Creative-Commons-During-Open-Education-Week-(March-11-15)
url: http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/36266
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<p><a href="http://www.openeducationweek.org/"><img src="http://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/562x252-oew-web-banner.jpg" alt="562x252-oew-web-banner" width="562" height="252" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-36267" /></a></p>
<p>This year Open Education Week takes places on <strong>March 11-15</strong> and features a series of events, workshops, project showcases, and webinars from around the world. If you care about sharing knowledge, reducing barriers to educational access, and helping to grow the amount of free and open educational resources (OER) available on the web &#8212; join Creative Commons and many other organizations and institutions by answering the <a href="http://www.openeducationweek.org/">Call for Participation</a>. </p>
<p>Simply submit your proposed activity by <strong>January 18</strong>. Activities may include, but are not limited to, the following:</p>
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<li>Provide a Project Showcase highlighting some aspect of open education in your project, organization, region or country </li>
<li>Offer a webinar or virtual Question and Answer session on a topic of interest </li>
<li>Create or share basic resources about the open education movement </li>
<li>Host a local event during Open Education Week </li>
<li>Form a Working Group to address a common problem or opportunity </li>
<li>Propose another activity—we invite you to be creative! </li>
<li>Contribute your skills to creating, organizing, coordinating or spreading the word about Open Education Week</li>
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<p>As part of Open Education Week, Creative Commons and its affiliates are hosting and participating in local events and webinars on OER, <a href="http://wiki.creativecommons.org/4.0">Version 4.0</a> of the CC licenses, the <a href="http://wiki.creativecommons.org/Open_Policy_Network">Open Policy Network</a>, School of Open, and more. In addition, the <a href="http://schoolofopen.org/">School of Open</a> will officially launch its first set of courses that week, including courses on copyright and Creative Commons for educators. Courses will be free to take and free to reuse and remix under P2PU&#8217;s default <a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/">CC BY-SA</a> licensing policy. </p>
<p>To participate in Open Education Week, visit <a href="http://www.openeducationweek.org/">http://www.openeducationweek.org</a>.</p>
<p>To be notified when School of Open courses start, sign up for the <a href="http://groups.google.com/group/school-of-open-announce">School of Open announce list</a>. If you&#8217;d like to get involved in building courses for launch, visit <a href="http://schoolofopen.org/">http://schoolofopen.org</a>.</p>


feed_id: http://creativecommons.org/?p=36298
title: Remembering Aaron Swartz
uri: Remembering-Aaron-Swartz
url: http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/36298
content:
<p style="text-align:center" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/terms/" xmlns:cc="http://creativecommons.org/ns#" about="http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Lawrence_Lessig_and_Aaron_Swartz.jpg"><a href="http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Lawrence_Lessig_and_Aaron_Swartz.jpg"><img src="http://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/lessig_swartz_600.jpg" alt="Lawrence Lessig and Aaron Swartz" width="600" height="450" border=0 /><br /><small><a href="http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Lawrence_Lessig_and_Aaron_Swartz.jpg"><span property="dc:title">Lawrence Lessig and Aaron Swartz</span> (2002)</a> / <span property="cc:attributionName">Rich Gibson</span> / <a rel="license" href="/licenses/by/2.0/">CC BY</a></small></a></p>
<p>Friends and Commoners,</p>
<p>It is with incredible sadness that I write to tell you that yesterday, Aaron Swartz took his life. Aaron was one of the early architects of Creative Commons. As a teenager, he helped design the code layer to our licenses, and helped build the movement that has carried us so far. Before Creative Commons, he had coauthored RSS. After Creative Commons, he co-founded Reddit, liberated tons of government data, helped build a free public library at <a href="http://archive.org/">Archive.org</a>, and has done incredibly important work to reform and make good our political system. (<a href="http://demandprogress.org/">DemandProgress.org</a>, his most recent org, was instrumental in blocking the SOPA/PIPA legislation one year ago.)</p>
<p>More than all that, Aaron was a dear friend to all of us, and an inspiration to me and many of you. Our prayers are with his parents and those who knew his love. But everything we build will forever know the product of his genius.</p>


