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We’re proud to present Series Two of Team Open, our ongoing project to tell the stories of people who use Creative Commons. In Series Two, you’ll meet a musician who used Creative Commons licensing to score a sponsorship deal with Toyota, a filmmaker who convinced his funders to give his film away, a professor who saved students a million dollars, and one of the minds behind the best-selling game on Amazon.
When you use a CC-licensed photo in a presentation or share your latest song under CC, you’re a part of the story of CC’s impact in the world. We’re proud to share in this amazing journey with you.
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We’ve learned disturbing details of of the Trans-Pacific Partnership, an agreement that could extend copyright terms 20 years. Join us in demanding that the agreement be made public. |
Nearly 900 million CC-licensed works, and most of them under licenses that allow commercial use and adaptations. Check out our brand new State of the Commons report. |
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Your daily awesome from the internet. Start your morning with the Creative Commons Thing of the Day. |
Remember that time when CC Version 4.0 broke the internet? |
- Yesterday, CC Syria lead Bassel Khartabil spent his 1000th day in prison. We stand with our peers in the free software and free culture communities in demanding that he be freed.
- The Parable of the Polygons is a fascinating interactive essay on gentrification. It’s also in the public domain under CC0.
- If you’re in San Francisco, join us this weekend for a Wikipedia Editathon on internet censorship.
- A recent court case in Germany has raised some serious questions about the attribution requirement in CC licenses. Fortunately, we believe that common sense has won out in the recent appellate ruling.
- Amazing news. The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation now requires open licensing for all grant-funded research.
CC News: Why Creative Commons must succeed
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Ryan Merkley / Rannie Turingan / CC0
Why Creative Commons must succeed
“Why am I joining CC? Because its success is so vital, and I want to ensure we succeed. Creativity, knowledge, and innovation need a public commons – a collection of works that are free to use, re-use, and build upon – the shared resources of our society. The restrictions we place on copyright, like fair use and the public domain, are an acknowledgement that all creativity and knowledge owe something to what came before.”
CC is proud to welcome its incoming CEO, Ryan Merkley.
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We’re excited to announce the launch of the Open Policy Network, a coalition of organizations committed to advancing policies that require open licenses for publicly funded materials. Find out how to get involved. |
Last week, Lawrence Lessig won a lifetime achievement Webby Award for his work as co-founder of Creative Commons. Have you heard his five-word acceptance speech? |
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The French Ministry of Culture and Communications to embrace Creative Commons licenses. Watch the beautiful new video it made with CC France to explain CC licenses. |
Who is speaking up for authors who want to see their works disseminated more freely? Enter the Authors Alliance. |
- Australia’s premier public scientific research institute just released over 4000 photos under CC BY. Check out the ScienceImage library.
- The US White House’s new Open Data Action Plan embraces CC0 for open data.
- Are there too many video games about zombies? The organizers of the Public Domain Jam think so.
- Learn about Redactor, a new tool to replace All Rights Reserved images with CC-licensed ones.
The global CC community: building a more open world
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Alaska’s Pavlof Volcano: NASA’s View from Space (cropped)
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The global CC community: building a more open world
Over the past few weeks, we’ve been featuring some of the amazing activities of our global affiliate network. Learn about a Finnish team building a CC plugin for WordPress, an open data symposium in Japan, a series of School of Open workshops in Kenya, a booksprint in Morocco, and much more. Take a tour of the CC communities in the Arab world, Africa, Asia-Pacific, and Europe.
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Open educational resources aren’t just a good idea; they’re the center of a global movement that’s transforming how education works worldwide. Browse the resources from Open Education Week to learn more. |
Longtime CC community leader Bassel Khartabil has been in prison in Syria since 2012. Join the worldwide open community to honor Bassel this Saturday, March 15. If you’re in the Bay Area, join us at the Wikimedia offices in San Francisco. |
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Learn how a proposed US law would weaken public access to federally funded research. |
Is Getty Images’ new photo embed service a step in the right direction? |
- Join us in San Francisco for a discussion on free culture and social justice.
- The CC Europe team has been following the proposed changes to EU copyright law. Read their analysis and recommendations.
- “People should support Creative Commons if they care about what they’re doing, and they want to get their work to as many people as possible; if they care about collaborating with people all over the world together and coming up with something beautiful.” Khalid Albaih is on Team Open.
CC News: The School of Open Is Back!
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Round 2 of the School of Open starts August 5! Sign up for courses on copyright for educators, open science, and much more. |
The first decade of CC is over; what’s next? In our new publication The Future of Creative Commons, we lay out the top priorities in all the areas where we work. |
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Hey, CC musicians! You have only one more week to enter the Free! Music! Contest! |
Autodesk announced that its support and learning content for its 2014 product line is now available under Creative Commons licenses. |
In other news:
- Join Team Open! Creative Commons is looking for an operations engineer.
- The featured films have been announced for the first-ever Nordic Creative Commons Film Festival. Schedule your own NCCFF screening!
- The Saylor Foundation recently launched a new set of free, CC-licensed, K-12 courses in language arts and mathematics.
- Indie videogame designer Nick Liow wants to change the way you think about the public domain.
- Myanmar’s New Education Highway is a nonprofit project that could not exist without open educational resources.
- Learn about UC Irvine’s OpenChem project, a set of openly licensed chemistry lectures equivalent to four years’ worth of classes.
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Big news from California: a new bill in the legislature would allow university students to take CC-licensed, online classes for credit. |
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As of this Friday, CC Syria lead Bassel Khartabil has been imprisoned for one year. Join us in urging that Bassel be freed. |
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In other news:
- This month, we close out our annual fundraising campaign, and say thank you to our amazing, worldwide community of commoners.
- Want to work in open? Intern at Creative Commons!
- Will the next generation of scientists default to open practices? Learn how the Open Science Training Initiative seeks to equip young researchers now.
- Open access to government-funded research is finally becoming an international hot topic. CC’s Paul Stacey reports on the progress we’ve made and the hurdles remaining.
CC News: White House Supports Open Access
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We’re nearing the finish line for version 4.0 of the CC license suite. Find out what’s new in Draft 3 and what issues are stil being discussed. |
Join the School of Open! Our first classes are officially launching on March 11, as a part of the Open Education Week celebration. |
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The White House has issued a groundbreaking directive supporting public access to publicly funded research. |
Creative Commons, PLOS, and OKFN hosted a course sprint last weekend to develop a new open science curriculum. |
In other news:
- We’ve just announced the location of the 2013 Creative Commons Global Summit. Join us in Buenos Aires, Argentina, August 21-24!
- A new bill in the US congress would drastically expand public access to federally funded research. Get the facts on FASTR.
- Remember the contest to find a CC-licensed alternative to the Happy Birthday Song? Listen to the winners!
- The CC Arab World community recently gathered to celebrate ten years of CC and discuss the future of the open Internet in the Middle East.
- A few weeks ago, former US secretary of state Hillary Clinton unveiled the Open Book Project, an initiative to expand access to free, high-quality educational materials in Arabic.
- For the fifth year, Creative Commons is participating in the Google Policy Fellowship program. If you’re interested in working on CC’s education and advocacy initiatives, find out how to apply.
- Vice ran a great interview with Adam Green, cofounder of the Public Domain Review.
CC News: Celebrate Ten Years of Creative Commons
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Celebrate ten years of Creative Commons, and consider making an investment in the next ten. |
As a teenager, Aaron Swartz helped start Creative Commons. Join us in remembering a friend, ally, and inspiration. |
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Longtime CC volunteer Bassel Khartabil has been detained in Syria since March. Thanks to an international community of supporters, he now has family visitation rights. Join the campaign to free Bassel. |
This month, U.S. News and World Report ran an excellent article about the rise of open educational resources. |
In other news:
- Every year on January 1st, copyright protection expires for millions of creative works. Celebrate Public Domain Day and find out what’s new to public domain this year.
- Open Education Week is coming up, and School of Open is planning something big. Find out how to get involved.
- Not one, but five #cc10 mixtapes.
- Boundless has released 18 new textbooks under CC BY-SA.
- CC Korea has launched a new iPhone app celebrating ten years of Creative Commons music.
- In case you missed it: #cc10 Antarctica.
CC News: British Columbia Embraces Open Textbooks
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British Columbia has just announced a groundbreaking open textbook policy, providing for open textbooks for 40 popular college courses. |
It’s open access week! Join Creative Commons and dozens of other organizations as we celebrate the OA movement. |
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On October 5, Creative Commons and P2PU convened community advocates and policy leaders to lay the curriculum framework for the School of Open. |
On Ada Lovelace Day, CC CEO Cathy Casserly reflects on the importance of women in science and technology. |
In other news:
- Cost of reusing educational materials developed by grantees? $0. The US Departments of Labor and Education make a big investment in open educational resources.
- Geoscience Australia recently announced that it will license all images from the Landsat 8 satellite under CC BY. Australia’s partnership with the United States in the Landsat program is a perfect example of why it’s important to use a license that’s open and internationally applicable.
- Our friends at the Free Music Archive are holding a video remix contest. Get your entry in by November 4! And stay tuned: next month, we’ll be announcing a special music contest in celebration of CC’s tenth anniversary.
- It’s official: Wikimedia’s Wiki Loves Monuments is the world’s largest photo competition.
- CC’s Tim Vollmer writes about HowOpenIsIt?, a new reference guide for understanding open access standards.
- Not only is this Open Access Week; it’s also Pro Bono Week. CC’s legal team takes a moment to say thanks.
CC News: #cc10 Is Coming
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#cc10 is coming! Get ready for a ten-day celebration of the history and future of Creative Commons. |
Creative Commons is looking for an experienced, innovative, and technically inclined individual to drive product development at CC. |
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Since 2010, Arab world–based Creative Commons communities have celebrated Ramadan by organizing Creative Commons Iftars across the region. |
Europeana — Europe’e digital library — has released 20 million records into the public domain using the CC0 Public Domain Dedication. This release is the largest one-time dedication of cultural data to the public domain using CC0. |
In other news:
- There’s been a lot of discussion and debate recently about CC’s NonCommercial and NoDerivatives terms.
- A recent dispute involving Wikimedia demonstrates CC licenses' ability to withstand legal scrutiny.
- If you work with K-12 students in the US (or if you are one), then you’ll want to know about the Engage 2012 student video competition.
- Ten years after the release of the Budapest Open Access Initiative, OA advocates recently released updated recommendations in support of open access around the world, touching on areas including policy, licensing, sustainability, and advocacy.
- After more than two years of hard work, the CC China Mainland 3.0 licenses are ready for use.
- We end on a sad note by remembering Lee Dirks, a strategist at Microsoft Research Connections and friend of the open access movement.
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CC News: Video Contest Winners Announced
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Watch the winning entries in our Why Open Education Matters video contest. |
Jimmy Soriano of CC Philippines passed away last week and will be greatly missed by the CC community. Please join us in remembering Jimmy's passion and contributions to open culture. |
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In June, Creative Commons hosted a historic event — the first meetup of the African Creative Commons community. |
Creative Commons just reached an exciting milestone. As of July 25, there are four million Creative Commons–licensed videos on YouTube. |
In other news:
- We've just posted Draft 2 of Version 4.0 of the CC license suite. Learn what's new in 4.0 and what issues are still being discussed.
- Have you tried CC's new license chooser yet? Jonathan from our web team explains the factors that went into the redesign.
- July was a busy month for CC and the Peer 2 Peer University, as we worked together to lay the groundwork for a School of Open. Find out what we've been up to and what's next.
- Looking for curriculum about CC? Check out CC Aotearoa New Zealand's excellent collection of resources.
- An interesting new research paper explores the role of open licensing in the democratization of music.
- CC community support intern Natalya Berenshteyn writes about her work developing materials to support our international affiliate network.
- In this fascinating interview, CC Korea's DaYe Jung discusses music and copyright law in Korea.