Aurelia J. Schultz has a new post announcing summer internships at Creative Commons. From the post:
Students have the opportunity to work with CC staff and international volunteers on various real-time projects. Assigned tasks and projects will vary depending on the intern’s skill & experience, as well as organization needs.
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Cory Doctorow has a new post pointing out new legislation in Canada aimed at creating permissions and restrictions for educators. From the post:
Under the new exemption proposed in C-32, teachers would join journalists and critics as one of the protected groups who can make brief quotes (provided such quotes don’t comprise a “significant” portion of the work) for a narrow set of purposes.
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Allison Domincone has a new post giving the state of Creative Commons’ finances for 2010. From the post:
We’d like to see these numbers continue to grow, just as CC license adoption and use of our tools has grown so steadily since 2002.
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John Wilbanks has a new post about changes to the Creative Commons website. From the post:
We’re making these changes because we’ve received feedback — from our community of users, friends, supporters, and more — that the current set of web properties we have here at Creative Commons isn’t working as well as it could.
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Michelle Thorne has a new post about harmonizing languages at Creative Commons. From the post:
You’ll see the harmonized translations available now on our license deeds. Please note again that the deeds are not legally operative; instead, they play a critical role in helping ensure our licenses are understandable and accessible to users.
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Lawrence Lessig has a new post announcing Cathy Casserly as the new CEO of Creative Commons. From the post:
Cathy has an extraordinary reputation among foundations and the Open Educational Resources community. She has had extensive experience coaxing creators and educators into a more sensible and flexible manner for creating and sharing their work.
Note: In this post Lessig also makes an plea for donations to Creative Commons. Apparently they are $200,000 behind their fund raising goal.
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“petermr” has a new post on why he avoids the NC clause in open licenses. From the post:
There is every evidence that in code specifically NC is less useful than BY. If code were constrained by BY from adoption then the community would have moved to NC. But that prevents huge take up by other sectors.
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Michael Geist has written an article about Canada, copyright and education. From the post:
The tipping point toward using technology as a replacement may have come this year when Access Copyright, the copyright collective that licenses copying on Canadian campuses, demanded a significant increase in the fees associated with photocopying articles and producing printed course packs.
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Timothy Vollmer has a new post about Creative Commons filing a comment with the U.S. Department of Commerce. From the post:
Creative Commons has filed comments in the U.S. Department of Commerce’s Inquiry on Copyright Policy, Creativity, and Innovation in the Internet Economy. The Department received nearly 900 submissions over the comment period, which ended December 10.
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Mike Linksvayer has a new post on laws that are introducing rights similar to copyright. From the post:
Examples include sui generis database rights only applicable in Europe, proposals for special broadcast rights, which would give broadcasters a new set of exclusive rights merely for having broadcasted material, and a potential proposal for a new press publisher right to control use of non-copyrighted snippets of press material as well as specific headline wordings, for example.
Also, a short interview of Mark Surman of the Mozilla Foundation.
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