Jane Park has a new post discussing the Creative Commons Global Meeting 2011. From the post:
The event will bring together affiliates from more than 70 jurisdictions, CC staff, as well as a number of CC Board members.
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CC Global Meeting 2011
Posted in Open Education
Tagged commons, copy right, copyright, creative commons, openness
DiscoverEd Dead
Nathan Yergler has a new post announcing that the Creative Commons project, DiscoverEd, is dead. From the post:
Creative Commons is discontinuing development to focus our resources and expertise where they can have maximum impact. We do not have the resources needed to run DiscoverEd at web scale, but would love to see someone take that on.
Posted in Open Education
Tagged creative commons, ocw, oer, open content, Open Education, openness
Wylio
Jonathan Bailey has a new post on Wylio, a tool to for formatting and giving attribution for CC-licensed photos on Flickr. From the post:
While there are thousands upon thousands of images available for easy reuse under Creative Commons Licenses in Flickr, properly attributing those images is time-consuming and can be very confusing.
Posted in Open Education
Tagged cc, CC licenses, commons, copyright, creative commons, openness
Using CC for Software
Nick Freear has a new post on why Creative Commons licenses shouldn’t be used for software. From the post:
The short answer is, if you use a Creative Commons License your software probably won’t be free software/ open source software, and therefore won’t be re-usable by others including developers (which is what you want right?)
Posted in Open Education
Tagged cc, CC licenses, copy right, copyright, creative commons, open content, open source, openness
CC HQ Moves
Jennifer Yip makes a quick note of Creative Commons headquarters new physical location.
OCL4ED
A course on Open Content Licensing for Educators has begun at WikiEducator.
Posted in Open Education
Tagged commons, copy right, copyright, creative commons, e-learning, higher education, oer, online learning, open content, Open Education, openness
Creative Commons Comic
The UNESCO Chair in e-learning has posted a comic explaining Creative Commons. Thanks to Jordi Cornet for the link.
Creative Commons Internship
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.
Posted in Open Education
Tagged cc, CC licenses, commons, copyright, creative commons, openness
Creative Commons 2010 Finances
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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Tagged cc, CC licenses, commons, copy right, copyright, creative commons, openness
Lebanese Creative Commons
Donatella Della Ratta has a new post on Creative Commons in Lebanon. From the post:
The near future also holds another milestone for us; this month will be the launch of the Lebanese CC Community official website as part of the CC site.
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Tagged cc, CC licenses, commons, creative commons, open content, openness
