Mike Linksvayer has a new post on Creative Commons and databases. From the post:
With the exception of strongly recommending CC0 (public domain) for scientific data, Creative Commons has been relatively quiet about use of our licenses for data and databases.
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Matt Liebenson has a new post noting two cases, one in Belgium and one Israel, that found in favor of Creative Commons licenses. From the post:
These cases together highlight some important fundamentals about how CC licenses operate. First and foremost, our licenses operate in conjunction with copyright, not in lieu of copyright. This means that if the terms of the CC license you have applied to your music or other creative work are violated, as the judge concluded in the Belgian case, the result is copyright infringement and nothing less.
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Nathan Yergler has a new post with a graphic displaying the components of a Creative Commons license.
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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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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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Lisa Katayama has a new post introducing Mike Carroll, one of the Creative Commons board members. From the post:
Still, Carroll says, there are challenges ahead. “We are offering tools as a solution to a problem that not everyone knows they have.”
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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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