Congrats to EFF and the dancing baby
There are plenty of examples to depict our broken copyright system, but the “dancing baby” case is one of the most notorious. That’s the one where Universal Music used the DMCA to take down a...
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Open Licensing Policy Toolkit (DRAFT)
Files. By Pieter J. Smits, CC BY 3.0 Creative Commons believes that public and foundation funded resources should be openly licensed by default. We have written extensively about the importance of...
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European migrant crisis: Czech teachers create and share resources
This is a guest post by Jan Gondol. Pencil by Mari Pi, Public Domain. In the midst of the European migrant crisis, the Czech Republic is showing the power of open educational resources (OER). EDUin, a...
View ArticleCreative Commons awarded $450,000 from the Arcadia Fund to support open...
Creative Commons is pleased to announce a grant award in the amount of $450,000 over 3 years from the Arcadia Fund, the charitable fund of Lisbet Rausing and Peter Baldwin. Since its inception in 2001,...
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Institute for Open Leadership 2: Apply now
Cape Town by Kemal Kestelli on Flickr, CC BY-ND 2.0. Earlier this year, Creative Commons and the Open Policy Network hosted the first Institute for Open Leadership (IOL). The IOL is a training and...
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CC BY-SA 4.0 now one-way compatible with GPLv3
The declaration increases interoperability of the commons for games, hardware designs, and more Photo by Hugh Llewelyn, licensed BY-SA 2.0, available on Wikimedia Commons. In January we officially...
View ArticleCC0 now available in Polish – official translation published
Post written by John Weitzmann Creative Commons and the European group of CC Affiliates are proud and happy to announce the launch of the official Polish translation of CC0 version 1.0. Translation is...
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Supporting user rights for mass digitization of culture
Assignments of copyrights photostat copies by mollyali, CC BY-NC 2.0 A few months ago the United States Copyright Office issued a request for comments on an extended collective licensing (ECL) pilot...
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Open licensing guide for foundation staff
Government funders are increasingly adopting open licensing policies for copyrightable works and data they create or commission. Over the last few years we’ve been excited to work with philanthropic...
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A plea from the Commons: #FreeBassel now
As the Creative Commons Global Summit kicks off this week in Seoul, we are acutely aware of the absence of Bassel Khartabil, the Palestinian-Syrian open source software engineer and activist who led...
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