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NEWSLETTER http://creativecommons.org Issue No. 12 April 2009 Alex Roberts. “Melissa Reeder.” CC-BY 3.0
Dear Creative Commoner,
In this newsletter, you will find the latest news updates on Creative Commons internationally and in science, education, and arts & culture. As you will see, there is a lot going on for CC - and all thanks to you, our community of advocates, users, creators, volunteers, and supporters. The stories below are your stories, the stories of everyone working around the world to build a more participatory culture. We couldn’t possibly include as many highlights and success stories as we’d like to, so if you’d like to stay up to date with more CC news, I encourage you to subscribe to our weblog: http://creativecommons.org/weblog CC Newsletter - Issue No. 12 Each newsletter we produce is also available in beautifully-designed PDF format, thanks to our CC Philippines team. Be sure to check out this and past months’ newsletters: http://wiki.creativecommons.org/CCNewsletter 2
Best,
Melissa Reeder Development Manager Creative Commons
This newsletter is licensed under http://creativecom- mons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ — please share and remix! Breaking News
Esther Wojcicki, new CC board chair Launch of CC Zero — no rights We’re very pleased to announce that reserved effective April 1, noted educator, http://creativecommons.org/about/cc0 education innovator and journalist Esther Wojcicki is the new chair of the Creative We are pleased to formally introduce Commons board of directors. From the CC0 (read “CC Zero”), a universal waiver press release: that may be used by anyone wishing to permanently surrender the copyright and “I am thrilled to take on this new role,” database rights they may have in a work, said Wojcicki. “I strongly believe that the thereby placing it as nearly as possible into Creative Commons approach to sharing, the public domain; essentially, it is a “no reuse, and innovation has the power to rights reserved” option. CC0 is universal totally reshape the worlds of education, in form and may be used throughout the science, technology, and culture at large. world for any kind of content, without 3 My main goal as chair is to make average adaptation to account for laws in different Internet users worldwide aware of Creative jurisdictions. Like all other CC licenses, Commons and to continue building the CC0 has the benefit of being expressed organization’s governance and financial in three ways – legal code, a human
resources. I am also very eager to help readable deed, and machine-readable CC Newsletter - Issue No. 12 CC’s education push at high school and code that allows works distributed under college journalism programs worldwide.” CC0 to be easily found.
Outgoing chair James Boyle, a founder of 20x200 Benefit Edition: Buy Art, the modern movement for the intellectual Support CC commons and CC itself, will remain http://www.20x200.com/mailinglist deeply engaged in the movement. There remains no better in depth explanation On Tuesday, April 7th, 20×200, a project of the intellectual commons than Boyle’s started by Jen Bekman that produces book, The Public Domain. affordable, exhibition quality art prints and sells them exclusively online, will release Thank you and congratulations to both a special benefit edition by designer Matt Wojcicki and Boyle! Jones with proceeds to benefit Creative Commons. This is an incredible way to support CC, so be sure to sign up for the CC recognized with Free Software twice-weekly 20×200 newsletter to to be Award for Projects of Social Benefit among the first to collect Matt’s print for At the Free Software Foundation’s annual as little as $20. Popular editions often sell conference, Libre Planet, FSF founder and out via the mailing list before they’re even president Richard Stallman presented CC available on the 20×200 homepage, with an annual award given to a project so add yourself to the list for your best that applies the ideas of the free software shot at getting one of Matt’s prints and movement in ways that intentionally and supporting CC in this unique way. significantly benefits society in other aspects of life. This is a great honor for CC, as free software blazed the path forward for us. CC News - International
Creative Commons works New excitement, new energy, and users of CC, such as Interactiva Web and internationally to “port” new face for CC Korea Maestros del Web - two firm supporters the core Creative Commons As of January 23, Creative Commons for the creation of a Guatemalan shared Licenses to different Korea restarted as an independent culture. copyright legislations legal association under the title of
Also available online: presentations from “Open Access Infrastructures: The Future of Scientific Communication,” a conference held last December in CC News in Science
Creative Commons works GreenXchange — a project of the way into standard commercial patent to advance CC in the field Creative Commons, Nike and licensing for sustainability purposes. Our of science by designing Best Buy model is open innovation, our methods strategies and tools for On February 10, 2009, Creative are those of the digital commons, and we faster, more efficient web- enabled scientific research Commons, in collaboration with Nike are very excited to be working with our new in the hope of speeding and Best Buy, announced a new project partners to help them overcome “failed the translation of data - GreenXchange - exploring how the sharing” to help us all work towards a into discovery. The wing digital commons can help holders of sustainable world. For more information of Creative Commons patents collaborate for sustainability. on the project, we invite you to check out dedicated to making the GreenXchange will be hosted inside the informational video over at Science web work for science is Science Commons. Commons
scientific and medical research, and we CC Newsletter - Issue No. 12 feel confident that the future will bring even more initiatives like these to adopt CC0. CC News in Education
ccLearn, the education Hewlett OER Grantees Meeting ccLearn Productions wing of Creative Commons We were thrilled that the ccLearn team was http://learn.creativecommons.org/ led by Executive Director able to attend the Hewlett OER Grantees productions/ Ahrash Bissell, works with Meeting in beautiful Monterey, California, an international community in early March. The William and Flora Check out these three productions meant of open education advocates and supporters Hewlett Foundation is not only our biggest to give brief overviews and instructions to improve open learning supporter, but one of OER’s boldest about open education topics: on the internet. ccLearn, the advocates. They fund an impressive 1. ccLearn Explanations: Open education wing of Creative number of OER projects and programs, Educational Resources and Creative Commons led by Executive the leads of which were all present as we Commons Licensing. If you are a Director Ahrash Bissell, came together to share ideas and to fill teacher or creator of educational works with an international each other in on what we had been up to resources, this primer gives you community of open for the past year. an introduction to the concepts of education advocates and open education, Creative Commons supporters to improve open learning on the internet. ccLearn’s Executive Director, Ahrash licensing, and other issues pertinent Bissell, presented on Licensing and OER, to putting your educational materials
CC Newsletter - Issue No. 12 Truly open learning happens when learners (you, me and espousing the idea that open licenses on the Internet. everyone else we know) can are critical for defining open educational 2. ccLearn Recommendations: Increase not only access educational resources. You can read more about Funding Impact. Recommendations materials but improve upon licensing for OER in his recent paper, for organizations that fund the 8 them, adapting the resources “Permission granted: open licensing for production of OER. to our individual needs and educational resources,” available in the 3. ccLearn Recommendations: Publishing local contexts, without the OER issue of Open Learning: The Journal Your Open Educational Resources on restrictions imposed by standard copyright laws. of Open and Distance Learning: the Internet. These are best practices Through openly licensed
Attributor launches FairShare for commercial licensing, but it now One of Creative Commons’ www.fairshare.cc/fairshare includes videos available via download core goals is to expand in Ogg Theora, a free and open video the body of open and free On March 4, Attributor launched compression format. Under CC-BY, users cultural works available to the public. This is FairShare, a CC-aware self service of the content are required only to give accomplished through platform for tracking the spread of your attribution to Uncensored Interview as the outreach, advisement, works around the web, building on their content source. The site is also creatively and specific project based index of 35 billion web pages. FairShare using our CC+ protocol to help users initiatives with individuals encourages choosing a CC license to purchase permissions outside the scope and communities that make clear the terms under which you of the Attribution license, such as the promote a similar emphasis want your works to be spread, then gives right to use the video unaccredited or for on community, sharing, and you feeds showing exactly where all or endorsement of a commercial product. innovation. This effort is parts of your works have been used, with headed by Creative Director Eric Steuer. or without attribution to you. This should CC Portal now available from 9 be useful for both requesting proper use CASH Music of your work under the terms of the CC creativecommons.cashmusic.org license you’ve chosen, but perhaps more interestingly, for quantifying the spread CASH Music, the CC license using music
and impact your works are having in a label/creative community, recently launched CC Newsletter - Issue No. 12 way that has previously not been possible a wonderful new Creative Commons Portal using only keyword and link searches. for understanding how CC licenses can be utilized by record labels and artists. YouTube now testing CC Licenses The portal is beautifully designed with YouTube, the popular video sharing an emphasis on simplicity: it gives an website, is now testing an option that introduction to CC, hypothetical uses, and gives video owners the ability to allow real world examples. Meant to grow and downloads and share their work under expand overtime, the portal is a great Creative Commons licenses. The test resource for record labels looking into how is being launched with a handful of they can adopt CC. As CASH expands upon partners, including Stanford University, its mission to “develop open source tools Duke University, UC Berkeley, UC Los for artists and promote best practices in the Angeles, and UCTV. Stay tuned for more music industry,” resources like the CC Portal information on YouTube’s possible further will become increasingly more valuable. integration of CC licenses. Sita Sings the Blues, CC-licensed Uncensored Interview releases animated film 1000+ Creative Commons Theora www.sitasingstheblues.com videos www.uncensoredinterview.com Talented animator, writer and producer Nina Paley has freely released her Uncensored Interview, a video producer animated film, Sita Sings the Blues under and licensor of musician interviews, is our copyleft license, Attribution-ShareAlike releasing thousands of videos from its (CC BY-SA). Nina’s film retells the classic interview footage archive under our most Indian myth Ramayana and it has already permissive license, Attribution (CC BY). received critical acclaim, including the Previously, Uncensored Interview’s library New York Times and Roger Ebert (who consisted of premium content available gave it two thumbs up). creativecommons.org
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Cover: “Here comes the sun” © 2009. Lairaja. Some Rights Reserved. Except when otherwise noted, this work is licensed under http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ph/ This remixed image is derived from Hamed Masoumi’s “Sunflower,” http://www.flickr.com/photos/hamedmasoumi/1441728579/; Syntopia/Mikael Hvidtfeldt Christensen’s “Sunflower,” http://www.flickr.com/photos/syntopia/3323572242/; Javier Aroche’s “Calcomanía de Creative Commons,” http://www.flickr.com/photos/j_aroche/3355305842/; Joi Ito’s “Nathan Yergler,” http://www.flickr.com/photos/joi/3271927947/; “Zachary Leary,” http://www.flickr. com/photos/joi/3267063668/; “Alex Roberts,” http://www.flickr.com/photos/joi/3274419620/; “Nathan, Kaitlin, Nathan and Catharina, “http://www.flickr.com/photos/joi/3275719412/; “Kaitlin Thaney,” http://www. flickr.com/photos/joi/3274905107/; “Christopher Graves,” http://www.flickr.com/photos/joi/3266206801/; “Ralph Metzner,” http://www.flickr.com/photos/joi/3266225085/; “Mike Linksvayer,” http://www.flickr. com/photos/joi/3273599641/; “John Perry Barlow and Galen Brandt,” http://www.flickr.com/photos/ joi/3267049414/; “Denis Berry greeting Graves brothers,” http://www.flickr.com/photos/joi/3267035758/; “CC Staff,” http://www.flickr.com/photos/joi/3275716012/; “Allison Domicone,” http://www.flickr.com/ photos/joi/3272748508/; “John Perry Barlow,” http://www.flickr.com/photos/joi/3267043090/; “SilviaO,” http://www.flickr.com/photos/joi/3273604791/; “Cameron Parkins,” http://www.flickr.com/photos/ joi/3274906487/; and “Michelle Thorne,” http://www.flickr.com/photos/joi/3274421132/; all under CC BY 2.0.