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http://creativecommons.org Issue No. 12 April 2009
A lex R ob er t s. “M elis sa
Reeder.” CC-BY 3.0
Dear Creative Commoner,
CC Newsletter - Issue No. 12
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
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
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Best,
Melissa Reeder
Development Manager
Creative Commons
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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
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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
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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 <http://gt.creativecommons.org/>
around the world,
Creative Commons Korea Association
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involving both linguistically
translating the licenses and and welcomed 17 new volunteers with CC and free culture continue to gain
legally adapting them to an orientation session to gain a better momentum in the Arab world
particular jurisdictions. This understanding of CC values and ongoing As CC Jordan continues to publicly discuss
work is lead by International domestic projects. As an organization run the first Version 3.0 draft of CC licenses
Director Catharina Maracke entirely by a community of volunteers, in Arabic, and with the release of Al
and volunteer teams in their new energy is expected to bring a Jazeera’s Gaza footage under CC BY, the
each jurisdiction who are a renewed vitality to CC Korea’s future Arab World is poised for greater adoption
committed to introducing
projects. of open ideals. In Saudi Arabia, King
CC to their country.
<http://www.creativecommons.or.kr/> Abdullah created the Initiative for Arabic
Digital Content, which earlier this year
RiP: A remix manifesto held a two-day workshop on “Open Arabic
CC Canada is thrilled to announce Content” in Riyadh, with CC legal expert
the premiere of RiP: A remix manifesto, Rami Olwan from Jordan in attendance to
written and directed by Canadian Web discuss the licensing system. Ziad Maraqa,
4 activist and filmmaker Brett Gaylor and co-Project Lead from CC Jordan, spoke
produced by the National Film Board of in early February in Damascus at the
Canada. RiP explores issues of copyright iCommunity FOSS Workshop, a notable
in the information age, mashing up the gathering for the Syrian Free Software
media landscape of the 20th century community. The Creative Commons
and shattering the wall between users Al Jazeera Forum held on March 14 in
and producers. A participatory media Doha, Qatar was also a great success at
experiment from day one, Brett shares his spreading awareness and dialogue about
raw footage at opensourcecinema.org for CC. The forum was broadcast live on the
anyone to remix. Al Jazeera version of C-SPAN, and CEO
< h t t p : / / w w w. c r e a t i v e c o m m o n s . Joi Ito moderated a panel about Creative
c a/ bl og/ 2009/ 03/0 9 /r i p - a- r e m i x- Commons. With initiatives like these,
manifesto-toronto/> and given the upcoming launch of the
Jordan CC licenses, other jurisdictions
Guatemala’s first BarCamp a are ready to follow suit. There is still much
success translation and outreach to be done, so
Guatemala held its first-ever BarCamp if you would like to get involved, send
on March 14. It was a huge success, an email to <info@creativecommongs.
bringing together many of the most org> addressed to Donatella Della Ratta,
active members of the iCommunity in our Arab World Media and Development
Guatemala, in addition to members Manager.
of the ccGuatemala team, who helped
organize the event. Widespread support CC Case Studies Book: Remix, Reuse
for Creative Commons in the country and Recycle
is growing, and many of the event’s Many of you will already have seen
sponsors and speakers are advocates and Building an Australasian Commons:
Creative Commons Case Studies Volume Athens and organized by the National
I, the stunning publication launched Documentation Centre (NDC) of Greece
late last year by Creative Commons and the National Hellenic Research
Australia (CCau). The book, edited by Foundation (NHRF). CC Board Member
Rachel Cobcroft, highlights 60 exemplary Michael Carroll’s is in English; Dionysia
CC-licensed users in Australasia and Kallinikou’s, Marinos Papadopoulos’ &
worldwide, discussing their motivations Theodoros Karounos’ are available in
and licensing business models - all under Greek:
an an Attribution (CC BY) license. • h t t p : / / w w w. o p e n a c c e s s . g r /
conference2008/speakers/index.dot
The exciting news is that Building • http://www.marinos.com.gr/bbpdf/
an Australasian Commons is now pdfs/EIE_15.Dec.08_Dionysia.pdf
available from the CCau website • http://www.marinos.com.gr/bbpdf/
(http://creativecommons.org.au/ pdfs/EIE_15.Dec.08_Marinos.pdf
casestudiesvol1) in digestible booklets,
each focusing on a specific field: visual The latest from Creative Commons
arts, audio, text, moving images, Puerto Rico
government, education, and research. CC Puerto Rico (CC PR), under the
This makes it simple for people to print off supervision of Co-Project Lead Chloé
and distribute those parts of the publication S. Georas, recently developed a CC PR
that interest them, or that are relevant to section for the Pro Bono Program of the
their meeting, conference, workshop, etc. University of Puerto Rico Law School,
CCau has also made the source files of the wherein students prepared educational 5
entire publication available for download materials (e.g. CD tutorials, brochures,
-- prime for remixing. So why not make PowerPoint) and gave presentations at
your own booklets, fact sheets or hand “Gráfica del Caribe” on March 13-14,
outs tailored to your region, industry or 2009, the most important graphic arts
event? If you do, let CCau know at info@ commercial fair in the Caribbean,
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creativecommons.org.au and they’ll be attracting over 3,000 participants. Chloé
added to the official CC case studies S. Georas been actively spreading the
collection. word about CC by giving over a dozen
presentations to various institutions and
You can also contribute new case writing the script of a one-hour episode
studies and improve existing ones on about CC PR for Emmy Award-winning
the CC case studies wiki at http://wiki. public television program on Spanish
creativecommons.org/Casestudies language arts and culture, “En la punta
de la lengua,” released on October
New online resources available 16, 2008. In addition, two articles on
from Creative Commons Greece Creative Commons, one by Project Lead
(CC-GR) Hiram Meléndez and the other by Chloé
The Greek Research & Technology S. Georas, have appeared in two of Puerto
Network s.a. has published an eloquently Rico’s legal publications.
illustrated four-page brochure for CC
licenses in Greece. The brochure was
created by legal and technical experts
Marinos Papadopoulos (Legal Lead, CC-
GR), Galatia Kapellakou, and Theodoros
Karounos. Soft copies of the brochure are
also available online (in Greek) on the CC
GR site: http://www.creativecommons.gr
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
faster, more efficient web-
On February 10, 2009, Creative are those of the digital commons, and we
enabled scientific research Commons, in collaboration with Nike are very excited to be working with our new
and Best Buy, announced a new project partners to help them overcome “failed
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in the hope of speeding
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 <http://sciencecommons.org/
called Science Commons
projects/greenxchange>
and is led by Vice President
GreenXchange draws on the experience
John Wilbanks.
of Creative Commons in creating “some
rights reserved” regimes for artists,
musicians, scientists, and educators,
but also on the hard-won successes of
patent “commons” projects like the Linux
Patent Commons, the BIOS project, Sage: a new nonprofit dedicated to
FreePatentsOnline and the Eco-Patent growing the commons
6 Commons. We will examine how best Merck & Co., Inc., a global research-
to reconstruct the academic research driven pharmaceutical company, recently
exemption eliminated in the United States announced the formation of Sage, a non-
in the Madey v. Duke case, how to extend profit entity through which it will donate
that exemption to corporate research, a large amount of data and software to
how private contract systems can be the commons, the body of work available
used to construct a commons for use in to the public for free and legal sharing,
sustainability. There is also a technical use, repurposing, and remixing. Sage will
component - we are very interested in be the home of an open access disease
how tools like ccMixter and the semantic biology platform based on the work
web will allow for new methods of previously done at Rosetta Inpharmatics
tracking use and re-use of patents and and will be led by Stephen Friend and
integration of shared patents into climate Eric Schadt, two leading thinkers in
and sustainability model. biotechnology. Sage will be hosted at a
set of major US research universities,
including UCSF, University of Washington,
and Yale University. Science Commons is
working with Sage on its sharing strategies
and governance plans. John Wilbanks,
Vice President of Science, has joined the
GreenXchange is very much an Sage Board of Directors at the founding
exploratory project. Our goal is to of the organization.
stimulate innovation in the operational
space by increasing research use and
rights through the “some rights reserved”
model, and to extend the model itself all
CC Zero and scientific data:
opening up possibilities
Two early adopters of the CC0 waiver
related to scientific databases are Tranche
and the Personal Genome Project (“PGP”).
Tranche is a free and open source data
sharing tool for sharing large sets of
scientific data. PGP is an effort to sequence
and interpret genes at an individual level
(“personal genomics”) to help individuals
better understand their personal disease
risk profiles, biological characteristics,
and ancestry. Tranche will offer CC0 as
a default option for sharing scientific
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data sets. PGP, in addition to releasing a
significant data set at the launch of CC0,
is planning to release all future genomic
data under CC0. This is great news for
scientific and medical research, and we
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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
Hewlett Foundation is not only our biggest to give brief overviews and instructions
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advocates and supporters
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
Truly open learning happens Bissell, presented on Licensing and OER, to putting your educational materials
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
them, adapting the resources
8 to our individual needs and
“Permission granted: open licensing for production of OER.
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 <www.informaworld.com/smpp/content for properly specifying terms of use
educational materials, also ~content=a909092757~db=all~order (TOU) and copyright licenses for any
known as open educational =page> site hosting OER.
resources (OER), we can
collaborate across state Open Ed Community Site In addition, we are working on a very
lines and country borders, We also had a chance to demo the new basic ccLearn Step by Step Guide:
discovering opportunities Open Ed Community Site during the OER Applying Creative Commons Licenses to
for partnerships we never
Showcase at the start of the conference. Your Educational Resources.
knew existed.
The Open Ed site was built in the hope
that it will serve as the landing space for These productions are available on
everyone interested in open education, our website for you to view, print, and
from the experienced OER community at disseminate. What’s more, we encourage
large to teachers, learners, and those who you to improve, alter, or translate
simply want to find out more. The site will them, as they are all licensed under the
feature events, news, projects, persons, permissive Attribution license (CC BY).
and more. We encourage you to check Please check the ccLearn site periodically
out the beta version, online now: <http:// for new resources and job opportunities,
opened.creativecommons.org> or subscribe to the ccLearn blog, mailing
list, or twitter/identi.ca feeds!
<http://learn.creativecommons.org/
communicate>
CC News in Arts and Culture
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
cultural works available
On March 4, Attributor launched compression format. Under CC-BY, users
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
headed by Creative Director
parts of your works have been used, with
Eric Steuer.
or without attribution to you. This should CC Portal now available from
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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
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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).
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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
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Kaitlin, Nathan and Catharina, “http://www.flickr.com/photos/joi/3275719412/; “Kaitlin Thaney,” http://www.
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joi/3267049414/; “Denis Berry greeting Graves brothers,” http://www.flickr.com/photos/joi/3267035758/;
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