Share, Reuse, Remix — Legally N E W S L E T T E R http://creativecommons.org Issue No. 14 September 2009 “Sitting on my meditation rock ” by Mizuka CC- BY 2.0 http://www.flickr.com/ photos/joi/477844668/ Dear Creative Commoner, Over the last year, we have added a broad spectrum of new users such as the US White House, Wikipedia, Ridley Scott, Merck, Nike, YouTube and Al Jazeera. While the vast majority of people still don’t know about Creative Commons licenses, the community of supporters and users has reached a threshold of adoption where we can now legitimately call CC a global standard. As custodians of a global standard that continues to add new users in broader geographies, fields, size and numbers, our responsibility to make sure that everything works properly and that we are providing sufficient support to the users becomes our central role. We need to shift the balance of our organization from being mostly focused on promoting the idea of sharing to becoming custodians of a global standard which many organizations depend on every day. In order to properly work with the new range of constituents, we have decided to flatten the organization. This will serve to increase bandwidth and allow the global community to be more directly involved in projects as well as participate in the management of Creative Commons. This flattening will fold the international process, formally a separate effort spearheaded by International Director Catharina Maracke, into each project and initiative of Creative Commons, so that jurisdiction porting, communication, and outreach will now be a central focus of CC’s work in the realms of science, education, and culture. I have asked every staff member and project within Creative Commons to become international, rather than relying on an international spearhead to intermediate every contact. With the growing responsibility and complexity of our job, I am very happy to have such a thoughtful and active community of supporters. We need your help more than ever and hope that you can share in our successes as well as our challenges. CC Newsletter – Issue No. 14 Sincerely, Joi Ito Chief Executive Officer Creative Commons This newsletter is licensed under http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ Please share and remix! 2 Breaking News Google Image Search Wikimedia wikis to take advantage of this migration opportunity is ongoing, Implements CC License and one very important milestone was Filtering reached June 19, when most wikis hosted by Wikia (there are thousands) Google has officially launched the ability converted to CC BY-SA. to filter search results using Creative Commons licenses inside their Image Full story: Search tool. ht tp: //cre ative co m m o n s .o rg /we b lo g / entry/15411 Creative Commons Network “A Truly Inspirational It is now easy to restrict your Image Approach” Search results to find images which Have you heard of the Creative have been tagged with our licenses, Commons Network? It’s a special so that you can find content from service we offer that includes an across the web that you can share, use, OpenID profile where you can identify and even modify. Searches are also your CC-licensed works. capable of returning content under other licenses, such as the GNU Free Documentation License, or images that are in the public domain. To filter by CC search, go to Google’s advanced Image Search page and select the options you’d like in the “Usage rights” section. Your results will be restricted to images marked with CC licenses or other compatibly licensed photos. Full story: Chris Messina recently wrote about ht tp: //cre ative co m m o n s .o rg /we b l o g / CC Newsletter – Issue No. 14 the benefits of becoming part of the entry/15691 CC Network and getting an OpenID, and we were honored by his kind and Wikipedia Officially Converts eloquent words. From his post: “What better way to both support Creative To CC BY–SA Commons and show off your patronage The entire English Wikipedia and other than by identifying yourself across the Wikimedia sites are now licensed under web with your very own unique, secure, a Creative Commons Attribution Share privacy-protecting creativecommons.net Alike license (CC BY-SA), following OpenID? For a mere $50 minimum a community vote and approval by donation ($25 for students), you the Wikimedia Foundation board can own a limited edition URL and 3 members. The outreach effort to non- profile from Creative Commons that identifies you to the world and provides The new initiative makes it easy for a compelling revenue opportunity for the participants in Google Books’ Partner non-profit foundation. Program to mark their books with one of the six Creative Commons licenses (or While companies like SAP become the CC0 waiver). This gives authors and OpenID providers for pedestrian publishers a simple way to articulate the reasons like simplifying authentication permissions they have granted to the across their many different distributed public through a CC license, while giving web properties, Creative Commons is people a clear indication of the legal redistributing the brand equity and social rights they have to CC-licensed works capital their members have accrued over found through Google Books. the last several years by letting people show and verify their affiliation to the Full story: organization. With this simple example, http://creativecommons.org/weblog/ we can start to see the symbiosis of entry/16823 making an intentional choice about identity: Creative Commons finds a new revenue opportunity and members of Anne Wojcicki and Sergey the community have a way to express Brin Support CC with their affiliation and promote the brand.” $500,000 Gift You can also check out Read Write Web’s take on CC Network, following Creative Commons is honored to have up on Messina’s post: http://www. received an incredibly generous gift of readwriteweb.com/archives/creative_ $500,000 from 23andMe co-founder commons_launches_cc_openid_profile. Anne Wojcicki and Google co-founder Sergey Brin. We are delighted that the Full story: couple recognizes the importance of http://creativecommons.org/weblog/ Creative Commons and has decided to entry/16609 invest in our work to support sharing, collaboration, and the spread of Creative Commons Network: knowledge and creativity. This gift – made in addition to the financial support CC Newsletter – Issue No. 14 https://creativecommons.net/ that Google offers CC annually – will Chris Messina’s full post: be used to support Creative Commons http://factoryjoe.com/blog/2009/08/05/ generally, with a focus on developing openid-the-unseen-branded-revenue- our Science Commons project, which opportunity/ Wojcicki and Brin are particularly excited about. Google Books Adds Creative Full story: Commons License Options http://creativecommons.org/weblog/ entry/17209 On August 13, Google launched a program to enable rights holders to make 4 their Creative Commons-licensed books available for the public to download, use, remix, and share via Google Books. CC News / Arts & Culture WisconsinView Dedicates Picasa Adds CC Search One of Creative Commons’ core goals is to expand 6+ Terabytes of Data to The Picasa Web Albums, Google’s photo the body of open and free album service, now allows you to narrow Public Domain your search to include only CC-licensed cultural works available to the public. This is accomplished WisconsinView, an effort to make photos, making it easier to find photos through outreach, available a variety of types of imagery to share and remix. It’s one thing to advisement, and specific for the state of Wisconsin, will now enable your community to select a CC project-based initiatives with make their data available in the public license for their work, but it’s another individuals and communities domain via CC0 (CC Zero). From the thing entirely to help the rest of the web that promote a similar press release: discover that content. Picasa’s commons emphasis on community, “Since 2004, WisconsinView has community will surely benefit from this sharing, and innovation. This made aerial photography and satellite kind of exposure, so thanks to Picasa for effort is headed by Creative imagery of Wisconsin available to enabling such a valuable feature. Director Eric Steuer. the public for free over the web. As part of the AmericaView consortium, Full story: WisconsinView supports access and use ht tp: //cre ative co m m o n s .o rg /we b l o g / of these imagery collections through entry/15130 education, workforce development, and research. Starting June 30, 2009, WisconsinView is making available all GOOD: “We Like To Share” of its more than 6 Terabytes of imagery Interview Series data under the new CC0 Protocol provided by Creative Commons.” Learn more about CC0 at http:// This past December, Creative Director creativecommons.org/publicdomain Eric Steuer conducted a series of interviews with people about the value Ridley Scott To Use CC BY– of sharing information and resources in their respective fields of work. The SA For Blade Runner Web interviews were edited into a podcast Series for GOOD entitled “We Like to Share” that was made available to people who CC Newsletter – Issue No. 14 Ridley Scott, the famed SciFi director attended the GOOD December series of of the classic Blade Runner will be events in Los Angeles. Last week, GOOD producing a new web series based began posting CC BY-licensed text on the film, released under our free versions of the interviews on its website copyleft license, Attribution-ShareAlike and will roll out one a week over the next (CC BY-SA). The series is initially slated few months. The first interview is with for web release with the possibility of Chris Hughes, one of the co-founders of television syndication, and will be a Facebook, who was the online strategist project by Ag8. for the Barack Obama campaign. Check back at “We Like to Share” each Thursday Full story: to read interviews with iconic sharers ht tp: //cre ative co m m o n s .o rg /we b l o g / like Jimmy Wales, Chris DiBona, Frances entry/14940 Pinter, Jesse Dylan, and Curt Smith. 5 http://www.good.is/series/we-like-to-share International News Creative Commons works Vietnam Opens National allow interoperability between different to “port” the core Creative flexible content copyright licenses. This Commons Licenses License Draft for Discussion structure has opened doors for important to different copyright CC Vietnam has released its first license adopters, such as the Wikipedia legislations around the draft and is inviting the Vietnamese community and Wikimedia Foundation, world. The porting process and international community to join who recently approved the adoption involves both linguistically in reviewing it. The goal of the license of the Creative Commons Attribution- translating the licenses and porting, coordinated by Creative ShareAlike 3.0 (CC BY-SA) license as the legally adapting them to Commons International, is to legally and main content license for Wikipedia and particular jurisdictions. linguistically adapt the CC licensing suite other Wikimedia sites. to national law. That way, creators enjoy This work is led by CC additional legal certainty while better Full story: General Counsel Diane understanding the license terms in their ht tp: //cre ative co m m o n s .o rg /we b lo g / Peters with Project own language. National CC projects rely entry/15990 Manager Michelle Thorne on content creators and license users and volunteer teams in worldwide to give feedback to improve each jurisdiction who are local legal tools and build a strong CC Ireland Discusses Version committed to introducing community. Please consider weighing 3.0 of CC Licenses CC to their country and who in on CC Vietnam’s drafting efforts by On behalf of CC Ireland, we are pleased consult extensively with subscribing to their mailing list. to announce that the draft of CC BY- members of the public and NC-SA adapted to Irish law is now in key stakeholders in an effort Full story: public discussion. The CC Ireland team, to adapt the CC licenses to ht tp: //cre ative co m m o n s .o rg /we b lo g / lead by Dr. Darius Whelan and Louise their jurisdiction. entry/15740 Crowley and hosted at the University College Cork, has been working with Creative Commons to port the licenses Poland’s Version 3.0 Licenses to local copyright legislation. The public Now Online discussion is a key part of Creative Commons’ license porting project. It is an opportunity for you, content creators and license users, to engage in the drafting process and give your input on this collaborative effort. CC Newsletter – Issue No. 14 We invite you to join CC Ireland’s discussion list: http://lists.ibiblio.org/ mailman/listinfo/cc-ie/ or visit their website and share your comments with local and international legal experts: CC Poland, one of the earliest jurisdictions h t t p : // w w w. u c c . i e / l a w/ i r i s h l a w/ to found a national Creative Commons creativecommons/ project, has released its set of Poland- specific licenses at Version 3.0, Creative Full story: Commons’ most current license version. ht tp: //cre ative co m m o n s .o rg /we b lo g / 6 entry/14958 The upgrade is significant for several reasons, one being that Version 3.0 encompasses our long-held vision of establishing a compatibility structure to CC News in Science Sage Launched In July How Can IP Help Spread Creative Commons works to advance CC in the field Sage, the non-profit entity formed out Green Technology? of science by designing of Merck & Co, Inc, formally launched in A recent feature in SEED Magazine strategies and tools for July. Through Sage, Merck will donate a asks the question: How can intellectual faster, more efficient web- large amount of data and software to the property – and more specifically the enabled scientific research commons, the body of work available to current patent system – spread green in the hope of speeding the public for free and legal sharing, use, technology? The article, “Who Owns the translation of data into repurposing, and remixing. Green Tech?” features replies from five discovery. The wing of leading thinkers on the matter. Our own Creative Commons dedicated John Wilbanks, Creative Commons’ VP to making the web work for of Science, was one of those panelists. science is called Science In his response, Wilbanks challenges Commons and is led by Vice the public to not view this conversation President John Wilbanks. of innovation as a black and white Sage is the home of an open access situation, but to make room for new disease biology platform based on forms of innovation in the discussion the work previously done at Rosetta (ie., user-driven innovation, open Inpharmatics and will be led by Stephen innovation). This idea is at the core of Friend and Eric Schadt, two leading the GreenXchange project, a venture by thinkers in biotechnology. Sage is Creative Commons, Nike and Best Buy hosted at a set of major US research to create a marketplace for invention. universities, including UCSF, University of Washington, and Yale University. Full story: Science Commons, the science wing of h t t p: //s c i e n ce co m m o n s . o r g /we b l o g / CC, is working with Sage on its sharing archives/2009/07/31/how-can-ip-help- strategies and governance plans. Stay spread-green-technology/ tuned, as great things are sure to come out of Sage in the coming months! http://www.sagebase.org/ “Making the Web Work for CC Newsletter – Issue No. 14 Science” Video Now Online John Wilbanks, CC’s Vice President, Science, appeared as a panelist at a San Francisco Commonwealth Club event in July, along with Stephen Friend (Sage) and Jimmy Wales (Wikipedia); the panel was moderated by Tim O’Reilly and focused on the theme “Making the Web Work for Science,” exploring ideas of how to bring Web efficiencies to scientific research, a core theme seen in 7 the work of Science Commons. You can now watch the video online: http://www.vimeo.com/6087817 CC News in Education ccLearn, the education Launch of two new resources OER and CC networks, fostering greater wing of Creative Commons collaboration among projects as well as led by Executive Director for Open Education: OpenEd, greater awareness of their important Ahrash Bissell, works with an DiscoverEd work. Carolina will also develop reports international community of about prior regional activities (such as We are happy to announce the launch open education advocates the Latam Commons 2008 meeting in of two new resources for educators and supporters to improve Chile last year) as well as forward-looking and learners interested in Open open learning on the internet. documents about future events and Educational Resources: OpenEd and Truly open learning happens opportunities throughout the region. DiscoverEd. OpenEd is a new open when learners (you, me, and education community site, hosted at everyone else we know) can Full story: http://opened.creativecommons.org. not only access educational ht tp: //cre ative co m m o n s .o rg /we b lo g / It is designed for teachers, learners, or materials but improve upon entry/15951 anyone looking to get involved, so we them, adapting the resources encourage you to check it out and, since to our individual needs and local contexts, without the it is a wiki, to start contributing today! Launch of Inside OER DiscoverEd is an education search engine restrictions imposed by prototype that is now up and running at and Comic standard copyright laws. http://discovered.creativecommons. ccLearn is proud to announce the Through openly licensed org. It is designed to provide scalable launch of Inside OER (acronym for Open educational materials, also search and discovery for educational Educational Resources), which is a full known as open educational resources on the web, but is still in a suite of interviews with movers and resources (OER), we can very experimental phase; please help us shakers in the open education world, all collaborate across state out by providing your feedback so we available for redistribution and remix. lines and country borders, can continue to improve it. The latest Inside OER, an interview with discovering opportunities for IssueLab’s Lisa Brooks on opening up partnerships we never knew More info on OpenEd: research, has been re-crafted into an existed. ht tp: //cre ative co m m o n s .o rg /we b lo g / engaging and entertaining comic, so be entry/15467 sure to check it out, share, and remix! More info on DiscoverEd: http://learn.creativecommons.org/projects/ ht tp: //cre ative co m m o n s .o rg /we b lo g / inside-oer entry/15486 CC Newsletter – Issue No. 14 Open Educational Resources in Latin America We are thrilled to welcome Carolina Botero, project lead for CC Colombia, as ccLearn’s regional liaison for the exciting projects in open education in Latin America and the Spanish-speaking world. Carolina will be working with ccLearn (the education wing of Creative Commons) staff to document existing 8 projects and initiatives related to open educational resources throughout the region. We anticipate that this work will extend the size and impact of the creativecommons.org We rely on our supporters to continue our work enabling stories like those listed above. 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