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Foundation, included in-depth interviews and two
The Google Books Settlement is the copyright story waves of in-person and online focus groups and online
of the year. A Creative Commons license option for questionnaires. The last included a random sample
authors has been added to the amended settlement, of U.S. (geographic restriction mandated by resource
while objections to the settlement have cited Creative constraints) internet users and in an extended form,
Commons. What does the settlement debate imply open questionnaires promoted via our blog. The
about the ways in which copyright is out of sync resulting Defining Noncommercial study report and
with the digital age and how voluntary commons raw data are now published, released under a CC
infrastructure can help? Read more: Attribution (CC BY) license and CC0 public domain
waiver respectively.
http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/19210
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analysis of economic governance, especially the
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The 2009 Nobel Prize in Economics was awarded on Creative Commons makes sharing easy, legal, and
October 12 to Elinor Ostrom and Oliver Williamson scalable. Easy and legal are obvious — what about
for their research on economic governance. Ostrom’s scale? Triggered by a discussion in the blogosphere
award is particularly exciting, for it cites her study at Techdirt and elsewhere, this article explains why
of the commons. Commons? That sounds familiar! standard licenses and public domain tools such as
Ostrom’s pioneering work mostly concerns the those offered by Creative Commons are necessary
governance of common-pool resources — resources to realize the web’s potential for collaboration and
that are rivalrous (i.e., scarce, can be used up, unlike sharing, from Wikipedia and OpenCourseWare to
digital goods) yet need to be or should be governed bands and individual bloggers.
as a commons — classically, things like water systems
and the atmosphere. This work is cited by many Full story:
scholars of non-rivalrous commons (e.g., knowledge http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/17422
commons) as laying the groundwork for their field,
one example being James Boyle in his recent book, ƫ %3 *ƫ 1* $!/ƫ!./%+*ƫăċĀ
The Public Domain. In 2003 Ostrom herself co-
authored with Charlotte Hess a paper contextualizing Creative Commons Taiwan unveiled today Version
knowledge commons and the study of other 3.0 of its jurisdiction-specific licenses. The six
commons: Ideas, Artifacts, and Facilities: Information standard Creative Commons licenses are legally and
as a Common-Pool Resource. It includes a citation of linguistically adapted to Taiwanese law, making it
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Creative Commons, which was just about to launch its easier for local creators to clearly signal the rights
licenses at the time the paper was written. The entire they wish their works to carry. The launch was
paper is an excellent read. Congratulations to Elinor celebrated at the 2009 Open House of the Academia
Ostrom, and to the Nobel Prize committee for making Sinica, the host institution of CC Taiwan. The team’s
an excellent choice, highly relevant in today’s world. Project Manager, Wen-Yin Chou, presented on “Brief
Hopefully, this will be only the first of many grand Introduction of Creative Commons Licenses”, while
prizes for the study of the commons. visitors to the information booth could watch CC
videos, take quizzes about the licenses, and talk with
Full story: the CC Taiwan team throughout the day.
http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/18426
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Almost one year ago we launched a study of how
people understand “noncommercial use.” The study,
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One of Creative Commons’ *0! Čƫ ! +. ƫ .+&! 0Čƫ %'%. 2!(ƫ +ƫ +'+ƫ*+Ě/ƫ( /0% ƫ*+ƫ * ƫ+!/ƫ
core goals is to expand CC BY-SA 3.0
the body of open and free Yoko Ono wants you to remix her track
cultural works available
Demonstrating that June’s migration “The Sun Is Down!” The song’s stems
to the public. This is
accomplished through
of Wikimedia sites to CC Attribution- are released under a CC Attribution-
outreach, advisement, ShareAlike as their main content NonCommercial license (CC BY-NC),
and specific project-based liense was a signal of much greater so you can download the sample pack,
initiatives with individuals interoperability among free and open which includes the track’s vocal effects,
and communities that content projects going forward and loops of bass, drums, sound effects, and
promote a similar not merely an end in itself are recent Tenorion files. Yoko’s also running a
emphasis on community, announcements from the Fedora Project, contest from now until December 12 to
sharing, and innovation. AntWeb, and Wikitravel, all moved or find the 10 best remixes.
This effort is headed by
moving to CC BY-SA 3.0. Each has a
Creative Director
Eric Steuer.
different story as to how and why they Full story:
made the move. Read their stories: http://creativecommons.org/weblog/
entry/18490
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entry/19107 (ƫ 6!!. ƫ(+#/ƫ+ƫ
New CC-licensed Feature-length Films Al Jazeera has just launched the latest
from Sweden and Italy of its online projects called Al Jazeera
Blogs. The website features blog posts
It’s not often that a feature-length CC- written by prominent journalists and
licensed film is produced, so we’re happy correspondents from the global Al
to let you know about two international Jazeera television network. It also hosts
productions: “Nasty Old People” from several sub-blog sections divided by
Swedish director Hanna Sköld and geographical areas, such as Africa,
“Torno Subito” from Italian Simone Asia, Americas, Europe, and the Middle
Damianiunder. “Nasty Old People” East. In addition, Al Jazeera has a blog
was released under our Attribution- focused on international business and
Noncommercial-Share Alike license (CC the ongoing financial crisis. Thanks yet
BY-NC-SA) and Torno Subito is available again to Al Jazeera English’s Head of
under our Attribution-Noncommercial Online, Mohamed Nanabhay, who was
license (CC-BY-NC). What’s great also a key player in getting Al Jazeera’s
about these licenses is that they both CC repository up and running. Check out
allow and encourage legal sharing and Mohamed’s Commoner Letter, written in
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remixing as methods for promotion support of CC’s fundraising campaign:
and to encourage fans to engage. The
results are already beginning to appear: http://creativecommons.org/weblog/
fans of “Nasty Old People” have raised entry/18213
donations amounting to 10% of the
film’s loaned budget, and they’ve also Full story:
created a Portuguese translation of the http://creativecommons.org/weblog/
film’s subtitles. entry/18599
Full story:
http://creativecommons.org/weblog/
entry/18425
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!3ƫ! ( * ƫ * ƫ1/0. (% *ƫ+2!.*)!*0/ƫ When questioned about the future of
.+)+0%*#ƫ,!*ƫ 0 copyright reform, Chopra mentions how
he “embraced the Creative Commons
“There’s a trend going around the world licensing regime” when he worked
for open data,” says Mark Harris, former with the Commonwealth of Virginia to
manager of web standards at the New publish their Flexbook platform. Chopra
Zealand State Services Commission then states that he thinks that it was
and co-organizer of Wellington’s recent this experience that really informs his
Open Govt Data Barcamp and Hackfest. perspective on how intellectual property
He’s right, and New Zealand is certainly should be remixed, shared, and reused.
trailblazing. Last week, Creative
Commons New Zealand reported that Full story:
their national government released an http://creativecommons.org/weblog/
open access and licensing framework entry/17863
draft (NZGOAL) for public feedback.
The framework will enable greater 10 $ƫ1 (% ƫ.+ /0!.ƫƫ!(! /!/ƫ
access to many public sector works by CC-licensed Documentaries
encouraging the New Zealand State
Services agencies to license material for VPRO, a public broadcaster in the
reuse on liberal terms, and recommend Netherlands, has begun releasing
Creative Commons as an important current documentaries under the CC BY-
tool in this process. Meanwhile in NC-SA license. According to Bregtje van
Australia, the Government 2.0 Taskforce der Haak, coordinator of the VPRO’s
announced the MashupAustralia contest Century of the City project, releasing
asking people to show what can be done these documentaries under a Creative
with open public sector information. To Commons license contributes to efforts
help people get started, 59 datasets to better serve the VPRO’s public: “We
from more than 15 different government are producing a lot of documentaries
bodies have been released on data. that are of interest to specialized
australia.gov.au under CC licences communities. In the case of urbanization
(usually Attribution). All this material, this includes architects, urban planners
which spans from the Federal electoral and students. From research we know
boundaries to Powerhouse Museum’s that a growing segment of the VPRO’s
collection database to the locations of audience is watching less and less
Canberra’s public toilets, is now free to television but continues to highly value
be reused, reimagined and repurposed this type of content. By offering content
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by anyone. for download we are increasing the life
cycle of these programs and enabling a
Full stories: whole number of new forms of re-use of
http://creativecommons.org/ our productions. As a public broadcaster
weblog/entry/17352, http://www. we have the obligation to make our
creativecommons.org.au/node/262 productions available to the public in as
flexible a manner as possible.”
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Creative Commons Full story:
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Aneesh Chopra, the US Government’s entry/18128
Chief Technology Officer, recently spoke
on CNET about his thoughts on copyright. 5
CC News in Science
Creative Commons works Sage Concludes Series of Fall Regional For more information on Open Access
to advance CC in the field !!0%*#/ Week and how you can get involved,
of science by designing visit:
strategies and tools for
Importantly, Sage has taken the first
faster, more efficient
steps in its mission to build a ‘Commons’ http://www.openaccessweek.org/
web-enabled scientific
research in the hope of of widely accessible globally-coherent
speeding the translation databases and tools. Sage and Science 0 ƫ$ .%*#Čƫ*0+(+#%!/Čƫ * ƫ/01 .% *ƫ
of data into discovery. Commons, the wing of Creative Research
The wing of Creative Commons dedicated to making the
Commons dedicated to Web work for science, have held public This past November Science Commons’
making the web work for forums in Boston, San Francisco and the Alan Ruttenberg and Kaitlin Thaney were
science is called Science UK to introduce the organization and both featured speakers at “Ecoinformatics
Commons and is led by — Maximizing your data: What can
the concept to researchers, funders, and
Science Vice President
publishers. The enthusiastic reception informatics do for you?” This was a part
John Wilbanks.
has established a foundation for the core of an informatics focused side meeting
working committees that will meet at the called the Salmon Data Access Working
Commons Congress next April. Further Group (SalDAWG) and was part of the
forums and organizational meetings will larger Coastal and Estuarine Research
be held in Beijing and Boston during the Federation’s 20th Biennial Conference.
next several months. Stay tuned for more The event was held at the Convention
on Sage in the coming months. Center in Portland, Oregon. Thaney
kicked off the two-day session, speaking
,!*ƫ !//ƫ!!'ƫ+1* 1, about open science and the legal issues
surrounding, semantics, and technical
John Wilbanks, the Vice President of barriers involved in data sharing.
Science for Creative Commons, gave a Ruttenberg gave a talk about building
series of talks as part of the recent Open ontologies for science, sharing his
Access Week, a global event to raise expertise in biomedical ontologies and
awareness on the need and benefits of the Semantic Web. For more information
Open Access to research. The first of his about the event. presentations, and
talks was a Q&A webinar on repositories background, visit:
and the digital commons, hosted by
the Canadian Association of Research http://www.stateofthesalmon.org/
Libraries. Next was a panel discussion agencypartnerships/portland.html
at the National Center for Atmospheric
Research (NCAR) in Boulder, CO with *0+(+#5ƫ !3/čƫ ƫ Ăƫ ! +))!* ! ƫ
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George Strawn (CIO of the National 5ƫ ăČƫ !3ƫ !/+1. !ƫ +*ƫ +,5.%#$0ƫ
Science Foundation) on revolutions in Considerations
information technology, interoperability,
and “big science.” Along with the panel Important (and exciting) news in the
discussion, NCAR also passed an open world of shared vocabularies at Science
access policy, making it the first of Commons, a key component of our
NSF’s Federally Funded Research and technical work to make knowledge
Development Centers to adopt an OA sharing more efficient. As of last week,
mandate. The last of Wilbanks’ talks OWL 2 — a standard web ontology
for the week was given at Harvard language — was formally recommended
Law School, where he spoke on the by the World Wide Web Consortium
significance of open access to research. (W3C) as part of their Semantic Web
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activity. Science Commons’ Alan addresses post-publication sharing of
Ruttenberg has been diligently working tools and explicitly recommends open
with the OWL working group specifying sharing and the use of CC Zero (CC0) to
OWL 2 at the W3C to push this put data in the public domain. The special
recommendation through. (Ruttenberg is issue of Nature focuses on data sharing
the co-chair with Ian Horrocks at Oxford.) and is now online and accessible free
The W3C says that the transition to OWL of charge. The piece, “Post-publication
2 is a reflection of user experience with sharing of data and tools,” comes out of
OWL, and the need to enable seamless this year’s CASIMIR conference in Rome,
integration and scalability. From the and discusses the sharing of biological
W3C’s announcement: materials, specifically but not limited to
mice and embryonic stem cells.
“[OWL 2] allows people to capture
their knowledge about a particular Full story:
domain (say, energy or medicine) and http://sciencecommons.org/weblog/
then use tools to manage information, archives/2009/09/09/cc0-endorsed-
search through it, and learn more from nature/
it. Furthermore, as an open standard
based on Web technology, it lowers the
cost of merging knowledge from multiple
domains.”
Also, building off of our existing work
around the application of copyright
licenses to content and data, there
is now a resource available at
sciencecommons.org that sheds light on
copyright considerations for ontologies.
We have long been asked what is the
best means to license (or not) ontologies,
a topic that’s not always easy to discern
in terms of applicable rights regimes.
The resource explores when copyright
may apply to an ontology as well as a
number of other concerns regarding
protection and the means to achieve that.
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You can find this resource — “Ontology
Copyright Licensing Considerations” —
in our Reading Room:
http://sciencecommons.org/resources/
readingroom/ontology- copyright-
licensing-considerations
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A new opinion piece in Nature, the
international weekly journal on science, 7
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ccLearn, the education .!, .%*#ƫ +1.ƫ 1 0%+* (ƫ !/+1. !/ƫ Hear more about the innovative ways
wing of Creative Commons "+.ƫ%/ +2!. Mr. Mayo and his class use CC in this
led by Executive Director interview with Jane:
Ahrash Bissell, works with
In July, CC Learn, the wing of Creative
an international community
Commons dedication to bringing CC to http://creativecommons.org/weblog/
of open education
advocates and supporters the education world, officially launched entry/19003
to improve open learning DiscoverEd, a search prototype that
on the internet. Truly provides scalable search and discovery 01 !*0ƫ +1.* (%/)ƫĂċĀƫ '!/ƫûƫ 0ƫ$!ƫ
open learning happens for educational resources on the web. (5ƫ+% !
when learners (you, me, We have since been working with
and everyone else we various organizations and projects We are pleased to announce that The
know) can not only access who want to include their resources in Paly Voice, the student-run newspaper at
educational materials Palo Alto High School in California, the
DiscoverEd, and through all the back
but improve upon them,
and forth about feeds and mark-up — biggest high school journalism program
adapting the resources to
our individual needs and essentially, what’s required to get your in the U.S., has officially integrated CC
local contexts, without the stuff included for greater discovery — we licenses. This is the result of much hard
restrictions imposed by realized we could streamline the process work on the part of ccLearn (the education
standard copyright laws. by putting some necessary information wing of Creative Commons), which
Through openly licensed into a brief document. We came up with recently launched Student Journalism
educational materials, also Preparing Your Educational Resources 2.0, a pilot project to bring Creative
known as open educational for DiscoverEd, the second in a series Commons and the power of new media
resources (OER), we can into high school journalism classes. We
of CC Learn Step by Step Guides. We
collaborate across state
encourage individuals or institutions look forward to what are sure to be
lines and country borders,
discovering opportunities interested in making their digitally many more student journalism success
for partnerships we never published educational resources more stories to come out of this innovative new
knew existed. discoverable to check it out: project!
http://creativecommons.org/weblog/ Full story:
entry/19051 http://creativecommons.org/weblog/
entry/18565
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with Lawrence Lessig $!ƫ,!* ƫƫ+))1*%05čƫ 1 %+*ƫ
y Comunidad
A few weeks ago, CC Learn’s Jane Park
had the chance to talk to George Mayo A recent highlight from the Open
(known as Mr. Mayo to his students), a Education community is OpenEd in
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middle school Language Arts teacher Spanish, aka the OpenEd ES Community.
in Maryland. Mr. Mayo was brought OpenEd is a community site, produced
to CC Learn’s attention by Lawrence by the education arm of CC, ccLearn,
Lessig, CC’s founder and current board for anyone interested in open education
member, who Skyped with Mr. Mayo’s or Open Educational Resources (OER),
class for thirty minutes, answering especially for those who want to develop
questions on copyright, YouTube’s take- their own mini-communities on the site.
down policy and downloading music. Mr. CC Latam and ccLearn have collaborated
Mayo and his class have integrated CC to localize OpenED for the ES Community,
licensed works into their daily activities, including translating and adapting the
documenting it all at mrmayo.org. events, resources, and ODEPO pages.
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Our hope is that the Spanish speaking ,!*ƫ 1 0%+* (ƫ!/+1. !/čƫ * #%*#ƫ
community around OER, including * +), 0% (!ƫ+*0!*0ƫ%*ƫ
Latam, will grow and thrive within its
native language. OpenEd ES is part of Gaining a deeper understanding of
a greater effort to make visible all of the the ways in which copyright exceptions
interesting work being done in various function globally and how these
languages around the world. We hope exceptions interact with open licensing
other linguistic communities will see fit to is an important move for the OER
build a home on OpenEd as well! community. The education wing of
Creative Commons, ccLearn, hopes to
+.!ƫ%*"+čƫ lead the way in this effort. At the OpenEd
http://creativecommons.org/weblog/ conference in Vancouver in August,
entry/18784 ccLearn’s General Counsel, Lila Bailey,
presented a paper entitled “Otherwise
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Latin America Now Available in OER,” which outlines this problem in
detail. The final published version of that
Last year “Latam Commons 2008: Public paper is now available. We encourage
Domain, Creative Commons, and Open you to check it out and provide
Education” was the first meeting of CC feedback.
leads in Latin America, and also the first
meeting of its kind to focus specifically Full story:
on open education and OER. The fruits http://creativecommons.org/weblog/
of the meeting have shown themselves entry/17240
over time, as Latin America has been
working towards greater openness
in education and otherwise, with our
very own Carolina Botero joining as a
ccLearn liaison for that region of the
Spanish-speaking world. Now, the
particular results of that first meeting
are recorded for the first time, in both
English and Spanish, in a report entitled
“Open Education: First meeting of CC
leads in Latin America.” The report was
a joint production of CC Latin America
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and ccLearn, and is licensed under an
Attribution (CC BY) license so it can be
further translated into other languages.
We encourage you to check it out!
Full story:
http://creativecommons.org/weblog/
entry/17815
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Allison Domicone
Art Direction
Alex Roberts
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