Category Archives: creative commons

Google Books adds Creative Commons licenses

August 18, 2009 – 3:39 pm

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Online book depository, Google Books, has launched an initiative that it hopes will help authors and publishers discover new audiences for books they’ve made available for free under Creative Commons (CC) licenses.
Rightsholders who want to distribute their CC-licensed books more widely can now choose to allow readers around the world to download, use and share [...]

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Creative Commons Licences

March 24, 2009 – 12:46 pm

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The purpose of this briefing paper is to provide JISC-funded projects, as well as content creators and others within higher (HE) and further education (FE) institutions, with information that can be used to make judgements as to when the use of open content licences, particularly CC licences, may be appropriate

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What status for “open”?

December 19, 2008 – 10:22 am

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An examination of the licensing policies of open educational organizations and projects
A Report to The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation. December 2008.

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Australian Bureau of Statistics to release material under Creative Commons

December 9, 2008 – 8:43 am

Creative Commons provides a spectrum of licensing for the use of intellectual property between full copyright and public domain – in essence ’some rights reserved’. The ABS is poised to introduce Creative Commons licensing for the majority of its web content.
The relevant Creative Commons logo (which will link to the Attribution 2.5 Australia Licence) will [...]

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“Science Commons” – a short video by Jesse Dylan

December 9, 2008 – 6:51 am

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Supporting the Coommons: Jesse Dylan and Richard Bookman
December 8th, 2008 by Kaitlin Thaney
Today, we are proud to announce the release of Science Commons’ first informational video. The video was directed by renowned director Jesse Dylan, the director of the Emmy- award winning “Yes We Can” Barack Obama campaign video with musical artist will.i.am from [...]

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The Public Domain: Enclosing the Commons of the Mind

December 1, 2008 – 2:16 pm

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James Boyle, The Public Domain: Enclosing the Commons of the Mind, released November 17, 2008 by Yale University Press. Boyle is a professor at Duke Law School and chairman of Creative Commons. The book is also available OA as a CC-licensed download.
source: OAN

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CREATIVE COMMONS LICENSING

November 24, 2008 – 7:39 am

nbsp;http://www.dcc.ac.uk/resource/legal-watc…
By Mags McGinley, University of Edinburgh
INTRODUCTION
HOW DO THE LICENCES OPERATE?
RELEVANCE TO DIGITAL CURATION
FURTHER CONSIDERATIONS
ADDITIONAL RESOURCES

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U of Michigan Library Adopts CC Licenses

October 20, 2008 – 1:06 pm

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Jane Park, October 16th, 2008
In another innovative move, the University of Michigan Library has adopted CC licensing for all of its own content. Any work that is produced by the library itself, and to which the University of Michigan holds the copyrights, will be released under the Creative Commons Attribution Noncommercial license (CC BY-NC). This [...]

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