New Land New Rules : Protection + Promotion
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New Land New Rules : Protection + Promotion

by Max Kaizen on Apr 26, 2011 • No Comments
Creative Commons provides free-to-use legal tools to both protect your creative works as an artist, scientist, author or educator ..and to enhance its promotion on the Internet, and beyond. “The infrastructure we provide consists of a set of copyright licenses and tools that create a balance inside the traditional “all...
What is Creative Commons anyway?
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What is Creative Commons anyway?

by Max Kaizen on Apr 25, 2011 • No Comments
21st Century Copyright for Digital Citizens The idea of universal access to research, education, and culture is made possible by the Internet, but our legal and social systems don’t always allow that idea to be realized. Copyright was created long before the emergence of the Internet, and can make it...
Shared Research + Shared Tools = Science Commons
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Shared Research + Shared Tools = Science Commons

by Max Kaizen on Apr 25, 2011 • No Comments
The Science Commons “At Creative Commons, we believe scientific data should be freely available to everyone. We call this idea Open Data. Creative Commons legal tools can be used to make data and databases freely available. We’ve already had successful implementations in taxonomic, energy, genomics, disease research, geospatial, polar, and...
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Warsaw: Global Summit
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Warsaw: Global Summit

by Kelsey Wiens on Sep 28, 2011 • No Comments
Some highlights from the 2011 Creative Commons Global Summit   First save up your bandwidth for 40min of amazing tunes from the Usta Concert Global Party at the Zacheta Art Gallery. Berglind Osk Bergsdottir: Global Summit Recap She has some great quotes from the conference “Websites or only our tools, creative innovation is the goal”...
What is Creative Commons?
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What is Creative Commons?

by Natalie Govender on Sep 15, 2011 • No Comments
Creative Commons offers a legal alternative to extend copyright. It’s a simple, standardized way to grant copyright permission from individual creators to large companies and institutions as to their creative work. The Creative Commons licenses enable people to easily change their copyright terms from the default of “all rights reserved” to “some rights reserved.” Which...
CC OER Hero: Mark Horner
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CC OER Hero: Mark Horner

by Kelsey Wiens on Sep 11, 2011 • No Comments
Physicist turned Open and Collaborative Resources champion, Shuttleworth Fellow Dr Mark Horner is beyond busy.  Mark co-developed Free High School Science Text (FHSST)  in 2002. FHSST aims to provide free science and mathematics textbooks for Grades 10 to 12 science learners in South Africa. Mark and co-developer Sam Halliday were post-grad students at UCT when they struck on...
Who loves CC? Photographer André van Rooyen loves CC
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Who loves CC? Photographer André van Rooyen loves CC

by Kelsey Wiens on Sep 11, 2011 • No Comments
I fell in LOVE with Andre photography of the Western Cape, then I saw his pics of the Karoo and nearly died but when I discovered he’s a member of the CC tribe already, I loved him with heat of a 1000 suns. While it’s often easy to celebrate the famous CC stories it’s important...
When Patents Attack!
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When Patents Attack!

by Kelsey Wiens on Sep 11, 2011 • No Comments
  One of my favourite podcasts is This American Life (TAL) from National Public Radio in the US. It’s a one-hour weekly radio show hosted by the charming and highly crush worthily Ira Glass. Recently TAL dedicated an entire episode to patents. Or more accurately to the disruptive nature of patents and patent trolls. US Patents were originally intended to support...
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Ted Talks we love: or how Chris Brown made it back to itunes top 10

by Kelsey Wiens on Sep 11, 2011 • No Comments
We watch a lot of TED. The reason we all can watch a lot of TED is because TED licences their videos under CC BY-NC-ND 3.0.  I can’t imagine a world without TEDTalks. My education would have stopped the moment I took off the square cap and gown, there would be a lot less discussion at...
Competition: Share your Design Genius Globally
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Competition: Share your Design Genius Globally

by Max Kaizen on Aug 14, 2011 • No Comments
Don’t worry if your Japanese isn’t up to speed, just select English in the upper right corner. Click on the pic to discover how to get in on having your creative brilliance on display through the powerful CC community and most particularly, celebrating the freedom of open culture at the Global Summit in Warsaw in...
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Creative Commons for local creators

by Max Kaizen on Apr 25, 2011 • No Comments
“Whether you’re a photographer, writer, filmmaker, or DJ, our licenses can help make your work part of the commons. The Internet is a multiplier of cultural innovation. Creative Commons copyright licenses make it easier for individual creators of culture to express themselves and to identify the freedoms they want their creativity to carry on the...
Shared Culture : it's a human thing
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Shared Culture : it’s a human thing

by CCSA on Apr 5, 2011 • No Comments
A Shared Culture by Jesse Dylan is licensed (CC BY-NC-SA).

Why CC matters. now:

Creative Commons develops, supports, and stewards legal and technical infrastructure that maximizes digital creativity, sharing, and innovation - 21st century style.

It provides a legally-solid way to maintain the PROTECTION of educational, scientific & creative intellectual property, compatible with the PROMOTION and spreadability qualities of the Internet.

Come dive in and learn how, and why you may want to join the quest >>

CC in action:


  • Applied to CULTURE



  • Applied to SCIENCE



  • Applied to EDUCATION



  • Applied to GOVERNMENT

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    Upcoming:

    The movement, as it happens..

    Why is CC good for business, not just culture?

    MOST importantly of all:

    If you get it, please back it!


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