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Creative Commons 10-year anniversary mixtape!
Creative Commons is turning 10 this year. Therefore Creative Commons communities all over the world will be hosting a series of events and sharing party favors online for a ten-day celebration!
In December 2002 Creative Commons released its first set of copyright licenses for free to the public. In the years following the initial release, Creative Commons and its licenses have grown at an exponential rate around the world. The licenses have been further improved, and ported to over 50 jurisdictions. With some major platforms adopting the Creative Commons licenses and version 4.0 of the licenses around the corner, this anniversary is the perfect opportunity to reflect on the past ten years, but also to look ahead to the future!
One of the opportunities for Creative Commons to continue its rapid evolution is more collaboration between the various affiliates. During the Creative Commons regional meeting in Helsinki earlier this year we’ve decided to use the 10 year anniversary to make a joint contribution to the festivities in the form of a CC-Europe mixtape. Each country nominated a couple of songs and an expert panel of CC affiliates has picked one song per country for the final compilation. In total we’ve received contributions from 20 countries! The participating affiliates are Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Denmark, France, Germany, Greece, Iceland, Israel, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and the UK.
The resulting mixtape can be found at Free Music Archive, Soundcloud and Archive.org and is available for free download under various Creative Commons licenses. The album artwork is licensed with a Creative Commons Attribution license.
You can check out all the anniversary events at http://wiki.creativecommons.org/CC10 and be sure to keep an eye out between December 7 and 16 for more surprises at http://www.10.creativecommons.org!
Creative Commons 10th Anniversary
Creative Commons is 10 years old this December. CCUK is celebrating with an event on 12th December. Learn more and register here:
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‘Why Open Education Matters’ Video Competition Winners
The Why Open Education Matters video competition was launched in March 2012 calling for creative videos that clearly explain the use and potential of free Open Educational Resources (“OER”). The winners were announced this week. Many congratulations to the the winners: @blinktower
We are ludicrously excited to announce that we won 1st prize in the Why Open Ed Matters Video competition! bit.ly/NVeTxU
— Blink Tower (@blinktower) July 18, 2012
Growing Artfinder’s Content and User Engagement with Creative Commons
Artfinder is a UK start up, based in London which enables you to discover, experience and share art to build your own online art profile. Artfinder also enables users to submit their own images and essays about other artworks and license them with a Creative Commons licence.
This is a guest blog post from Jen Bayne, Artfinder’s Assoicate Marketing Manager about Artfinder and why Creative Commons is key to the organisation and their users. Read More…
‘Copyright is Essential’ – Lawrence Lessig talking @ UNESCO
Lawrence @Lessig spoke recently at the UNESCO 2012 World Open Educational Resources Congress in Paris.
Lawrence Lessig. Photo by Harry Metcaffe
The talk emphasised the importance of copyright. Some key quotes from the talk include:
Copyright is essential for its purpose.I am against abolitionism… I think copyright is essential.
Khan Academy on @BBCClick
Khan Academy, the non-profit online educational video site has been featured by @BBCClick in this interesting short video about Khan and the ‘flipped classroom‘
Salman Khan with Bill Gates, photo by Steve Jurvetson
A few memorable quotes from the video include: Read More…
Innovation in Open Networks
This is a great talk by Director of @medialab and @creativecommons Chair @Joi Ito, given recently at the @NMCorg summer conference. Many subjects are covered in the talk including the decreasing cost of innovation, education and learning, harnessing networks, open data and open hardware. Read More…
Creative Commons made it easy to start CCHits.net
This is a guest blog post by Jon Spriggs (@jontheniceguy) about CCHits.net and its promotion of Creative Commons licensed music, artists and podcasts. Jon recalls his personal journey, motivations and influences in developing the site.
It’s always hard to talk about a project you’ve started. The inspiration for projects can come from a hundred different places and none of those are the key to why the project happened. CCHits.net is no different, but this post is here to talk about why CCHits.net (henceforth referred to as “CCHits”) came about and why Creative Commons plays so much of a part in how it all got started. Read More…
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