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- From: Melissa Reeder <melissa AT creativecommons.org>
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- Subject: [cc-info] ccNewsletter #5
- Date: Mon, 4 Feb 2008 12:49:00 -0800
Dear All, 2007 closed on a high note for Creative Commons, and 2008 has picked up where 2007 left off. This promises to be an exciting year for CC and for Free Culture. Thanks to everyone for your ongoing support of our work - CC's future is bright, and we have you, our community, to thank for that. Also, I'm working on revising the ccNewsletter. Please feel free to email me with any suggestions or comments that you may have. All the best, Melissa ======================================== CC News: * Creative Commons Announces Pledges Made to Fulfill '5x5" Funding Challenge * Wikipedia and Creative Commons next steps * Participatory Media Lab launch with ccMixter analysis * Creative Commons licensing for public sector information ccLearn News: * Make Textbooks Affordable campaign launched * Teachers, Students, Web Gurus, and Foundations Launch Campaign to Transform Education, Call for Free, Adaptable Learning Materials Online * 2008 Science Video Collection and Remix Challenge * Open Educational resources Aid Florida Reading Teachers Science Commons News: * NPG introduces a CC license for genome research * Science Commons announces the Protocol for Implementing Open Access Data CC Legal News: * CC0 beta/discussion draft launch * Creative Commons Launches CC+ and CC0 Programs CC Tech News: * liblicense 0.5: first stable version of C library supporting CC metadata * Semantic Dogfood * Making open standards as open as possible International: * CC Hong Kong begins public discussion * Public Broadcasters Opt for CC * ACIA: Asia Commoners meet in Taipei * Danish Collecting Society KODA teams up with CC Denmark * Philippines introduces locally ported Creative Commons licenses * Serbia announces ported licenses on Creative Commons' fifth year Congratulations, shoutouts, use cases, and interesting tid-bits: * RightsAgent and CC+ * New York Times Continues Polling Photo Project * MIT OpenCourseWare Publishes 1800th Course * "Open Yale Courses" Debuts Online * New Comic! Sharing Creative Works * Citizendium says "Our gift to the world: CC-by-sa" * Duke Scholarly Communications Weekly Copyright Widget ======================================== We rely on our supporters to continue our work enabling stories like those listed above. Check it out -- Donate: CC Store: Subscribe to the CC Weblog: This newsletter is licensed under http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ -- please share and remix! Creative Commons was built with and is sustained by the generous support of organizations including the Center for the Public Domain, the Omidyar Network, The Rockefeller Foundation, The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, and The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, as well as members of the public. |
- [cc-info] ccNewsletter #5, Melissa Reeder, 02/04/2008
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