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[Jessica Coates <j2.coates AT qut.edu.au>]

Hey all

For those who aren't on the CC International mailing list, here's the latest 
newsletter. 

All kinds of exciting stories and case studies - and Mashup Australia gets a 
mention.


Jessica Coates
Project Manager
Creative Commons Australia
Queensland University of Technology
 
ph: 07 3138 8301
fax: 07 3138 9395
email: j2.coates AT qut.edu.au

-----Original Message-----
From: Melissa Reeder [mailto:melissa AT creativecommons.org] 
Sent: Saturday, 10 October 2009 11:01 AM
To: Jessica Coates
Subject: ccNewsletter: Shepard Fairey Remixes CC!

ccNewsletter October 2009

Annual Fundraising Campaign Launched! Shepard Fairey Remixes CC!
As of Monday, October 5, we are pleased to announce the launch of our 5th 
annual fundraising campaign, this year featuring a special-edition remixed 
Creative Commons T-shirt, designed by Shepard Fairey. Check out the remixed 
logo and donate today to get your limited-edition shirt and help us reach our 
$500,000 goal!

https://support.creativecommons.org/donate

We cannot do it without you, so please support CC in whatever way you are 
able: make a donation that will go to covering our core operations, spread 
the word about CC and the value of online sharing, start or continue 
licensing your works and using CC licensed works, or get some nifty CC swag 
from our online store (just relaunched!). We're counting on you to help us 
bring CC to all corners of the globe. We're off to a good start, but we've 
still got a long way to go. Check out all the ways you can help out and 
support CC during our fundraising campaign and beyond: 
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In this Newsletter:

* Defining Noncommercial Report Published
* United States Government CTO on Creative Commons
* CC Zero Endorsed in Nature Opinion Piece
* New Zealand and Australian Governments Promoting Open Data
* Report on First Meeting of CC Leads in Latin America Now Available
* Open Educational Resources: Managing Incompatible Content in OER
* Dutch Public Broadcaster VPRO Releases CC-licensed Documentaries
* Does your sharing scale?


Defining Noncommercial Report Published

Almost one year ago we launched a study of how people understand 
"noncommercial use." The study, generously supported by The Andrew W. Mellon 
Foundation, included in-depth interviews and two waves of in-person and 
online focus groups and online questionnaires. The last included a random 
sample of U.S. (geographic restriction mandated by resource constraints) 
internet users and in an extended form, open questionnaires promoted via our 
blog. The resulting Defining Noncommercial study report and raw data are now 
published, released under a CC Attribution (CC BY) license and CC0 public 
domain waiver respectively.
Full story: http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/17127


United States Government CTO on Creative Commons

Aneesh Chopra, the US Government's Chief Technology Officer, recently spoke 
on CNET about his thoughts on copyright. When questioned about the future of 
copyright reform, Chopra mentions how he "embraced the Creative Commons 
licensing regime" when he worked with the Commonwealth of Virginia to publish 
their Flexbook platform. Chopra then states that he thinks that it was this 
experience that really informs his perspective on how intellectual property 
should be remixed, shared, and reused.
Full story: http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/17863


CC Zero Endorsed in Nature Opinion Piece

A new opinion piece in Nature, the international weekly journal on science, 
addresses post-publication sharing of tools and explicitly recommends open 
sharing and the use of CC Zero (CC0) to put data in the public domain. The 
special issue of Nature focuses on data sharing and is now online and 
accessible free of charge. The piece, "Post-publication sharing of data and 
tools," comes out of this year's CASIMIR conference in Rome, and discusses 
the sharing of biological materials, specifically but not limited to mice and 
embryonic stem cells.
Full story: 
http://sciencecommons.org/weblog/archives/2009/09/09/cc0-endorsed-nature/


New Zealand and Australian Governments Promoting Open Data

"There's a trend going around the world for open data," says Mark Harris, 
former manager of web standards at the New Zealand State Services Commission 
and co-organizer of Wellington's recent Open Govt Data Barcamp and Hackfest. 
He's right, and New Zealand is certainly trailblazing. Last week, Creative 
Commons New Zealand reported that their national government released an open 
access and licensing framework draft (NZGOAL) for public feedback. The 
framework will enable greater access to many public sector works by 
encouraging the New Zealand State Services agencies to license material for 
reuse on liberal terms, and recommend Creative Commons as an important tool 
in this process. 
Meanwhile in Australia, the Government 2.0 Taskforce announced the 
MashupAustralia contest asking people to show what can be done with open 
public sector information. To help people get started, 59 datasets from more 
than 15 different government bodies have been released on 
data.australia.gov.au under CC licences (usually Attribution). All this 
material, which spans from the Federal electoral boundaries to Powerhouse 
Museum's collection database to the locations of Canberra's public toilets, 
is now free to be reused, reimagined and repurposed by anyone.
Full stories: http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/17352, 
http://www.creativecommons.org.au/node/262


Report on First Meeting of CC Leads in Latin America Now Available

Last year "Latam Commons 2008: Public Domain, Creative Commons, and Open 
Education" was the first meeting of CC leads in Latin America, and also the 
first meeting of its kind to focus specifically on open education and OER. 
The fruits of the meeting have shown themselves 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 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


Open Educational Resources: Managing Incompatible Content in OER

Gaining a deeper understanding of the ways in which copyright exceptions 
function globally and how these exceptions interact with open licensing is an 
important move for the OER community. The education wing of Creative Commons, 
ccLearn, hopes to lead the way in this effort. At the OpenEd conference in 
Vancouver in August, ccLearn's General Counsel, Lila Bailey, presented a 
paper entitled "Otherwise Open: Managing Incompatible Content in OER," which 
outlines this problem in detail. The final published version of that paper is 
now available. We encourage you to check it out and provide feedback.
Full story: http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/17240


Dutch Public Broadcaster VPRO Releases CC-licensed Documentaries

VPRO, a public broadcaster in the Netherlands, has begun releasing current 
documentaries under the CC BY-NC-SA license. According to Bregtje van der 
Haak, coordinator of the VPRO's Century of the City project, releasing these 
documentaries under a Creative Commons license contributes to efforts to 
better serve the VPRO's public: 
"We are producing a lot of documentaries that are of interest to specialized 
communities. In the case of urbanization this includes architects, urban 
planners and students. From research we know that a growing segment of the 
VPRO's audience is watching less and less television but continues to highly 
value this type of content. By offering content for download we are 
increasing the life cycle of these programs and enabling a whole number of 
new forms of re-use of our productions. As a public broadcaster we have the 
obligation to make our productions available to the public in as flexible a 
manner as possible."
Full story: http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/18128


Does Your Sharing Scale?

Creative Commons makes sharing easy, legal, and scalable. Easy and legal are 
obvious -- what about scale? Triggered by a discussion in the blogosphere at 
Techdirt and elsewhere, this article explains why standard licenses and 
public domain tools such as those offered by Creative Commons are necessary 
to realize the web's potential for collaboration and sharing, from Wikipedia 
and OpenCourseWare to bands and individual bloggers.
Full story: http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/17422

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