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From: Melissa Reeder <melissa AT creativecommons.org>
Date: 2009/6/3
Subject: [cc-info] ccNewsletter: "Share Your Story!" Launch of CC Case
Studies 2009
To: cc-info AT lists.ibiblio.org


Dear Creative Commoner,

In an ongoing effort to improve communication efforts with our
community, we'll be making some changes to the ccNewsletter. Starting
in July and at the beginning of each month thereafter, we'll send out
brief e-news updates of the latest and most exciting CC news. On a
quarterly basis, starting in September, we'll produce a more
comprehensive newsletter including a CEO update from Joi Ito, which
will also be available in beautifully-designed PDF format. With so
much going on in the world of CC, we hope this new newsletter format
will better serve its purpose of bringing important CC developments
and milestones to you, our valued supporters and users, in a more
timely and efficient way. As a reminder, you can always subscribe to
our weblog at <http://creativecommons.org/weblog> to stay on top of
the latest news.

I'd also like to take this opportunity to invite you to visit our
recently-launched website, now sporting a much slicker and cleaner
design. We'll be rolling out more changes in the near future, so
please check back and explore all the ways that our site can help you
learn more about CC and get involved in the effort to build a
participatory culture.

Many thanks to our CC Philippines team for designing the PDF version
of this newsletter, available at:
http://wiki.creativecommons.org/CCNewsletter

Best,
Melissa Reeder
Development Manager
Creative Commons


Breaking News

CC Case Studies 2009: Share Your Story!
Creative Commons Case Studies 2009 has officially kicked off – and we
want to hear your story! Weʼre collecting cases big and small on our
re-launched Case Studies wiki, an online portal to upload and discover
documentation about CC-licensed projects. We want to capture the
diversity of CC creators and content by building a resource that
inspires new works and informs free culture. The top community-curated
stories will be featured on the Creative Commons website and in the
next printed volume of Creative Commons Case Studies. You may also
have the chance to collaborate with our CEO, Joi Ito, whose doctoral
work focuses on select case studies about CC and the sharing economy.
Head over to the Case Studies wiki and add, edit, or check out a case
study today: <http://wiki.creativecommons.org/Case_Studies>

Wikimedia Foundation Board Votes to Approve License Migration
The Wikimedia Foundation board has approved the licensing changes
voted on by the community of Wikipedia and its sister sites. The
accompanying press release includes this quote from Creative Commons
founder Lawrence Lessig: “Richard Stallmanʼs commitment to the cause
of free culture has been an inspiration to us all. Assuring the
interoperability of free culture is a critical step towards making
this freedom work. The Wikipedia community is to be congratulated for
its decision, and the Free Software Foundation thanked for its help. I
am enormously happy about this decision.” The addition of the CC BY-SA
license to Wikimedia sites should occur over the next month, so keep
an eye out for this monumental change. Read the full press release:
http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Press_releases/Dual_license_vote_May_2009

Yahoo! Brings CC Filters to Image Search
Yahoo! announced last week the addition of CC license image filtering
options for their image search, so you can now filter images from
Flickr that can be used commercially or that can be modified according
to the restrictions set down by the image's creator. Yahoo's ongoing
support of Creative Commons is vital and greatly appreciated, and we
are certain that this search filter will be extremely beneficial for
educators, students, artists, and anyone looking to find legally
shareable images on the web.


CC News in Arts and Culture

One of Creative Commons' core goals is to expand the body of open and
free cultural works available to the public. This is accomplished
through outreach, advisement, and specific project-based initiatives
with individuals and communities that promote a similar emphasis on
community, sharing, and innovation. This effort is headed by Creative
Director Eric Steuer.

Free Music Archive Launches
In early April, WFMU celebrated the launch of its new website, The
Free Music Archive, with free downloads available under Creative
Commons and other licenses. The FMA has already become a fantastic
resource for curated CC-licensed music and is a database that looks to
continue to grow in quality and quantity over time. Since there is so
much content on the site, the FMA is featuring particular curators
such as WFMU, KEXP, and dublab. So go register an account and start
downloading some of the 5,000 tracks already posted, or search by
license type and help one of the worldʼs greatest independent stations
thrive on the net! <http://freemusicarchive.org/>

Lawrence Lessig's Book, REMIX, Now Available for Free Download
CC founder Lawrence Lessigʼs latest book, REMIX: Making Art and
Commerce Thrive in the Hybrid Economy, is now available for free
download under a CC BY-NC license from Bloomsbury Academicʼs website.
We are incredibly excited that a text devoted to the art and value of
remixing is being released under a license that allows free and open
sharing and reuse. Download today:
<http://www.bloomsburyacademic.com/remix.htm>

BBC releases R&DTV under CC
The BBC recently interviewed Diggʼs Kevin Rose for their R&DTV series,
a monthly program consisting of interviews with BBC developers and
technology leaders. In conjunction to licensing the shows under our
Attribution-NonCommercial (CC BY-NC) license, the BBC is also
releasing all of the content that got left on the cutting room floor in
their “Asset Bundles.” This is a fantastic effort for the commons, so
hats off to the BBC!

"RiP: A Remix Manifesto" Released; Online Remixing through Kaltura
RiP: A Remix Manifesto, a community-driven documentary that focuses on
copyright and remix culture is just beginning to creep out into
theaters, after its U.S. premier at SXSW in March. While the film
mainly focuses on the story of Greg Gillis of Girl Talk, it includes
interviews with a wide variety of figures, including Lawrence Lessig
and Cory Doctorow. Perhaps most interesting is that the filmmakers have
teamed up with open source video platform Kaltura, enabling anyone
with a computer to remix the film, only at opensourcecinema.org. All
the footage of the film is released under an Attribution Noncommercial
(CC BY-NC) license.


CC News - International

Creative Commons works internationally to "port" the core Creative
Commons licenses to different copyright legislations around the world.
The process involves both linguistically translating the licenses and
legally adapting them to particular jurisdictions. This work is lead
by International Director Catharina Maracke and volunteer teams in
each jurisdiction who are committed to introducing CC to their
country.

German Film Museum Integrates CCPL in Documentation Project
The German Film Museum "Deutsche Kinemathek" is running a project
called "Wir waren so frei" (literally "we were so free" but meaning
"we took the liberty") to collect material documenting the peaceful
revolution in Eastern Germany in 1989 and the reunification in 1990. It
calls on the general public to contribute private photos and films of
the era, and to do so under a CC license. To learn more, visit
<https://www.wir-waren-so-frei.de/>.

In Malaysia, Creative Commons Movement Growing Fast
CC Malaysia (CC MY) was recently covered by The Star, the largest
newspaper in circulation in Malaysia, in an extensive article titled
“Creative Commons movement steps up.” It features, among other things,
the teamʼs proud achievement “Here in my home,”  a CC-licensed video
with a powerful message of unity, shot last year in Kuala Lampur with
Malaysian Artistes For Unity. To learn more or view the video, visit:
<http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/13906>

Launched! Creative Commons Czech Republic
On April 16, at the Multiplace Festival in Prague, the Czech Republic
officially became the fifty-second jurisdiction worldwide to offer
localized Creative Commons licenses. Creators in the Czech Republic
can now publish and share their creative works using free Creative
Commons tools adapted to Czech language and law.

Norwegian Minister Publishes Book under CC BY-SA
Norwayʼs Minister of Government Administration and Reform, Heidi
Grande Røys, launched a new book titled “Delte meninger” (in Norwegian
this has the dual meaning of “shared opinions” and “conflicting
opinions”), about sharing and the social side of computer networks.
There is also a website dedicated to open, public debate about the
issues raised in the book. Both the website and the print edition will
carry a ported Norwegian CC BY-SA 3.0 license. The print edition of
the book will be published by Universitetsforlaget and is the first
instance of a major book in Norway that carries a Creative Commons
license.

250,000 Images Donated to the Commons
250,000 images were recently donated to Wikimedia Commons, a sister
project of Wikipedia. The images, part of the German Photo Collection
at Saxonyʼs State and University Library (SLUB) and available under
Germanyʼs ported CC BY-SA 3.0 license or in the public domain, are
being uploaded with corresponding captions and metadata. Volunteers
have been linking the photos, which depict scenes from German history
and daily life, to personal identification data and relevant Wikipedia
articles.

Creative Commons Hong Kong Making Progress after Launch
Six months after the official launch of Creative Commons Hong Kong last
October, there is an estimated 221,788 online works released under the
newly ported Hong Kong CC licenses. A number of visible local projects
are adopting CC. Radio Television Hong Kong (RTHK) offers contributors
the option of licensing their work under CC online in the “Hong Kong
Illustrators” special event - “Letʼs Draw Together!” RTHK is also
conducting a consultation on releasing part of the archive under CC.

Wiki Loves Art/NL
Creative Commons Netherlands and Wikimedia Netherlands have teamed up
to organize Wiki Loves Art / NL, a month long photo contest inspired
by the Wikipedia Loves Art event that took place in the US and the UK
in February. Throughout the month of June, the public is invited to
take photos of artwork in more than 30 museums throughout the
Netherlands and upload them to the Wiki Loves Art flickr group under a
Creative Commons Attribution Share-alike (CC By-SA) license. All
uploaded pictures will be screened by a jury. Those with sufficient
quality will be transferred to the Wikimedia commons for use in
Wikipedia articles, and the authors of the 10 best pictures will be
awarded with prizes. If you are in the Netherlands in June, join us
for Wiki Loves Art /NL! For more information including a list of
participating museums, visit www.wikilovesart.nl


CC News in Science

Creative Commons works to advance CC in the field of science by
designing strategies and tools for faster, more efficient web-enabled
scientific research in the hope of speeding the translation of data
into discovery. The wing of Creative Commons dedicated to making the
web work for science is called Science Commons and is led by Vice
President John Wilbanks.

Open Source Drug Discovery, Research and the Public Domain
The Tropical Disease Initiative recently released a "kernel" for open
source drug discovery, made available in the public domain under the
Science Commons Data Protocol. The kernel
(http://tropicaldisease.org/kernel/) includes 297 potential drug
targets against 10 selected genomes for organisms that cause tropical
diseases and is freely and publicly accessible. You can read more
about this in Nature Biotechnology (subscription required:
http://www.nature.com/nbt/journal/v27/n4/full/nbt0409-320.html) or for
free in PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases
(http://www.plosntds.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pntd.0000418).

Over at EMBL - the European Molecular Biology Laboratory, they have
also made some key data related to drug testing and side effects
available in the public domain (http://sideeffects.embl.de/download/)
via CC Zero (CC0) - a public domain waiver.

The resource, the SIDER Side Effect Database, contains information on
marketed medicines and their recorded adverse side effects and drug
reactions. Included in this dataset is information on the frequency of
these drug reactions, other drug and side effect classifications, as
well as links to other relevant resources. To date, 888 drugs are
listed in the database, a tremendous resource for research and drug
discovery.

The mapping of labels and euphoria-related side effects are now public
domain, with some other side effect information available for download
under a CC-BY-NC-SA license. Have you made your information available
using CC0? Weʼd love to hear about it. Drop us a note at
science AT creativecommons.org.

My name is NP_001119589.1 -- A Look at the Recent Shared Names Workshop
As the volume of online scientific information increases, and as
information sources become increasingly cross-linked, inconsistent
nomenclature for these links becomes a significant annoyance for
computational applications that would recognize and exploit such
links. Lack of common notation ultimately means an infrastructure that
does not scale and that doesn't lend itself to experimentation and
creativity. Thus nomenclature for cross-references is an area that's
ripe for standardization.

Science Commons has been working since 2006 to understand the social
and technical conditions that might bring about such standardization
using widely deployed web standards such as URIs, HTTP, and RDF. In
Fall 2008 we articulated a proposal, strictly limited in scope to
references to well known key resources such as PDB, and circulated it
to several key bioinformatics projects that would have a significant
interest in such a standard, were it to be adopted. The proposal was
favorably received, and we organized a steering committee to develop
and deploy a standard. A workshop was convened on April 29 to educate
the larger community about the plan, hear about experience with
related systems, and solicit review of requirements. With about 25
attendees and a focused agenda, the workshop was a success. Although
much work remains to be done, we are pleased with the plan's reception
in the community and that the steering committee has chosen to take
responsibility for bringing about the technical and organizational
infrastructure that will be needed to bring the standard to fruition.
For more information, visit <http://sharedname.org/>.

GreenXchange, Health Commons in the News and on the Radiowaves
Worldchanging.com has a new piece up on the GreenXchange, a project of
Nike and Creative Commons, housed at Science Commons. The article,
“Green Xchange:  Creating a Meta-Map of Sustainability” details the
underlying concepts for the project, the obstacles, and includes a
look into the future. The project, announced at last Januaryʼs World
Economic Forum in Davos, pairs together the Creative Commons licensing
structure (metadata, human readable aspect, legalese) with the right
technology to allow companies to share their patents related to
sustainability. The goal - to bring the efficiencies of open
collaboration and innovation to the problems of sustainability. You
can read the article over at Worldchanging.org
(http://www.worldchanging.com/archives/009822.html).

In the world of Open Science, the radio program “A World of
Possibilities” has a fantastic new piece up on “Open Source science”
and Health Commons. The podcast explores the Health Commons approach
of creating a more open system for the exchange of medical information
that cuts across sectors, medical professionals, cultural boundaries,
etc. to leverage the power of the network and accelerate the pace of
drug discovery. The segment also takes a look at the personal reasons
behind this collaboration and the  benefits of an “Open Source”
approach to sharing biomedical knowledge. Featured in this segment are
representatives from two of Health Commons' partners: Marty Tenenbaum,
the chairman and chief scientist for CollabRx; and Gavin Yamey and
Peter Jerram from the Public Library of Science. To listen to the
podcast, visit <http://www.aworldofpossibilities.com/details.cfm?id=358>.

Materials Transfer Work Presented at CHDI Meeting in Cannes, France
Representing Science Commons, Thinh Nguyen attended CHDIʼs Annual HD
Therapeutics Conference, held this year in Cannes. During the four-day
conference, Science Commons was invited to present a poster
highlighting our collaboration with Coriell and CHDI regarding
transfer of research materials. The audience included leading
researchers in Huntingtonʼs Disease (HD) and neurology working on
diagnostics, therapeutics, and prevention for HD. The Science Commons
presentation supported poster presentations presented by CHDI and
Coriell at the conference. As a result of the presentation, we hope
that more researchers will become aware of the MTA system being made
available through Coriell, not only as users of the materials but also
as potential providers themselves in the future. For more information
on our Materials Transfer work, visit
<http://sciencecommons.org/projects/licensing/>.


CC News in Education

ccLearn, the education wing of Creative Commons led by Executive
Director Ahrash Bissell, works with an international community of open
education advocates and supporters to improve open learning on the
internet. Truly open learning happens when learners (you, me, and
everyone else we know) can not only access educational materials but
improve upon them, adapting the resources to our individual needs and
local contexts, without the restrictions imposed by standard copyright
laws. Through openly licensed educational materials, also known as
open educational resources (OER), we can collaborate across state
lines and country borders, discovering opportunities for partnerships
we never knew existed.

Latest inside OER: CK-12 Foundationʼs Neeru Khosla on Open Textbooks
We were so excited back in March about the new Physics Flexbook
aligned to Virginiaʼs state standards that we had to catch up with the
foundation that helped to make it possible. The obvious choice was
Neeru Khosla, co-founder of the CK-12 Foundation, “a non-profit
organization with a mission to reduce the cost of textbook materials
for the K-12 market both in the U.S. and worldwide.” The Flexbook is
their web-based platform for open textbooks (openly licensed via CC
BY-SA) which maximizes and enhances collaboration across district,
county, and state lines.

Open textbooks are oft termed the future of higher education, but
Neeru makes the important point that openness matters even more with
younger learners. “[The] lack of content availability erodes young
studentsʼ ability to learn, as they are not able to have a strong base
of knowledge to rely on.” This is where the CK-12 Foundation comes in
by focusing specifically on K-12 education and working with states to
make sure the Flexbooks are not only high quality, but align to state
and district standards. (Read more at
http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/14141.)

Student Journalism 2.0
Student Journalism 2.0 is a ccLearn project and recent winner of the
Digital Media and Learning Competition, which encourages explorations
of "digital media's ability to help people learn." (See the full press
release at
http://www.macfound.org/site/c.lkLXJ8MQKrH/b.5104329/k.87/DML_Competition_2009.htm.)
Sponsored by the MacArthur Foundation and HASTAC, 19 international
projects received a total of $2 million in grants for project
proposals dealing with Innovation in Participatory Learning. Student
Journalism 2.0 will deal more specifically with the changing media
landscape, via the
medium of high school students (aka our future journalists):

“For journalism students, the digital age requires more than hands-on
reporting, writing, and publication of stories. Students must also
embrace the capabilities of the Internet for virtual collaboration,
viral dissemination, and feedback loops that inform and deepen
original stories. All of these web-based opportunities depend on
knowledge and proactive application of open content licensing, such as
with Creative Commons, and appropriate metatags and technical formats.
Student Journalism 2.0 engages high school students in understanding
legal and technical issues intrinsic to new journalistic practices.
The lessons learned during this pilot project will be documented in
anticipation of a national-scale, follow-up project.”

The full project proposal is available at
http://learn.creativecommons.org/student-journalism-2-0. Also see
http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/14034 for award and competition 
details.
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