“The Power of Open”: Stories of creators sharing knowledge, art, & data using Creative Commons. https://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/27742
Since last fall, we’ve been talking at length to various creators about their CC stories—the impact Creative Commons has had on their lives and in their respective fields, whether that’s in art, education, science, or industry. We are thrilled to announce that we have cultivated the most compelling of these stories and woven them together into a book called The Power of Open. The stories in The Power of Open demonstrate the breadth of CC uses across fields and the creativity of the individuals and organizations that have chosen to share their work via Creative Commons licenses and tools.
The Power of Open is available for free download at http://thepowerofopen.org under the CC Attribution license. It is available in several languages, with more translated versions to come.
Press:
6/18/2011
Brazil introduces OER into federal legislation and adopts local government policy
Great news! Read this Creative Commons post: https://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/27698
Who will follow Brazil's lead?
Who will follow Brazil's lead?
- The bill deals with three main issues:
- It requires government funded educational resources to be made widely available to the public under an open license,
- clarifies that resources produced by public servants under his/her official capacities should be open educational resources (or otherwise released under an open access framework), and
- urges the government to support open federated systems for the distribution and archiving of OER.
6/13/2011
Learning Resource Metadata Initiative
Creative Commons and the Association of Educational Publishers (AEP) announced the “Learning Resource Metadata Initiative,” a project aimed at improving education search and discovery via a common framework for tagging and organizing learning resources on the web. The learning resources framework will be designed to work with schema.org, the web metadata framework recently launched by Google, Bing, and Yahoo!, as well as to work with other metadata technologies and to enable other rich applications.
More info here at the FAQ:
6/04/2011
June 9: Brazil: OER Meeting (webcast): Legislative Assembly of Sao Paulo State
The workshop will be webcasted... details will be @ http://rea.net.br
6/02/2011
YouTube launches support for CC BY and a CC library featuring 10,000 videos
CC News - hot off the press:
You may have already heard the great news—YouTube has added the Creative Commons Attribution license (CC BY) as a licensing option for users. Now when users upload video, they can choose to license it under CC BY or to remain with the default “Standard YouTube License.” Users may also change the license on existing videos by editing each video individually.
You may have already heard the great news—YouTube has added the Creative Commons Attribution license (CC BY) as a licensing option for users. Now when users upload video, they can choose to license it under CC BY or to remain with the default “Standard YouTube License.” Users may also change the license on existing videos by editing each video individually.
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