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"Science Commons has three interlocking initiatives designed to accelerate the research cycle - the continuous production and reuse of knowledge that is at the heart of the scientific method. Together, they form the building blocks of a new collaborative infrastructure to make scientific discovery easier by design. Making scientific research "re-useful" - We help people and organizations open and mark their research and data for reuse. We are also exploring new models for licensing patents and know how. Learn more. Enabling "one-click" access to research materials - We help streamline the materials-transfer process so researchers can easily replicate, verify and extend research. Learn more. Integrating fragmented information sources - We help researchers find, analyze and use data from disparate sources by marking and integrating the information with a common, computer-readable language. Learn more."

"Science Commons designs strategies and tools for faster, more efficient Web-enabled scientific research - Primary Focus: o Making scientific research "re-useful" - We develop and promote policy and tools to help people and organizations open and mark their research and data sets for reuse. As part of this work, we released an "open data" protocol to enable the global scientific community to pool and use data created under different legal regimes. o Enabling "one-click" access to research tools - We offer a suite of standardized contracts to bring the efficiencies and economies of scale from e-commerce to the world of scientific tools, so researchers can easily replicate, verify, and extend research. o Integrating fragmented information sources - We help researchers find, analyze, and use data from disparate sources by marking and integrating the information with a common, computer-readable language."

"At a time when we have the technologies to enable global access to and distributed processing of scientific research and data, legal and technical restrictions are making it difficult to connect the dots. Even when research and data is made public, it's often locked up by regimes or contracts that prohibit changing file formats or languages, integrating data, semantic enrichment, text mining and more. These restrictions sharply limit the impact of published research, and prevent us from exploiting the potential of the Web for accelerating scientific discovery. In the Scholar's Copyright Project, Science Commons develops tools and resources for expanding and enhancing open access (OA) to published research and data. We believe that knowledge-sharing systems and formats based on the paper metaphor block innovation, and that open access is prerequisite for finding new ways to reap the value of the vast amounts of public research now being produced. For details on the resources we offer, continue reading below."

- Primary Focus: o Making scientific research "re-useful" - We develop and promote policy and tools to help people and organizations open and mark their research and data sets for reuse. As part of this work, we released an "open data" protocol to enable the global scientific community to pool and use data created under different legal regimes. o Enabling "one-click" access to research tools - We offer a suite of standardized contracts to bring the efficiencies and economies of scale from e-commerce to the world of scientific tools, so researchers can easily replicate, verify, and extend research. o Integrating fragmented information sources - We help researchers find, analyze, and use data from disparate sources by marking and integrating the information with a common, computer-readable language.

"2001 * Creative Commons founded. 2002 * Version 1.0 licenses released. 2003 * Approximately 1 million licenses in use. 2004 * Estimated 4.7 million licensed works by the end of the year. * Version 2.0 released. * Licenses ported to 12 international jurisdictions. 2005 * Estimated 20 million works. * Version 2.5 released. * Licenses ported to a further 13 jurisdictions. * Science Commons launches. 2006 * Estimated 50 million licensed works. * Licenses ported to a further 9 jurisdictions. 2007 * Estimated 90 million licensed works. * Version 3.0 released. * 5th birthday of CC licenses. Event featured performance by Gilberto Gil. * Licenses ported to a further 8 jurisdictions. * ccLearn launches. 2008 * Estimated 130 million CC licensed works. * Licenses ported to a further 8 jurisdictions. * Lawrence Lessig steps down as CEO, replaced by Joi Ito. * New Nine Inch Nails album released under CC. * CC launches fundraising campaign with support from Jesse Dylan and Jonathan Coulton. 2009 * CC0 launched. * Esther Wojcicki becomes board chair."

Software Foundation (FSF) announced the winners of the annual free software awards during the GNU/Linux conference LibrePlanet, held on March 21-22 at Harvard Science Center in Cambridge, MA. Creative Commons was honored with the Award for Projects of Social Benefit, and Wietse Venema was honored with the Award for the Advancement of Free Software. Presenting the awards was FSF founder and president Richard Stallman.

"Kaitlin Thaney, April 2nd, 2010 Thinh Nguyen writes over at the Science Commons blog … "We're happy to announce that we're launching the public comment and discussion period for our new patent tools: the Research Non-Assertion Pledge and the Public Patent License. We invite you to join the discussion at our public wiki. There you can read about these tools, catch up on hot topics of interest to the community, or join our public discussion list to contribute your thoughts and suggestions."

"Session Type: General Session Thursday Nov 5th, 2009 9:30 AM - 11:00 AM Wells Fargo Theater 5263 reads In this talk, Lawrence Lessig will review the progress of the "open access" movement in education. He will make a call for educators to finally resolve this issue in a way that enables the potential of technology for education. * Speakers * Resources and Video Speakers Lawrence Lessig Director, Edmond J. Safra Foundation Center for Ethics, and Professor of Law Harvard University "

On November 5, 2009, Lawrence Lessig gave a talk entitled It Is About Time: Getting Our Values Around Copyright Right at the Educause 2009 Congress. The talk is available * as an audio recording: http://www-cdn.educause.edu/sites/default/files/e09-lessig-session.mp3 (Running time: 60:23 minutes 27.64 MB) * as a video: http://blip.tv/file/2827842 * for download as a .flv video file (200 Mb) from Michael Paskevicius' Getting Our Values Around Copyright Right blog post (Nov. 12, 2009)

"So, let me make one final plea, to bring you into this battle. You all know, we are in the middle of a war. I don't mean - actually, we are in the middle of many wars - I mean actually one war here, the copyright war. War that the late Jack Valenti, my friend - extraodinary man - used to refer to as his own "terrorist war"? - where apparently , the terrorists in this war are our children. (audience laughs). So we organize and wage war against these terrorists. We talk about this as a war that needs to be waged against these pirates. And the thing that we need to recognize as educators, as scientists, as parents, as people who understand the potential and uses of this technology, is: we can't kill this technology, we can only criminalize it. We're not going to stop our kids from creating the way they create, ways that we couldn't even begin to imagine creating, at least when I was growing up. We can only drive that creativity underground. We can't make our kids passive, the way that, again, I was passive growing up, the way Souza feared. We can only make them "pirates". And the question we, as a culture, need to ask is: Is that any good? Our kids live in this age of prohibitions, in all sorts of contexts of their life. They live life against the law. We tell them they live life against the law and they recognize their behavior is against the law. That recognition is extraordinarily corrosive, extraordinarily corruptive of the rule of law in a democracy. 3571.076838 3590.998233 You, each of you, all of us, have let this insanity happen. You, each of you, all of us, could, if we actually stood up and did something about it, make it stop. Thank you very much."