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"The following list sets out some basic things that you should think about before you apply a Creative Commons license to your work. It is not an exhaustive list. If you have additional questions or concerns, feel free to post to one of our email discussion lists, to send us an email at info@creativecommons.org or send an email to one of our country project leads or obtain your own legal advice. "

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.

Many Flickr users have chosen to offer their work under a Creative Commons license, and you can browse or search through content under each type of license.

Afin de favoriser une utilisation gratuite, certains sons de la Radio Suisse Romande sont téléchargeables et diffusables sous contrat Creative Commons*. La Radio Suisse Romande reste propriétaire des droits, mais soutient une diffusion libre de certaines chroniques et émissions hors de la sphère marchande. Vous pouvez télécharger ces sons de la Radio Suisse Romande sur votre ordinateur ou votre baladeur numérique, les échanger sur les réseaux P2P, graver un CD.

"The following describes each of the six main licenses offered when you choose to publish your work with a Creative Commons license. We have listed them starting with the most accommodating license type you can choose and ending with the most restrictive license type you can choose."

"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."

Die Creative Commons sind als Alternative zum traditionellen Urheberrecht zu verstehen und ermöglichen eine freiere Rechtevergabe an Bild, Ton und Text. Aber warum genügt das bisherige Urheberrecht nicht mehr? Martin Durrer im Gespräch mit IT-Spezialis

"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."

"Soweit wir das beurteilen können, handelt es sich vollumfänglich um Werke, deren Urheberrechtsschutz abgelaufen ist und damit gemeinfrei sind. In den Nutzungsbedingungen schreiben sie jedoch, dass sämtliche Werke unter einer Creative Commons "by-nc-sa"-Lizenz stehen. Zusätzlich gibt es einen Widerspruch zwischen der durch die Angabe einer CC Lizenz erlaubten Weiterverbreitung eines Werkes und ihrer Angabe, dass die Werke nicht auf anderen Servern gespeichert werden dürfen. Es ist ihnen selbstverständlich unbenommen, für die Dienstleistung der Erstellung der Scans Gebühren zu erheben. Wenn diese Scans jedoch veröffentlicht werden, sind sie gemeinfrei, denn durch den Vorgang des Scannens entsteht kein urheberrechtlich geschütztes Werk."

"Contents Introduction Course Materials: * Module 1: Copyright and the Public Domain * Module 2: The International Framework * Module 3: The Scope of Copyright Law * Module 4: Rights, Exceptions, and Limitations * Module 5: Managing Rights * Module 6: Creative Approaches and Alternatives * Module 7: Enforcement * Module 8: Traditional Knowledge * Module 9: Activism * Glossary Contributors The Rotisserie * for students: Information about the Rotisserie Session * for instructors: How to prepare a Rotisserie session" "Objectives: Copyright for Librarians is a joint project of the Berkman Center for Internet & Society and Electronic Information for Libraries (eIFL), a consortium of libraries from 50 countries in Africa, Asia and Europe. The goal of the project is to provide librarians in developing and transitional countries information concerning copyright law. More specifically, it aspires to inform librarians concerning: * copyright law in general * the aspects of copyright law that most affect libraries * how librarians in the future could most effectively participate in the processes by which copyright law is interpreted and shaped. "

"We, a broad coalition from over 20 countries, of hundreds of thousands of citizens, users, consumers, organizations, artists, hackers, members of the free culture movement, economists, lawyers, teachers, students, researchers, scientists, activists, workers, unemployed, entrepreneurs, creators… We invite all citizens to make this Charter theirs, share it and put it into practice. We invite all governments, multinationals and institutions urgently to listen to it, understand it and enforce it."

"Privacy and Terms of Use The following notices and licenses comprise together the MIT OpenCourseWare License. * Privacy * Creative Commons License * Use of MIT Name * MIT Interpretation of "Non-commercial" * Infringement Notification * Trademarks"

Die Creative-Commons-Bewegung spielt nach Ansicht von Brett Cottle, Aufsichtsratsvorsitzender der internationalen Dachgesellschaft von Verwertungsgesellschaften CISAC, den Gegnern des klassischen Urheberrechtes und des Systems der Verwertungsgesellschafte

26. Mai 2007. Daniel von der Digitalen Allmend trifft Dr. Volker Grassmuck zum Gespräch. In diesem geht es um die gerechte Verteilung von Nahrung, Energie und Informationen.

26. Mai 2007. S... Anlässlich der Lancierung am TweakFest im Technopark, Zürich haben wir einige Gespräche geführt. Hier das erste mit Pascal Arnold von www.pixelpunx.ch. Das Gespräch führt Daniel von der Digitalen Allmend

The family of Alison Chang says Virgin Mobile grabbed the picture from Flickr,... [They] filed a lawsuit ...against Virgin Mobile USA LLC, its Australian counterpart, and Creative Commons Corp., a Massachusetts nonprofit that licenses sharing of Flickr ph

CC licences (and the relevant metadata) attach to a work and authorise everyone who comes into contact with it to use it in the way that has been described. So for example if user Y has a copy of creator X's CC licensed work, Y can give a copy to Z and Z will also be authorised to use the work consistent with the licence. Creator X then has a licence agreement with both Y and Z. From a curation perspective this has great advantages for widened participation in and access to digital materials.

Lots of info about copyright legislation, creative commons etc

Wojcicki is a journalism and English teacher at Palo Alto High School, where she leads one of the largest high school journalism programs in the nation. She leads a variety of award-winning journalism projects, including a newspaper, a magazine, a website, a television program, and a sports publication. Over the past 20 years, these projects have won Gold and Silver Crowns from Columbia Scholastic Press Association, the PaceMaker Award and Hall of Fame Award from National Scholastic Press, and best in nation from Time Magazine in 2003. In February 2009, she was awarded the Columbia Scholastic Press Association Gold Key Award in a special ceremony at Columbia University for "outstanding devotion to the cause of the school press … and service above and beyond the call of delegated duty." She is the president of the Friends of the Lurdes Mutola Foundation to support girls' education in Mozambique and is a consultant for the Silicon Valley Education Foundation and Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching.

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