Creative Commons

Relationships about time How anyone will - overwhelmed by hundreds - (.....)

"The first International Open Access Week is scheduled to take place October 19-23; it is an opportunity to broaden awareness and understanding of Open Access to research......."

A Brisbane-based, international remixable literature project named Remix My Lit released this summer their first publication, "Through the Clock's Workings": it's defined as the world's first remixed and remixable anthology of literature. (continue....)

A Brisbane-based, international remixable literature project named Remix My Lit released this summer their first publication, "Through the Clock's Workings": it's defined as the world's first remixed and remixable anthology of literature. (continue...)

An interesting video I came across about the main issues concerning fair use, copyright, and video mashups. Highlights from my transcription below: We're seeing this blossoming of amateur cultures, video remixes and creativity, and a lot of these works are circulating on the Internet. Copyright law is all about balance........

The Open philosophy as applied to movies & animations deals with three related concepts: * open, collaborative projects maintained by a community; * open source software; * the copyleft / public domain side of the digital rights spectrum.

A project by the Electronic Frontier Foundation has been created to help teachers provide accurate informations about the laws concerning digital rights & the concepts of copyright and piracy.

Trent Reznor decided to quit social media, or Twitter at least, as you may already know. As he stated quite clearly, he finally found out that "the problem with really getting engaged in a community is getting through the clutter and noise." (continue...)

A new application for social network Facebook has been developed by Creative Commons for letting Facebook users choose how they would like their content on their profile pages to be shared.

1. Open File Sharing: users must be free to share files on their hard drives with each other. 2. Open File Formats: content must be distributed in MP3 and other formats with NO digital rights management protection. ......

It has been recently announced by the Creative Commons Foundation that a new tool called CC Zero (or simply, CC0) is now ready to use; something very close to a "No Rights Reserved" concept. (continue...)