Convocatoria a Charlas (Cumbre Mundial de Creative Commons)

 Posted by on April 15, 2013  No Responses »
Apr 152013
 

cc[Creative Commons Colombia (Link) (CC-BY)]La Cumbre Mundial de Creative Commons, que se realizará este año en Buenos Aires – Argentina, lanzó oficialmente la Convocatoria a Sesiones y Charlas, que harán parte del programa principal de la Cumbre.

“Los asistentes a la cumbre discutirán las estrategias para fortalecer Creative Commons y su comunidad en todo el mundo, aprender sobre los últimos acontecimientos en el movimiento mundial de bienes comunes, y mostrar los proyectos locales e internacionales que utilizan las licencias Creative Commons. Es un lugar ideal para reunirse y presentar sus ideas a la comunidad más amplia de Creative Commons. Más importante aún, esta será nuestra primera Cumbre con un apartado en español en el programa. Continue reading »

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Open Education Around the World – A 2013 Open Education Week Summary

 Posted by on April 8, 2013  No Responses »
Apr 082013
 

OpenEdWk-300x138[Blog post by Creative Commons, (CC-BY)]  Creative Commons congratulates all those who participated in the second annual Open Education Week March 11-15, 2013. It’s impressive to see how global open education has become with contributors from over 30 different countries showcasing their work and more than 20,000 people from over 130 countries visiting the Open Education Week website during the week. Open Education Week featured over 60 webinars open to participation from anyone and numerous local events and workshops around the world.

We thought we’d highlight a few Creative Commons global affiliate events from Open Education Week and share a list of urls for Open Education Week webinar recordings the Open Courseware Consortium has published. Continue reading »

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California Unveils Bill to Provide Openly Licensed, Online College Courses for Credit

 Posted by on March 14, 2013  No Responses »
Mar 142013
 
State Seal - Edward Headington (CC-BY)

Edward Headington (CC-BY)

[Cable Green, CC-BY, Creative Commons]  Today California (CA) Senate President pro Tem Darrell Steinberg (author of the CA open textbook legislation) announced that SB 520 will be amended to provide open, online college courses for credit. In short, the bill will allow CA students, enrolled in CA public colleges and universities, to take online courses from a pool of 50 high enrollment, introductory courses, offered by 3rd parties, in which CA students cannot currently gain access from their public CA university or community college. Students must already be enrolled in the CA college or university in which they want to receive credit. The 50 courses and plans for their assessment will be reviewed and approved (or not) by a faculty committee prior to being admitted into this new online course marketplace. Continue reading »

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Creative Commons and the Openness of Open Access

 Posted by on March 1, 2013  No Responses »
Mar 012013
 
Photo by Ito (CC-BY-2.0)

Photo by Ito (CC-BY-2.0)

[Excerpt from essay published in the New England Journal of Medicine]  The Internet has inspired multiple movements toward greater openness — most prominently, open access, open data, open science, and open educational resources. None of these is based on the belief that there should be such a thing as a free lunch, but each recognizes that the Internet changes the economics of publication and digital-resource sharing so that changes can feasibly be made to traditional practices that are in some ways “closed,” requiring payment for access to information or prohibiting myriad reuses of accessible information. The quality of “openness” applies to both the terms of access and the terms of use. Advocates in each movement — and I am one, serving on the boards of directors of two organizations promoting open access, Creative Commons and the Public Library of Science (PLOS) — share an understanding that an open resource is freely accessible over the Internet. Opinions vary about the terms of use necessary for a resource to be open. Continue reading »

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Creative Commons Canada Participates in the Open Government Licence Consultation

 Posted by on February 14, 2013  No Responses »
Feb 142013
 

cc canada[Posted on creativecommons.ca, CC-BY] In response to the Government of Canada’s call for comments on the Proposed Open Government Licence Agreement, Creative Commons Canada submitted the feedback posted below. The government plans to apply this licence to many of the hundreds of thousands of copyrighted works that it shares with the Canadian public. We feel it is important that the government ensures its licence is “Creative Commons friendly” so that everyone may enjoy these public materials and freely remix them with existing Creative Commons works. Our commentary adds our voice to other excellent feedback from the Open Definition Advisory Council, Herb Lainchbury and Teresa Scassa. Continue reading »

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Africa’s First Creative Commons 3.0 Licenses!

 Posted by on December 3, 2012  No Responses »
Dec 032012
 

CC-BY Matt Lucht

[Aurelia J. Schultz, Creative Commons Uganda. Original post on CC Affiliates blog.] We are pleased to announce the launch of the Creative Commons 3.0 Uganda licenses. Since joining the Creative Commons family in March of 2011, the Ugandan team has been incredibly busy: hosting the African Regional Meeting, pulling together petitions for the Pan-African Intellectual Property Organization, and spreading the news about CC licenses. While doing all these great activities, they’ve also completed one of the last 3.0 ports.

The licenses are available through the license chooser, and like all of our licenses, are intended for use anywhere in the world. The Uganda 3.0 licenses are important as the first 3.0 licenses in Africa and one of the last 3.0 ports before the launch of the new 4.0 licenses. Continue reading »

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Nature Publishing Group to Allow Authors to License Their Work Under Creative Commons Attribution Licenses

 Posted by on November 16, 2012  No Responses »
Nov 162012
 

Earlier this month the Nature Publishing Group announced a new policy allowing authors of articles published in all 19 of its journals to publish under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) license. Authors choosing to make their work available under a CC-BY license will pay a “premium” article processing charge, which Nature says will make up for income it typically earns on reprints.

David Hoole, Nature’s Marketing Director said that “We want to encourage more researchers to make their articles accessible, and maximize reuse, by giving authors a choice of licenses they can be comfortable with.” Continue reading »

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British Columbia to Offer Students Free Textbooks Under Creative Commons Licenses

 Posted by on October 17, 2012  No Responses »
Oct 172012
 

British Columbia’s Ministry of Advanced Education, Innovation and Technology has announced that it will “offer students free online, open textbooks for the 40 most popular post-secondary courses.”  The textbooks will be created “created with input from B.C. faculty, institutions and publishers through an open Request for Proposal process coordinated by BCcampus, a publicly funded organization that aims to make higher education available to everyone through the smart use of collaborative information technology services.”  BCcampus said in a statement that the textbooks will be made available for free under Creative Commons licenses, or available in printed form for  a low cost. Executive Director David Porter explained in a statement that “Open licenses are integral to making textbooks free for students, and flexible enough for instructors to customize the material to suit their courses.” Continue reading »

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UK to Provide Open Access to Government-Funded Research

 Posted by on July 16, 2012  1 Response »
Jul 162012
 

The British government has announced that it will make government-funded research freely available beginning next year. The Research Council’s UK announcement states that the new policy “will apply to all qualifying publications being submitted for publication from 1 April 2013″ and it “mandates use of the Creative Commons ‘Attribution’ license (CC-BY), when an Article Processing Charge (APC) is levied. The CC-BY licence allows others to modify, build upon and/or distribute the licensed work (including for commercial purposes) as long as the original author is credited.” Continue reading »

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Polish “Digital School” („Cyfrowa szkoła”) Program Will Develop Free Online Textbooks

 Posted by on June 17, 2012  No Responses »
Jun 172012
 

A post by Creative Commons Poland describes the government’s Digital School initiative, a section of which involves government funding for the creation of e-textbooks. All of the books created with the funding will be “made available under the Creative Commons Attribution license or another free license – one that allows use of resources and their derivatives with payments and in an unlimited, nonexclusive manner; made available in at least one open format (with full specification available without technical and legal limitations); [and] in the case of Web access, made available in accordance with the current W3C Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG).” Click here for the full post on creativcommons.pl.

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Open Access White House Petition Takes Off!

 Posted by on May 23, 2012  1 Response »
May 232012
 

The petition to the White House to require public access to the published results of taxpayer funded research has taken off – gaining more than 13,500 signatures in less than three days.  In order to get a response, a petition must get at least 25,000 signature in 30 days, so this is an awesome start. Continue reading »

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World Bank Announces Open Access Policy, Will Require Research to Be Published Under Creative Commons Licenses

 Posted by on April 10, 2012  1 Response »
Apr 102012
 

The World Bank today announced a new Open Access policy for research conducted in-house or supported by its grants.  Beginning July 1, the bank will “require open access under copyright licensing from Creative Commons—a non-profit organization whose copyright licenses are designed to accommodate the expanded access to information afforded by the Internet.”  The default license to be used will be the CC-BY license, which allows anyone to copy, distribute, adopt, or make commercial use of the work, under the condition of attribution. Continue reading »

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