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  • Open Education Events in Barcelona
    published on Fri, 03 Sep 2010 17:29:28 +0000
    CC BY by Steve Jurvetson Registration is open for two open education events set to take place in early November in Barcelona, Spain. Open Ed 2010 is the seventh annual open education conference that is “the world?...
  • Creative Commons Iftars
    published on Fri, 03 Sep 2010 14:59:27 +0000
    Yesterday, Dubai became the first Arab city to celebrate a Creative Commons Iftar. It will be followed tomorrow by Amman, Damascus on September 5, and Cairo on September 7. The iftar is the meal that breaks the fast of...
  • yolink adds CC license support to its browser plugin
    published on Mon, 30 Aug 2010 19:42:54 +0000
    yolink, “a next-generation search technology,” has added CC license support to its updated browser plugin. yolink’s browser plugin allows you to quickly scan your search results by specific key terms, e...
  • Open the Door A Little Wider
    published on Mon, 30 Aug 2010 14:29:39 +0000
    When we published Open Doors and Open Minds, we promised a companion piece that discusses in detail some of the legal considerations that university administrators and university general counsels may wish to consider in ...
  • Lewis Hyde, author of Common as Air: Revolution, Art, and Ownership
    published on Fri, 27 Aug 2010 12:49:43 +0000
    Poet and scholar Lewis Hyde has been writing about the commons for over thirty years. His first book, The Gift (1983), is regarded as the modern classic on Creativity and the Artist in the Modern World–the 25th ann...
  • P2PU launches 3rd round of courses, with ?Copyright for Educators?
    published on Thu, 26 Aug 2010 20:07:01 +0000
    The Peer 2 Peer University, more commonly known now as P2PU by a growing community of self-learners, educators, journalists, and web developers, launches its third round of courses today, opening sign-ups for “cour...
  • Limited Edition CC Shirt Designed by Shepard Fairey
    published on Tue, 24 Aug 2010 18:35:16 +0000
    Last year, we were thrilled to have Shepard Fairey craft a beautiful new design for our campaign T-shirt. Knowing they’d be a hot commodity, we kept a limited number of the shirts and are now making them available...
  • Open High School of Utah?s DeLaina Tonks: Open Education and Policy
    published on Mon, 23 Aug 2010 16:17:13 +0000
    At the beginning of this year we announced a revised approach to our education plans, focusing our activities to support of the Open Educational Resources (OER) movement. In order to do so we have worked hard to increase...
  • SoundCloud
    published on Thu, 19 Aug 2010 17:43:38 +0000
    SoundCloud has long been a preeminent destination for creators looking to share and distribute music and audio online. From the beginning SoundCloud has supported CC-licensing options – today they launched a slew o...
  • CC Australia Roadshow
    published on Mon, 16 Aug 2010 16:47:18 +0000
    Creative Commons Australia is putting their annual conference on wheels. Previously, the national meet-ups were held at the project’s home base in Brisbane. Now the team is hitting the road and taking the event to...