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V dňoch 11.-15. marca 2013 sa bude konať Týždeň otvoreného vzdelávania. Cieľom tejto aktivity je zvýšiť povedomie o možnostiach otvoreného vzdelávania vo svete a poukázať na jeho pozitívny vplyv na výučbu a vzdelávanie. Dajte nám vedieť, ak v tomto čase pripravujete zaujímavé podujatie na túto tému.

Auteursrechtelijke bescherming is tijdelijk. In Nederland is de vuistregel dat de duur van deze bescherming afloopt op 1 januari, 70 jaar na de dood van de maker.  Daarom wordt 1 januari ook vaak aangemerkt aan ‘public domain day’. De dag waarop er veel werken niet meer auteursrechtelijk beschermd worden. Bij de afgelopen jaarwisseling zijn er [...]

Dear Friends, please join us as we gather to remember Aaron Swartz on the evening of Thursday, January 24th. Reception at 7:00pm Memorial at 8:00pm at the Internet Archive 300 Funston Avenue San Francisco 94118 Speakers will include Danny O’Brien, Lisa Rein, Peter Eckersly, Molly Shaffer Van Houweling, Cindy Cohn, Brewster Kahle, Tim O’Reilly, Elliot [...]

Nicolás Alcalá，RIOT CINEMA / 馬德里（更多資訊：http://www.riotcinema.com）當西班牙獨立電影公司 Riot Cinema Collective 開始製作名為宇航員 (The Cosmonaut) 的科幻電影時，該公司希望把擴大閱聽眾而非牟利擺在第一位。因此他們的團隊選擇以創用 CC BY-SA 授權釋出這部電影的所有預告片。閱讀全文 2013-01-23T02:14:12Z emyleo

Recently I was asked to do a interview for VodaCom on my experiences volunteering. As the CC network is almost entirely built on the passion of 100′s of volunteers dedicating their valuable time (me being one of those 100′s) I spoke mostly on my experiences with Creative Commons.   To check out the interview please go to the VodaCom website.   We are always looking for new talent, spirit and energy on the CCZA team. Please contact any of us for more information.

Per chi non avesse seguito la diretta del 21 gennaio, segnaliamo che è disponibile su Youtube l'hangout della trasmissione di Radio Hinterland e ANB Web Radio dedicata al tema della liberalizzazione della gestione dei diritti connessi di artisti, interpreti ed esecutori. Per approfondire questo ed altri temi di diritto d'autore assieme a NicoBenz, sono stati ospiti in radio gli avvocati Simone Aliprandi e Guido Scorza. (Segnalato da Simone Aliprandi: Simone Aliprandi - personal weblog) leggi tutto 2013-01-23T11:21:25Z Claudio Artusio

Boundless, the company that builds on existing open educational resources to provide free alternatives to traditionally costly college textbooks, has released 18 open textbooks under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA), the same license used by Wikipedia. Schools, students and the general public are free to share and remix these textbooks under this license. The 18 [...]

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After nearly two years working with to support our community and forward Creative Commons in Europe, our European Regional Coordinator, Jonas Öberg, will be leaving us at the end of the month. Jonas has been awarded a prestigious fellowship from the Shuttleworth Foundation to further his research into metadata standards for open materials. We will be very sad to lose Jonas, who has done a wonderful job of promoting CC and open in general over the last few years, and has worked tirelessly to support our European affiliates in their work. Europe is CC’s biggest region, with 37 affiliates stretching from Ireland and the UK all the way through Kazakhstan and Russia – so the job isn’t easy.

The good news is that Jonas won’t be going far, with his Shuttleworth work likely to keep him a constant face in our community.

The other good news is that this opens up a new position for someone to work with Creative Commons in Europe. You can find the full position description here.

Jonas Öberg / Mathias Klang / CC BY-ND

In summary, our European Regional Coordinator works to “Assist Creative Commons and the CC Global Network team with organizational planning, strategic communications, community building, and fundraising in Europe in support of the organization’s mission, goals and objectives.” This means running events, coordinating collaborative projects, and generally assisting our European affiliates to build and grow their community. We also expect that 2013 in Europe will see a lot of work with local organisations advocating for the adoption and implementation of open policies in the region, particularly in the fields of government and educational materials.

If you have an interest in community management, open access, and Creative Commons, and live in or have ties to Europe, we’d love to hear from you.

Τον Ιανουάριο του 2009 το Al Jazeera είχε αποφασίσει την ελευθέρωση μέρους του περιεχομένου του με άδειες Creative Commons και ήταν το πρώτο ειδησεογραφικό πρακτορείο που πήρε τέτοια πρωτοβουλία! Καθώς την περίοδο εκείνη οι Ισραηλινές στρατιωτικές δυνάμεις απέτρεπαν την μετάδοση ειδήσεων από την Γάζα, το Al Jazeera βρήκε αυτόν τον έξυπνο τρόπο για να μεταδώσει [...]

Κυκλοφόρησε το βιβλίο του Βασίλη Kωστάκη, Ομότιμο Μανιφέστο: Δημιουργώντας τον κόσμο που θέλουμε μέσα στον κόσμο που θέλουμε να ξεπεράσουμε, από τις Βορειοδυτικές Εκδόσεις σε τιμή που καθορίζει ο αναγνώστης. Στις επόμενες ημέρες το pdf του βιβλίου θα είναι ελεύθερα διαθέσιμο ενώ θα υπάρχει και στα ράφια των Πρωτοπορία & Πολιτεία. To Ομότιμο Μανιφέστο αποτελεί [...]

Με χαρά ανακοινώνουμε την έκδοση των αδειών Creative Commons 3.0 Ουγκάντα! Η ομάδα των συνεργατών μας στην Ουγκάντα δούλεψε σκληρά από την είσοδο της χώρας στην οικογένεια των Creative Commons τον Μάρτιο του 2011 μέχρι σήμερα. Αφού φιλοξένησε με μεγάλη επιτυχία το African Regional Meeting και συγκέντρωσε υπογραφές για τον Παν-Αφρικανικό Οργανισμό Πνευματικής Ιδιοκτησίας, κατάφερε [...]

Earlier this year, Blackboard announced xpLor — a new cloud-based learning object repository that will work across the various learning management systems (LMS) in use at educational institutions: e.g., Blackboard, Moodle, ANGEL, and Sakai. xpLor’s goal, as stated by Product Manager Brent Mundy, is to dissolve content boundaries between LMS’s and institutions so that instructors [...]

Last week the Bibliothèque nationale de France (BnF) concluded two new agreements with private companies to digitze over 70.000 old books, 200.000 sound recordings and other documents belonging (either partially or as a whole) to the public domain. While these public private partnerships enable the digitization of these works they also contain 10-year exclusive agreements [...]

In December, we blogged about a new initiative by journalists called Syria Deeply, a news platform aiming to redesign the user experience of the Syrian conflict through news aggregation, interactive tools, original reporting, and feature stories. To encourage sharing and viral distribution, Syria Deeply licensed everything on its site under Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY).

Now “I Am Syria,” a project to increase education about Syria in the classroom, is working with Syria Deeply and President-elect Steve Armstrong of the National Council for Social Studies (NCSS) to build a lesson plan about the Syrian crisis. This lesson plan, along with other open educational resources for the classroom, is available at iamsyria.org under CC BY. It will be the first in a series of teaching materials on global events and humanitarian issues.

From the announcement,

Even the most off-the-shelf tech solutions can make a monumental impact in bringing more foreign policy education to our schools. Which is why we built our Creative Commons licensed open courseware on IamSyria.org as a portal to our teacher friendly lesson plan. You simply go to IamSyria.org to download a Teacher’s Guide, and you will have a full 40 minute lesson plan’s worth of Common Core friendly material to expand your student’s horizons about global affairs. Included on the website is an introductory background video for your students as well as supplemental materials for executing the lesson plan, including a PowerPoint with accompanying worksheet, a video on what other kids are doing, and a Presidential Cabinet exercise which has been focus-grouped and loved by students.

By CC licensing its resources, “I Am Syria” will encourage teachers everywhere to educate their students about events in Syria and why it impacts them. Teachers will also be able to adapt “I Am Syria” resources to their particular classroom needs, and even contribute to the resources’ improvement over time.

Ministerstwo Edukacji Narodowej wydało dziś w sieci oficjalny poradnik w postaci pytań i odpowiedzi dotyczący praw autorskich w ramach projektów realizowanych z Programu Operacyjnego Kapitał Ludzki (PO KL). Jest to zarazem pierwsze stanowisko zalecające stosowanie wolnych licencji Creative Commons do udostępniania utworów oraz porad jak najlepiej regulować je na poziomie umów. To  bardzo ważny dokument z perspektywy dotychczasowych interpretacji regulaminów PO [...] 2013-01-21T00:02:17Z

1. 10 stycznia w Gazecie Wyborczej odbyła się debata o e-podręcznikach i programie Cyfrowa Szkoła, relacje na łamach Gazety i Co nas uwiera, a tutaj prezentacja Kamila Śliwowskiego o rekomendacjach Banku Światowego i Koalicji Otwartej Edukacji dot. e-podręczników. 2. U.S. News opisuje co raz silniejszy trend otwierania podręczników i zasobów edukacyjnych w USA, gdzie podobnie do Polski wiąże się to z dyskusją publicznym finansowaniu edukacji [...] 2013-01-21T00:02:17Z

2013年1月20日 第二十二期 CC中国大陆动态 中国大陆版 CC 协议正式更新为3.0版本 知识共享中国大陆项目团队已经完成知识共享（Creative Commons, CC）3.0协议的本地化工作，该协议已经由知识共享组织（CC组织）于2012年年末正式发布 （http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/cn/）供公众使用。自此，中国大陆版CC协议正式升级为3.0 版本。 阅读全文>> 《开放的力量》中文版采用中国大陆3.0版CC协议发布 《开放的力量》（The Power of Open）是一本融汇全球CC创作者、使用者经历的故事集。近期，知识共享中国大陆项目组织将其翻译为中文，于2012年12月29日采用CC署名-3.0-中国大陆版协议在网络发布。 阅读全文>> CC中国大陆项目应邀赴清华大学进行交流活动并举行CC十周年生日会 知识共享中国大陆项目团队应清华学堂人才培养计划钱学森力学班首席科学家郑泉水教授的邀请，赴清华大学与钱学森班的同学们进行交流，介绍知识共享协议与开放共享理念，并举行CC十周年庆祝活动。 阅读全文>> CC国际社群消息 CC“旧金山Style”——CC十周年庆典在旧金山隆重举行 2012年12月的一个星期六，我们为CC协议十周年举杯共饮，庆祝它在十年里使近5亿具有创造性的教育、科学、艺术作品得以分享和重新利用。庆典在旧金山城市规划研究协会商业区的三个楼层进行，共有350人参加了这一盛典。 阅读全文>> 500px 网站宣布采用CC协议 近日，照片分享平台500px宣布为用户提供知识共享协议选项。500px (http://500px.com/) 在近几年逐渐成为一个有才华的摄影家的照片分享中心，其加入采纳知识共享协议的队伍是一件让人欣喜的事情。 阅读全文>> 布鲁金斯学会建议用CC建设创新型经济 近日，美国布鲁金斯学会通过报告，提出了促进技术行业创业和创新增长的政策思路——通过采用CC协议，鼓励教育创新。 阅读全文>> “CC十周年“之特色平台：Jamendo Jamendo不仅是音乐家的聚集地，也是发现新音乐的好工具。与应用CC协议的其他平台不同，Jamendo的每首歌都以CC协议许可他人使用。对于其中的许多歌曲，用户还可以通过Jamendo PRO服务购买其商业性权利。 阅读全文>> 欧洲国家CC司法管辖区以Mixtape的形式庆祝CC十周年 欧洲国家CC司法管辖区为庆祝CC十周年，特别制作了一部音乐作品合集“mixtape”。卡带由以CC署名许可协议发布，由16个欧洲司法管辖区各推荐1-2首CC协议许可的音乐作品构成。 阅读全文>> 维基共享（Wikimedia Commons）下载量突破1500万 正值CC十周年之际，维基共享宣布其下载量到达了1500万。这1500万文件，可供用户重新使用，重新混合使用，也可以用作商业和非商业目的的分享。而他们中的大多数都是在CC-BY和CC-BY-SA协议下发布的。 阅读全文>> 盖茨基金会捐350万美元协助向成人英语学习者开放CC署名协议下的教育资源 正值CC十周年之际，华盛顿州社区和技术学院（SBCTC）董事会宣布，比尔和梅林达·盖茨基金会将 350万美元的赠款给“集成数字英文促进项目”（ I-DEA），这将有助于成人英语学习者提高语言技能，同时，通过技术工具和资源，为他们提供职业和大学学业准备等培训。 阅读全文>> 了解更多关于知识共享CC的相关消息请访问： CC中国大陆项目网站：http://cn.creativecommons.org/ CC总部网站：http://www.creativecommons.org/ 编辑: 刘 萍 资讯翻译：孙蓓蓓、季丛芳、张文峰 除非另有声明，本期内容均采用知识共享署名 2.5 中国大陆许可协议进行许可。

PLOS and figshare announced a partnership earlier today that will allow authors publishing in PLOS journals host their data on figshare. The authors would also benefit from the visualization capabilities that figshare provides right in the browser alongside the content. This partnership symbolizes all that is good about a healthy scientific publishing process that is enabled by innovative thinking aided by open licensing tools from Creative Commons.

When PLOS launched ten years ago, everyone involved could only hope for the kind of success it has seen in promoting open access publishing. Now with seven journals, six Currents sections, a network of blogs and new ways such as hubs and collections to organize content post-publication, PLOS spans a range of options from very selective to relatively inclusive. PLOS is the undisputed leader in the open access publishing space, and everything published by PLOS is under a CC license. But PLOS is constantly thinking of new ways to make the publishing process better.

John Chodacki, Director of Product Management at PLOS: “We know that Supporting Information acts as a container for valuable resources and data, but can remain relatively hidden from readers. With our partnership with figshare we are opening this data up to PLOS readers and showcasing its value.”

figshare is much younger. Founded by Mark Hahnel, a young scientist frustrated with the stunted mechanism for data sharing, figshare also adopted a blanket open licensing policy based on CC licenses and public domain dedication, and made it easy to upload, visualize and share data.

Mark says, “The common goal of PLOS and figshare for open access to research are connected by the liberal licensing of content, giving authors control over their outputs. Without the standards set out by Creative Commons, partnerships such as this would be much less achievable. Long may it continue as the academic space moves into new ways of disseminating research”.

Both PLOS and figshare leverage the internet to the fullest giving scientists a better way to publish research results and data. This directly promotes CC’s vision of realizing the full potential of the Internet — universal access to research and education, full participation in culture — to drive a new era of development, growth, and productivity.

By complementing each other, PLOS and figshare help the entire scientific process take another step toward being truly open. They are shining examples of leveraging the open licensing and public domain dedication tools created by Creative Commons. We wish them continued success and a future full of innovations we hope will continue to surprise and delight us.

Im November 2012 berichteten wir bereits über die Publikation, die Magdalena Reiter als Projektarbeit erstellt hat. Unter dem Titel “OPEN DESIGN – Wirtschaften mit freien Produkten / The Economics of Giving Things Away” versammelt die zweisprachige Broschüre vor allem Interviews mit verschiedenen Akteuren, die sich mit Open Design beschäftigen. Neben einer Webversion unter http://www.makedesignopen.com/ gibt [...]

正值CC十周年之际，华盛顿州社区和技术学院（SBCTC）董事会宣布，比尔和梅林达·盖茨基金会将 350万美元的赠款给“集成数字英文促进项目”（ I-DEA），这将有助于成人英语学习者提高语言技能，同时，通过技术工具和资源，为他们提供职业和大学学业准备等培训。 By blogefl / CC BY I-DEA项目的目标人群是该州英语水平最低的三个地区的社区大学生，I-DEA项目为他们设立英语（作为第二语言）课程。项目旨在帮助学习者达到他们的学习语言的目的以及职业目标—和传统项目与职业需求分离相比，I-DEA的教学时间也短了不少。 I-DEA的双重目标模式源于州的I-BEST模式（集成基础教育和技能培训）。美国教育局秘书Martha Kanter认为I-BEST模式与其他模式相比，能更快地促进成人教育的发展：“51%的I-BEST项目学生能在2年内拿到证书，而其他模式只有14%比例的孩子能做到….”（高等教育发展杂志） 这个捐助的一大特色在于所有的在线学习模式将在CC署名协议下发布。这样一来，用户可以使用，重用，翻译，重新组装所有I-DEA给予的资源。I-DEA学习模式将会添加到开放课程图书馆中，成为华盛顿州在CC BY协议下发布的第82个高质量的社区大学课程资源。 这个捐赠还包括新的技术工具，便捷式贷款电脑，网络工具和在线咨询。新闻稿如是说： 在所有的目标中，大学和以社区为基础的组织（CBO）将创造开放的课程，并建立有技术支持的教育方式的最佳示范。使更多的学生接受更少的课堂教育。该捐款开发的课程和技术开发将是开源的，它允许高校和社区组织在华盛顿和世界各地复制I-DEA模板。 这个好消息到得非常及时，感谢CC的十周年生日礼物！感谢SBCTC的带头作用！感谢比尔梅琳达基金会的捐赠让这一切变为现实。 相关链接：http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/35710 翻译：张文峰