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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。 第1500万个文件，如图所示，是一张由美国国家海洋和大气管理局拍摄，位于公有领域的热带低压气旋17-w的图片。从某种意义上说，照片完美地诠释了为什么维基共享非常重要。尽管照片已存在于公有领域，但是入驻维基共享数据库，将会发挥更大的作用。 正如Peter Weiss 对这一“1500万文件”宣告的解释一样，维基共享资源的数据增长主要源于美术馆，图书馆，博物馆，档案（GLAMs）馆的无私捐献。当文化机构以一种公众可以接触的形式，分享他们的收藏品中时，每个人都因为受益于此而变得更好。 相关链接: http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/35812 翻译：张文峰

越来越多的分支机构间的合作，为CC的快速成长提供了绝佳的机会。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”。该卡带由CC16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，并以CC署名许可协议发布。 相关司法管辖区采用多种形式征集音乐作品。最终16个CC区域机构同心协力，投入了远远大于预期的时间和精力去打造出这个mixtape。 完成后的mixtape展示了20位艺术家的作品，他们分别来自欧洲的20个国家：比利时、波黑共和国、保加利亚、捷克、丹麦、法国、德国、希腊、冰岛、以色列、荷兰、波兰、葡萄牙、塞尔维亚、斯洛伐克、斯洛文尼亚、西班牙、瑞典、瑞士和英国。它包含了各种音乐流派：民谣、古典、电子、摇滚…… 想试听这盘令人震撼的音乐卡带吗？敬请点击Free Music Archive、SoundCloud和 Internet Archive， 相关链接：http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/35877 翻译：季从芳

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。 CC十周年庆典之际，不得不提到无数应用CC的媒体平台。今天，我们将为大家介绍Jamendo的联合创始人兼总经理Pierre Gérard。 为庆祝CC十周年，Pierre和他的团队将用CC发布的Jamendo排名前十的的歌曲制作了一个特别的播放列表。他表示： 回首Jamendo走过的8年，正是无数艺术家的天才造就了今天一个丰富多彩的自由音乐世界。我们挑选的流行音乐出自世界各地的艺术家之手，形成了播放列表中不同音乐流派的荟萃。最重要的是我们选择了支持并信任CC的艺术家们，他们一直致力于推广CC。 Q: 请简单介绍一下Jamendo的历史。一开始你们就计划使用CC许可协议吗？ A: 是的，CC许可是我们公司的第一个商业模式。虽然我们自己的许可服务——Jamendo PRO花了很久才推出，但早在2004年创建Jamendo时，公司就一直本着为消费者提供免费音乐和专业许可的理念。CC是Jamendo的种子，当今数字时代，我们致力于创造一个新模式为艺术家们提供更多的机会推广和分享他们的音乐。 Q: Jamendo上所有的内容都以CC许可协议上传，这在各种媒体平台中很特别。请问用户对此是否有疑问？ A: 是的，我们需要解释如何使用CC协议。过去，人们因为习惯于传统著作权中的禁止使用政策，总是对CC的理念充满困惑。不过，CC总是易于被人们接受和理解的。 Q：请介绍一些利用CC许可协议，实现歌曲重复使用的例子？ A：CC的开放性使得我们经常参与许多有意义的项目。帮助Jamendo成员号召CC艺术家们为日本海啸难民筹款。我们也与ccMixter 合作，进行圣诞歌曲的重新合成。去年，CC西班牙摇滚乐队“Stormy Mondays”赢得了美国航空航天局的比赛，他们的歌曲“日出1号”会随“奋进”号航天飞机升空，在太空中播放。 Q：对于一个正在犹豫是否采用CC协议分享其作品的音乐家，你会给出哪些建议呢？ A: 使用CC你只会获益，不会受损。因为音乐无处不在，你根本无法阻止音乐的传播。使用CC许可免费提供你的音乐，无论名声还是金钱，你终将获益。 Q: 音乐产业十年后会怎么样？会默认采用开放协议吗？ A: 开放许可未来一定有强劲的发展，但我不确定是否会成为默认的许可方式。我总爱拿开放许可与开源软件作比较。自由许可出现后，IT产业发生了巨大的变化：新的商业模式催生了新型公司；但是原来的公司模式依然存在，并不断变化发展。 十年后，我确信随着越来越多的艺术家使用CC协议发布自己的音乐，开放许可在音乐市场的份额将不断增长。我衷心希望Jamendo能在其中发挥重要的作用。 相关链接：http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/35875 翻译：季从芳

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。 CC全球各司法管辖区在世界各地开展各式各样的庆祝活动，这些庆祝活动陆续进行到 12月16日（CC协议的实际生日）。你可以在CC 10 Flicker pool 上看到这些活动的所有照片。 350人参加了CC旧金山庆典，庆典在旧金山城市规划研究协会商业区的三个楼层进行。每个楼层有不同的活动项目，包括全球生活项目(Global Lives project)的影像艺术展（包括十段影像——每段影像是对某个人一天24小时生活的追踪）和Dublab用知识共享协议许可的音乐和多媒体量身定做的CC十周年混音版歌曲。 长期“CC”音乐人也是CC项目早期成功的范例之一——Colin Mutchler，邀请了CC项目的共同创始人 Larry Lessig 作开场白。Larry Lessig 脱稿演讲表达了他对过去十年的感激之情，接着CC项目的首席执行官Cathy Casserly 表达了她对下一个十年的憧憬。 Cathy, Larry 和所有其他CC董事会成员参加了此次庆典。 知识共享继续对社会各界产生影响。请点击链接回顾CC十周年庆典活动，并欢迎资助我们未来长远的发展。 相关链接：http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/35749 翻译：黄丹丹

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Earlier today, US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton unveiled the Open Book Project (remarks, project page, press notice), an initiative to expand access to free, high-quality educational materials in Arabic, with a particular focus on science and technology. These resources will be released under open licenses that allow their free use, sharing, and adaptation to local context.

The initiative will:

• Support the creation of Arabic-language Open Educational Resources (OER) and the translation of existing OER into Arabic.
• Disseminate the resources free of charge through project partners and their platforms.
• Offer training and support to governments, educators, and students to put existing OER to use and develop their own.
• Raise awareness of the potential of OER and promote uptake of online learning materials.

Creative Commons is proud to be a part of the Open Book Project, partnering with the Department of State; the Arab League Educational, Cultural and Scientific Organization; and our open colleagues around the world. CC licenses are core to OER, providing the world’s teachers and students the rights needed to legally reuse, revise, remix, and redistribute educational resources. When education content is CC licensed, it may be legally translated into (or from) Arabic and any other language. Using CC licenses provides an unprecedented opportunity to ensure OER are able to bridge cultures and fill educational gaps that exist on a global, regional, and local level.

In Clinton’s words, “Talent is universal, but opportunity is not. It’s incumbent upon all of us to keep opening doors of opportunity, because walking through it may be a young man or young woman who becomes a medical researcher and discovers a cure for a terrible disease, becomes an entrepreneur, or becomes a professor who then creates the next generation of those who contribute.”

When digital learning resources can be openly licensed and shared for the marginal cost of $0, many educators believe we collectively have an ethical and moral obligation to do so. Congratulations to all of the partners who will work together to help more people access high quality, affordable educational resources.

Update (Jan 29): The full text of Secretary Clinton’s speech is now available.

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。 “我们需要更快地采用数字教科书，更广泛地在教材中使用CC协议，以便促进知识的传播，同时我们也需要加快推动教育创新的政策变化。” “在一个资源有限的时代，教育者必须想清楚如何用较少的资金做更多的事情。其中一种能够提高学校效益和融资的方式，就是鼓励教育资源采用CC协议授权，从而让更多的人能够获取这些教学材料。”预算的限制要求学校变得更高效，并且要用较少的资金达成目标。同时它也将为经营活动中产生创新和变革创造可能。” “纵观这些举措，我们应该有评估教育创新的实施及影响的标准。我们应当确定多快从纸质教科书过渡到数字教科书，充分利用CC协议，执行和认可教育政策的变化从而鼓励更多创新性的学习方法和成就。” 相关链接：http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/35290 翻译：金汉v

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。 500px发布的新闻稿说，“尽管我们的平台依然默认全面的版权保护，我们希望给予摄影家们更多自由以帮助他们传播自己的作品，建立自己的事业。”500px的CEO奥列格·古特索说，“我们选择知识共享协议是我们为逐渐增多的用户群提供服务和传递理念的另一种方式。” 数千万高质量的专业照片可以通过知识共享协议获取，500px此举意图在于为来自博客主、出版者和媒体出版物日益强烈的需求未雨绸缪。 “我们正在搭建基于关键词和应用性许可(applicable license)的搜索引擎，”古特索说，“我们的愿望是定位搜索工具能帮助人们不遗漏地寻找到他们所需的内容。” 通过这次首次尝试，500px加入了其他主流富媒体的队伍中，像Vimeo, SoundCloud和YouTube都已经使用了知识共享协议。 “500px的加入对于嵌入知识共享协议的媒体大家族而言是重要的，”知识共享CEO凯西·凯瑟瑞说，“500px迎合了有天赋和智慧的摄影家社区的需求，这些人正是我们希望能够采纳知识共享协议来分享作品的。我很期待看到世界各地的有创造力的人们会如何对来自500px摄影家的作品进行混合和再创作。” 相关链接：http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/35279 翻译：胡骋

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 can more easily share, discover, and reuse course content. While the LMS is good at administering courses, LMSs are not particularly good at large-scale content management. For example, you can only manage content within an individual course, and you can’t easily share course content with other instructors using a different LMS or even with instructors using the same LMS at different institutions.

Now, with xpLor, which is currently in beta at more than 70 institutions, you can. Since xpLor is cloud-based and built using IMS standards (such as Common Cartridge and Learning Tools Interoperability), any LMS employing IMS standards can work with it. And now, xpLor has added Creative Commons license options, which means that instructors and institutions can create, share, and even build on each other’s CC-licensed content all through the same interface.

The default license for adding content is Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY),

but instructors can opt for a different CC license or their own custom terms. Here’s an example of what a CC-licensed resource via xpLor looks like:

xpLor also integrates CC-licensed content from existing open education projects, like the Khan Academy and Blackboard CourseSites’ CC BY licensed courses.

Instructors can find resources from these projects in addition to content added by their colleagues via xpLor’s search interface. As shown below, the CC license mark is clearly displayed next to each resource. In the future, instructors will be able to filter their searches by the CC license they desire.

In addition, xpLor offers instructors the ability to directly copy, edit and remix CC-licensed content in its system, as long as the resource is one of the basic common content types found in all LMS’s, according to common cartridge standards. As instructors pull from various sources to create content, the resource’s attribution and license will automatically be retained and carried into the new, derivative work, thanks to xpLor’s built-in support for authoring and versioning. In future iterations, content will also be exportable according to the same standards, with the license metadata attached.

For those interested in learning more, Blackboard has produced an infographic site on how it all works, where you can also sign up to receive additional info. If you want the back story on how xpLor originated, including the technical details of how the different systems will operate, we recommend reading project consultant Professor Chuck Severance’s post on xpLor.

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 can more easily share, discover, and reuse course content. While the LMS is good at administering courses, LMSs are not particularly good at large-scale content management. For example, you can only manage content within an individual course, and you can’t easily share course content with other instructors using a different LMS or even with instructors using the same LMS at different institutions.

Now, with xpLor, which is currently in beta at more than 70 institutions, you can. Since xpLor is cloud-based and built using IMS standards (such as Common Cartridge and Learning Tools Interoperability), any LMS employing IMS standards can work with it. And now, xpLor has added Creative Commons license options, which means that instructors and institutions can create, share, and even build on each other’s CC-licensed content all through the same interface.

The default license for adding content is Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY),

but instructors can opt for a different CC license or their own custom terms. Here’s an example of what a CC-licensed resource via xpLor looks like:

xpLor also integrates CC-licensed content from existing open education projects, like the Khan Academy and Blackboard CourseSites’ CC BY licensed courses.

Instructors can find resources from these projects in addition to content added by their colleagues via xpLor’s search interface. As shown below, the CC license mark is clearly displayed next to each resource. In the future, instructors will be able to filter their searches by the CC license they desire.

In addition, xpLor offers instructors the ability to directly copy, edit and remix CC-licensed content in its system, as long as the resource is one of the basic common content types found in all LMS’s, according to common cartridge standards. As instructors pull from various sources to create content, the resource’s attribution and license will automatically be retained and carried into the new, derivative work, thanks to xpLor’s built-in support for authoring and versioning. In future iterations, content will also be exportable according to the same standards, with the license metadata attached.

For those interested in learning more, Blackboard has produced an infographic site on how it all works, where you can also sign up to receive additional info. If you want the back story on how xpLor originated, including the technical details of how the different systems will operate, we recommend reading project consultant Professor Chuck Severance’s post on xpLor.

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