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Category Archives: Creative Commons


Wikimedia to adopt Creative Commons Licence

May 25, 2009 – 8:23 am

The Wikimedia Foundation has just announced important changes to its licensing regime. The Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License will be used to “support greater interoperability and re-usability of Wikimedia content. The current GNU Free Documentation License will continue to be supported.”
The full press release is published on the Wikimedia Foundation website here. […]

By Jerry Leeson | Also posted in Educationau, content | Comments (0)

from the JISC: IP rights in a Web 2.0 world

December 3, 2008 – 3:16 pm

Nice work again from the JISC. This time on IP rights in a Web 2.0 world. There’s a great animation explaining rights from three different perspectives and a free diagnostic tool nicely licensed using CC of course!

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Powerhouse Museum collection on Flickr

April 9, 2008 – 8:21 am

From the Powerhouse Museum comes the news that they have joined the Commons on Flickr. From their website:
“The Powerhouse Museum is the first museum in the world to release publicly-held historical photographs for access on Flickr, one of the largest online photo communities in the world. The Museum joins the world’s largest photo library, the […]

By Jerry Leeson | Also posted in Educationau, geo-tagging photos | Comments (0)

IMS exploring use of Creative Commons licensing

March 4, 2008 – 10:11 am

From Stephen Downes’ blog, notification that the IMS Global Learning Consortium is exploring the use of Creative Commons licensing in its interoperability specifications. The press release from IMS doesn’t go into a great deal of detail other than plans to run a pilot project under a form of Creative Commons licence. It will […]

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