Tag: Creative Commons

New Report Maps the Future of the Creative Commons

By Cat Johnson

06.18.13, 5:40am Comments (0)

Creative Commoners from around the world met recently to survey their 10 year history and map the future. The resulting publication, The Future of the Creative Commons, lays out the organization’s vision and strategic priorities. Read more »

Is Open Source the Solution to Global Warming?

By Joe Brewer

03.18.13, 8:52am Comments (4)

The solution to a massively complex global ecological crisis may be to spread the sharing meme. And here's an exciting opportunity to test it in the real world. Read more »

Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of YouTube Videos

By Mike Brown

02.11.13, 6:49am Comments (1)

I picked up Viral Spiral from the Boston Public Library because it was the oldest book that I could find that referenced the Sharing Economy. I thought that it would be good to learn about the events that led up to the explosion of the sharing movement as we know it. Read more »

This Week in Sharing: Books, Apps, and Events

By Kelly McCartney

01.31.13, 10:14am Comments (0)

This Week in Sharing covers open books, new technologies, and upcoming events. Read more »

This Week in Sharing: Education, Consumption, and Creative Commons

By Kelly McCartney

12.13.12, 10:00am Comments (0)

Everyone has tightened their belts to survive the past few years of economic strife, but the holidays generally demand a further notch-in. And, so we share. Read more »

Creative Commons Celebrates 10 Years of Opening Culture

By Paul M. Davis

12.07.12, 12:11pm Comments (0)

A decade in, what can the successes and the failures of Creative Commons tell us about the future of the free culture movement? Read more »

The Boom of Commons-Based Peer Production

By Commons Strategy Group

11.19.12, 9:58am Comments (1)

Free software, free culture, open hardware, general public license, copyleft... all of these shareable movements converge in peer production for the benefit of all. Read more »

Serve Cold, with a Heated Licensing Discussion

By Sam Muirhead

09.06.12, 4:45am Comments (13)

Depending on your point of view, the Non Commercial license applied to creative works -- and to these two beers -- is either the methadone that can wean copyright junkies off their all-rights-reserved habit, or it is a gateway drug to the psychedelic and dangerously addictive world of open source and free culture. Read more »

Why Open Education Matters Names Contest Winners

By Kelly McCartney

08.14.12, 10:09am Comments (1)

As a step toward spreading the OER gospel, a Why Open Education Matters video competition was launched back in March. The contest's winners were recently chosen. Read more »

This Week in Sharing: It's Full of Stars

By Paul M. Davis

08.09.12, 2:44pm Comments (0)

Raw data from Mars, pop-up restaurants, Amazon gives Unglue.It the boot, an online platform for collaborative creation, and more in this week in sharing. Read more »