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Johanna Blakley: Lessons from fashion's free culture

Submitted by Mera Szendro Bok on Wed, 05/26/2010 - 12:04

USC’s Johanna Blakley does a TED Talk on why in the absence of copyright in the fashion industry, creativity and innovation have flourished.

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How to find Creative Commons images on Flickr

Submitted by New Media Rights on Mon, 05/24/2010 - 12:13

Looking to find free images ? Check out Flickr for creative commons images. Here is a screencast on how to navigate Flickr to find CC images !

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NMR community journalism project investigates increasing water rates

Submitted by New Media Rights on Mon, 11/16/2009 - 12:29
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AntWeb, Fedora Project, Wikitravel → CC BY-SA 3.0

Submitted by New Media Rights on Mon, 11/09/2009 - 12:42

Demonstrating that June’s migration of Wikimedia sites to CC Attribution-ShareAlike as their main content liense was a signal of much greater interoperability among free and open content projects going forward and not merely an end in itself are recent announcements from the Fedora Project, AntWeb, and Wikitravel, all moved or moving to CC BY-SA 3.0. Each has a different story as to how and why they made the move.

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Sign our petition to support the Open College Textbook Act of 2009

Submitted by New Media Rights on Thu, 10/08/2009 - 14:45

Please sign this letter to your Congressmen encouraging Congress to support openly licensed textbooks by voting for the Open College Textbooks Act of 2009. You can learn more about the Open College Textbooks Act right here on New Media Rights!

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Open College Textbook Act (S. 1714) promises seed money for the open education cause

Submitted by Meghan Bohn on Fri, 10/02/2009 - 17:29

The Open College Textbook Act proposes "to authorize grants for the creation, update, or adaption of open textbooks."

Specifically, it would authorize the Secretary of Education to award 1-year grants on a competitive basis to higher education institutions, professors, non-profit, or for profit-organizations that produce textbooks. The textbooks would be open licensed and available to be downloaded, redistributed, changed, revised, or altered by any member of the public.

Learn more here and then please sign our petition supporting the Open College Textbook Act.

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Youtube puts ads on videos without permission

Submitted by art neill on Fri, 07/31/2009 - 16:57

Youtube's filtering technology may be causing advertisements to appear on content without permission.  Besides the possible contract violations, the ads create catch 22's when uploading openly licensed (ie. Creative Commonsi) content to Youtube.   Youtube could have a significant effect on the future openly licensed video content.  This is appears to be a slap in the face to open content and step in the wrong direction.

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National Museum of Health and Medicine Releases Archive Under Creative Commons

Submitted by jason eliaser on Wed, 03/18/2009 - 11:47

Washington DC's National Museum of Health and Medicine in Washington is in the process of releasing hundreds of military medical images on Flickr under a Creative Commonsi Attributioni license.

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everystockphoto

Submitted by New Media Rights on Mon, 03/24/2008 - 13:17

From the site:

Everystockphoto.com is a license-specific photo search engine. Currently we index and search millions of freely licensed photos, from many sources, and present them in an integrated search.

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