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How to find Creative Commons images on Flickr
Submitted by New Media Rights on Mon, 05/24/2010 - 12:13
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Webtreats Glowing Neon Social Media Icons by Flickr user webtreats used under Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 license
Best Practices for Creative Commons attributions - how to attribute works you reuse under a Creative Commons license
Submitted by New Media Rights on Fri, 12/11/2009 - 13:49
NMR community journalism project investigates: Solar panel financing scams
Submitted by New Media Rights on Wed, 12/02/2009 - 15:52NMR community journalism project investigates: Unpaid doctors in California
Submitted by New Media Rights on Tue, 11/17/2009 - 12:36AntWeb, Fedora Project, Wikitravel → CC BY-SA 3.0
Submitted by New Media Rights on Mon, 11/09/2009 - 12:42Demonstrating 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.
Sign our petition to support the Open College Textbook Act of 2009
Submitted by New Media Rights on Thu, 10/08/2009 - 14:45Open College Textbook Act (S. 1714) promises seed money for the open education cause
Submitted by Meghan Bohn on Fri, 10/02/2009 - 17:29
CreatureCast - a zoology podcast released under Creative Commons BY-NC-SA license
Submitted by New Media Rights on Wed, 09/23/2009 - 12:27New Media Guides Legal and How-to guides
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