Today marks another milestone for the commons: the release of the 2016 State of the Commons, our annual deep dive and celebration of the global community working to further collaboration, creativity, and access to creativity and knowledge. This year’s report goes beyond data and metrics to focus on the people that power the commons in every region of the world. These stories illustrate how our movement is growing and evolving, driven by people who choose to share. The commons continues to grow, with the total number of CC licensed works now at 1.2 billion in 2016, including the increased use of licenses that invite remix, commercial use, and collaboration – up to 65% of all content shared this year...
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'Copyright Week' Protest Channels Aaron Swartz's Activist Legacy
Dell Cameron | The Daily Dot | January 14, 2014
To the many who view themselves as netizens, citizens of the Internet, the loss of Aaron Swartz was a devastating moment in history. One year after his death, the memory of the 26-year-old activist is galvanizing the efforts of organizers who share his passion for the freedom of information. Read More »
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A Fresh Look at the U.S. Draft Policy on 'Federal Sourcing'
By Mark Bohannon | July 29, 2016
In a recent article in Government Computer News, I looked at the challenge of reshaping federal IT with open source without go-it-alone government-off-the-shelf approaches to open source software. In that article, I noted that the growing use of open source software by governments has shifted from "whether to use" to "how to deploy." The latest evidence for this is a draft Federal Sourcing Policy announced by the U.S. Office of Management and Budget (OMB), which drives U.S. government (USG) procurement and IT policy...
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ACTA's Back
Simon Phipps | opensource.com | February 6, 2012
Now that the US bills SOPA and PIPA have been put on ice, attention has returned to their parent, an international treaty called ACTA. I've written extensively about ACTA before, but in summary it is an international treaty that has been secretly negotiated to ensure as little input as possible from the citizens of any country.
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Advancing Antimalarial Drug Research Through Open Source Initiatives
Jeremy Burrows | The Guardian | July 24, 2013
Open research can lead to new drugs tackling diseases that afflict the world's poor. But first, more scientists need to buy into contributing to something bigger than their careers Read More »
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CLIR Reports on Open Access to Images from Museums
Press Release |
Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) |
July 1, 2013
A new report, prepared for The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and published by the Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR), describes the current approaches of 11 art museums to the use of images from their collections, when the underlying works are in the public domain. Read More »
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Copyright Week: The Digital Public Domain
Michael Carroll | infojustice.org | January 14, 2014
Whatever one thinks about the rest of the Google Book business, I think it’s important to focus on the digitization of public domain books by both Google and the Open Content Alliance and to use these efforts as the basis for conceiving of the Digital Public Domain as a more robust version of the traditional public domain. Read More »
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Creative Commons Releases State of the Commons 2016 Report
Press Release |
Creative Commons |
April 28, 2017
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Free The Seed: OSSI Nurtures Growing Plants Without Patent Barriers
Nancy Owano | Phys.org | April 19, 2014
[The Open Source Seed Initiative] is concerned over restricting access to seeds through patents. They are stirring up public awareness over their mission to model a new crop system of seed-sharing in the spirit of open source software. On Thursday the OSSI group gathered at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, to give away a set of seeds that can be used by anyone. Read More »
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Happy Public Domain Day
By Luis Ibáñez | January 1, 2014
Copyright is a time-limited, Government-awarded monopoly, given to individuals as an incentive for the creation of works of art, and their eventual dedication to the Public Domain. [...] Read More »
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How To Choose Your Open Source Hardware License
Simone Cicero | Open Electronics | August 8, 2013
It’s always tricky when you create something: a complex project, a commercial product or just an hack and then you must decide what license you should use for that, for releasing it to the public... Read More »
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International Team of Scientists Open Sources Search for Malaria Cure
By Alice Williamson | June 21, 2014
The Open Source Malaria (OSM) project operates along very similar lines to traditional medicinal chemistry projects in that the team is looking for an antimalarial drug candidate suitable for Phase 1 clinical trials. However, the day to day running of the project works quite differently and is probably most clearly defined by the team’s commitment to The Six Laws of Open Science... Read More »
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Novel Open Source Seed Pledge Aims To Keep New Vegetable And Grain Varieties Free For All
Nicole Miller | University of Wisconsin-Madison News | April 15, 2014
This week, scientists, farmers and sustainable food systems advocates will gather on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus to celebrate an unusual group of honored guests: 29 new varieties of broccoli, celery, kale, quinoa and other vegetables and grains that are being publicly released using a novel form of ownership agreement known as the Open Source Seed Pledge. Read More »
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Now Available: 29 Flavors Of Open Source Seeds, Sans Patents
Nathanael Johnson | Grist | April 19, 2014
There’s been an argument going on for at least 100 years over seeds. Should they be free? Or should the people who develop them control, and profit from, their use? If they were shared, we’d have a more fluid development of agricultural technology [...] On the other hand, maybe breeders wouldn’t want to engage in the hard work of experimenting if they couldn’t sell their inventions for lots of money. Read More »
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Open Access Week 2014
Fabiana Kubke | Building Blogs of Science | October 25, 2013
What do brain machine interfaces and Open Science have in common? They are two examples of concepts that I never thought I would get to see materialised in my lifetime. I was wrong. Read More »
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Open Content at the Getty: Three Years Later, Some Lessons Learned
Mikka Gee Conway, Marissa Clifford and Nathaniel Deines | The Iris | August 16, 2016
Three years ago this week the Getty announced the launch of our Open Content Program, making available 4,600 high-resolution images from the Getty Museum and Getty Research Institute collections for anyone to use, modify, and publish anywhere for any purpose. In his announcement, our president Jim Cuno hinted that more content would be made freely available for reuse in the months to follow, including digital publications and other knowledge resources...
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