creative commons

Do you want to let your creativity run free and contribute to a better world at the same time? Come to the game night on May 2nd.

 

The European Parliament has voted in favour of the new Copyright Directive, a controversial piece of legislation.

 

In September 2018, Creative Commons Nederland will transform into an independent association. On 14 September a start meeting will be held.

 

On February 3rd, 2015 students of the Open Design minor at the Willem De Kooning Academy in Rotterdam will present their work at the Nieuwe Instituut.

 

On 5 January 2018, Creative Commons Netherlands, the Royal Library and partners are organizing an event to celebrate Public Domain Day 2018.

 

To add a sign or symbol to Unicode, you need to present it to the Unicode workgroup. Last October, Creative Commons submitted an initial proposal to get CC license symbols into Unicode, and recently submitted an updated application after some feedback from the workgroup.

 

A Kickstarter campaign has been started to get a book published that shows the world how sharing can be good for business.

 

Aaron Swartz died two years ago, on January 11, 2013. Time to remember him through the documentary 'The Internet's own boy'. The film follows the story of programming prodigy and information activist Aaron Swartz. From Swartz's help in the development of the basic internet protocol RSS to his co-founding of Reddit, his fingerprints are all over the internet.

 

On October 28th Waag, Netwerk Democratie, Open State Foundation, Bits of Freedom en Kennisland will organize a seminar about the ‘Impact of Open’. During this session we will investigate the boundaries, chances and treats of the information society for the citizens in relation with the government.

 

Steve Swiggers and Vincent Muller of the Dutch branch of Wikihouse presented their design at the RAP for an open source garden house. Via hollandwikihouse.nl they invited everyone to co-design specific parts they could find a solution for themselves.

 

Creative Commons (CC) has introduced their 4.0 licenses, now available for adoption worldwide. The 4.0 licenses — more than two years in the making — are the most global, legally robust licenses produced by CC to date.

 

Creative Commons has published policy statement in which it supports ongoing efforts to reform copyright law.

 

Waag and Kennisland organized the seminar ‘The Future of Open’. At this seminar, experts from various backgrounds discussed the future of Creative Commons and ‘open’ in the Netherlands.

 

More than 225 million photos have already been published under a Creative Commons license, but a recent research by Foter.com shows that a staggering 90% of those pictures are not attributed and 99% are not attributed properly! This means that e.g. bloggers cannot retrieve the correct attribution if they publish a photo.

 

Open data, DIY-biology, 3D-printing or digital fabrication: trends that cause us to ask ourselves new questions. For example about authorship, ownership or responsibility. What does our world look like if everbody is a producer? And what if all the information is available and usable by everybody? During ‘The future of Open’ on September 25, we will take a closer look at these questions.

 

Europeana, the European digital portal to culture, has made 350.000 images available coming from six renowned institutions in a first edition of their own (iPad) app. The app allows search in selected image collections of Europeana, Europe’s cultural and scientific heritage portal. The images included are available for free re-use and cover five themes: Maps and Plans, Art, Photography, Treasures of the Past, and Treasures of Nature. The code of the app, written by Glimworm IT, is also open source.

 

When Internet activist and hacker Aaron Swartz committed suicide, his death resonated far beyond his circle of friends, family and acquaintances, touching technology's greatest minds, other Internet activists, and millions of people whom he never met.

 

Can you resell your music that you bought at iTunes to somebody else? A federal court in New York has ruled in the case Capitol Records v. ReDigi that you cannot.

 

Dutch author Kluun has blacked out his website. Why? Because the author used random pictures.

 

In the book 'Sharing', Philippe Aigrain explains why - contrary to what is generally stated - non-commercial sharing of cultural works by individuals is a widely beneficial practice.

 

On Friday February 15, fellow Patrice Riemens and system administrator Henk Buursen organized a meet up in remembrance of Aaron Schwartz, the famous American Internet and social justice activist who committed suicide on January 11th 2013. Following is a blog about this evening by Patrice Riemens.

 

"Our idea is to remember Aaron, not in silence, but in a joint dialogue in which we will examine and discuss how to continue his work for freedom and justice. We remember Aaron Swartz, the American social justice and free information activist who on Friday, January 11 took his own life at his home in New York."

 

For the Open Design Contest, that will be held in Vienna this year, intern Sam Edens (Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences), together with the Intitute for Information Law (IViR) and Creative Commons NL has prepared an article in which copyright, industrial design right, patent law and trademark law is briefly explained. By looking at specific cases is illustrated which rights apply for designers, and how in these cases Creative Commons can be applied to achieve the goal of the designer.

 

The Wikimedia Foundation has launched its 12th official project: Wikivoyage (www.wikivoyage.org), a free, worldwide, online travel guide. Like Wikipedia and its sister projects, Wikivoyage is free to edit, free of ads, and built collaboratively by volunteers from around the globe.

 

CC10Musicians is a non-commercial project organized by Creative Commons Korea. They developed an iPhone app for the celebration of 10 years CC licenses, introducing 10 teams of musicians sharing their music under Creative Commons License. In Europe, a joint effort was made by all countries united in Creative Commons Europe to create a mixtape with contributions from all participating countries.

 

One and a half year after the release of the book 'Open Design Now, Why Design Cannot Remain Exclusive', the first standard publication in this field, on 12 December 2012 its content will become fully online available on the website opendesignnow.org.

 

Isjah Koppejan was invited to give a talk on Open Design and Creative Commons at the Renmin University of China Law School in Shuzou, China.

 

“Hack a Dutch Design!” is the invitation of Astrid van Roij-Lubsen to the Chinese students of Tongji University, department of Design & Innovation.

 

"Tears of Steel" was realized with crowd-funding by users of the open source 3D creation tool Blender. Target was to improve and test a complete open and free pipeline for visual effects in film - and to make a compelling sci-fi film in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.

 

The design of products is no longer reserved for professional designers only. With today's computer-driven prototyping machines, anyone can make designs and print them in 3D.

 

Downloading, uploading, sharing, and remixing of digital content is very common kind of thing for this generation of young people. But the subject of copyright is not so hot.

 

Instructables Restaurant is the first restaurant in the world where everything you see, use and eat is downloaded from instructables.com.

 

In January 2007 Creative Commons Netherlands published its first cd/dvd.

 

Waag and the new media initiative Sarai in New Delhi had an intensive collaboration called the Sarai Waag Exchange Platform.

 

Creative Commons licenses provide a flexible range of protections and freedoms for authors, artists, and educators.