Sign it. Then pass it along to your friends to sign. Seriously. (This is a petition, created by John Wilbanks, formerly of Creative Commons, and all-around dynamo or pro-open-access energy.)

Like kickstarter, but for buying CC-licensed e-versions of law books from their original publishers. I wonder how many other kinds of publications this would work for?

“Invent Your Own Computer Games with Python” is a free book (as in, open source) and a free eBook (as in, no cost to download) that teaches you how to program in the Python programming language. Each chapter gives you the complete source code for a new game, and then teaches the programming concepts from the example.

Searchable online street map that doesn't track you back. "OpenStreetMap is open data, licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0 licence (CC BY-SA)."

InfosmART is a portfolio of easy-to-follow interactive modules in information, study and research skills.

Roger McGuinn & folk song preservation. CC-licenced mp3s.

Good discussion and some great points, particularly this one for pro-copyright comments from "creative class" types: "there are few absolutes in copyright. To the question of motivation, if no copyright equaled no work, the fashion business would collapse, as their products are not covered by copyright. Money is one form of reward, but there are others (many non-fiction authors make more money doing things ancillary to their writing than they do from the writing, and then there is the explosion in labors of love), and copyright is one way to arrange the flow of money, but it's a less good one than it used to be, because we are in an environment that makes that model of control less salient, and the other forms of reward moreso. So the logic of "It's copyright or chaos" isn't holding up well."

Creative Commons soll eigentlich ein unendliches Sampeln und Verändern ermöglichen, die Kultur einer dynamischen Metamorphose unterwerfen, aber meistens wollen die Leute einfach bloß konsumieren.

Das kreative Potential der Gesamtbevölkerung wird gern überschätzt. Natürlich entstehen wunderbare Werke aller Art im Internet, von Amateuren geschaffen, Videofilme, Gedichte, Bilder. Aber Youtube, dereinst angetreten, um jedem Menschen seinen eigenen Fernsehsender zu verschaffen, zeigt die Richtung an: Bei allem Wunderbaren, das Amateure hervorbringen - die Leute schauen am liebsten die Profis: Fast eine halbe Milliarde Mal wurde Lady Gagas „Bad Romance“ auf Youtube geklickt. Der größte Popstar der Welt steht an der Spitze: Das Internet stellt die Welt nicht auf den Kopf, es bildet sie ab.

In Deutschland ist das meistgeklickte Video der Welt nicht zu sehen, weil sich Gema und Youtube nicht geeinigt haben, wie viel Geld die Schöpfer der konsumierten Werke von Youtube, das zu Google, dem reichsten Internetkonzern der Erde, gehört, bekommen sollen.

The Case for Free Use: Reasons Not to Use a Creative Commons -NC License

"Open education is extremely important to Creative Commons, and vice versa. Educators are some of the strongest CC adopters and proponents, and the majority of OER are under CC licenses. This is particularly the case in areas such as Latin America, Asia and Africa, where the CC and open education communities overlap significantly."

the open-content textbooks collection that anyone can edit.

An easy to use shortcode for inserting a Creative Commons license image or license block to your posts or pages.