creative commons

YouTube launches support for CC BY and a CC library featuring 10.000 videos.

Work found at https://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/27533 / CC BY 3.0

Finally an extreme handsome tool for all Creative Commons bloggers, called Open Attribute. With this Firefox addon or Chrome extension, you've got the CC-license in two clicks from the source page where you're copying/linking CC material. It will look like the rule here, which i copied from their website with their tool:

in html:
Work found at http://openattribute.com/ / Open Attribute / CC BY 3.0

in plain text:
Work found at http://openattribute.com/ / Open Attribute (http://openattribute.com/) / CC BY 3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/)

link: http://openattribute.com/

De Creative Commons-licentie is in België getest en rechtsgeldig. Een rechter uit Nijvel heeft een organisator tot een schadevergoeding veroordeeld omdat hij bij de keuze van een liedje de Creative Commons-regels niet respecteerde.

Lees het volledige artikel in Apache.
Link: http://www.apache.be/2010/11/rechter-bevestigt-rechtsgeldigheid-creative-commons/

Yesterday, netwaves was invited by the Cultural Counsil from Leuven to give some explanation about Creative Commons. The Counsil exists of people involved in non-profit organisations for amateur arts.

After our exposition, people could pose some questions, and what stroke me, there is a big demand for 'open/free' sheet music. I never had the interest to search for the existence of this kind of music experience, so i had not much to answer. Now, as a way to meet this demand, i've googled a bit on sheet music and Creative Commons, and i think these few links are a good start. My first impression though is that there is more public domain than CC, but that's maybe because most op the composers are dead, and so there's no need for a CC license?

So, bonne chance!

- Public Domain Sherpa: everything public domain with lots of research and explanations
- the Wikipedia page of sheet music, with some links (at the bottom) to free sheet music
- IMSLP / Petrucci Music Library: their goal is "to create a virtual library containing all public domain music scores"

Any other suggestions are welcome, you can use the comment field!

an old project:

Het favoriete muziekplatform 3VOOR12 van de Nederlandse VPRO heeft de microfoon onder de neus van Paul Keller (voorzitter CC Nl.), gehouden voor een kort interview, waarvan je de neerslag hier kan lezen.

image by creativecommoners - CC BY 2.0

Het eredoctoraat wordt uitgereikt door de UvA (Universiteit van Amsterdam) tijdens een viering op vrijdag 8 januari 2010.
Lessig is rechtsgeleerde aan de Harvard Law School en expert in informatierecht, voorvechter van vrijheid van cultuur en informatie op het internet.
Lessig is vooral bekend geworden als de initiator van het Creative Commons-stelsel dat
een wereldwijde standaard heeft opgeleverd voor gebruikslicenties op open content.

Het hele bericht kan je bij de UvA nalezen.

This is a test i did with the latest blog from the CC headquarters, and it works well (see last part):

"If you’re one of the couple dozen people who copied text off our blog yesterday, you may have noticed some more text accompany your clipboard when you pasted it — a link to our site and the license (Attribution) we’ve offered our content under. This is because we’ve installed Tynt’s Tracer tool on our blog which uses a bit of javascript wizardry to concatenate attribution and, as of now, particular CC license information to content copied from our site.

If you’re curious about how this works, try selecting some text from anywhere on our blog and pasting it somewhere. Rich text editors (such as most WYSIWYG HTML editors, or Gmail) will preserve the hyperlink but the text will also show up in standard plain text editors as well.

As a creator and contributor to the commons, you have the right to attribution (all six of our licenses require it), so why not make it easy for your audience to automatically provide it?

...

And don’t worry, the extra markup is just text. Nothing about Tynt’s tool forces reusers to do anything, its merely useful additional information providing proper attribution and license notification."

Read more: http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/16060#ixzz0MPOlgWc1
Under Creative Commons License: Attribution