Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
DECEMBER 5, 2009
We filed the following comments to the Copyright Office's request for comments on issues about access for people with print disabilities. Many of the comments critical of the proposed treaty come from parties that object in principle to copyright exceptions, rather than having a direct stake in the issue at hand. Because of money.
Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
FEBRUARY 19, 2014
The ABC would wrap together efforts such as TIGAR as a sharing portal, capacity building efforts for countries trying to create accessible book services and looking at issues like licensing. So, in the meanwhile, we will need to rely on licenses: permissions agreements. So, the publishers weren’t against all licensing.
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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
NOVEMBER 29, 2010
Subsequently, I invited Gautam John who works with Pratham Books to write a guest post about their social publishing strategy where he briefly touched upon their use of Creative Commons licenses. Enabling a Participatory Culture using Creative Commons Licenses by Gautam John. We now use Creative Commons licenses everywhere!
NTEN
JANUARY 22, 2014
Copyright laws can be confusing and so mired in legalese that they're almost incomprehensible. Creative Commons has tried to make copyright law easier to understand and allow content creators to share what they've created, and to allow other people to use the content they've created for their own purposes.
Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
NOVEMBER 23, 2009
Accessibility is a huge asset of open content materials, which are frequently released under the Creative Commons licenses and are freely distributable. We've been big fans of OERs and CC licensing, and it seems like the field is on the brink of really going to scale. We also can (and do) make them freely available on our website.
Tech Soup
SEPTEMBER 11, 2014
That's why Creative Commons offers a handy standardized list of licenses for creative works. These licenses allow you to give permission for others to share your work, and also to define how your work can be shared. In fact, that's exactly the kind of license TechSoup uses for most of our content! Your Questions.
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
MARCH 21, 2007
Interesting article over at the icommons.org site called CC Licensing Practice Reviewed Alek Tarkowski, ccPoland It mentions an experiment in a dutch town where they removed the traffic signs or the rules. It goes to point to some alternative viewpoints on cc licensing: A similar argument is made by Niva Elkin-Koren in ???
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