Version 4.0 - Creative Commons License Draft Ready for Public Comment

We are pleased to post for public comment the first discussion draft of version 4.0. This draft is the result of an extended (and unprecedented) period of gathering needs involving the CC partner network, the community and stakeholders. Thanks to all of you who have spent your precious time and energy in strategic discussions and preparing meetings in support of this draft. We created this first draft (v4.0d1), keeping in mind the main development goals formulated at the Global Summit 2011:

• Develop a set of version 4.0 aimed at the urgent tasks of important customers, including in countries where there are no localized versions of CC licenses and may never be for all sorts of reasons;
• Maximize interoperability by reducing the variety of licenses and promoting standardization where possible; and
• Durability and ease of use.

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation releases archived news footage of CC BY-SA
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Shot from " Arthur Charles Clark Predicts the Internet "; provided by Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC); CC BY-SA .

CC Australia announced that Australian Broadcasting Corporation, Australia’s largest public service broadcaster and news service, used Wikimedia Commons to release a set of TV news stories from CC BY-SA. In addition, other news broadcasters also make material available under CC licenses, which makes this project meaningful, which is that news bulletins were released without having obscure archival materials or raw video material, but even polished stories are broadcast by some ABC news programs. events in Australian history. Available materials include, for example, the Apollo 11 moon landing news report, the case of Azariah Chamberlain and the fluctuation of the Australian currency. Not to mention this 1974 video footage about Arthur Clarke predicting the Internet with amazing accuracy. More details .

The National Library of Spain and Germany and the Smithsonian Cooper-Hewitt Museum open their data using CC0

CC0 receives a lot of attention in the last couple of months in the field of data, in particular GLAM data (GLAM - Galleries, Libraries, Archives, Museums). The national libraries of Spain and Germany have released their bibliographic data using the CC0 public domain transfer tool. For those of you who do not know what this means: this means that libraries, as far as possible within their jurisdictions, have given up all copyrights, thereby transferring data to the public domain. Similarly, the Smithsonian Cooper-Hewitt Museum, the main design museum in New York, transferred to the public domain a dataset for 60% of their documented collection, also using a Common. More details .

Also in the spotlight:

• ^{We employ various positions, including a regional project manager in Africa and the Asia-Pacific region, a public support trainee, a consultant, a communications manager, and a chief accountant. Learn about all the amazing creative Commons features !}
• We restarted CC Canada and created a new team for CC Argentina.
• In continuation of the news on data and CC, we are pleased to announce that the Italian Ministry of Education, University and Research has developed a portal for open data on CC BY.
• The deadline for the Why Open Education Matters video competition is June 5, 2012. Start now to get a chance to be an open education voice and win $ 25,000.
• GoodSemester, a new learning platform, is focused on productivity in learning, allowing the exchange of notes, copying and editing by CC BY-SA.
• Speaking of news related to open educational resources (OER), OER university will provide free training with official academic credits - thanks to Creative Commons!
• Finally, we encourage you to visit our revised CC Education page and contribute to the OER policy register , which we are working hard to create. This registry will be a venue for decision makers and supporters of openness to more easily exchange and update OER legislation, OER institutions guidelines and supporting OER regulatory resources.

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