Creative Commons News: Epic Game Freedom Contest, World Bank Open Access Policy and Free Rap

Liberated Pixel Cup: an Epic Freedom Contest

We are pleased to announce the launch of the Liberated Pixel Cup, a free game creation competition launched in collaboration between the Creative Commons, the Free Software Foundation, Mozilla and OpenGameArt! The Liberated Pixel Cup is a two-part competition: to make a bunch of amazing works of art licensed for free culture, and to write a bunch of SPO games that will use them. We hope that many interesting projects can turn out ... but this will happen only if people like you get involved in the work! Technically, the project will be carried out in three stages. More details .
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World Bank Announces Open Access Policy and Launches Open Knowledge Repository via Creative Commons

The World Bank has announced a new Open Access Policy! Starting July 1, 2012, the Open Access Policy requires that all scientific results and information products published by the Bank be licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license by default. As part of the first stage of this policy, the Bank launched a new Open Knowledge Repository (Open Knowledge Repository) with more than 2000 books, articles, reports and research articles on CC BY. More details .

Also in the spotlight:

• The Austrian government, the Italian Ministry of Education, universities and research, the Italian Chamber of Deputies and the Harvard Library released their data using CC tools.
• Nature Publishing Group also released publication data for more than 450,000 articles using CC0.
• The musician Dan Bull gave Sharing is Caring to the public domain via a CC0. The song reached # 9 on the UK independent charts.
• Cathy Casserly, CEO of Creative Commons, was awarded an honorary doctorate from Open University for her contribution to open education.
• The Data Journalism Handbook, a joint project supported by the Open Knowledge Foundation to help journalists find and use data to create better news stories, was published under the license of CC BY-SA.
• We launched a set of ported licenses for Creative Commons 3.0 Switzerland. Many thanks to the CC Switzerland team for their hard work and dedication in improving the Swiss ported licenses.
• ^{Finally, we are looking for a Project Coordinator for Science and Data. Please inform all qualified and interested people!}

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