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Гибкий веб-дизайн
Well, this is just wonderful! Students from Moscow Coding School are translating Resilient Web Design into Russian. Three chapters done so far!
This is literally the reason why I licensed the book with a Creative Commons Attribution‐ShareAlike license.
The Commons: The Past Is 100% Part of Our Future | Flickr Blog
This is very, very good news. Following on from the recent announcement that a huge swathe of Flickr photos would soon be deleted, there’s now an update: any photos that are Creative Commons licensed won’t be deleted after all. Phew!
I wonder if I can get a refund for that pro account I just bought last week to keep my Creative Commons licensed Flickr pictures online.
The Spirit of Flickr and the Problem of Intent - mor10.com
This is a superbly-written, empathetic, nuanced look at the issues around Creative Commons licensing, particularly the danger of inferring a “spirit” in a legal agreement.
“Spirit” as it’s being used in this conversation is a relative term. You have the spirit of the user, the spirit of the license, the spirit of the community, the spirit of the service, and the spirit of the law. All these can align and all these can diverge and that’s OK. It is also the reason we have a legal system that sets clear parameters for how things can be interpreted: Spirit is relative, legal decisions and documents are not (at least in theory). The whole idea of a legal contract (under which we can find CC licenses) is that there is no room for interpretation. The meaning of the document is singular, unambiguous, and not up for debate. Of course this is purely theoretical, but that’s the idea anyway.
The problem arises when the spirit – or intent – of the user when applying a license differs from the actual legal interpretation of that same license.
Flickr Users Are Wrong by Tom Lee
The title is harsh, but this is a good summation of the issues involved in choosing a Creative Commons licence.
Open licensing is about giving up control so that other people can benefit. That’s all it will cost you: control. Having control feels nice. But you should ask yourself what it really gets you. And you should think about what others might gain if you were able to let go.
Think carefully and decide what you need. No one is going to make you tick that Creative Commons box. But when you do, it’s a promise.
Responsive Day Out 2 by adactio on SoundCloud
Here’s the Creative Commons licensed music that was playing during the breaks at Responsive Day Out 2.
dConstruct 2012 intersession soundtrack - Tantek
If you liked the music that was playing in the breaks during dConstruct, here’s the playlist of CC-Attribution tracks as chosen by Tantek.
THE COSMONAUT
A crowd-funded, creative commons licensed sci-fi film currently in production.
CASH Music: Calexico
Download Calexico live in Nuremburg, licensed under a Creative Commons attribution non-commercial share-alike license.
suda.co.uk/projects/cc [Creative Commons Moo Stickers]
Get Creative Commons stickers at the click of a button thanks to Brian and the Moo API.
Caroline Lucas MEP » Blog Archive » Green MEP Joins Forces With Music Legend To Protest ‘Corporate Bully’ Copyright Proposals In Euro-Parliament
My representative in the European Parliament is full of WIN!
Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs
The entire text of this seminal work is online in HTML, licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 Unported License.
Copyright Policy | Change.gov: The Obama-Biden Transition Team
The official website of the Obama-Biden presidential transition team is switching over to using a Creative Commons attribution licence. This bodes very well indeed.
Creating Proprietary Content is Like 'Writing in Sand' | Compiler from Wired.com
Tantek talks about the importance of open media for the longevity of data.
Urban Dirty: Free texture stock photography for your artwork, desktop and design
A nice collection of royalty free texture photos using the Flickr API.
CcPublisher 2 - CcWiki
This is a tool for embedding licensing information in files (like MP3s). I'm going to try this out and see how it goes.