Author Archives: Diane Peters

World Bank stakes leadership position by announcing Open Access Policy and launching Open Knowledge Repository under Creative Commons

Posted on April 10, 2012 by Diane Peters

The World Bank has announced a new Open Access Policy! Effective July 1, 2012, the Open Access Policy requires that all research outputs and knowledge products published by the Bank be licensed Creative Commons Attribution license (CC BY) as a default. Today, as the first phase of this policy is unfolded, the Bank launched a [...] Continue reading →

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Version 4.0 – License Draft Ready for Public Comment!

Posted on April 2, 2012 by Diane Peters

“The Public, West Bromwich – Welcome to The Public Entrance Free” / ell brown / CC BY We are pleased to post for public comment the first discussion draft of version 4.0. This draft is the product of an extended (and unprecedented) requirements gathering period involving input from CC affiliates, community and stakeholders. Thanks to [...] Continue reading →

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Version 4.0 – Public Discussion Launches

Posted on December 10, 2011 by Diane Peters

We are pleased to announce the beginning of the public discussion process that we expect to result in version 4.0 of the Creative Commons license suite. Timeliness and Opportunity The 4.0 discussions held at the 2011 Global Summit confirmed for CC the need to commence the 4.0 discussion process now if we wish to consider [...] Continue reading →

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Creative Commons at WIPO

Posted on November 15, 2011 by Diane Peters

This week, Andres Guadamuz (CC Costa Rica) is representing Creative Commons at the 8th Session of the Committee on Development and Intellectual Property (CDIP) of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO). The agenda [PDF] promises review of several pending recommendations as well as a discussion of future work by the CDIP. Consistent with protocol, Creative [...] Continue reading →

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Copyright Experts Discuss CC License Version 4.0 at the Global Summit

Posted on November 3, 2011 by Diane Peters

CC General Counsel Diane Peters addressing affiliates / DTKindler Photo / CC BY The Creative Commons 2011 Global Summit was a remarkable success, bringing together CC affiliates, board, staff, alumni, friends and stakeholders from around the world. Among the ~300 attendees was an impressive array of legal experts. Collectively, these experts brought diversity and depth [...] Continue reading →

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Europeana adopts new data exchange agreement, all metadata to be published under CC0

Posted on September 22, 2011 by Diane Peters

Europeana — Europe’s digital library, museum and archive, and the first major adopter of the Public Domain Mark for works in the worldwide public domain — has adopted a new Data Exchange Agreement. The agreement, which data providers and aggregators will transition to by the end of 2011, authorizes Europeana to release the metadata for [...] Continue reading →

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