The University of Regina is launching a project will explore how our community is currently responding to the potential dangers of transfer of knowledge ownership from public to private interests, including the creation of an information commons.
The project will host a conference in Saskatchewan on NOV 17-18, 2005. To learn more, visit the conference website.
Photo by Jeremy Hessing-Lewis
We at Creative Commons wish you a Happy Halloween! May your evenings be filled with ghoulish delights and plentiful candy.
Why not post your Halloween pictures on Flikr under a Creative Commons Licence? or
For a list of wonderful DIY Halloween projects, see our Creative Commons Licenced friends at: Boing Boing
Happy Trick or Treat’ing
Halifax graphic artist Jennifer Romita will scare you stiff. Quoting from her website:
These figures, hybrids between real humanity and manufactured uniformity, are surreal. They are creepy. They are disturbing in their beauty and unsettling in their sexuality.
And they are meant to be.
Her art is on display at her website where she has prints available for purchase. To increase exposure while retaining specific rights to her creations, she has chosen the Attribution-NonCommercial-Noderivs Licence.
Arthur Carty, the national science advisor to Canadian Prime Minister Paul Martin, has written an op-ed piece that calls for greater scientific sharing and open access models. Carty argues that “an open-access philosophy is critical to the system’ s success: if research findings and knowledge are to be built upon and used by other scientists, then this knowledge must be widely available on the web, not just stored in published journals that are often expensive and not universally available.”
Read article from University Affairs
Creative Commons Canada speaks out on the importance of open access to creative works: Open letter on Canadian Copyright Reform
Salmon Falls was composed by John L. Hoben, an up-and-coming young Canadian poet from Musgrave Harbour, Newfoundland. The poem recently won a 2005 Arts and Letters Award (Senior Division Poetry) from the Government of Newfoundland & Labrador.
Salmon Falls is licensed under an Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives licence.John is also an accomplished teacher and post-graduate student at Memorial University. He has prepared the following lesson plan to “help students gain a broader conception of poetry, cultivate a more favourable affective disposition to poetry, and gain an intuitive understanding of some of the main structural elements of a poem such as rhythm, rhyme, meter, symbol, etc.”
Poetry Appreciation and Led Zeppelin’s Stairway to Heaven.
Additionally, John offers a two-part lesson plan which teaches “timeless humanistic themes expressed through a culturally responsive drama”.
Greek Myths, Oedipus, Antigone … and Star Wars.
Jumping Salmon image above by Margot Hessing-Lewis
Creative Commons kicks off its Fall Fundraising Campaign
For the next three months, we’ll be raising money to build core membership in Creative Commons and to help us to continue to offer free tools to enable a flexible range of protections and freedoms for artists, educators, scientists and writers. Please help us hit our goals for 2005.
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Want to share your audio and video files with the world? What better way than the CC Publisher tool from Creative Commons. Just click and drag your work, add the details of your licence and unleash your talent upon the world. Your work can be hosted for free at the Internet Archive or on your own site. Sharing has never been so easy.
For more information, look here.
We at Creative Commons Canada apologize for the current lack of French content. Over the next few months, we will be doing our best to provide translations of our core pages for the benefit of both the Canadian CC community and Quebec’s creative sector in particular. In this effort, we are seeking suggestions for French CC licensed Canadian work. In addition, any help translating parts of our current site will be greatly appreciated.
To make a suggestion or offer some help, please contact Jeremy.
Except where otherwise noted, this site is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 Canada License.
Sauf mention au contraire, le contenu de cette page est sous Contrat Creative Commons Paternite 2.5 Canada.
