Félicitations à La Vie Rurale, notre première oeuvre en français qui figure en vedette sous contrat Creative Commons Canada. La Vie Rurale est une merveilleuse ressource éducative et sociale avec la mission de:

Diffuser rapidement de l’information de première qualité sur la ruralité au Québec afin de faciliter la concertation, le maillage et les discussions entre les intervenants, la population et les décideurs de l’ensemble des régions, de valoriser les réussites du monde rural et de démystifier le mode de vie rural auprès de la population urbaine. Aussi encourager la participation citoyenne de la population, des intervenants et des décideurs provenant des communautés rurales du Québec à des débats importants sur les événements locaux, régionaux et nationaux qui touchent ces communautés.

Pour faciliter leurs échanges, ils ont choisi le contrat de Paternité – Pas D’Utilisation Commerciale – Pas de Modification 2.0 Canada. Ceci est une continuation de l’esprit communautaire des villes rurales sur l’Internet. C’est un excellent exemple d’un effort à partager des resources culturelles distinctivement québecoise avec des diverses régions rurales francophones étendues au Canada.

Creative Commons Canada est présentement en train de multiplier ses efforts au Québec. Si vous êtes un artiste Québecois et voulez diffuser vos oeuvres sur l’Internet, vous devriez considérer un contrat Creative Commons. C’est une occasion de présenter les succès culturels du Québec devant une audience mondiale.

Congratulations to La Vie Rurale, our first French-language Featured Work under a Creative Commons Licence. La Vie Rurale is an amazing resource, a cross between townhall and a newsroom, with the goal of:

Quickly spreading quality information about rural Quebec in order to facilitate cooperation, connectivity, and dialogue between community members and leaders in order to give value to rural issues and explain the rural lifestyle to urban populations. Also, encouraging participatory citizenship between the public and leaders of rural communities in Quebec on important local, regional, and national debates.

To facilitate their collaboration they’ve chosen the Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 2.0 Canada licence. This is a continuation of the communitarian spirit of rural society transferred to a digital platform. This project is an excellent model for sharing technical and cultural resources with French-speaking communities across Canada.

Creative Commons Canada is currently trying to improve our advocacy efforts in Quebec. If you are a Quebecois artist trying to spread your works on the internet, please consider licensing your work under a Creative Commons Canada licence. It is an opportunity to display a unique and flourishing culture before a global audience. We are currently in the process of preparing a bilingual website to ensure that we can meet the needs of all Canadians; rural and urban in French and English.

Special thanks to Annie Binet (CIPPIC) for translation assistance.

From: Lawrence Lessig Date: November 23, 2005 14:37:41 EST To: cc-lessigletter@lists.ibiblio.org Subject: [cc-lessigletter] CC in Review: Lawrence Lessig on CC Licenses

[This email is part of a weekly series written by Lawrence Lessig and others about the history and future of Creative Commons.]

Today we announce a project to make that message clearer. Over the next six months, we will be developing a new feature with some Creative Commons licenses to enable creators to add links to permit users to commercially exploit their works.

We call this project “cc.com,” and while the details are still being hammered out, here’s the basic idea: Let’s imagine you’re a musician who is happy to have your music shared noncommercially. But, like
most, if someone is going to make a profit from your work, you want a piece of that pie. So while you’ll allow members of the public to use your work noncommercially under a Creative Commons license, you reserve the commercial rights. But you’d also be very happy to offer the commercial rights to others on certain terms.

Here’s how cc.com might work. You come to the Creative Commons site and select your Creative Commons license. If you select a license with a NonCommercial license element, then we’ll give you the choice of partners who might be able to offer your work commercially. (Alternatively, you could simply specify a link back to yourself for any commercial licensing.)

If you select a partner, the system would pass you through a partner site to enable you to specify the commercial terms associated with your content. That information would be added back to the Creative Commons license as a link to the partner site. Your Commons Deed could then look something like this:

cc.com Commons Deed mockup.

Like TV but bored of American content? Like the CBC but turned-off by the lockout? Imagine your favourite comedians without the inhibitions of a global media distribution infrastructure. Rocket Ace Moving Pictures is an innovative digital media group out of Toronto that is exploiting the power of the Podcast to give you TV on your terms. A video Podcast can distribute shows without being impaired by the size of the studio. Their first hit Dead End Days proved it was possible. Their newest project, Cerealized: Part of your unbalanced breakfast, is posted every Monday at 3AM EST. The website describes this ongoing project as:

Part character study, part social satire, and part poignant reflection on our own daily grind, this ambitious live-action comedy chronicles the weekly trials and tribulations of three average twentysomethings as they stumble through life wearing sensible footwear. Join Rocket Ace every Monday morning for Cerealized, now part of your unbalanced breakfast.

To promote their work they’ve licensed the show under a Creative Commons Attribution-Sharealike 2.0 Canada licence. They’ve also posted a version locally and answered some FAQ about use. Have a look at Episode 4 of Cerealized and feel free to make it part of your weekly diet

With video podcasts and Creative Commons, prime time is ANY TIME

Project Open Source|Open Access is a two and a half year University of Toronto cross-divisional, tri-campus initiative to develop a networked community of scholars, students and members of the broader community interested in the phenomenon of open source.

Visit the POS|OA website here.

Photo by Jerome Lavigne under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommerical-Sharealike Licence.

On the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month of the year, we remember the fallen men and women who sacrificed everything for their country.

In Flanders fields the poppies blow Between the crosses, row on row, That mark our place; and in the sky The larks, still bravely singing, fly Scarce heard amid the guns below. We are the Dead. Short days ago We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow, Loved and were loved, and now we lie In Flanders fields. Take up our quarrel with the foe: To you from failing hands we throw The torch; be yours to hold it high. If ye break faith with us who die We shall not sleep, though poppies grow In Flanders fields By John McCrae 1915

Look HERE for more remembrance themed photography on Flikr.com.

WATERLOO, ON, November 4, 2005 —The Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI), a leading Canadian think tank devoted exclusively to the study of international affairs, has selected a Creative Commons (CC) license for its IGLOO initiative (International Governance Leaders and Organizations Online). IGLOO is an online research portal for strengthening international governance research, a project supported by over 55 worldwide partners including Ontario’s Ministry of Research and Innovation.

Creative Commons CEO & Chairman of the Board Lawrence Lessig, said, “A free and more immediate attitude in sharing research, as exemplified by IGLOO, will place more value on the quality of ideas and encourage more rigorous and informed debates. Creative Commons is excited that its tools can facilitate the availability and accessibility of research and ideas via IGLOO enabling perspectives from different parts of the world to be represented in and influenced by the open sharing of ideas.”

Dan Latendre, CIGI’s Chief Information Officer, added, “The CC license is bound to change the way researchers distribute their findings. This licence lends to the immediacy that is necessary for international governance research to have a more profound and pressing effect.”

CIGI’s aim is to heighten access to knowledge for all individuals regardless of borders of important works relative to international governance via the IGLOO research portal. CIGI selected the Creative Commons license because it assures access, both technically and legally. The CC license asserts the author’s copyright, but signals certain uses that the author intends to authorize without the need to secure permission first.

The goal of IGLOO is to create global connections between people, processes and information to further advance research on many topics of global importance. IGLOO will help stimulate innovative solutions to the economic, financial and social governance challenges facing our world today.

IGLOO users are free to copy, distribute, display and download documents from the IGLOO Research Library if they give attribution to the author, and do not use the documents for commercial purposes or create derivative works. By agreeing to this license, every author in the IGLOO library database is making research easier and information more accessible for all.

IGLOO was launched on October 21 at the CIGI’05 international governance conference (www.cigi05.org). The conference engaged accomplished researchers, business leaders and policy makers from around the world to discuss and advance issues of critical global importance.

About CIGI

The Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI) is a Canadian- based international think tank founded in 2002. CIGI conducts research and advises on issues of international governance and multilateral system reform. CIGI’s mission is to become a leading global resource on governance for academic researchers, public officials, civil society organizations, NGOs (non governmental organizations), post-secondary students and the interested public. CIGI acknowledges the contribution of the Government of Canada to its endowment fund. Visit www.cigionline.org online.

About IGLOO

IGLOO is an online research portal created by CIGI and its partners. IGLOO aggregates high quality information, knowledge and ideas from around the world related only to international governance issues and makes it accessible in one centralized location. Academics, practitioners or researchers focusing in specific fields of international governance can use IGLOO as a global information and collaboration tool for accessing, sharing and disseminating governance information, research and knowledge regardless of geographic location. Visit www.theigloo.org.

Creative Commons, a nonprofit organization that provides a flexible copyright licenses for authors and artists, today announced that Google now enables filtering for Creative Commons-licensed content.

Following the example of Yahoo!’s CC-search that was released in March 2004 and then incorporated into Yahoo!s Advanced Search page, Google has incorporated a new element into its Advanced Search page that allows users to filter their search by Usage Rights. By choosing to search for content that allows some form of reuse or can be freely modified, adapted or built upon, search results with be limited to content that is made available under a Creative Commons license.

Creative Commons CEO & Chairman, Lawrence Lessig said: Creative Commons is thrilled by Google’s decision to join Yahoo! in enabling the spread of CC-licensed content. Now two major search engines recognize Creative Commons licenses; this confirms that CC is an important part of the infrastructure of the Internet.

Creative Commons own search page at now gives site visitors the ability to search using either Google or Yahoo!.