Vancouver Foundation has announced that it will adopt an open licensing policy by January 2017. The foundation will require that all projects and research funded through community advised grant programs be licensed and shared under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license (CC BY). In addition, the foundation has pledged to license their own intellectual …Read More“Vancouver Foundation announces first CC BY policy for a Canadian foundation”
Today Creative Commons joins over 50 organizations in releasing the Hague Declaration on Knowledge Discovery in the Digital Age. The declaration is a collaboratively-created set of principles that outlines core legal and technical freedoms that are necessary for researchers to be able to take advantage of new technologies and practices in the pursuit of scholarly …Read More“Hague Declaration calls for IP reform to support access to knowledge in the digital age”
巴斯大学(University of Bath)博士后罗斯·芒斯(Ross Mounce)最近写了一篇关于爱思唯尔(Elsevier)如何向他收取31.50美元的“开放获取”研究文章的文章，该文章根据知识共享署名-非商业-禁止衍生(BY-NC-ND)许可协议进行授权。卡塔尔vs葡萄牙分析Mounce was understandably upset, because the article was originally published by another publisher – John Wiley – and was made available freely on their …Read More“Are commercial publishers wrongly selling access to openly licensed scholarly articles?”
今天，福特基金会宣布了一项开放许可政策，适用于所有受资助的项目和研究。新安排于2015年2月1日生效，涵盖大部分获资助的工作，以及顾问的产出。The Ford Foundation has chosen to adopt the CC BY 4.0 license as the default for these …Read More“Ford Foundation to require CC BY for all grant-funded projects”
We’re taking part in Copyright Week, a series of actions and discussions supporting key principles that should guide copyright policy. Every day this week, various groups are taking on different elements of the law, and addressing what’s at stake, and what we need to do to make sure that copyright promotes creativity and innovation. Today’s topic is about supporting fair …Read More“The Limits of Copyright: Text and Data Mining”
Last year, the U.S. Congress included a provision in its appropriations legislation that would ensure that some research conducted through federal spending would be made accessible online, for free. It mandated that a subset of federal agencies with research budgets of at least $100 million per year would be required provide the public with free …Read More“Public access to research language retained in U.S. spending bill”
Today Open Knowledge and the Open Definition Advisory Council announced the release of version 2.0 of the Open Definition. The Definition “sets out principles that define openness in relation to data and content,” and is the baseline from which various public licenses are measured. Any content released under an Open Definition-conformant license means that anyone …Read More“Open Definition 2.0 released”
Last week the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation announced that it is extending its open licensing policy to require that all content (such as reports, videos, white papers) resulting from project grant funds be licensed under the most recent Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license. From the Foundation’s blog post: “We’re making this change because …Read More“Hewlett Foundation extends CC BY policy to all grantees”
Creative Commons and the Open Policy Network are pleased to announce the first round of fellows for the Institute for Open Leadership. The Institute is a training program to develop new leaders in education, science, public policy, and other fields on the values and implementation of openness in licensing, policies, and practices. We received over …Read More“Announcing the Institute for Open Leadership Fellows”
The keys to an elegant set of open licenses are simplicity and interoperability. CC licenses are widely recognized as the standard in the open access publishing community, but a major trade association recently published a new set of licenses and is urging its members to adopt it. We believe that the new licenses could introduce …Read More“Dozens of organizations tell STM publishers: No new licenses”