Creative Commons Certificate Program

If you have an interest in learning more about the Creative Commons and open access licensing issues. This year, the Creative Commons began offering an...

Using CC Licences for Collections & Remixes

This short presentation helps distinguish the idea of a collection of work versus "remixing" and adapting work. This presentation is available as a...

Some Tips on NC, SA, & ND attributes in Creative Commons Licences

Here are three things about various attributes that can be found in Creative Commons licences, which I find are not necessarily obvious, but good to know...

What Makes a Creative Commons Licence and How is it Useful?

If we open a Creative Commons licence up, what do we find? Here's a brief Prezi presentation that gets into the guts of CC licences or a PDF download .

Open Access Week 2018

International Open Access Week spans 22 - 28 of October this year. It's a great time to find out more about open access initiatives that you can both...

Briefly, about Copyright Law & CC Licences

Copyright gives the people that create various works, certain legal controls over those works. As the name suggests, it limits copying (thus various forms...

Timeline Leading to the Formation of the Creative Commons

Letter to Ministers Regarding the New NAFTA / USMCA & "Intellectual Property"

This morning, upon learning of the newly negotiated NAFTA or as it seems to be called now USMCA, I sent the following letter to ministers of the current...

Paywall Is A Compelling Documentary, Advocates OA

Last Friday night, I watched the new documentary, Paywall: The Business of Scholarship. If you're involved in...

Switch to a Mastodon Social Network

The Mastodon social network system is the most promising advance I've seen recently toward establishing a better, more compelling social networking system....