Links on Creative Commons from their Newsletter -- celebrating 5 years

CC News:
* Wikipedia and Creative Commons next steps
http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/7888
* Progress on license interoperability with Wikipedia
http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/7876
* Help Translate CC Software
http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/7863
* CC in Thailand: license draft in public discussion
http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/7854
* German public broadcaster adopts CC license
http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/7838
* Making and marking public resources as such
http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/7828
* Two New Academic Studies of CC
http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/7826
* Integrated Licensing in OpenOffice.org
http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/7819
* New Zealand Successfully Ports Creative Commons Licenses
http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/7768
* "creative commons" percentage by top level domain
http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/7741
* Luxembourg 40th Jurisdiction to Offer Ported Creative
Commons Licenses
http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/7737
* Creative Commons Licenses Launch in Greece
http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/7721
* CC in Thailand: a debut at ComWorld
http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/7690

Science Commons News:
* CC, Open Access, and moral rights
http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/7797
* Nguyen on our Materials Transfer Work
http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/7752
* Neurocommons in the news
http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/7694

CC in Business:
* Indaba Music Adds CC-licensing
http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/7875
* Anepsosis Uses CC for MMMORPG Character Art
http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/7832
* CC+ Video
http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/7827
* River Rat Records
http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/7813
* Fedora 8 Aids CC-Search in Firefox
http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/7804
* Cory Doctorow on How to Use CC-Licenses
http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/7801
* Help develop a course on Creative Business in the Digital Era
http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/7767

2007 Annual Campaign News:
* Creative Commons is turning 5!
http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/7855
* The 50,000 friends challenge
http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/7835
* Let the 2nd annual CC swag photo contest begin!
http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/7791
* CC Launches Widget Campaign
http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/7780
* Red Hat Shares the Love
http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/7778
* 5 Ways to Grow the Commons
http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/7731

Congratulations, shoutouts, use cases and interesting tid-bits:
* UK: Open Rights Group @2
http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/7836
* Panda Punk Lab: Inauguration in Chile
http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/7817
* Peter Gabriel, WITNESS, and The Hub
http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/7815
* Alex Miroshnichenko and the Santiago Fires
http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/7812
* CC China Photo Contest
http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/7786
* LibriVox Releases 1,000th Public Domain Audio Book
http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/7784
* BloodSpell: first full length machinima feature released
http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/7764
* Happy Birthday Public Library of Science
http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/7747
* Thanks and congratulations to Wikimedia Commons
http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/7744
* TempoStand: CC Music Platform
http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/7715
* Taking Stock in of the Creative Commons Experiment
http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/7701

The Creative Commons and copyright protection in the digital era: Uses of Creative Commons licenses

Kim, M. (2007). The Creative Commons and copyright protection in the digital era: Uses of Creative Commons licenses. Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, 13(1), article 10. http://jcmc.indiana.edu/vol13/issue1/kim.html

The abstract:

As digital technology thrusts complexity upon copyright law, conflict has escalated between copyright holders desperate to institute a vigorous enforcement mechanism against copying in order to protect their ownership and others who underscore the importance of public interests in accessing and using copyrighted works. This study explores whether Creative Commons (CC) licenses are a viable solution for copyright protection in the digital era. Through a mixed-methods approach involving a web-based survey of CC licensors, a content analysis of CC-licensed works, and interviews, the study characterizes CC licensors, the ways that CC licensors produce creative works, the private interests that CC licenses serve, and the public interests that CC licenses serve. The findings suggest that the Creative Commons can alleviate some of the problems caused by the copyright conflict.

Survey Closed

I have officially closed all the survey collectors. I've also finished all the interviews and begun transcribing them. Thus far, I have two transcribed and five to go. I am now going to download and print off the survey data for beginning analysis.