Creative Commons

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Oneliner	Open Content Licensing Non-Profit
Summary	I worked for Creative Commons for approximately 3 years, initially as a Software Engineer, and then moved into a role as a community and business development manager to specifically push Open Source development surrounding Creative Commons licenses and standards. I worked directly worked with major technology companies around the world such as Google, Microsoft, Apple, Disney, Facebook, BBC, and so on.
End Date	September 1, 2008
Location	San Francisco
Website	http://creativecommons.org/
Status	Completed
Next Step	Support CC! — Contact, if interested.
Role	Manager
Collaborators	Community
Tags	copyright, freecontent, freeculture, lessig, mikelinksvayer, joiito, ericsteuer, licenses, webculture, sharing
Wiki	http://wiki.creativecommons.org/
Type	Community

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  CC Case Studies
  Explore and add noteworthy global CC stories
  Completed, Updated December 17, 2012, Official Site, Wiki

  A semantic wiki powered system to empower anyone to contribute to a community collection of case studies about using Creative Commons licenses and technology. http://creativecommons.org/projects/casestudies

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  CC Documentation
  Critical documentation about Creative Commons
  Completed, Updated December 17, 2012, Official Site

  Critical documentation about large scale CC specifications, recommendations, white papers, tutorials and other pieces that need to be written to explain various facets of Creative Commons across the board.

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  CC Salons
  Building Creative Commons Communities
  Completed, Updated December 5, 2008, Official Site

  CC Salons are global events focused on building a community of artists and developers around Creative Commons licenses, standards, and technology. The first event took place in San Francisco in 2006 with intention for the idea to replicate in other locations internationally. Since then salons have sprung up in 15 different cities around the world.

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  CC Zero
  A protocol that enables people to waive any rights associated with a work.
  Completed, Updated December 18, 2012, Official Site

  CC0 is a protocol that enables people to WAIVE to the fullest extent possible under applicable copyright law all rights they have and associate with a work so it has no (or minimal) copyright or neighboring rights restrictions attached to it. To the extent the waiver is not legally effective in any jurisdiction, then the protocol takes the form of a nonexclusive worldwide license to exercise all copyright and neighboring legal rights in the work.

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  CC+
  CC+ is CC license + Another agreement.
  Completed, Updated December 18, 2012, Official Site

  CC+ is a protocol providing a simple way for users to get rights beyond the rights granted by a CC license. For example, a work's Creative Commons license might offer noncommercial rights. With CC+, the license can also provide a link by which a user might secure rights beyond noncommercial rights -- most obviously commercial rights, but also additional permissions or services such as warranty, permission to use without attribution, or even access to performance or physical media. The CC+ architecture gives businesses a simple way to move between the sharing and commercial economies. CC+ provides a lightweight standard around these best practices and is available for implementation immediately.

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  Creative Commons Business Development Wiki
  Semantic MediaWiki-based Business Development Management System
  Completed, Updated December 18, 2012, Official Site

  A Creative Commons Business Development management and tracking system leveraging the power of CC Teamspace and tracking various efforts across the entire organizations to discover power relationships between data and to fit strategy to application successfully.

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  Creative Commons Development Community
  Completed, Updated December 18, 2012, Official Site, Wiki

  I participated in starting this development community by applying common Open Source community building strategies including building the holy trinity of communication: wiki, chat channel, and mailing list. The goal of the project is to focalize around Creative Commons standards and licenses. This project helped me to get noticed and hired by Creative Commons back in 2005.

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  Creative Commons LicenseChooser.js
  A simple javascript widget to add CC licensing to any site.
  Completed, Updated December 18, 2012, Official Site

  The CC Javascript Widget (LicenseChooser.js) provides an additional, lightweight method for integrating license selection into web applications. The widget is used by TypePad, as well as WpLicense.

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  Creative Commons Marking
  Best Practices for Marking Content with CC Licensing
  Completed, Updated December 18, 2012, Official Site

  A CC license is only effective if others have a way of knowing about it. It is important to clearly mark your content so that others are aware of what permissions they have.

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  Creative Commons Metrics
  Quantitative Data about Creative Commons Licensing
  Completed, Updated December 18, 2012, Official Site

  The Metrics Portal is about gathering, processing and visualizing metrics about Creative Commons' related projects, with particular emphasis on the adoption and usage of Creative Commons licenses internationally.

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  Liblicense
  Low-level license metadata integration for applications
  Completed, Updated December 18, 2012, Official Site

  A c-based library software applications may include to enable reading and writing of licenses into digital files.

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  PDwiki
  Public Domain Status of Creative Works on a Community Wiki
  Active, Updated December 18, 2012, Official Site

  The PDWiki project's goal is to build a community around publicly editing listings of copyright status of creative works. It has grown, changed, and gone through many phases to get to where its at now. It currently has three solid components (Open Library integration, PDregistry.ca, and mediawiki plugin integration) to its strategy, and has played key roles in both the CCZero and Content Registries projects.

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Jono’s “Art of Community” Released Under CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 License
Updated September 21, 2009 @ 4:38 pm

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Jono contacted me to review his book about community management, The Art of Community, awhile ago. You should buy it and read it no less than 3 times. The chapters are well split, and provide great examples that make this a classic of the scale of my other favorite book about Open Source, Karl Fogel’s Producing Open Source (How to Run a Successful Free Software Project). Jono’s book is now freed to be translated, transmitted, reformatted as long as one doesn’t make money off the work and does share back any changes since the book is now CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 licensed. Check it out!

Greg over at Creative Commons blog points out that: “The Art of Community isn’t just written for current or would-be community managers. It outlines and discusses all of the issues that are pertinent to simply working with a dispersed community of contributors.”

Honor the Jono by buying a copy! Honor the Jono and CC by translating the book and spreading the community love!