Creative Commons Canada Weekly: issue two Where we share some things that we like and think you might like too.
Image of the week
Last week a partnership was announced between Creative Commons, Wikimedia Foundation and The Metropolitan Museum of Art where the museum released 375,00 images under a public domain dedication Creative Commons Zero, known as CC0. That means all 375,00 images can be remixed to your open content loving hearts delight. This is a remix of Martha Bartlett with Kitten by CC CEO Ryan Merkley of CC's Senior Administrator Mari "always wants to help" Moreshead
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Speaking of remixes the folks at hyperallergic are already remixing The MET's content
As part of The MET announcement, Creative Commons also released the beta of CC Search which is super fun and something the community has been wanting for a long time. It included social features for list sharing and simple attribution. The search engine, currently in BETA, pulls Creative Commons licensed images from The MET, Flickr, 500px, Rijksmuseum and the NYPL. As part of working in the open CC's Liza Daly wrote up some pretty epic Developer Notes. On launch day it was receiving 2 queries a second!
Have you ever wondered "Why isn't x on wikipedia?" Well, a music festival in Toronto this weekend is having a wikipedia jam. The Wave Length music festival wikipedia jam will help get Toronto music institutions and artists onto Wikipedia.
2017 Open Education Advocacy and Research Fellow Ken Jeffery from BCIT wrote up his thoughts on the Importance of Open Education. His Fellowship is administered by one of CC Canada's Institutional Leads BCCampus
(super obvious newsletter easter egg: The cat's of The MET)
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It's a year old, but really anytime someone wants to talk about Star Wars and IP is a good time. Check out Berkman Radio and learn how law comes into play when fans start to reinterpret intellectual property?
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Our friends at Wikimedia Foundation made this awesome video explaining Creative Commons for The MET release
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