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The local Jo’bloggers became some of the first authors in South Africa to dedicate their work to the public domain using the Creative Commons public domain licence. Why they did it?
‘Sometimes it’s not enough to leave things to assumption, especially if you want to make a statement. We want people to know where we stand, […]

SABC2, Saturday 11 December, 2004: Creative Commons was featured in the ‘Go Open’ program on open source software sponsored, in part, by the Shuttleworth Foundation and other go open partners. The series should soon be available from the program website.

An SL (Student Life) article on Creative Commons and alternative licencing schemes in the South African music industry.

Derek Keats is the first author that I know of in South Africa to publish an article in a commercial magazine under a Creative Commons licence. Tectonic republished because of this allowance here.

Congratulations to our local commoner, Rudy Nadler-Nir who sent in the winning entry in our Creative Commons magazine naming competition! His cool cc Tshirt was delivered personally to him in Cape Town Thanks, Rudy - and thanks to all the others who sent in their ideas.

An article in tectonic.co.za on the differences between the GNU GPL and Creative Commons licences.