CC License Your Tweets

Filed under: General — Tags: — Dave @ 7:12 pm

If you want to licence you Tweets with a CC licence, now there’s an easy way to do so.

TweetCC is a newly launched service that allows you to licence all your tweets under a Creative Commons Licence of your choosing.

This has a number of advantages, not least of which is that you may pick up new followers or extend the reach of your tweets by allowing people to easily pick-up, re-use and remix your licesnes on the terms that you stipulate. The site also allows users to search for other people who have licensed their Twitter streams under CC.

Users with CC licensed tweets

Users with CC licensed tweets

This is an interim solution until we have a way to integrate CC into Twitter streams directly and to display the licenses in the side-bar. Until that happens though, don’t forget about the open-licensed micro-blogging service that also sends your updates to Twitter: Identi.ca

Digital History

Filed under: General — andrew @ 3:56 pm

Creative Commons South Africa is working together with the Visual History Archive to understand and develop response to issues of copyright and privacy which when analogue film or photographs are digitised by curators such as archives and museums.

A fascinating mix of issues faces non profit curators who are seeking to preserve South Africa’s visual history by digitising photographs and film. Both film and photograph stock decay, with the result that irreplaceable images are lost. But its not always clear whether the photograph or film is under copyright, raising legal issues for curators seeking to save South Africa’s heritage. Evolving standards of privacy raise new questions for curators.

There is an opportunity for a volunteer to work with Creative Commons South Africa, itself a volunteer project, on these issues. This would suit a post graduate student who would like to write on issues ranging from privacy, copyright, history, identity and memory arising from digitisation processes. Preference will be given to applicants based at the University of Cape Town, or at least in the Western Cape.
You don’t have to be a lawyer or curator, just have a strong interest in one or more aspects of the project.

Interested? Contact us

P2PU needs your help

Filed under: Announcements — andrew @ 12:10 pm

Peer to Peer University (p2pu.org) is a project run by friends and allies of Creative Commons South Africa.
p2pu is conducting an enquiry into which copyright licence it should use for content hosted on its web-sites (www.p2pu.org and blogs.p2pu.org). P2PU needs someone to assist in running the enquiry.

If you volunteer for the job then you will:

-> draft the invitational email with help from P2PU leaders;

-> send the invitational email out to selected experts and allies, including some very interesting and colourful characters in the open education movement;

-> correspond with respondents;

-> collect the responses;

-> collate the responses in a well formated pdf document;

-> load the responses on to the p2pu website.

Respondents will be asked to draft a single page on the question; what is the best copyright licence for p2pu to use on its websites? Respondents will be asked to focus on the single licence which they consider best and on the single argument for using that licence which they consider most pertinent and powerful.

You will be

-> energetic,

-> keen to learn,

-> interested in open licences and open education materials,

-> based at the University of Cape Town, or at least in Cape Town,

-> unpaid.

Time Scale: September to early November 2009, most of the work will be in September and October 2009.

Interested? Send email to thepeople@p2pu.org, with subject line, The Licensing Discussion.

P.S. p2pu is also looking for tech support volunteers.