‘Imagine a world where absolutely everything is owned - and sold to those who can afford it. Every person would be a market. There would be nothing freely available in the public domain. Knowledge and culture could only be learnt if you paid for it.’
Guy Berger has written a great article on a session at […]

Creative Commons SA was invited to address Highway Africa 2005 conference-goers on the second day of the conference at a seminar entitled Online Publishing Business Models. Other speakers included Elan Lohmann from News24 and Herman Manson from media.toolbox
The seminar offered audience members different viewpoints regarding sustainable online publishing models. Creative […]

Probably our most high-profile article yet, this great piece by Alistair Otter about Lawrence Lessig’s visit to South Africa and the HSRC case study has done wonders for ccSA. Ironically, you can’t get the whole story online unless you’ve paid a subscription fee, but you can email me (heather at creativecommons.org) if you want a […]

Wairagala Wakabi, Highway Africa News Agency, Johannesburg
Creative Commons (cc), the growing global movement that aims to relax restrictions on the fair use of intellectual property, launched its South African chapter at a festive inaugural event in Johannesburg last night.
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by Alistair Otter, Tectonic Magazine
Creative Commons, the growing global movement to relax restrictions on the fair use of intellectual property, launched its South African chapter in Johannesburg this week.
Creative Commons founder Larry Lessig, speaking at the launch event, described Creative Commons as recognising the need for sharing works and cited several examples of how CC […]

The Highway Africa News Agency’s Emrakeb Assefa talks about the African Digital Information Commons primer
http://allafrica.com/stories/200505270997.html
‘The “Digital Information Commons: An African Participant’s Guide” was launched yesterday at LINKS Centre here in Johannesburg in a bid to popularise the Creative Common (cc) movement on the African continent.
Chris Armstrong, LINK Centre Commons-sense Project researcher said that the document […]

San Francisco, USA, and Johannesburg, SOUTH AFRICA, May 27, 2005 - Creative Commons, a non-profit organization that offers free copyright licenses and tools to creators to make their works available on more flexible terms, today unveiled a localized version of its innovative licensing system in South Africa.
With South Africa offering Creative Commons licenses tailored […]

Razina Munshi has written a great piece for the local Business Day on the recent Commons-sense conference and the launch of Creative Commons South Africa.

Article by Andrew Rens and Heather Ford, published in De Rebus, December 2004 edition (’news’ section) about the Creative Commons South Africa licences.

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.

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

Vincent Maher has written a great article on Wired’s Creative Commons CD.

‘Developing Nations Copyright License Frees Creativity Across the Digital Divide‘ Creative Commons press release

The International Herald Tribune has a pretty comprehensive article on the growth of the iCommons movement, with a focus on the recent Germany launch.