Good news: Our new resources have arrived! Our 12 page, A5 Free to Mix guide and A2 poster are now sitting in boxes around the Creative Commons office. We're currently shipping these out to schools, in preparation for the first round of Mix & Mash, which closes on May 10. If you'd like one for yourself, let us know.
This month, we gave talks to schools, teachers, principals, law students, crowd-funders, librarians, researchers and Chalklers. We're currently planning our activities for the rest of the year, so get in touch if you'd like someone from CCANZ to talk to your organisation, workplace or region. We'll be travelling around New Zealand throughout the year, and we'd love to arrange a workshop.
Get in touch: admin@creativecommons.org.nz.
Creative Commons News
We released PDFs of our new Free to Mix guide and A2 poster. Check them out here.
On March 12, the School of Open launched, offering free online courses on copyright, CC licenses, Wikipedia, open science, open culture, open video formats, and more.
On March, the global Creative Commons community called for the release of Creative Commons Syria Lead Bassel Khartibil, who has been detained by the Syrian authorities for one year. Creative Commons co-founder Lawrence Lessig published this piece in the Wall Street Journal, arguing for Bassel's release.
We published this Q&A about Creative Commons policies in schools.
U.S. Register of Copyright Maria Pallante addressed Congress, claiming that "[Copyright] law is showing the strain of its age."
Our intern Holly Grover gave this great presentation to Wellington Girls on media, technology, copyright and CC.
We published this case study on NZ journalism students at Wintec, who are using Creative Commons licences to share their stories.
Taupaki School became New Zealand's fifth school to adopt a Creative Commons policy.
We're offering free copyright and open licensing sessions over Skype for all New Zealand students or teachers. We're also sending out free class sets of Creative Commons resources. If you know a school that might be interested, get in touch!
