Creative Commons, Open Source Archives

Students Say Textbooks are too Expensive – Could an Open Access Model be the Answer?

2 March, 201612 May, 2017Creative Commons, Open Source, Education, Textbooks & Digital TextbooksOne Comment

For university students, textbooks have been both a saviour and a bane. Having most of the essential readings in a single volume enables students to access...

Study Finds Open Source Textbooks as Effective as Commercial

15 November, 201512 May, 2017Creative Commons, Open Source, Scientific Study, Textbooks & Digital Textbooks3 Comments

A recent study has found that college students who used open educational resources (OER) in their undergraduate courses performed as well or better than those assigned commercial...

BQ Cervantes Open Source eReader is Back in Stock

6 August, 20156 September, 2015Creative Commons, Open Source, e-Reading Hardware3 Comments

When I introduced you to the Cervantes ereader from the Spanish device maker bq a couple months ago, my joy at finding an ereader that runs...

LibreOffice 5.0 Now Available

5 August, 20156 September, 2015Creative Commons, Open Source, e-Reading Software3 Comments

Libre Office is an open-source office suite available on many platforms (even Android) and capable of editing word files, presentations, spreadsheets, etc. Libre Office has been maintained...

Is the Booq Cervantes the First Open-Source eReader ?

19 June, 20156 September, 2015Creative Commons, Open Source, e-Reading Hardware12 Comments

A reader has tipped me to the news that Booq, the Spanish ereader importer, is now promoting one of its ereaders as an open-source device. Booq...

Creative Commons is Out to Kill the Stock Photos Used on eBook Covers, and They Want Your Help

12 June, 201515 June, 2015Creative Commons, Open SourceLeave a comment

Here’s one of those brilliant ideas that someone should have come up with years ago. For the past six months Creative Commons has been hard at work on a...

Flickr Adds Public Domain, CC-Zero License

31 March, 201531 March, 2015Creative Commons, Open Source, Intellectual PropertyOne Comment

Flickr announced on Monday that it was adding CC-Zero and Public Domain licensing options. Users who want to share their images freely with the public now have the...

Readium, NYPL to Host eBook Hackathon Next Month

24 December, 201424 December, 2014Conferences & Trade shows, Creative Commons, Open SourceLeave a comment

Should you find yourself in Manhattan on the second Wednesday of January, you might want to stop by the New York Public Library – and not just...

Flickr Pulls CC-Licensed Images From Its Wall Art Program Following Outcry

19 December, 201419 December, 2014Creative Commons, Open SourceLeave a comment

Apologizing to their users, yesterday Flickr killed the controversial (but entirely legal) program which let you buy wall art printed with any appropriately licensed creative commons image from...

Where Yahoo went wrong when they decided to sell prints of CC-Licensed Flickr images

30 November, 201416 November, 2019Creative Commons, Open Source7 Comments

WSJ reported last week that Yahoo’s latest move to increase its revenues was pissing off Flickr users: More than 300 million publicly shared Flickr images use Creative...

OpenStax to Release 10 New Open Source Textbooks by 2017

26 August, 20144 September, 2015Creative Commons, Open Source, Education, Textbooks & Digital TextbooksLeave a comment

Rice University’s open source textbook initiative is looking to save college students even more money on textbooks. OpenStax has announced plans to expand their catalog of CC-licensed...

Unglue.it Finishes Ungluing Its First Book

12 September, 20125 May, 2017Creative Commons, Open Source, Publishing2 Comments

It’s not exactly a secret that I’ve been somewhat skeptical of Unglue.it’s selections and model for soliciting crowdfunding to unlock various e-book titles into free Creative...

Amazon Unglues Unglue.it From Its Payment Processing Services

9 August, 20125 May, 2017Amazon, Creative Commons, Open Source2 Comments

This morning as I was getting ready for work, a letter popped into my email from Eric Hellman at Unglue.it, the crowdfunding site operating on a...

Austria adopted Creative Commons License as default

16 August, 201116 August, 2011Creative Commons, Open SourceOne Comment

The city governments for Vienna, Linz, Salzburg, and Graz made a joint announcement this past week that they, along with the Chancellor’s office (the executive branch...