[Commons-l] Creative Commons is introducting CC-Ø

[Brianna Laugher]

http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/7828

According to the CC blog, the intention of CC-Ø is that it "signals
that there are no copyrights or other related rights attached to the
content." ie, use it for government-PD (and maybe PD-old?) works. I am
guessing http://creativecommons.org/licenses/publicdomain/ is going to
be recommended where we use "PD-self".

However the problem still remains of how to pronounce this. ;) "CC
urh". "CC slashed-oh."  "CC empty set." "CC Close-mid front rounded
vowel". Problematic indeed.

Also note http://public.resource.org/ which apparently prompted this.
They have collected a bunch of US government stuff, and at Flickr have
uploaded over 6,000 images from the Smithsonian that they believe are
PD.  http://public.resource.org/memo.2007.05.19.html (incl. links to
tarball) Any comments on that? Anything new for us?

cheers,
Brianna

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