From: Michael Carroll <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Wed, 9 Dec 2015 18:25:38 +0000

Dear Ann,

Thanks so much for your post! The number of works could increase next
year depending on what happens at the Department of Education. The
Department has proposed to require recipients of discretionary grants to
license any copyrightable works created with federal funds under an open
license - defined such that the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY)
license would qualify.

he Department is seeking public comment on the proposal until
*December 18th*.  If list members would like to comment as individuals or
on behalf of their institutions, more information is here.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1FR4J1s7oyeLd_6CTZtzJyFN0yUMbMKW9BKThmsHvvIY/edit?pli=1#heading=h.hu4qw0tc9gjs

Please share widely.

All the best,
Mike

Michael W. Carroll
Professor of Law and Director,
Program on Information Justice and Intellectual Property
American University Washington College of Law
Washington, D.C. 20016

Faculty page: http://www.wcl.american.edu/faculty/mcarroll/
Blog: http://carrollogos.blogspot.com
Public Library of Science: http://www.plos.org


>From: Ann Shumelda Okerson <[log in to unmask]>
>Date: Tue, 8 Dec 2015 21:21:52 -0500
>
>Worth a detour:
>
>The creators of more than a billion photos, videos, songs and other
>works are giving them away on the internet for others to use for free
>forever ‹ a big milestone for Creative Commons, the non-profit
>organization behind the copyright licences allowing that use.
>
>[SNIP]
>
>The report shows that Creative Commons licences have nearly tripled in
>the last five years to 1.1 billion. The first Creative Commons
>licences were released in December 2002.
>
>http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/creative-commons-ryan-merkley-1.3354538
>
>391 million photos and artworks
>46.9 million articles, stories and documents
>1.4 million research journal articles
>18.4 million videos
>4 million audio tracks
>76,000 open educational resources