Greetings all, Per Thinh's announcement below, I too am very happy to pass on to you information about the availability of CC0 for use and adoption. After more than a year of gestation, it is ready to rumble, I hope.
Begin forwarded message: > From: Thinh Nguyen <[email protected]> > Date: February 3, 2009 12:49:58 PM EST > .. > Subject: CC0 Private Announcement > > Dear Friends of Science Commons: > > I'm delighted to let you know that CC0 > (http://creativecommons.org/about/cc0) has been completed and is > ready for > implementation. We are making this private announcement at this time > only to > our collaborators and potential early adopters, to give them time to > evaluate the tool and to implement it. > > As you know, the concept for CC0 arose from our meeting in October > 2007 at > the Sorbonne in Paris. As a participant in that conference, your > ideas and > suggestions played a key and vital role in shaping our thinking > about how to > share data and databases, which ultimately lead to the development > of CC0. I > hope that you can be proud of the ultimate result. > > CC0 is only the first installment of a two-part plan. With CC0, we > intend to > provide a simple, easy-to-use tool that data providers can use to > waive or > "quitclaim" any rights that they may have in data, including > copyright and > database rights. As a follow-up to CC0, we are working on an > assertion tool > that can be used to mark data that's already in the public domain, > but this > is a more complicated task, so we are releasing CC0--the waiver > component--first. > > I hope that you will take some time to look at CC0 by following the > link > above. We invite your feedback, and if you know of anyone who might be > interested in CC0 or who might want to be an early adopter, please > feel free > to let them know that CC0 is available or put them in touch with us. > > Once again, thank you for your contribution to the success of this > effort. > We look forward to your continued involvement and participation as > we roll > out this project. > > Best Regards, > > Thinh Nguyen > Counsel, Science Commons > > > > > > -- Puneet Kishor http://www.punkish.org/ Nelson Institute, UW-Madison http://www.nelson.wisc.edu/ Charter Member, Open Source Geospatial Foundation http://www.osgeo.org/ ----------------------------------------------------------------------- collaborate, communicate, compete ======================================================================= _______________________________________________ okfn-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.okfn.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/okfn-discuss
