Tobias Escher at the OII » creativecommons http://people.oii.ox.ac.uk/escher is a Research Assistant and a DPhil Student Wed, 15 Jun 2011 20:09:25 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 Happy Birthday Creative Commons! http://people.oii.ox.ac.uk/escher/2007/12/17/happy-birthday-creative-commons/ http://people.oii.ox.ac.uk/escher/2007/12/17/happy-birthday-creative-commons/#comments Mon, 17 Dec 2007 15:18:50 +0000 tobias.escher http://people.oii.ox.ac.uk/escher/2007/12/17/happy-birthday-creative-commons/ Five years ago the idea of Creative Commons was born and since then the idea of “some rights reserved” has caught on. While the utter ignorance I experienced when mentioning Creative Commons to some people in my vicinity suggests there is still some way to go it did emerge that some people are in fact using it without realising (e.g. via Flickr).

Still, the success has been quite astonishing so there was enough reason to celebrate. I managed to share some of the vibe at the Berlin party. Aptly located at c-base (Berlin’s hacker venue) the party saw the announcement of Markus Beckedahl as the now offical Creative Commons public project lead for Germany (different from the legal project lead) together with the first draft of CC version 3.0 in German. What is more, as a special birthday present the domains “creativecommons.de” and “creative-commons.de” were officially transferred to the project.

Well, and the major highlight of course, the birthday cake :) (picture by Frank Patzig)

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