[Open-education] Fwd: European Commission endorses CC licensing for public sector information

Tue Jul 22 07:22:09 UTC 2014

Thought I'd forward this on - it includes a link to a transcript of 
Neelie Kroes' speech given at OKFestival - a video of the speech is 
available online https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0UNRZEsLxKc

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Subject: 	European Commission endorses CC licensing for public sector 
information
Date: 	Mon, 21 Jul 2014 17:36:47 -0700
From: 	Timothy Vollmer <tvol at creativecommons.org>
To: 	Open Policy Network <open-policy-network at googlegroups.com>

This might be of interest.

https://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/43316

      European Commission released licensing recommendations
    <http://europa.eu/rapid/press-release_IP-14-840_en.htm> to support
    the reuse of public sector information in Europe. In addition to
    providing guidance on baseline license principles for public sector
    content and data, the guidelines
    <http://ec.europa.eu/information_society/newsroom/cf/dae/document.cfm?action=display&doc_id=6421>
    suggest that Member States should adopt standardized open licenses –
    such as Creative Commons licenses

At the OKFestival in Berlin, Commissioner Kroes also mentioned support 
for open educational resources, which is a welcome sign - 
http://europa.eu/rapid/press-release_SPEECH-14-556_en.htm

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