The latest from Creative Commons:

Revver & CC's Viral Video Fundraising Campaign

We're launching a brand new fundraising model and becoming the first-ever nonprofit organization to raise money through online video sharing. We've uploaded our short explanatory videos to Revver, a video-sharing platform that uses Creative Commons licenses to help creators make money from their work.

Revver attaches a short ad at the end of each video on its network and splits the resulting ad revenue with creators. Revver is generously giving Creative Commons 100% of the money our videos make through the end of our fundraising campaign on December 31, 2006. So, watch our videos (including our latest clip — "Wanna Work Together?"), check out the ads at the end, and help Creative Commons get paid!

Photo © Alex Roberts - CC BY

CC Swag Photo Contest on Flickr

Use your photographic skills to show your support for Creative Commons! Take a cool, creative picture of your favorite CC swag (t-shirts, buttons, stickers, etc. — all available from the Support the Commons store) and upload it to your Flickr account. Two winners will have their photos used on Creative Commons' informational postcards, which will be distributed internationally to promote CC and the winning photographers. Winners will receive 100 copies of the postcard with their photo. The winners will also be able to choose a Creative Commons board member to record a personalized outgoing voicemail announcement — that's right, your friends can be greeted by Lawrence Lessig every time they call you!

CC Joins OpenCourseWare Consortium

Creative Commons recently joined the OpenCourseWare Consortium as an "Affiliate Organization." The Consortium is a collaboration of more than 100 higher education institutions and associated organizations from around the world - including China, France, Japan, the UK, the USA and Vietnam - who are commited to creating a broad and deep body of open educational content using a shared model. The mission of the OpenCourseWare Consortium is to advance education and empower people worldwide through opencourseware. "OpenCourseWare" is the free and open digital publication of high quality educational materials, organized as courses. To find opencourseware materials or for institutions interested in learning more about how to openly publish their courses, visit the Consortium's site.