The Open Media Foundation picks up where these two groups left off, focusing upon services (video production, website creation, and graphic packages), education, and accessible tools. One of OMF’s most engaging aspects is the scalability of their mission. Nearly all of the content they produce is either CC-licensed or open-source, allowing it to be adopted easily and legally elsewhere. In January, Access San Francisco will become the 8th station to adopt the open source tools OMF developed as part of the Knight NewsChallenge. Similarly, through support from the Google Summer of Code program, the OMF made major improvements to CC support in Drupal.

To learn more about Open Media Foundation, check out this introductory video at their site – we interviewed Tony Shawcross, then Executive Director at Deproduction, back in January.

Creative Commons is seeking proposals for presentations or panels to be presented at the Technology Summit. Topics of interest include:

• RDFa and ccREL implementations/deployments;
• Creative Commons related applications (unique or interesting integration of licensing, as well as reports on consuming or repurposing CC metadata;
• Provenance of information in Semantic Web applications;
• Digital copyright registries (“copyright 2.0″), especially in relation to the above technologies.

Presentation slots are 30 minutes long; if additional time is required, email Nathan Yergler to discuss options. Send proposals in the form of abstracts to techsummit@creativecommons.org by Friday, April 24, 2009.

Travel funding is unavailable.

If you’re interested, see the full details and CFP in the wiki.

Mike Linksvayer, Urgent: Your input needed for “NonCommercial” questionnaire, Creative Commons Corp., December 2nd, 2008.

As previously announced, we’re running a questionnaire on understanding “NonCommercial” use. The questionnaire runs through December 7. It takes 15-25 minutes to complete.

Click here to start the questionnaire.

Your input is greatly appreciated. CC CEO Joi Ito explains:

“The study has direct relevance to Creative Commons’ mission of providing free, flexible copyright licenses that are easy to understand and simple to use,” said Creative Commons CEO Joi Ito. “The NC term is a popular option for creators choosing a Creative Commons license, and that tells us the term meets a need. However, as exponentially increasing numbers of works are made available under CC licenses, we want to provide additional information for creators about the contexts in which the NC term may further or impede their intentions with respect to the works they choose to share, and we want to make sure that users clearly understand those intentions. We expect the study findings will help us do a better job of explaining the licenses and to improve them, where possible. We also hope the findings, which will be made publicly available, will contribute to better understanding of some of the complexities of digital distribution of content.”

You can also help by sending your friends and colleagues to the questionnaire.