The 9/11 Commission Report, formally named Final Report of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States, is the official report of the events leading up to the September 11, 2001 attacks. It was prepared by the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States (informally sometimes known as the "9/11 Commission" or the "Kean/Hamilton Commission") at the request of the President and Congress, and is available to the public for sale or free download.

The 9/11 Commission Report was released to the Public Domain(follow @thepublicdomain if interested in this topic) and available as a PDF, on scribd (flash & HTML5), LibreVox audio and an XHTML version amongst many other formats.

The 9/11 Report: A Graphic Adaptation by Sid Jacobson and Ernie Colón, and published by Hill & Wang, is an abridged graphic novel adaptation of the report (although a copyrighted work).

The Fiat Mio CC (@fiatmio) is a concept car where more than 15,000 people have submitted their ideas and contributions against 21 topics / discussion areas. All contributions have been submitted under a Creative Commons licence (see Fiat's terms) and have been used to shape the Fiat Concept Car III (FCC III) - "a car to call your own".

Users were stimulated to think in broad terms about traffic and life onboard. From the analysis of almost 17 thousand contributors, a briefing was elaborated containing the most popular ideas, suggestions and demands that make more sense with regard to the scenery faced by most participants. The end result was summarized as follows:

“A compact and agile car, comfortable and safe with innovative traffic solutions for big cities, a pollutant-free engine and the capacity to receive personalized updates, and changes in configuration, and having interface between car and user”.

The FCC III is the end result of this briefing. Fiat will unveil this future Concept Car at the Automobile Show in October 2010.

Cameron Sinclair is the 2006 TED Prize winner and co-founder (and “Chief Eternal Optimist”) of Architecture for Humanity (@archforhumanity) and the Open Architecture Network, a non-profit that seeks architecture solutions to global crises.

Hundreds of projects are available on the Open Architecture Network and are all licensed with a Creative Commons licence – eg “Adaptable Hillside Classrooms”.

Each project contains a workspace, team profiles, project updates and access to related files that aims to offer open source architectural plans and blueprints on the web.

This year the anti-TED movement seems to have geared up a level with criticism coming right, left and centre with TechCrunch seeming to lead the way…

I like TED (@TEDtalks).

I like how all the TED talks are distributed under a Creative Commons licence.

I like the annual TED conference where attendees gather for a “brain spa” and a number of those talks are subsequently used for various follow-on campaigns, eg:

• Al Gore on averting climate crisis
• Tim Berners-Lee on the next Web which proved a helpful reference point to establishing http://data.gov.uk/ and
• Jamie Oliver's TED Prize wish: Teach every child about food which I think that we will be seeing a lot more of this year.

I like TEDx where local communities such as schools, businesses, libraries, neighbourhoods or just groups of friends to organize, design and host their own independent, TED-like events .

Is TED elitist?, “yes, (in a good way), but also no”

This Julian Sanchez 8-minute video on remix culture talks about how this isn't just about sitting around your house remixing, but often turns into a social event among remixers and their friends.

via boing boing (@boingboing)

This TEDx Dubai 2009 talk by Joi Ito is a great introduction to the technical and legal stack underpinning and driving innovation in open networks with a focus on how sharing changes things.

CCLearn has prepared a useful guide on CC Licenses and Trademarks targeted towards organisations creating OER works but is of use to any organisation wanting to allow others to adapt, localise and remix their works whilst still retaining retain control of their intellectual property rights including copyright and also trademark(s)

CCPlus allows you to clearly add a human, legal and machine readable Creative Commons (CC) licence to your work PLUS clearly highlighting to users how they can obtain any additional rights not granted by the CC licence.

Open Education Resources (OERs) are gaining momentum with licences such as Creative Commons proving to be an enabler for the promotion, sharing and repurposing of copyrighted materials without seeking permission directly from the copyright owner. Creative Commons is a great mechanism to clearly exercise your rights for legal interoperability but they could be used to greater effect in schools and Higher Education?

The Internet has evolved in the last 20 years from a network connecting people to a bigger network connecting more people, but has something more significant happened during this expansion?  This is a copy of the presentation delivered at the #wdytyg workshop.

This evening I listened in to the RSA Event - The Public Domain: enclosing the commons of the mind delivered by Professor James Boyle. In his new book The Public Domain, Professor James Boyle describes how our culture, science and economic welfare all depend on the delicate balance between those ideas that are controlled and those that are free, between intellectual property and the public domain —the realm of material that everyone is free to use and share without permission or fee.

As the term OER (Open Educational Resources) gains traction the definition of what makes an educational resource Open in terms of licensing is a mixed picture.

An update on the Creative Commons project: ccLearn from the December email Newsletter