Interesting new project to help people understand online terms of service before agreeing to them. Support it on Indiegogo or visit the site: http://tos-dr.info/

If you spend much time reading US political blogs, you've probably seen at least one photo taken by 19-year-old Gage Skidmore. In this interview with Nieman Journalism Lab, Skidmore talks about how he started his photography career and why he shares his photos under a CC license.

Many of you have probably been following the recent dispute between Wikimedia and Internet Brands. CC counsel Diane Peters offers her thoughts on CC licenses' ability to withstand legal scrutiny.

Amazing news from the US Department of Labor: "Educational institutions will use these funds to create affordable training programs that meet industry needs, invest in staff and educational resources, and provide access to free, digital learning materials. All education materials developed through the grants will be available for use by the public and other education providers through a Creative Commons license."

If you're in Helsinki for OKFest, be sure to show up early for the CC HKI film festival. Only 28 seats!

If you work with K-12 students in the US (or if you are one), then you'll want to know about the Engage 2012 student video competition. More info: http://bit.ly/QlTRdF

Check out the winners of the Common Crawl code contest.

Amazing new TV news library from our friends at Internet Archive.

Nice guest post by Harry Verwayen, Business Development Director at Europeana, on the importance of the recent release of 20 million cultural data records into the public domain.

"Over the last year, massive open online courses, or MOOC's, have quickly traversed the cultural cycle of hype, saturation, backlash, and backlash-to-the-backlash. Like blogs, MOOC's are interesting, important, and stuck with an absurdly unserious name."

Fun video (en Espanol) about the LibreBus, which is currently on tour bringing free software and free culture to Central America.

Learn more about LibreBus:
Spanish: http://www.librebusconosur.org/
English: http://www.librebusconosur.org/en/

This new video by the Florida Virtual Campus outlines the license compatibility issues that can arise when combining CC-licensed works. Great resource.

CC is looking for a new director of product strategy.

"Just as libraries are the cornerstone of the educational and cultural life of a community, a digital library that’s open and accessible to everyone is crucial to the future of the Internet.”

CC CEO Cathy Casserly has just joined the board of the Digital Public Library of America.

An interesting addendum to last week's discussion of CC-licensed beer, thanks to Shareable and Year of Open Source.

Don't forget to reserve your spot for the School of Open and School of Data workshop at the OKFestival in Helsinki next week! http://peerlearningworkshop.eventbrite.com/

Europeana has released the largest one-time dedication of cultural data to the public domain using CC0. All its metadata are now published in the public domain.

The International Communia Association provides some suggestions to the Library of Congress' plan to hire digitization contractors to scan and share public domain materials in the Library's collection.

Pre-Open Access Week Webcast: Connecting the Dots between Open Access and Open Educational Resources. Ask your questions now!

Hey theoryheads, need some weekend reading? Check out Open Humanities Press' selection of open access books.

Gerry Bayne of EDUCAUSE interviews CC's Cable Green about open access, open policy and more.

There's just one more day to support Lunatics, a CC-licensed, animated, science fiction series. Find more CC-licensed projects on our Kickstarter page: http://kck.st/M5qdt6

Who's going to Vancouver for the Open Education Conference? Early bird registration ends September 15.

Will you be in Helsinki for the OKFestival in two weeks? Don't forget to RSVP for our School of Open workshop with the School of Data: http://peerlearningworkshop.eventbrite.com/

Remember Sam Muirhead, the filmmaker who's trying to live 100% open source for a year? Today he tried MIER, a CC-licensed beer. Check out his Facebook page at Year of Open Source.

"This is the first time government has come in with substantial dollars that match philanthropic efforts to create a library where students can access free textbooks and faculty can utilize their skills to remix, revise and repurpose these textbooks for their students.”

Peter Suber's consistently comprehensive Open Access newsletter; September 2012.

http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/newsletter/09-02-12.htm

We end this week on a sad note, taking a moment to remember Lee Dirks, a strategist at Microsoft Research Connections and friend of the open access movement.