Part of the intention in this blog is to shine light on creators who chose to use the Creative Commons Canada license. Do you know any Canadian Commoners who deserve our attention ? Please let us know as we’d love to promote artists who dare to share. In particular CreativeCommons.ca would like to announce 2 new initiatives to promote CC-ca creators:

The CC web of Public Interest
CreativeCommons.ca is compiling a best-of collection of Creative Commons Canada web pages. But not just any pages. Because CC-ca is working in the public interest, we’d also like to bring attention to those web pages which are working for similar ends. Some examples of public interest initiatives: home pages of community groups (particularly those with a focus on issues like fair copyright, open access to information, human rights, social/economic justice, human/environmental health, etc.) educational resources, and even personal blogs that have a focus on “the common good”.

The best of Canadian Flickr content
Flickr.com is a web page that has allowed thousands of users to share photos in a convienient manner, allowing even the technically challenged to create a “photoblog”. Flickr has support for Creative Commons licenses, but unfortunately it does not yet support the selection of a jurisdiction. However, we’d still like to bring attention to Canadian users of Flickr. Creative Commons Canada will work to encourage Yahoo, the makers of Flickr, to include support for jurisdiction as archive.org has.

We are currently accepting nominations for “The Best of CC-ca Web” project. Please send your nominations to webmaster@creativecommons.ca.