At the following website you can find different statistics about the use of Creative Commons Licenses which were shown in pictures, for example where CC-licensed works are published.
More information you can find here: https://stateof.creativecommons.org/
Die Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) weist in einem aktuellen Newsletter darauf hin, wie unerlässlich die Vergabe von standardisierten, offenen Lizenzen für Open-Access-Publikationen ist, um die möglichst umfassende Nachnutzung wissenschaftlicher Inhalte rechtsverbindlich abzusichern.
Information für die Wissenschaft Nr. 68 | 20. November 2014
Appell zur Nutzung offener Lizenzen in der Wissenschaft [PDF]
The German UNESCO Commission has released a practical guide on how to use Creative Commons licences.
Till Kreutzer:
Open Content – A practical guide to using Creative Commons licences [pdf]
The Association of Scientific, Technical and Medical Publishers has released a set of model licenses for research articles which are not compatible with any of the Creative Commons licenses. A global coalition of organizations call on the STM to withdraw these new model licenses:
A new version of the Creative Commons license has been released. The Creative Commons organization has incorporated dozens of improvements. So they use an easier terminology that is better understood worldwide now. In addition they have introduced official translations of the Creative Commons licenses.
Find out more about what is new at http://creativecommons.org/Version4.
An overview of the licenses is available at http://creativecommons.org/licenses/?lang=en (English) or at http://creativecommons.org/licenses/?lang=de (German).