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Christopher Willits Remix Contest

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Creative Commons, XLR8R magazine, and Ghostly International are hosting the Christopher Willits “Colors Shifting” Remix Contest on ccMixter. The winning remix will be featured on an XLR8R Incite CD compilation, which will be included with a future issue of XLR8R magazine. The contest ends on December 27, 2006 — visit the contest site for more…

LibriVox – New Featured Commoner

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LibriVox is a project that describes its mission to be the “acoustical liberation of books in the public domain.” It is a digital library of free public domain audio books that are read and recorded by volunteers. LibriVox’s catalogue includes an impressive range of books, short works and poems from a diverse range of writers.…

Librivox

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LibriVox is a project that describes its mission to be the “acoustical liberation of books in the public domain.” It is a digital library of free public domain audio books that are read and recorded by volunteers. It was started just a year and a half ago, in August 2005, and already has amassed over…

O'Reilly Foundation Donates to CC

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Creative Commons is pleased to announce that the O’Reilly Foundation has donated $10,000 towards CC’s $300,000 annual campaign goal. We are honored to be a receipient of such significant support. Tim O’Reilly is the founder of O’Reilly Media and a supporter of both open source and the free software movements, which this donation exemplifies.

Writer Cory Doctorow Explains the Economics of Giving It Away

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In a recent article in Forbes.com, Cory Doctorow explains the impact of using Creative Commons licenses for him as a writer. Cory has used CC licenses on many of his writings — from his books (available here) to his postings on Boing Boing. We featured him back in October 2005. The Forbes article offers a…

Creative Commons Annual Campaign Update

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The Creative Commons’ annual fundraising campaign is set to end on December 31st. The campaign was instituted last year in efforts to prove to the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) that the public was supporting CC financially as well as ideologically. This year we chose to focus the campaign more on building community and raising awareness…

CC Swag Photo Contest Winner #4

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We are happy to announce that this weeks’ winner of the CC Swag Contest is Cambodia4kids with her picture titled “Creative Commons”. I’ve set a precedent over the past couple of weeks of stating a bit of our reasoning behind choosing the winning photographs and how we responded to each winners’ creative use of CC…