Creative Commons Launches Third Annual Fundraising Campaign

October 1st, 2007

Creative Commons Launches Third Annual Fundraising Campaign
San Francisco, CA USA — October 1, 2007
Today, Creative Commons officially launched its third annual fundraising campaign. The past two fundraising campaigns generated vital financial support for Creative Commons. This year, the organization is asking its community for help in raising funds before January 1, 2008.
“Our annual campaign measures our success in [...]

Creative Commons Announces New Vice President and General Counsel

October 1st, 2007

October 1, 2007 — San Francisco, CA, USA
Virginia Rutledge has been named Vice President and General Counsel of Creative Commons, the organization announced today. In this position, Rutledge will oversee Creative Commons’s legal affairs, lead initiatives focused on the arts, and create partnerships with arts and cultural institutions both in the U.S. and internationally.
“Creative Commons has been [...]

Creative Commons and BBE Music Collaborate on Release of Remixable DJ Vadim Tracks

September 17th, 2007

San Francisco, CA — September 18, 2007
Creative Commons and BBE Music are proud to announce the release of the original studio tracks from the album The Sound Catcher by DJ Vadim. The separated, solo instrumental and vocal tracks from the entire album are available for free and legal downloading and remixing. All are available online through [...]

Creative Commons and Fedora Team Up To Deliver LiveContent Distribution

August 6th, 2007

San Francisco, CA — August 6, 2007
Creative Commons today announced the release of LiveContent, a collaborative initiative to showcase free, open source software and dynamic, Creative Commons-licensed multimedia content. Red Hat’s Fedora 7 will serve as the platform for Creative Commons LiveContent CD. The first LiveContent CD is now available at the Creative Commons [...]

CREATIVE COMMONS RELEASES LIBLICENSE FOR SIMPLE TECHNICAL LICENSING INTEGRATION

July 31st, 2007

San Francisco, CA - July 30, 2007 - Today, Creative Commons published the first public release of its desktop licensing library, Liblicense, featuring desktop integration. When content authors grant permission for re-use of their work, Liblicense provides software developers with the ability to easily discover and display those permissions to a user. Liblicense also [...]

SPOON TO HEADLINE CONCERT TO BENEFIT CREATIVE COMMONS AND KICK OFF WIRED NEXTFEST IN LOS ANGELES

June 25th, 2007

WIRED magazine today announced that rock band Spoon will headline a concert to benefit Creative Commons on September 10, 2007 at the Henry Fonda Theater in Los Angeles. The concert is a kick-off event for WIRED NextFest, a unique world’s-fair-style event showcasing future technologies in design, entertainment, communication, healthcare, transportation, sustainable living, and more, at [...]

“A Story of Healing” Becomes First Academy Award® Winning Film Released Under A Creative Commons License

April 19th, 2007

“A Story of Healing” Becomes First Academy Award® Winning Film Released Under A Creative Commons License
April 19, 2007
Interplast — the first humanitarian organization to provide free reconstructive surgery for children with clefts, disabling burns, and hand injuries — is proud to announce that its 1997 Academy Award® winning documentary, “A Story of Healing,” has been released under [...]

CREATIVE COMMONS LICENSES LAUNCH IN INDIA

January 26th, 2007

Silicon-Valley-based NGO now offers licenses in 35 jurisdictions around the world

San Francisco, CA, USA and Berlin, Germany — January 26, 2006 — Creative Commons, a nonprofit dedicated to building a body of creative work free to share and build upon, today unveiled a localized version of its innovative licensing system in India.
Creative Commons copyright licenses [...]

VIEUX FARKA TOURÉ REMIX CONTEST LAUNCHES TODAY AT CCMIXTER

January 24th, 2007

VIEUX FARKA TOURÉ REMIX CONTEST LAUNCHES TODAY AT CCMIXTER
Winning Remix To Be Featured On Upcoming “Vieux Remixed” CD
January 24, 2007
Creative Commons, Modiba Productions and Global Beat Fusion are pleased to announce that the Vieux Farka Touré / “Ana” Remix Contest is now taking place now at ccMixter. Visit the contest at http://www.ccmixter.org/vieux.
Modiba Productions artist Vieux Farka Touré — [...]

KEY CORPORATE CONTRIBUTIONS HELP CREATIVE COMMONS BEAT ITS FUNDRAISING GOAL 1.6x OVER.

January 8th, 2007

San Francisco, USA — January 7, 2007
Creative Commons today announced that generous support from a variety of key technology companies — including Microsoft, Mozilla, Digital Garage, Yahoo!, Macrovision, Red Hat, DivX, Tucows and Second Life — pushed Creative Commons’ fundraising campaign to an extraordinary success. In combination with the proceeds from the Wired Benefit Concert, other [...]