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CREATIVE COMMONS SELECTED BY GOOD MAGAZINE AS NON-PROFIT ORGANIZATION FOR CHOOSE GOOD CAMPAIGN
July 12th, 2006
San Francisco, California — July 12, 2006
Creative Commons is proud to announce today that it has been named as one of twelve non-profit organizations that will participate in the innovative subscription strategy — the CHOOSE GOOD campaign — that accompanies the launch of GOOD magazine.
Launching nationwide this Fall, GOOD magazine strives to elevate the level of debate [...]
SCOOPTWORDS PARTNERS WITH CREATIVE COMMONS TO HELP BLOGGERS MONETIZE THEIR WORK
July 10th, 2006
San Francisco, USA — July 10, 2006
Scoopt, the citizen journalism agency that serves as a broker for selling user-created content to commercial media, has announced that it is offering Creative Commons licenses through its newly launched ScooptWords service.
ScooptWords was designed to create a market between bloggers and commercial publishers. Once bloggers have registered for a free Scoopt [...]
CREATIVE COMMONS LICENSES OFFERED IN PERU
June 29th, 2006
Silicon Valley-based NGO reinforces its activities around the globe and introduces its innovative copyright licenses in Peru.
San Francisco, CA, USA; Berlin, GERMANY; and Lima, Peru — June 29, 2006 — Creative Commons, a nonprofit dedicated to building a body of creative work free to share and build upon today announced the launch of its licenses in Peru.
Creative [...]
Microsoft and Creative Commons Release Tool for Copyright Licensing
June 21st, 2006
The organizations announce availability of Microsoft Office add-in that enables easy access to Creative Commons copyright licenses.
Redmond, WA, USA; San Francisco, CA, USA – June 20, 2006
Microsoft Corp. and Creative Commons, a nonprofit organization that offers flexible copyright licenses for creative works, have teamed up to release a copyright licensing tool that enables the easy addition of [...]
CREATIVE COMMONS ANNOUNCES OPEN VIDEO CONTEST WITH THE FEDORA PROJECT
June 20th, 2006
San Francisco, USA - June 20, 2006
Creative Commons and the Fedora Project are pleased to announce the Open Video Contest taking place now. The contest promotes flexible copyright, open media formats and the Fedora Project.
Entries must be 30 seconds or less, in OGG Theora format, promote freedom and openness, and be released under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike [...]
CREATIVE COMMONS LICENSES OFFERED IN DENMARK
June 12th, 2006
San Francisco, USA, Berlin, GERMANY – June 12, 2006
Creative Commons, a nonprofit organization that provides flexible copyright licenses for authors and artists, unveiled a localized version of its innovative licensing system in Denmark on Saturday.
Creative Commons copyright licenses are available free of charge from the group’s website.The licenses allow authors and artists to mark their works as [...]
PEARL JAM RELEASES ITS FIRST MUSIC VIDEO IN EIGHT YEARS UNDER A CREATIVE COMMONS LICENSE
May 19th, 2006
“Life Wasted” Clip Available for Download at Google Video and PearlJam.com
May 19, 2006
Today, Creative Commons announced that the video for Pearl Jam’s new single “Life Wasted” will be offered to the public under the Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial-NoDerivs license, so that the people around the world can legally copy, distribute, and share the clip.
This announcement marks the first [...]
David Byrne and Brian Eno’s My Life in the Bush of Ghosts Remix Site Launches Today
May 9th, 2006
May 9, 2006
For the first time ever, fans are able to legally remix and share their own personal versions of two songs from David Byrne and Brian Eno’s groundbreaking album My Life in the Bush of Ghosts. The interactive forum bush-of-ghosts.com has been developed to celebrate the reissue of the album 25 years after its original release.
By [...]
PODCASTING LEGAL GUIDE RELEASED TO ASSIST PODCASTERS NAVIGATE POTENTIALLY TROUBLED LEGAL WATERS
May 8th, 2006
San Francisco, USA — May 8, 2006
Creative Commons and Vogele & Associates today unveiled the Podcasting Legal Guide, which was prepared by both organizations together with the invaluable assistance of the Berkman Center at Harvard Law School’s Clinical Program in Cyberlaw. The Guide was prepared as part of the Stanford Center for Internet & Society’s [...]
CREATIVE COMMONS ANNOUNCES CRAMMED DISCS REMIX CONTEST FEATURING MUSIC FROM CIBELLE, DJ DOLORES, AND APOLLO NOVE
April 17th, 2006
San Francisco, USA & Brussels, Belgium – April 17, 2006
Creative Commons and Crammed Discs are pleased to announce the Crammed Discs Remix Contest taking place now at ccMixter. Crammed Discs artists Cibelle, DJ Dolores, and Apollo Nove — three of Brazil’s most creative musical innovators — are offering the audio source files from three songs online [...]
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