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CREATIVE COMMONS COPYRIGHT LICENSES LAUNCH IN MALTA
April 7th, 2006
San Francisco, USA, and Berlin, Germany – April 7, 2006
Creative Commons, a nonprofit organization that provides flexible copyright licenses for authors and artists, today unveils the localized version of its innovative licensing system in Malta. With Malta offering Creative Commons licenses tailored for the specifics of the local legal system, Creative Commons licenses and tools are [...]
CREATIVE COMMONS ADDS TWO NEW BOARD MEMBERS
March 30th, 2006
San Francisco, USA — March 30, 2006
Creative Commons is pleased to announce the addition of two new members to its Board of Directors — Jimmy Wales and Laurie Racine.
Jimmy Wales is the founder and President of the Wikimedia Foundation, the non-profit corporation which operates Wikipedia, the volunteer-created, multi-lingual, Web-based, free-content encyclopedia, in addition to the co-founder and [...]
Creative Commons Releases Open Source Software ccHost 2.0
March 29th, 2006
San Francisco, USA, March 28, 2006
ccHost, an Open Source project that provides web-based infrastructure to support collaboration, sharing, and storage of multi-media using Creative Commons licenses and metadata, released version 2.0 today. This major feature release combines approximately six months of development, usage, and testing into packages that anyone may download, install, and use to [...]
CREATIVE COMMONS TO PORT LICENSES TO CHINA
March 28th, 2006
San Francisco, CA, USA and Berlin, GERMANY — March 29, 2006 — Creative Commons, a nonprofit dedicated to building a body of creative work free to share and build upon, today unveils a localized version of its innovative licensing system in The People’s Republic of China.
Creative Commons copyright licenses are available free of charge from the [...]
SPANISH COURT RECOGNIZES FOR THE FIRST TIME THAT THERE IS MUSIC THAT IS NOT REPRESENTED BY COLLECTING SOCIETIES
March 23rd, 2006
Spanish bar owner does not have to pay license fees to Spain’s primary collecting society for CC-licensed music
Barcelona, Spain & San Francisco, USA — March 23, 2006
Last month, the Lower Court number six of Badajoz, a city in Extremadura, Spain, ruled that a bar owner did not have to pay license fees to the main Spanish collecting [...]
CREATIVE COMMONS LICENSES LAUNCH IN MEXICO
March 16th, 2006
San Francisco, USA, Berlin, GERMANY, March 16, 2006
Creative Commons, a nonprofit dedicated to building a body of creative work free to share and build upon, today unveils a localized version of its innovative licensing system in Mexico.
Creative Commons copyright licenses are available free of charge from the group’s website. The licenses allow authors and artists to mark [...]
CREATIVE COMMONS LICENSES UPHELD IN DUTCH COURT
March 16th, 2006
San Francisco, USA, & Amsterdam, The Netherlands, March 15, 2006
The first known court decision involving a Creative Commons license was handed down on March 9, 2006 by the District Court of Amsterdam. The case confirmed that the conditions of a Creative Commons license automatically apply to the content licensed under it.
The proceedings arose when former MTV [...]
CREATIVE COMMONS LICENSES OFFERED IN BULGARIA
March 15th, 2006
San Francisco, USA, Berlin, GERMANY - March 14, 2006
Creative Commons, a nonprofit organization that provides a flexible copyright licenses for authors and artists, recently unveiled a localized version of its innovative licensing system in Bulgaria.
Creative Commons copyright licenses are available free of charge from the group’s website. The licenses allow authors and artists to mark their works [...]
CREATIVE COMMONS, WARNER BROS. RECORDS, AND MACHINE SHOP RECORDINGS ANNOUNCE FORT MINOR REMIX CONTEST AT CCMIXTER.ORG
March 8th, 2006
San Francisco, USA & Los Angeles, USA – March 8, 2006
Creative Commons, along with Warner Bros. Records and Machine Shop Recordings, today announced the Fort Minor Remix Contest. Fort Minor, the hip-hop project led by Linkin Park vocalist/guitarist/keyboardist Mike Shinoda, has made the digital files from the recording session of its song “Remember the Name” available [...]
CREATIVE COMMONS LICENSES LAUNCH IN MALAYSIA
March 3rd, 2006
San Francisco, CA, USA and Berlin, GERMANY — March 4, 2006 — Creative Commons, a nonprofit dedicated to building a body of creative work free to share and build upon, today unveils a localized version of its innovative licensing system in Malaysia.
Creative Commons copyright licenses are available free of charge from the group’s website. The licenses [...]
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