Creative Commons at Future of Music Coalition Summit, Washington, Jan. 6

Glenn Otis Brown, December 31st, 2002

The Future of Music Coalition will host their third-annual Policy Summit January 4 through 7 in Washington D.C. The FMC3 summit will bring policymakers, academics, lawyers, activists — and, of course, a number of premier musicians — together for a discussion of artists’ rights and technology’s influence on the music industry.

Glenn Otis Brown, Creaitve Commons Executive Director, will appear on a panel, “The Illegal Imagination,” on Monday, January 6, along with “This American Life” host Ira Glass, writer and lyricist John Perry Barlow, musicians Doug E. Fresh and Alonzo Blackwell, Public Knowledge President Gigi Sohn, and NYU professor Siva Vaidhyanathan (author of Copyrights and Copywrongs and the forthcoming The Anarchist in the Library). See the full program schedule.

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Intellectual Baggage — The Good Kind

Glenn Otis Brown, December 30th, 2002

For some particularly excellent commentary about Creative Commons licenses, check out Denise M. Howell’s Bag and Baggage, one of the snappiest law-and-tech blogs out there. Denise chronicles her own experience applying one of our licenses to her blog and addresses readers’ questions about the licenses, among other things.

As our chairman has pointed out in his own blog, it’s just this sort of community participation and reporting that the Creative Commons model will rely on. So thanks to Bag and Baggage and the many others out there revving up the discussion.

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Do the Shirky

Glenn Otis Brown, December 30th, 2002

Clay Shirky, prominent web thinker and investor, has released essays from his email newsletter NEC (Networks, Economics, and Culture) under a Creative Commons attribution license. Here’s how to subscribe to the list if you haven’t already.

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