PC World

Press Robot, May 12th, 2004

“Music for Nothing; Tracks for Free” by Eric Dahl

NewsForge

Press Robot, May 12th, 2004

“Creative Commons highlights final day of OS conference” by David ‘cdlu’ Graham

Business 2.0

Press Robot, May 12th, 2004

“Giving It Away (for Fun and Profit)” by Andy Raskin

Chart topping Donald Rumsfeld and his poetry

Matt Haughey, May 12th, 2004

Proving that culture can be remixed in almost real-time, a group from San Francisco has created an album of piano and opera versions of US Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld’s statements to the press. They offer sound samples and the lyrics pulled from press briefings on their site, and are currently on tour. Rumsfeld himself has heard the songs and jokingly decried the state of music, now that he is the subject of songs. [via]

Fray wins a Webby

Matt Haughey, May 12th, 2004

A hearty congratulations goes out to The Fray for winning a webby this year. The Fray is an online storytelling site where contributors share tales and allow for comment by readers afterwards. There are also live events held several times a year where folks gather to tell stories on stage, all the audio of which is available under a Creative Commons license.

Open Source and Free Software, Concepts, Controversies, and Solutions

Neeru Paharia, May 12th, 2004

Yesterday, I had the opportunity to speak at the Open Source and Free Software conference, held by the Knowledge Media Design Institute at the University of Toronto.

The conference was designed to explore the legal, moral, political, social, commercial, and technical perspectives of open source and free software, to build a broader understanding of the movement.

I spoke on a panel entitled Education and Public Knowledge: Open Access, Open Content. The aim of the panel was to understand how the lessons from open source and free software could help develop a thriving open-content ecosystem, within the context of education.

The entire conference will be online soon — check it out!

AC CC NYC W3C

Mike Linksvayer, May 12th, 2004

Ben Adida will represent Creative Commons at the World Wide Web Consortium Advisory Committee meeting next week, held concurrently with WWW2004 in New York City.

This year has seen a number of new proposals on W3C lists for RDF-in-XHTML. Ben has been encouraging the development of a solution that will meet Creative Commons’ requirements. We hope to hear of progress on this front and other Semantic Web issues of interest. Of course these things take time…

Pity Adida doesn’t start with the letter C.

MTV’s new mashup bootleg TV show “MTV Mash”

Matt Haughey, May 11th, 2004

MTV Europe is currently doing a mash-up show called MTV Mash. Mash-up culture has been mainstream in Europe for the past few years, and I hope the show is limited to Europe only because of that, and not because it would be difficult to obtain rights to mash in the States. Links to the songs made on the show can be found at BoingBoing, where we first heard about this.

Bluejake and Satan’s Laundromat

Matt Haughey, May 7th, 2004

If you’re looking for slice-of-life New York City photographs of the compelling and off-beat, the images at Bluejake and Satan’s Laundromat have got you covered. They’re both licensed under Creative Commons and allow for derivative works, making for some great collage fodder.

SURJ

Glenn Otis Brown, May 7th, 2004

The Stanford Undergraduate Research Journal, a very impressive student-run academic publication here, has published its third volume under a Creative Commons attribution-noncommercial-sharealike license. I got to speak at SURJ’s annual awards event this week on Stanford’s campus, and the group’s enthusiasm for open-access research was inspiring.