Weblog
2005
PROFIT, patents and progress
On Saturday, Creative Commons, a nonprofit dedicated to offering flexible
copyrights for creative works, launched Science Commons, designed to ease
from Stanford Daily – USA
BEASTIE Boys, Chuck D. Encourage Sampling With Contest
Creative Commons and Wired Magazine have launched “The Fine Art of Sampling”
contest, encouraging fans to sample works from such well known acts as
from AllHipHop – USA
DOES the Law Follow the Development of Arts?
Topics for discussion include Creative Commons, P2P, and music sampling.
The folks at LinuxNews.pl report that prof. Lessig will spend three days
from OpenP2P.com – CA,USA
CALL to show Scotland’s hidden treasures online
… Meanwhile, academics are examining how creative commons licences –
which allow people and organisations such as schools to re-use images
from Sunday Herald – Glasgow,Scotland,UK
YAHOO! announces search tie-up with Creative Commons
Inc has capped a flurry of announcements this week by revealing that it
will now be providing a search engine in collaboration with Creative Commons,
from Earthtimes.org – USA
YAHOO! Unveils Yahoo! Creative Commons Search Beta
… today unveiled its new Creative Commons Search Beta where you can find
content you can “use for commercial purposes” or content that you can
from Search Engine Guide – Houston,TX,USA
YAHOO Offers Creative Commons Search
The latest feature, released Thursday as a beta, allows users to search
from InternetNews.com – USA
UK gets its own Creative Commons
A version of the Creative Commons licensing scheme adapted for the UK’s
legal landscape will be formally launched in London on Wednesday evening.
from ZDNet UK – UK
CREATIVE Commons doing well after one year:
In the year since an innovative US copyright protocol known as Creative
Commons has been created, it has attracted top movie, music and book deals.
from Express Newsline – Mohali,India
‘CREATIVE commons’ is rewriting rules of copyright
… “No Meaning No” was released under an innovative licensing scheme called
Creative Commons that some say may be better suited to the electronic
from DetNews.com – Detroit,MI,USA
