Spread the Simuze Love, fight Death

Mike Linksvayer, May 17th, 2006

Ducth CC music site Simuze has created a CD titled Spread The Love featuring 19 excellent tracks (under various CC licenses — check the tracklist on the web or the CD cover) selected from the 640 contributed in the site’s ten months of public life so far. In addition to individual mp3 download links the entire album may be downloaded as a .zip file.

One of the featured tracks is from We Vs Death, which just released a new CD under the CC Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.5 license. Bjorn Wijers has a throrough post about the band and notes that this may be the first album in the Netherlands being sold in shops under a Creative Commons license.

Getting to Version 3.0

Mia Garlick, May 17th, 2006

It’s that fun time again when we start contemplating versioning up the licenses. An outline of why we’re thinking about doing this and how CC proposes to do this has just been posted to the cc-licenses list. Please participate in the discussions on the cc-licenses list – you can sign up here.

Featured Commoner – Lulu

Mia Garlick, May 17th, 2006

Learn more about how you can publish your stuff via Lulu’s self-publishing service and how it incorporates CC-licensing in our latest Featured Commoner interview.

CC in Flickr Advanced Search!

Mike Linksvayer, May 16th, 2006

Flickr rolled out a bunch of new features today, among them adding a Creative Commons-specific search to the Flickr advanced search page, fulfilling a new year’s resolution.

Now you can search the approximately 12.7 million CC-licensed photos on Flickr across all CC licenses or only those that allow commercial use or derivative works, just as you can search the web at Yahoo! advanced search.

Way to go Flickr!

Saturday, May 20: SLOMO Video Festival premiere in Oakland, CA

Eric Steuer, May 16th, 2006

If you’re going to be in the Bay Area this weekend, come to the Lobot Gallery in Oakland on Saturday night (5/20/06) for the premiere of the SLOMO Video Festival. The show is a unique compilation of 100 one-minute-long slow motion videos by 85 artists and filmmakers. The majority of the collection is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution license and the program includes work by LoVid, Matmos, Wiley Wiggins, Yoshi Sodeoka, Keith Fullerton Whitman, and Eddie Codel. Slomo was curated by Ryan Junell, who is the man behind CC’s über-sharp logo and the co-creator of CC movies Get Creative and Reticulum Rex.

Details:
SLOMO Video Festival
Saturday, May 20, 2006
Lobot Gallery, 1800 Campbell Street, Oakland, California
Doors at 8pm // Screening at 9pm // Slowdance party until late!!!
$5

Free Culture talk in Second Life Thursday

Francesca Rodriquez, May 16th, 2006

Meet Fred Beckersted, who will speak on behalf of the
Free Culture.org student movement which was inspired by Professor Lawrence Lessig’s book, Free Culture. Fred’s talk, Free Culture and Second Life : Virtually Extending Free Culture’s Work and Goals, will discuss his involvement in RL DRM Protests, ccArt Show, and Film Remix contest. Anyone interested in discussing strategies on integrating free culture in SL are welcome. Come get a free virtual FreeCulture.org shirt too.

• Date: Thursday, May 18, 2006
• Time: 6:00PM – 6:45PM (45 minutes)
• Location: Kula 4 (75,75)
• Host: Genevieve Junot

Adobe Labs wiki under CC BY

Mike Linksvayer, May 16th, 2006

Adobe Labs wiki has been up since last October under the liberal Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 license and has become a great resource for information on recent Adobe (mostly former Macromedia) technologies.

Toronto and Berlin CC Salons

Mike Linksvayer, May 11th, 2006

Last night’s CC Salon San Francisco was probably the best so far, with just the right mix of art, legal, and technology mixed in the three excellent presentations. If you’re involved in U.S. politics, or make art that critiques U.S. politics, you must check out Metavid, the first presenters — keyword searchable public domain footage from the U.S. Congress in high quality open format with cool remediator applications coming. Special thanks to the large contingent from the EFF in attendance, source of the evening’s most provocative questions.

Coming up May 16 there will be a CC Salon in Toronto and the 29th in Berlin. The next San Francisco Salon is June 14.

Info on starting your own salon.

Jamendo 1k

Mike Linksvayer, May 11th, 2006

Jamendo recently passed the 1,000 album mark, more than doubling since the beginning of the year.

Congratulations! Jamendo is a great place to find CC licensed music. See their top albums by popularity and a search form on the side of that page that allows you to only see albums that match your licensing needs (commercial use, derivative works), just like Yahoo! and Google web searches for CC.

ccPublisher 2 beta 3 Now Available

Nathan Yergler, May 11th, 2006

We’ve been working hard on ccPublisher 2 lately, and I’m pleased to announce that the third beta is available for download. You can find release notes and downloads for Windows, Mac OS X and Linux here. This release is stable enough for regular use. If you’ve tried ccPublisher in the past and want to upload a work to the Internet Archive, I encourage you to try this release. We’re still working on ironing out the last few wrinkles, but overall this release is more stable and flexible than previous ones.

ccPublisher 2 doesn’t add lots of new features to the original ccPublisher feature set, instead opting to focus on the infrastructure of the application. I think it’s a strategy that’s paying off, and will make the addition of new features far easier in the future. We’re already seeing results, as bugs and major improvements to the code base are far easier than they were with ccPublisher 1.

If you have any suggestions, ideas, or bug reports, we’d love to hear them. You can file bugs in the ccPublisher tracker, or join the cc-devel mailing list to communicate with the developers.