English Translations of Recent CC Decisions Now Available

Mia Garlick, June 19th, 2006

A little while ago, we blogged about the recent decisions – one in Spain and one in the Netherlands – that have been handed down that involve Creative Commons licenses. English translations of these are now available for those people whose Spanish or Dutch is a little rusty. The Spanish one is here; the Dutch one here.

Many thank yous are due to: León Felipe Sánchez Ambía and Jorge Ringenbach Sanabria from our CC Mexico team and Claudio Ruiz Gallardo, Carlos Riquelme and Marcela Paiva from the CC Chile team for their assistance in preparing the translation of the Spanish decision; and to Paul Keller from our CC Netherlands team who co-ordinated with Lennert Steijger and Nynke Hendriks to prepare the translation of the Dutch decision.

If you prepare additional translations of these decisions, feel free to let us know at this address.

cc365 adopts a cat

Mike Linksvayer, June 19th, 2006

After a brief hiatus cc365 returns with help from Black Sweater, White Cat collaborators Biotic and Subsystem7.

Grant Robertson is also inviting anyone to join Indieish.com (cc365’s host):

I invite anyone who loves Indiesh.com to register for an account, and post whatever you like, whenever you like as long as it relates to the progressive domination of the world by Creative Commons means.

If you’re new to cc365 and Indieish.com a good place to start is Grant’s top ten so far, posted last month after day 120.

BSWC and cc365 have actually been collaborating in a loose sense for over six months, see this post from January.

Biotic and Subsystem7 talk about the collaboration on last weekend’s BSWC, which is also a ccMixter special. Check out the playlist and audio file.

MTV EVP on CC and Jamendo

Mike Linksvayer, June 19th, 2006

Jamendo CEO Laurent Kratz writes in about Under the Radar (see our previous post):

The conference went well, the most impressive part was the closing
session. This closing session was an interview of Denmark West,
Executive Vice President of MTV in charge of strategy, by a reporter
of CNET.

And guess what? When the interviewer asks what he found interesting
at the conference, the answer is Jamendo and Creative Commons!

The interview is now on the Under the Radar blog. Choose the first video, or watch it directly at Revvr (Jamendo/CC part starts 10 minutes in).

Jamendo storms Amsterdam and San Francisco

Mike Linksvayer, June 15th, 2006

This week CC music company Jamendo is presenting at a raft of conferences. CTO Sylvain Zimmer is in Amsterdam presenting at “Holland Open Conference” and the “Digital Pioneers Academy.” His slides make interesting reading if you’re interested in CC music and related business models.

CEO Laurent Kratz and CFO Pierre Gérard are in the San Francisco bay area presenting at Under the Radar, SuperNova and the Internet Venture Fair and stopped by last night’s excellent CC Salon San Francisco.

Watch for some great features coming from Jamendo, and lots more great music — artists have added over 200 albums since last month.

Reminder: CC Salon tonight in SF!

Eric Steuer, June 14th, 2006

CC Salon is happening tonight in San Francisco. Join us from 6-9pm at Shine (1337 Mission Street between 9th and 10th Streets).

Tonight’s speakers are:

• Rick Prelinger (Prelinger Archives)
• Victor Stone (ccMixter)
• Marisa Olson (Rhizome.org)
• Amit Asaravala (Techsoup.org)

And catch a live CC music mix set by Quarterbar.

Read more details about this this event at upcoming.org

Flickr find

Mike Linksvayer, June 13th, 2006

Last month we noted that Flickr added the same CC search options to its advanced search that Yahoo! web search offers (Google’s advanced search has differently phrased but equivalent functionality).

Now we’ve added Flickr search to our find page, from which you can now search for CC-licensed content indexed by Google and Yahoo! as well as the 14.2 million CC-licensed images hosted by Flickr (1.5 million added in less than a month).

Midyear license adoption estimates

Mike Linksvayer, June 13th, 2006

In April we belatedly blogged license adoption estimates for December 2005, which had been published elsewhere in December. That estimate, based on Google queries restricted to CC-licensed content, came to 45 million web pages under a Creative Commons license.

What a difference six months make. Our current aggregate estimate, also based on Google queries for CC content, comes to 140 million pages. Impressive, though it must be noted that this much higher number is probably the result of both increasing use of CC licenses and overall growth of Google’s index.

In April we also gave a current breakdown of license use by license property. Here is an updated breakdown:

Distribution of licenses deployed. Those without ‘by’ (attribution) were not versioned past 1.0 (excepting public domain, which is not versioned).

The increased use of more liberal licenses noted in April seems to have
accelerated, though again it must be noted that some of the change may
be due to search index variability (Yahoo!’s in this case, as Yahoo!
facilitates searching for specific license URLs with link: queries).

Look for another update in December, hopefully with some indications of
adoption across jurisdictions and languages (again with many caveats).

Danes Get Serious About CC-Free Beer

Mia Garlick, June 10th, 2006

You might already be familiar with Free Beer – the beer recipe that was first released to the public by Copenhagen-based artist collective Superflex and students at the Copenhagen IT University under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike license. Our Summer ‘05 interns Fred & Dana certainly were and cooked up their own V2.01 (sans the Guaraná) which they named “Fred & Dana’s Open Source Brew.” Even Jimmy Wales stopped by to help us drink it.

Well, back in Denmark, Copenhagen microbrewery Skands is reportedly busy preparing V3.0 of the Free Beer recipte. The new brew will be released for commercial sale to the public on Saturday in conjunction with the launch of the Creative Commons licenses in Denmark.
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Beijing Salon Details

Jon Phillips, June 10th, 2006

I am speaking at the Creative Commons Salon in Beijing on Sunday, June 11 about CC Salons and Community Building with examples from my primary Open Source projects Inkscape and Open Clip Art Library.

Here are the details from CC Mainland China lead, Chunyan Wang:

People from the National Library of China, CNBlog.cn, qiji.cn, Baidu.com, Mele Cultural Company, etc. will be joining Prof. Hal Abelson of MIT and CCHQ and Jon Phillips of CC HQ to discuss the topic of CC in China.

Thinkers Cafe (near to Tsinghua University)
All Sages Bookstore
5 Chengfu Road, Haidian District, Beijing

Come on out if you are in Beijing for this mid-day Salon. Next week is the next installment of the Creative Commons Salon in San Francisco. Start a CC Salon in your location!

Warsaw Salon

Mike Linksvayer, June 10th, 2006

Add Warsaw to salons in Beijing and San Francisco and other events next week:

Creative Commons Poland is proud to invite everyone to the first meeting
of the Polish CC Salon in Warsaw. The
meeting, titled “Godzilla or Gone With the Wind? Internet and Cinema”
will focus on issues of open culture in relation to movies and
filmmaking. During the meeting we will show – for the first time in
Poland – the “Elephants dream” animation
and Polish amateur films from the
“Enthusiasts Archive“.

We plan to devote the rest of the meeting to a discussion sparked by
short presentations by Leszek Bogdanowicz, head of the interactive TV
project at TVP, the national Polish broadcaster;
Jarek Jaworski, independent filmmaker and organiser of the TOFFI Toruń
Film Festival; and Alek Tarkowski, CC Poland lead who will present the
“Enthusiasts archive project”.

The Salon will take place on 13th of June, starting at 18.00 (6pm) at
the Club-cafe Chlodna 25 in Warsaw, Poland.