Beijing, San Francisco, Second Life … to Rio

Mike Linksvayer, June 9th, 2006

The first CC Salon Beijing is June 11. Jon Phillips will be there.

June 13 in San Francisco I’m following up on my recent presentation at Netsquared with a brief talk at Net Tuesday, details at meetup or upcoming.

June 14 you already know about the super-exciting CC Salon San Francisco.

June 15 we have a remix art show in Second Life (check out Henrik Bennetsen’s Second Life Creativity blog if you want to go meta) and that evening celebrating the release of our Podcasting Legal Guide, again in SF.

Then on to Rio de Janeiro for the iCommons Summit.

ScooptWords

Eric Steuer, June 8th, 2006

Scoopt, the world’s first commercial citizen journalism photography agency, has just launched ScooptWords to help bloggers sell their content to newspapers and magazines. Within the Scoopt interface, you can easily add a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial license to your blog right alongside a Scoopt commercial badge. Use the CC license to tell people how your work can be used non-commercially; use the ScooptWords badge to let editors know that your writing can be purchased for commercial use. There’s so much great blog content being created every day — it’ll be very exciting to see how it helps change the way newspapers and magazines are created.

New Featured Commoner: Bruce Damer of the DigiBarn

Eric Steuer, June 8th, 2006

The DigiBarn is a computer museum located in a 90-year-old barn in California’s Santa Cruz Mountains. It is also an online repository of Creative Commons-licensed photos, video, audio, and technical documentation that tell the history of personal computing. The DigiBarn’s collections include computers, game systems, software, and schwag. For this month’s Featured Commoner, we spoke with the DigiBarn’s curator, Bruce Damer about the museum and its use of CC licensing.

Feed licensing

Mike Linksvayer, June 7th, 2006

John Panzer of AOL has been writing about feed licensing. His recommendation:

So, here’s my new summary, which is shorter but more complicated:

• Support and promote feed standards for embedded licenses.
• Allow fair use for unlicensed feed content.

You’ll need to consult your legal department on what fair use is in each case, and figure out how to deal with international jurisdictions too.

All of which makes embedding licenses in feeds even more important.

Thanks John for linking to our page on license discovery in feeds, which references license metadata standards for RSS 1.0, RSS 2.0 and Atom 1.0 and describes heuristics for finding licensing information when not included directly in a feed.

If you’re a developer of feed-publishing software (most obviously blog software, but everything produces feeds these days) please consider including license metadata in published feeds. If you’re a developer of feed-consuming software (most obviously feed readers and aggregators) please consider making license information user visible.

Wednesday, June 14 in San Francisco: CC Salon

Eric Steuer, June 6th, 2006

It’s time for another CC Salon in San Francisco. Please join us on Wednesday, June 14, from 6-9pm at Shine, (1337 Mission Street between 9th and 10th Streets). Note: Since Shine is a bar, this month’s Salon is only open to people who are 21 and older.

CC Salon is a casual monthly event focused on conversation, networking, and presentations from people or groups who are developing projects that relate to Creative Commons licensing, content, and tools. Please invite your friends, colleagues, and anyone you know who might be interested in drinks and discussion.

We’ve got a terrific line-up of speakers:

• Rick Prelinger (Prelinger Archives), who will screen the film Panorama Ephemera and discuss using the Internet Archive as its primary means of distribution.
• Victor Stone, who will talk about the development of the music remix community ccMixter.
• Marisa Olson, artist and Curator at Large for Rhizome.org, who will present some of her recent work and discuss sampling, remixing, and licensing art.
• Amit Asaravala, Manager of Editorial Content & Strategy for Techsoup.org, who will talk about content distribution in the nonprofit world.

Additionally, Quarterbar will be spinning a mix of CC-licensed music.

You can track this event on upcoming.org. We look forward to seeing you there!

ccPublisher: A Day for Releases

Nathan Yergler, June 6th, 2006

We’ve shipped two new releases of ccPublisher today. The first is a bug fix release. ccPublisher 2.0.4 fixes several crash-inducing bugs. All users are encouraged to upgrade.

The second release is the first beta for ccPublisher 2.2. ccPublisher 2.2 is the next feature release for ccPublisher and adds support for internationalizing the application. ccPublisher 2.2 will be released at the iSummit later this month. If you’re interested in testing or translating ccPublisher 2.2, you can find details here.

As always, questions, feature requests and bugs can be sent to the developer mailing list or filed in the issue tracker.

UPDATE: Shortly after the release of 2.0.4 several users allowed ccPublisher to send crash reports which revealed a critical bug. The bug impacts users publishing MP3 files which already have ID3 information embedded. We’ve released 2.0.4.1 2.0.4.3 which contains a fix for this bug.

Remix Art in Second Life

Jennifer Yip, June 5th, 2006

This month CC is presenting a Remix Art event inspired by the Free Culture movement, in Second Life. Artists are encouraged to submit remixes based on the images from Sharing is Daring and Free Culture NYU, according to the appropriate CC licenses.

Be ready to discuss your art remixes and other work!

We want to know what you CC/FC/SL enthusiasts up to out there!



Date: Thursday, June 15

Time: 4pm PDT

Location: CC SL Art Gallery

Email submissions to jennifer@creativecommons.org by Tuesday, June 13.

Learn computers with pictures

Mike Linksvayer, June 1st, 2006

In Pictures has published 22 computer books under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 2.5 license. These books cover computer basics with several operating systems, productivity applications and basic web design and programming. These books make maximum use of images. A quote published at DesktopLinux and elsewhere explains:

Most computer books contain 50,000 to 100,000 words, but these contain only 5,000 or so. They’re great for bringing newbies up to speed.

Música Lliure II

Eric Steuer, June 1st, 2006

Música Lliure II is a terrific new CD of Creative Commons-licensed jazz music by Catalan artists like Elisabet Raspall, Karion, Ismael Duenas, Joan Diaz, and La Orquesta de la Muerte (with a bonus contribution from Brazil’s Gilberto Gil). Produced by FOBSIC and Enderrock, the disc is available for free with the current issue of blues and jazz magazine Jaç. As with its predecessor, Música Lliure, the songs on Música Lliure II are available for free download at culturalliure.cat. Check it out!