CC License info now available for your Flickr Moo Cards

Francesca Rodriquez, January 19th, 2007

Many of us share our images on Flickr, and some of us at Creative Commons were thrilled when Flickr introduced Moo Cards for purchase. Flickr describes Moo Cards as “tiny wonderful calling cards” for the real world. To make Moo Cards, log into your Flickr account and click on Moo in the “Do More With Your Photos!” box. You can choose a photo from your personal Flickr stream for the front of the Moo Card, and you can customize text for the back of the card. When you customize your text, Moo has introduced a CC License option that allows you to insert your CC license information and the CC logo on the back of the Moo Card.

Online office suites: The clear winner includes CC

Mike Linksvayer, January 19th, 2007

It’s good to know that Computerworld’s “clear winner” among web-based word processing and spreadsheet office suites is also the first to include support for CC licensing (and the requisite Flickr API/CC implementation).

See last July’s post about ThinkFree and CC (screenshot below from that post).

Via Slashdot.

Mosaickr: another day, another Flickr API/CC mashup

Mike Linksvayer, January 19th, 2007

Mosaickr helps you build mosaics from Flickr photos published under an Attribution license (and your own photos). The process is simple: 1) choose a master image, which will serve as a template for the mosaic, 2) choose images that will be used to fill in the mosaic and 3) download your mosaic.

Any art form takes skill and patience. My first attempt using an image of (cc) stickers as the master and images tagged ‘cloud’ as fillers is not good enough to publish.

Yesterday’s mashup.

netBloc vol. 1

Mike Linksvayer, January 19th, 2007

blocSonic is a new thing (blog or compilations label, you decide — a tastemaker in any case) that has just posted its first compliation of CC-licensed music. From the release’s 36 page CD booklet:

One problem… the sheer quantity of netlabel releases and no simple way of sifting through it all to find the gems. That’s where blocSonic and our netBloc releases come in. Admittedly not a solution to the problem, our netBloc releases are a but a tiny-step in the direction of a future solution that we intend to develop and launch. For the time-being let our monthly releases help you shine some light on deserving artists/netlabels and the terrific music that they have to offer. Help us usher in a new era by regularly downloading our releases and then checking out the featured artists’ and labels’ websites for more from them.

Via Digg.

Linux Kernel in a Nutshell: The Secret Goal

Mike Linksvayer, January 18th, 2007

Linux Kernel in a Nutshell (O’Reilly) by Greg Korah-Hartman is now available online under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike license in PDF and DocBook (easily modifiable source files for the book) formats.

The author’s “Secret Goal (i.e. why I wrote this book and am giving it away for free online)”:

I want this book to help bring more people into the Linux kernel development fold. The act of building a customized kernel for your machine is one of the basic tasks needed to become a Linux kernel developer. The more people that try this out, and realize that there is not any real magic behind the whole Linux kernel process, the more people will be willing to jump in and help out in making the kernel the best that it can be.

Another Flickr API/CC mashup

Mike Linksvayer, January 18th, 2007

FlickrCC uses the Flickr API to search for CC licensed images and for images with a license permitting derivative use provides basic image editing operations (e.g., cropping, adding text) online, without downloading the image and starting a paint program.

Last month we noted a tool that searches Flickr for CC licensed images based on color, hue, and saturation.

You can also browse and search CC photos at Flickr and via search.creativecommons.org.

Via Learn Online.

Christopher Willits Remix Contest Winner Announced

Eric Steuer, January 17th, 2007

Congratulations to DJ/producer Electricwest, the winner of the Christopher Willits/Colors Shifting Remix contest. The contest, which was presented by XLR8R magazine, Ghostly International, and Creative Commons, gave remixers the chance to rework the CC-licensed audio stems of Willits’ track “Colors Shifting.” The track will be available on XLR8R’s INCITE 49 CD, which will be packaged exclusively with copies of the magazine’s March 2007 issue. Additionally, you can hear the track at Willits’ website, and of course, you can download it for free from ccMixter.

New Featured Commoner interview with Enderrock

Eric Steuer, January 17th, 2007

Lluís Gendrau is the publisher of the Enderrock Group, a company that specializes in Catalan music and publishes three popular music magazines: Enderrock (pop and rock), Folc (traditional music) and Jaç (jazz). Enderrock – in collaboration with the government of Catalonia – recently included two CDs full of CC-licensed music, Música Lliure and Música Lliure II, free within the page of its magazines. The songs on the Música Lliure discs are available for free download at culturalliure.cat. Read more about this project in our new Featured Commoner interview.

Freesound sample in “Children of Men”

Eric Steuer, January 17th, 2007

The powerful new film Children of Men is notable for many things: its bleak artistry, riveting story, and elegant direction, just to name a few. A very cool aspect of the movie that the critics may not have much appreciation for, but that we here at Creative Commons surely do, is its use of a CC-licensed audio sample, taken from the excellent CC community sound library Freesound.

From Freesound:

Friendly freesounder “6am” just brought it to my attention that the major motion picture Children of Men uses a Freesound sample, and properly credits the sample! You can see for yourself from this image that was sent to me. The sound in question is the “male loud scream” from thanvannispen. This is quite an amazing first! Go go freesound power!! And congratulations thanvannispen.

The sample is licensed to the public under CC Sampling Plus, making this a really great example of how CC’s non-exclusive noncommercial licenses can easily work in tandem with separate commercial licensing arrangements. Nice going to everyone involved!

Lulu.tv revenue share 80/20 with videomakers

Mike Linksvayer, January 16th, 2007

Speaking of advertising revenue sharing, user created (and CC licensed) video hosting site Lulu.tv (first blogged here last July) has expanded their revenue sharing program.

A “shareholder” account (which qualifies for revenue sharing) is now free and the spit is 80 percent for users and 20 percent for Lulu.