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Creative Commons, a non-profit organization seeking to promote the sharing of high-quality content, today introduced its highly innovative licensing system for copyrighted material to Germany. Palo Alto, USA, and Berlin, GERMANY. Creative Commons, a non-profit organization seeking to promote the sharing of high-quality content, today introduced its highly innovative licensing system for copyrighted digital material…
Following many requests on cc-licenses for a list with a more general charter, we’ve created cc-community. If you have a burning question or discussion point related to Creative Commons that doesn’t seem to fit the specific description of any of our many discussion lists, hold back no longer. Subscribe to cc-community. Read the cc-community archives.…
One of the kings of scientific publishing, the journal Nature, has recently launched a forum to bring together articles and information about open access publishing. They’ve even got an RSS feed for updates to the forum. It’s great to see a top journal open a dialogue about a somewhat controversial issue in the scientific publishing…
Cabinet minister by day, mover of souls by night. At total ease bouncing from baritone to falsetto and back again. As nimble on stage as those half his age. Master of a crowd and, in person, friendly as can be. Gold-selling and Creative Commons-adopting. Is Gilberto Gil the world’s coolest man? Minister Gil with assistant…
“GarageBand.com Leaves Door Open” by Katie Dean
“The Free & The Unfree” by Wired staff
“Go ahead. Share.” by Joan Anderman
“Ebook Seller Offers AAC” By Macworld staff
Wired has a short write-up of the GarageBand (the website for musicians, not the Apple software) annoucement to include a Creative Commons license during song uploads. If you’ve never tried out GarageBand, sign up and give it a whirl. Listeners rate song samples as one vs. another, and you can view the top rated songs…
The NY Times has an interesting story of a new movie project called Wizard People, Dear Reader. It’s a derivative work where the first Harry Potter movie plays while artist Brad Neely creates his own soundtrack to the film. It falls into a gray area of law and Warner Brothers declined to comment on it.…