As we announced in our short film “Reticulum Rex” and on this blog in January, one of Creative Commons’ New Year’s Resolutions was to explore a Science Commons — a new, parallel branch of our organization dedicated to investigating how our “some rights reserved” model can be applied to pressing problems in science and the…

My most vivid memory from South by Southwest: Thursday night in Austin, TX, USA, MSN threw a party across the street from the convention center. It was in a spare warehouse space, like a rave or fly-by-night underground party, but the fancy lighting, free drinks, and imported-looking crowd (L.A.) all said Big Bucks. The women…

MusicBrainz, the Creative Commons licensed music metadata database, has long been limited to windows users. OS X users are in luck though, as iEatBrainz has been released. By using a sophisticated set of audio fingerprinting and other technology, iEatBrainz and MusicBrainz allow you to re-tag all your MP3s. This is a killer feature for anyone…

Although they’re not selling any Creative Commons licensed music, it’s worth noting that there’s a new player in the downloadable music arena: Audio Lunchbox. They specialize in small indie rock labels, selling albums for around ten dollars each in instantly available downloadable formats. Additionally, the high bitrate MP3 and ogg vorbis tracks contain no DRM…

This week’s featured content is the wonderfully wacky and off-the-wall stuff at Goopymart. Flash movies and animated comics feature a variety of animal-like creatures. Yuggy is my favorite and a longtime popular fixture of the Goopy universe.

As far as I’m concerned, the very best among the many great things about being part of Creative Commons is getting to meet CC users and supporters face-to-face. Knowing that one and a half million web pages (and growing) carry Creative Commons licenses is always an inspiring thought, but getting together with musicians and writers…

Bricks in the Wall Theater and drama fans are familiar with the Fourth Wall, the conceptual boundary between performer and audience. It’s an artistic term, but we’ve now extended the concept in a Creative Commons way. At the South by Southwest Film Festival this week, I moderated a panel, “Can Copyright Bring Filmmaker and Audience…

Check out some tunes from Funktifyno. I really like the live recording of That One — a great jazz jam. Funktifyno is based out of Portland, Oregon. Go remix!

From the South by Southwest Music Festival, Creative Commons brings you the new Music Sharing License and Get Content search engine. This copyright license lets your fans know they can download, copy, and share your music online, but not sell, remix, or make any other commercial use out of it. (The license is based on…

Machinista, an arts festival focusing on machine-related art, will use Creative Commons licenses for the DVD containing the winning entries. The winners will be chosen out of the 280 submissions, which are themed as “the world as seen by the machines.” Since the content will be CC-licensed, we’re also hoping to have it hosted at…