The much-anticipated global celebration of Creative Commons’ fifth year is amplified today with the announcement of the locally ported Creative Commons licensing suite in Serbia. In close collaboration with slobodnakultura.org, Wikimedia Serbia, and the New Media center Kuda_org, the Creative Commons Team in Serbia, lead by Nevenka Antic, has successfully adapted the Creative Commons licenses…

December 15, 2007 — San Francisco, CA, USA and Belgrade, Serbia The much-anticipated global celebration of Creative Commons’ fifth year is amplified today with the announcement of the locally ported Creative Commons licensing suite in Serbia. In close collaboration with slobodnakultura.org, Wikimedia Serbia, and New Media center Kuda_org, the Creative Commons Team in Serbia, lead…

Tomorrow (December 15th), Creative Commons will celebrate its fifth birthday here in San Francisco and in cities all over the world, including Bangalore, Beijing, Belgrade, Berlin, Brisbane, Los Angeles, New York, Pasay, and Seoul. The San Francisco party will feature announcements by Joi Ito and Lawrence Lessig, a performance by Gilberto Gil and his son…

We are happy to announce the publication of our brand new comic, Sharing Creative Works: An Illustrated Primer. We hope this piece will serve as a friendly and easy-to-understand overview of copyright and CC licensing. This way, the next time someone asks you to explain Creative Commons and you’re not sure where to begin, you…

Jamglue is once again up to their old tricks, this time giving users the opportunity to add a verse to hip-hop producer Hi-Tek’s “My Piano”, which features Ghostface, Raekwon, and Dion. To say it is an all-star cast users will be interacting with is an understatement. Per usual, everything is released under a CC BY-NC-SA…

Ten confirmed global CC@5 parties in eight countries spanning six time zones: how to catch it all? The generous team at n3tv.it, alongside Berlin’s seasoned Erik Stripparo, have offered to help. Starting in Berlin December 14th at 2000 UTC (2100 Central European Time), we will be streaming CC Birthday Parties around the globe. You can…

On December 15 in Pasay City, Metro Manila, the 42nd locally ported Creative Commons licensing suite will be launched for the Philippines. The Creative Commons Team in the Philippines, lead by Atty. Jaime N. Soriano, have worked under the auspices of the e-Law Center at the Arellano University School of Law and in collaboration with…

December 15, 2007 — San Francisco, CA, USA and Pasay City, Metro Manila, Philippines Today in Pasay City, the 42nd locally ported Creative Commons licensing suite will be launched for the Philippines. The Creative Commons licenses, now legally adapted to Philippine law, enable authors, artists, scientists, and educators the choice of a flexible range of…

Mahalo, the “human powered search engine”, announced this week that they will be integrating CC BY-NC licensing into their search index, making the content reusable for noncommercial purposes. While APIs have often allowed developers access to a website’s back end, Mahalo utilizes more than algorithms to generate their index. Users sift through and moderate search…

Great news for those in Southern California who can’t make it all the way up to SF for CC’s 5 Year Birthday Bash – our friends at Found LA have decided to get together and throw us a party at their amazing gallery in Silverlake (Google Map here), with free drinks and a cake to…