Michael W. Dean and Chris Caulder have made their “guide to making a living making music out of your backpack, from anywhere, and everywhere” available as an ebook download licensed under CC Attribution-ShareAlike. Even better, they’ve put up all the book’s source files up for download and remixing. Via Boing Boing.

This just in from PopSci.com … “Will John Wilbanks Launch the Next Scientific Revolution? Using innovative copyrights and a Web 2.0 platform, John Wilbanks may just transform how scientific discoveries are made by Abby Seiff When Pasteur had his eureka moment, the processes leading up to it were barely different than Archimedes’s. The scientist hypothesized,…

Lan Bui, photographer and vlogger, recently found himself in a difficult situation in relation to a photo he published on flickr under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 2.0 license. While at this years SXSW conference, Lan noticed to his surprise that the photo had been reproduced on a promotional poster for PodTech, a technology and entertainment…

Evan Prodromou just published a great essay on paying wiki contributors. He says don’t, offering solid reasons and alternatives. One alternative that I won’t argue with (but probably one of the least interesting–read the essay for more): Donate. Set aside a good part of the profits from the site (if there are any…) to donations…

Congratulations yet again to Jamendo, though this time not for adding CC licensed music and features, but for raising money to do even more: Jamendo allows users to listen and download for free more than 40.000 DRM-less music tracks under Creative Commons license. So far, 3 million albums have been legally downloaded from the Jamendo…

I presented an updated tango-ified Open Content Library presentation that discussed some key projects that we are working on at Creative Commons at GUADEC in Birmingham, UK. GUADEC is the happening right now with major key open source developers focused in and around the GNOME desktop here. Check the CC Attribution 3.0 licensed presentation: I…

A little over two weeks ago, the very first CC Salon London took place with great success. A slew on interesting presentations and good times filled the night with a last-minute presentation of Where Are The Joneses? capping things off nicely. For those not in the London area, you can read about the night’s festivities…

The OWL Music Search presentation at last week’s CC Salon San Francisco has been written up by CNET’s Webware, “cool web apps for everyone.” You can use OWL via CC Search or directly. Mark your calendar for the next CC Salon SF: August 8.

This has already been picked up by at least one blogger, and I’ve been remiss in not blogging it earlier. Cogniview has developed an open source tool for embedding CC license metadata in PDF output. You can find a screencast and download information on their website. The CC PDF Converter takes a slightly different approach…

Don’t forget that tonight we are back at Shinesf.com (1337 Mission St. in San Francisco) for this month’s Creative Commons Salon! We are pleased to announce that Live365, an internet radio network where members can create their own online radio stations, will be joining us as presenters. They will be discussing netradio’s effects on independent…