On August 17th and 18th, The Bandwidth Music & Technology Conference will take place in San Francisco, offering participants a chance to discuss “issues of interest to the music and technology communities, with a particular focus on the evolving musical experience”. Both Eric Steuer, CC’s Creative Director, and Mike Linksvayer, CC’s Vice President, will be…

The (©urve)™* remix contest is well under way over at ccMixter with a steady of flow of entries. We are all very grateful to (©urve)™ artists from some of the best a cappellas ever put into the Commons in any language. This morning’s hot entry is Madrugada(rmx) by savoyard. This contest ends next week so…

This past weekend, our very own Jon Phillips had the pleasure of speaking at The First Annual Pixelodeon Festival, an independent video festival that specifically celebrates global online video. From NewTeeVee: While much of the discussion focused on how to make a business out of producing video content for online distribution, Creative Commons Jon Phillips’…

The United Nations University (UNU) Media Studio Program announced today that they have adopted a CC Attribution Non-commercial Share Alike (by-nc-sa) license for both their Media Studio and Online Learning websites. This phenomenal news is only strengthened by the desire that eventually, “the UNU will evolve into a 100% Creative Commons institution”. Although doing so…

Concluding our series on the Creative Commons international jurisdiction projects comes news from CC Israel (CC-IL) concerning their various projects and initiatives. Again, we can’t thank you all enough for your support during our CCi Scholarship campaign – it was a truly overwhelming response and promises to make iSummit 2007 an event for the ages.…

With iSummit 2007 kicking off at the end of this week (June 15th), it seems only appropriate to wrap up our series highlighting the phenomenal work being done by Creative Commons international jurisdiction projects. Two stories remain, and today we present Creative Commons Bulgaria. CC Bulgaria, in cooperation with six international partners, including CC Sweden,…

Following up on our previous post comes even more media from the most recent, and wonderfully amazing, ccSalon in Seoul. The theme, “Code Can be an Art”, was engaged through a media-jam encouraging those in attendance to create art from code, presentations by local artists and DJs, as well as a panel discussion focusing on…

April’s most sophisticated Flickr/CC mashup yet has relaunched with angel funding as PictureSandbox.com with cool tools to find and reuse CC licensed photos in lightboxes, cards, and more.

From the Science Commons blog … Information World Review and SPARC’s Open Access Newsletter both feature pieces this month highlighting a new set of online tools recently released by Science Commons and SPARC. The toolkit aims to help authors retain critical rights over their scholarly works. From IWR’s article, “Commons copyright targets scientists”, which was…

Professor Christine Harold of the University of Georgia has a great new book out entitled Ourspace: Resisting the Corporate Control of Culture that focuses on participatory culture and the movement to subvert mainstream media supremacy. Harold examines the deployment and limitations of “culture jamming” by activists. These techniques defy repressive corporate culture through parodies, hoaxes,…