Creative Commons is represented this week as part of the first ever Open Source Pavilion, which features Open Source Applications, at the world’s largest Graphic Conference, Siggraph. The booth this year is set-up by Ton Rosendaal, the project lead of the CC-BY 2.5 licensed Elephant’s Dream Open Source movie and Blender, a 3D application. There…

Today we turned on a new search interface offering tabbed access to Yahoo! and Google CC-enabled web searches and Flickr CC image search. We hope that this new search user interface highlights the ease of discovering licensed content (including options to filter for only content that allows commercial or derivative use) and opportunities to do…

Check out Estudio Livre‘s iSummit 2006 podcasts: currently 24 people in 15 languages talking about sharing and collaboration with Creative Commons, with video to come. The clips are all free to be remixed under the Attribution-ShareAlike license.

ccHost, the Remix Management System (think CMS, heh) that powers ccMixter and that we’ve released under the GPL, has been nominated for the Linux Journal and IDG World Expo Product Excellence Awards and LinuxWorld San Francisco in the “best open source solution” category. We hardly expect to win, but thanks for the nomination! If you’re…

New featured commoner interview: Bram de Jong of Freesound. Here’s the first sentence of one of his answers to whet your appetite and prime your ears: Oh, yeah, entirely! Some of the people in Freesound are so dedicated to recording and creating sounds it’s amazing. Read the interview.

Abracadabra! by Ray Newman is a new e-book that tells the story behind the making of the Beatles’ masterpiece, the 1966 album

Due to popular demand, the deadline for the Robberriff Remix Contest (previously discussed here) is being extended to August 20. Fake Science will choose the top 20 remixes and post them online for people to vote on. The creator of the highest-ranked track will win an iPod nano. Check out Robberriff’s MySpace page to listen…

The folks over at Automattic, who are also some of the brains behind the WordPress blogging system, have developed Widgets for WordPress. Widgets are a way for users to easily customize their blog’s look and feel without dropping into HTML or PHP. WpLicense 0.7.0 has been released, and includes support for rendering your selected license…

Last year frequent ccMixter collaborator Pat Chilla was discovered via a podcast of his ccMixter uploads and got a deal to do music for the next three seasons of TV show America’s Top Model. Coming full circle, or at least close to halfway around the globe, mariposaHD is a new HDTV show featuring Argentinian models,…

Annalee Newitz has a fun suggestion: I mean, it’s no accident that a horror movie like “The Ring” came out during the heyday of file sharing. Let’s think about it — the flick is about a haunted videocassette that will kill you unless you make a duplicate copy and show it to somebody else. It’s…