Join us tomorrow night (Wednesday, July 12, from 6-9pm) at Shine, (1337 Mission Street between 9th and 10th Streets) for CC Salon! This month’s line-up: Chris Hughes and Jeff Hammerbacher from Facebook Derek Slater and Jason Schultz from the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) Max Schorr of GOOD Magazine We’re also going to try something new…

Since taking on additional hosts cc365 has been on a roll. Last week Chris Campbell made some great picks, three of which are new to the commons — Chris convinced the artists to try CC — go Chris! This week ccMixter superstar teru is making the picks. Black Sweater White Cat featured an in-depth interview…

San Francisco, USA — July 10, 2006 Scoopt, the citizen journalism agency that serves as a broker for selling user-created content to commercial media, has announced that it is offering Creative Commons licenses through its newly launched ScooptWords service. ScooptWords was designed to create a market between bloggers and commercial publishers. Once bloggers have registered…

ccMixter maestro Victor Stone summarizes the good news: The freesound project is a web site for collecting tiny audio snippets and samples and sharing them under a Creative Commons license for use in larger audio works such as soundtracks, original material and oh yea, remixes. In just over the first year of operation they accumulated…

Yes! The monthly CC Salon is next Wednesday, July 12, from 6-9pm at Shine, (1337 Mission Street between 9th and 10th Streets). Come out and discuss your interests around CC, copyright, creation and licensing (among other topics). Note: Shine is a bar, and thus, only people 21 and older may attend. CC Salon is a…

One of our Summer ’06 interns – Katy Frankel – has completed a Featured Commoner interview with Cameron Sinclair, who is the co-founder and Executive Director of Architecture for Humanity (AFH). AFH do incredibly important work and use the Creative Commons Developing Nations license to help achieve their goals. Read more here.

Due to requests for additional time we’re proactively extending the deadline for the Fedora/CC Open Video Contest by one month — you now have until August 20 to submit a 30 second video on the subject of openness. Previous post annoucing the contest.

In May, we reported that indie filmmaker Solomon Rothman had released the trailer to his movie Boy Who Never Slept online under Creative Commons’ BY-NC-SA license. The full feature is now online, along with the film’s source files, which are — quite wonderfully — offered to the public under CC’s Attribution license.

Lulu.tv is a new video site from do it yourself publisher Lulu (we profiled Lulu in May) with a twist — creators can get paid out of a pool of people who subscribe to the site. Lulu.tv was written up in the New York Times two days ago. The article also mentions Revver, which takes…

Bay Area CC friends: You are invited to a party on July 14 at the 111 Minna Gallery in San Francisco, hosted by GOOD Magazine! Join us for a night of art, music (provided by Odd Nosdam of Anticon), and an open bar. Admission is free if you purchase a year subscription to GOOD Magazine.…