Three stories from the Creative Commons music world came across our radar recently, each showcasing a different facet of how our licenses are used to expose artists, encourage collaboration, and promote commercial avenues for freely-licensed works. First comes news today that The Everybody, a new project from Joey Santiago and David Lovering (guitarist and drummer…

Photo of Elon Musk by jdlasica / CC BY-NC 2.0 Photo of Tesla car by jurvetson / CC BY 2.0 We are delighted to announce the generous support of Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla Motors, and CEO/CTO of SpaceX, who has given $10,000 to this year’s annual fundraising campaign. We are honored to receive this…

Tucows, the Toronto-based internet services company, has decided to generously continue their support of Creative Commons this year. Tucows has been a strong advocate and a good friend of CC for several years, and first contributed to CC’s annual campaign in 2006. Tucows seeks to provide simple, useful services that help people unlock the power…

If you are a software developer who has excellent knowledge of Linux and open source development tools with experience in web services, software design, engineering techniques, we would love to hear from you! We have a contract position open for someone who is familiar with Java, Apache Nutch, and Lucene. Please send cover letters and…

Since 2005 Microsoft has been an ongoing supporter of CC — including putting our campaign over the top last year — and we’re very happy to announce that they are helping to jumpstart our 2009 campaign with a donation of $25,000. According to Tom Rubin, Microsoft’s Chief Counsel for Intellectual Property Strategy, “Creative Commons is…

Photo by John Britton CC BY-SA The pilot phase of P2PU (Peer 2 Peer University) ended in October, after having run for six weeks with seven courses and approximately 90 participants. Last month, the pilot phase volunteers, including the course organizers, met in person for the first time at the first ever P2PU Workshop in…

Thank you to all who gave a donation to CC over the past week! All gifts were generously doubled by Greenplum, who matched $5000 of donations to our fundraising campaign. We’re extremely grateful to Greenplum for their ongoing support of Creative Commons and their dedicated work building digital tools for the 21st century. We rely…

Indaba Music, an international community of musicians, music professionals, and fans exploring the creative possibilities of making music with people in different places, has been up to some pretty impressive stuff since being founded just a few years ago. We’re honored to have Daniel Zaccagnino and Matthew Siegel, the company’s co-Founders, write the fifth letter…

Creative Commons will soon be turning 7 (Help us celebrate!), and we’re in the midst of our 5th annual fundraising campaign, our yearly effort to raise public awareness and support of our mission to promote free and legal sharing of creative works. This newsletter, from September-December 2009, is a testament to how important our work…

Photo by Vital Signs CC BY Yesterday, Vital Signs kicked off their new site with more than 300 supporters, including Maine’s former Governor Angus King, who spearheaded the initiative that resulted in a laptop for every 7th and 8th grader in the state. Vital Signs, a field-based science education program at the Gulf of Maine…