A group of former pupils at a London comprehensive school are poised to win thousands of pounds in unpaid royalties for singing on Pink Floyd’s classic Another Brick In The Wall 25 years ago. This is a great story. I’m looking forward to the guy who screams “How can yew have any pudding if you…

Snarky tech news site the INQUIRER interviews Magnatune’s John Buckman, who is refreshingly direct. Buckman: We sell a little over 1000 albums a month – about $10,000 a month – and this has been stable for about 6 months. Music Licensing has grown from about $2,000 a month 6 months ago to about $10,000 a…

Pittsburgh based label Big Sonic Recordings has released its catalog under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs license. At Big Sonic Recordings, you’ll notice that all of our artists give away all of their music for free, and every artist has an online store full of merchandise that you can purchase if you wish to support them.…

We’d like to produce a short, new animated/motion graphics film, and we need a great designer and/or animator to help us do so on a fairly tight deadline. You should know how to animate in Flash or After Effects (or both) and have experience with any necessary drawing tools, like Adobe Illustrator. You should have…

If you’re in New York City get over to CBGB Lounge next Thursday for a party celebrating Opsound’s first CD release. Buy the CD and download the MP3s by the band Catalpa Catalpa. All tracks are CC licensed, as is everything in the Opsound Pool. Congratulations to Opsound founder Sal Randolph and all of the…

Positron! Records, whose recent adoption of Creative Commons licenses was noted on this weblog two days ago, is encouraging users to take advantage of their first licensed album with a remix contest. They’ve helpfully made a remix kit containing vocal tracks and loops from the target track, Perdition. [via Rob Myers]

Just in time for Thanksgiving (and yet another thing to be thankful for), we’ve released an update to ccPublisher. ccPublisher 0.9.9 (windows, mac) adds support for Internet Archive keywords and description information. Supplying this information will allow visitors to the Archive find your work, become your fan, and stalk you by going through your trash.…

Tomorrow the U.S. celebrates Thanksgiving. It’s my favorite holiday. Just as the days are getting dark too soon, the wind (even here in Northern California) getting a precocious frost to it, and the mad dash towards yet another big milestone New Year taking stride with only an imaginary starter’s whistle blown, we’re obliged to pause.…

I had the pleasure of speaking on two panels recently. Last Thursday, I participated in The Open Source Paradigm at the SF MOMA, an event aimed to explore the history of open-source, and find new applications of its concepts in art. A few interesting ideas came out of the panel including a No Military Use…

Cool thing about Firefox 1.0 number 75387: access to the Creative Commons search engine is built in. If you’re already using Firefox 1.0, just click on the search drop-down to the upper right of the browser window and select Creative Commons. If you’re not using Firefox, get with the program! The Creative Commons search engine…