Over the last few days, I had the honor of attending the Creative Commons Australia launch which was celebrated by a two-day Creative Commons conference at the Queensland University of Technology Law School. The conference, entitled Open Content Licensing (OCL): Cultivating the Creative Commons, was well attended by many of Australia’s influencial thinkers in government,…

Juan Carlos De Martin writes in with a report on last month’s Creative Commons Italy launch: The Italian CC Licenses were launched in Turin on December 16th, with a conference at the Fondazione Giovanni Agnelli. Over 100 people crowded the attractive conference room of the Fondazione, with several journalists in attendance to cover the event.…

Last year, Creative Commons was awarded the Golden Nica by the organizers of the Ars Electronica Festival in Linz, Austria. Some great pictures conveying a sense of the award ceremony’s atmosphere have been put online and can be found here. There are also some webcasts of CC contributions to the Austrian launch conference (by Joi…

I’ll be at the Creative Commons Australia launch next week at the Queensland University of Technology, as well as making brief visits to Melbourne and Sydney. I’d love to visit with any organizations or groups interested in Creative Commons while I’m there. Drop me a line if you’re around and would like to discuss Creative…

Own It is a new service which offers free intellectual property advice for London’s creative people. They’ve published an excellent six page Creative Commons factsheet, which is itself licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license and provides a working demonstration of giving reused work attribution (see footnote, page 2). They’re also offering a free seminar…

A surprise visitor, one Al Gore, dropped in on our landlord and friend Mitch Kapor today, and we commoners took the opportunity to tell the former Vice President about Creative Commons and Science Commons. When Mark Resch presented Mr. Gore with a new Science Commons t-shirt and explained the concept, Gore said that it reminded…

MIT Technology Review just published an article that nicely ties together three related news items: IBM’s release of 500 patents for use in open source developments, Bill Gates’s “communist” screed, and Science Commons. The article misleads on one point: The Creative Commons licenses allow writers, artists and musicians to put their work into the public…

The CC project leads of Austria and Germany cordially invite all active CC supporters – as well as those who would like to get involved in the future – to attend a workshop on how to promote CC licence uptake in the German-speaking countries. The workshop will take place on 20th January 2005 in Berlin.…

Yesterday evening iCommons was invited to give a lecture about CC at download-culture.org, a student-run initiative of the University of Luneburg, Germany. Chiming in with current discussion in other countries, I was subjected to an interesting exchange about the role collecting societies should play in affording authors and musicians greater individual choice with regard to…

Firas has created a Creative Commons plugin for WordPress, perhaps the most popular open source blog software. Now you can add a CC license to your WordPress blog with just a few clicks.