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Netsquared

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At the Netsquared conference “remixing the web for social change” Tuesday I’ll be on a panel with the EFF’s Jason Schultz and immoderated by Tara Hunt on Turning Communications Technologies Into Tools For Free Speech And Free Culture. Those not attending can participate by commenting on the session page or via chat. Update 2006-06-01: Slides…

Diventa Creativo

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There’s now an Italian version of the introduction to Creative Commons animation Get Creative — Diventa Creativo, available in several formats with sources for remixing!

Summer of Code 2006 Projects Announced

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As previously mentioned, Creative Commons is participating in this year’s Google Summer of Code. Creative Commons was awarded four project slots by Google, and the selecting the top four was challenging. We received many, many excellent proposals, and I personally want to thank everyone who took the time to think about a project and submit…

Diesel-U-Music: Featured Tracks posted online

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The Diesel-U-Music international music competition (see our previous blog post) is now well underway, with more than 1,200 CC-licensed songs submitted. Diesel’s staff has started featuring selected music for download on the contest site — check out some of the latest picks on the Featured Tracks page.

ccPublisher 2.0 Released

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I’m pleased to announce the release of ccPublisher 2. ccPublisher is an application which allows users to select licenses for their work and publish them to the Internet Archive for permanent, free hosting. Files in supported formats will have license information embedded in them. If you’re more into hosting your work yourself, ccPublisher will generate…

Pearl Jam's “Life Wasted” video released under a CC license

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The new music video for Pearl Jam’s “Life Wasted” was released today under the Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial-NoDerivs license, so that people anywhere can legally copy, distribute, and share the clip. This is the first Pearl Jam video to be released in eight years and, as far as we know, the first video produced by a…

Ryuichi Sakamoto: stop-rokkasho.org

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Esteemed composer and musician Ryuichi Sakamoto has launched stop-rokkasho.org in response to the opening of a nuclear reprocessing plant in the Japanese village of Rokkasho. To lead off an international awareness campaign, Sakamoto wrote and recorded a track called “Rokkasho,” featuring rapper Shing02 and guitarist/producer Christian Fennesz, under the group name Team 6. The vocal…