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Guerrillas in the Mix
by glenn UncategorizedThere’s a good, brief article in Wired News today on the importance of digital editing tools to the underground film movement. They describe themselves as “guerrilla filmmakers,” independent directors who create for both fun and profit, and they see themselves as a resistance force battling the banality of mainstream movies. “There’s a world full of…
Take Another Little Piece of My Art
by glenn UncategorizedA museum exhibit called “Illegal Art” might sound like a history of naughty pictures. Turns out that the exhibit (through July 25 at SF MOMA Artist’s Gallery) is more innocuous than most primetime TV: A Mickey Mouse gasmask. Pez candy dispensers honoring fallen hip-hop stars. A litigious Little Mermaid. Not kids’ stuff, exactly—but illegal? Creative…
Physics Textbooks
by matt UncategorizedThis week we’re featuring physics textbooks that are available for free download under Creative Commons licenses: The Light and Matter series of introductory physics textbooks, as implied by its title, has a story line built around light and matter. The outlines of Discover Physics and Simple Nature are based on conservation laws. The author states…
Howard Dean on Lessig Blog
by glenn UncategorizedIn case you haven’t heard yet, Governor Howard Dean is guestblogging on Lessig.org this week. (Be sure to check out the Lessig-Dean mash-up photo.)
Wired News on OYEZ and Creative Commons
by glenn UncategorizedWired News has a nice article on our work with Supreme Court audio archivists OYEZ today. Download and fileshare a few megabytes of history.
Put the Supremes on Your iPod
by glenn UncategorizedOur friends at OYEZ.org have now made it ridiculously easy to download MP3s of classic U.S. Supreme Court oral arguments for free under a Creative Commons license. Here’s a list of the first wave of Supreme Court recordings that OYEZ has embedded with license information. Download (warning: big) a few here if you like, then…
Digital Mix: A Special Bay Area Event Celebrating Illegal Art
by matt UncategorizedOn July 25th the Electronic Frontier Foundation will host a night of music, art, and conversation to celebrate digital culture. Hosted at the Black Box in downtown Oakland, this all-ages event will bring up-and-coming artists of electronica, digital film, and illegal art together with leaders from the cyber-rights movement. Among the event’s speakers, Creative Commons’…
BitPass + Creative Commons
by neeru UncategorizedMusicians Joshua Ellis and Big Friendly Corporation have implemented a new technology called BitPass to sell their Creative Commons-licensed content via micropayment. Joshua has offered his songs under an Attribution-Noncommercial-ShareAlike license. If you buy a song for 50 cents, or the entire album for $3.50, you’re then free to copy, distribute, and make derivative works…
Commons on the Hustings, II
by glenn UncategorizedOur licenses make another appearance on the campaign trail. Check out AmericansForDean.