So we at CC love to watch Flickr. We love to watch the number of CC-licensed images grow and grow…We love to check out recent images that are posted to Flickr from people in different places about the things that they are witnessing on a day to day level – whether it’s the snowstorms on…

This weekend Free Culture.org will be holding its first New York City Regional summit in New York. In this week’s Village Voice, the Education Supplement features Fred Benenson, Creative Commons’ former intern and president of the NYU Free Culture chapter and Inga Chernyak, co-founder of NYU’s Free Culture club, in Code Warriors: Free Culture takes…

So the topic of what constitutes a “noncommercial use” under those Creative Commons licenses that contain the NonCommercial license option has been a perennial source of debate over the years. Shortly after I first started with Creative Commons, I posted an interpretation of “noncommercial” to the cc-education list which was consistent with that community’s understanding…

There’s an update to mozCC available. You can find all the gory details here, but suffice it to say you really should upgrade. This release fixes a couple of naggling bugs, and adds support for Flock. Flock is a browser based on the Mozilla Firefox codebase which integrates several interesting tools to make your browsing…

Ever wondered what Lawrence Lessig sounds like in Catalan? In addition to having Maria Cristinia Alvite and the iRights.info project translating the Lessig Letters into Spanish, we are also privileged to have Ignasi Labastida i Juan, the project lead for CC Spain, translating the Lessig Letters into Catalan. Thank you Ignasi!

Grant Robinson is doing his part to make the new year uncommonly great. He’s launched CC:365, a project/podcast to highlight a great CC licensed song every single day of the year. Check out Day One. Grant also would up 2005 with episodes of The Revolution (unofficial ccMixter 2005 countdown) and Staccato as a guest DJ.…

We launched the 2005 fundraising campaign in October and have received an outpouring of gifts from so many dedicated people who also believe what we at CC believe: that supporting free culture in all its forms is paramount. Your donations are greatly appreciated. Because of this tremendous community support, the groundwork for CC’s fundraising program…

In 2005, through the ongoing work and support of the network of international collaboration teams, Creative Commons consolidated and expanded. Because of these dedicated volunteers CC’s core licensing suite has been “ported” (that is, linguistically translated and legally adapted) and is now used in 26 countries. Teams in Croatia, South Korea, Australia, Israel, South Africa,…

In 2005, through the ongoing work and support of the network of international collaboration teams, Creative Commons consolidated and expanded. Because of these dedicated volunteers CC’s core licensing suite has been “ported” (that is, linguistically translated and legally adapted) and is now used in 26 countries. Teams in Croatia, South Korea, Australia, Israel, South Africa,…