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CC in Review: Lawrence Lessig on Important Freedoms

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CC announces Copyright Criminals Remix Contest

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Attention all remixers: ccMixter is hosting the new Copyright Criminals Remix Contest. Producers from all over the world are encouraged to use CC-licensed audio samples from Kembrew McLeod and Ben Franzen’s upcoming documentary film Copyright Criminals in new musical compositions. The best entry will appear prominently in the final version of Copyright Criminals and the…

La Vie Chill

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Technical wizard (music and code) Victor Stone retired as the lead ccMixter developer a few months ago. So what’s he doing with all that extra time (apart from continuing to commit ccHost patches)? One would assume a chunk of it went into completing his new album, La Vie Chill. Victor explains: [I]t’s dedicated to my…

Creative Commons Announces Copyright Criminals Remix Contest

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Winning Track to Be Featured in Film; Top 12 Tracks to Appear on CD San Francisco, CA, USA ¬– December 6, 2005 Creative Commons, along with filmmakers Kembrew McLeod and Ben Franzen, today announced the Copyright Criminals Remix Contest. The competition encourages producers, DJs, and remixers from around the world to use audio snippets from…

CREATIVE COMMONS LICENSES OFFERED IN SCOTLAND

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Creative Commons’ innovative copyright licenses now offered in Scotland. San Francisco, CA, USA; Berlin, GERMANY; and Edinburgh, Scotland — December 2, 2005 — Creative Commons, a nonprofit dedicated to building a body of creative work free to share and build upon today announced the launch of its licenses in Scotland. Creative Commons copyright licenses are…

CREATIVE COMMONS LICENSES OFFERED IN SWEDEN

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Silicon Valley-based NGO introduces its innovative copyright licenses in Sweden San Francisco, CA, USA and Berlin, GERMANY — November 30, 2005 — Creative Commons, a nonprofit dedicated to building a body of creative work free to share and build upon, today unveils a localized version of its innovative licensing system in Sweden. Creative Commons copyright…

CREATIVE COMMONS TO PORT LICENSES TO MALTA

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Public discussion of adaptation of Creative Commons licenses to Malta to start in November 2005 San Francisco, CA, USA and Berlin, GERMANY — November 28, 2005 — Creative Commons, a nonprofit dedicated to building a body of creative work free to share and build upon, announced today that Malta is the latest country to join…

CC in Review: Lawrence Lessig on Compatibility

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From flickr to The Charlie Rose Show

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Photo by Steve Jurveston licensed under cc by. Steve Jurveston comments about cool uses of his CC-licensed photos on Flickr: Imagine my surprise when I heard that the Charlie Rose show found my photo on flickr and wanted to use it on broadcast TV. They were interviewing Gordon Moore, co-founder of Intel and seer of…