Ed Felten distills the impact of computers on cultural production and the ensuing debate to its essence: [W]hether IT is primarily a copying machine, or a creative tool The answer to most reading this Creative Commons blog will be obvious, but Felten lays it out in great detail in a talk called Rip, Mix, Burn,…

IBM assembled a worldwide community of 50 experts in the fields of law, academia, economics, government, technology and others. These experts collaborated with IBMers to discuss the issues, determine the key characteristics of a properly functioning IP marketplace, and establish a blueprint for meaningful change. Throughout May and June 2006, the group collaborated in the…

Creative Commons Board Chair Joi Ito took some great pictures at a recent CC board meeting. Here’s the Flickr set, all under CC Attribution. Eric Saltzman, Jamie Boyle, Eric Eldred Laurie Racine, Lawrence Lessig Michael Carroll (check out his blog) Joi Ito on Leicaism.

From the Science Commons blog … “Together with SPARC and MIT, we are proud to announce the release of a set of online tools designed to help authors retain rights over their scholarly works, including the right to self-archive their material. The Scholar’s Copyright Addendum Engine is one of these tools, making it easier for…

Hala Essalmawi; Bibliotheca Alexandrina

Someone has to pick up the slack on reporting on all of CC Australia’s great work. I guess that will be me. Check out what Jessica Coates said on the cc-community mailing list. Just wanted to drop you a quick line to point out a great collaborative film project CCau took part in over the…

Sun CEO Jonathan Schwartz has a fine blog post in which he describes the Sun’s decision to pursue an “open” strategy rather than prosecute the “open” world and its results: In essence, we decided to innovate, not litigate. Further down: All of which is to say – no amount of fear can stop the rise…

Mark Hoekstra posted this cool photo (BY-NC-SA) on Geek Technique: This is part of a series on iPod hacking. A very Maker thing to do. (If you’re in the San Francisco area visit CC at Maker Faire this weekend.)

Looks like a new great web 2.0 has emerged along the lines of scribd, but specifically for sharing slideshows. Welcome to the world of the commons, Slideshare! (rounds of massive applause) Here at CC we have been working on a Media Hosting Wishlist for sites like Slideshare to use as a guide for how to…

Last night the podcast edition of James Patrick Kelly’s Hugo-nominated novella Burn won the Nebula Award for best science fiction/fantasy novella published in the U.S. during the two previous years. Cory Doctorow writes on Boing Boing: As far as I know, that makes it the first Creative Commons licensed work and the first podcast to…