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Getting to Version 3.0

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It’s that fun time again when we start contemplating versioning up the licenses. An outline of why we’re thinking about doing this and how CC proposes to do this has just been posted to the cc-licenses list. Please participate in the discussions on the cc-licenses list – you can sign up here.

Featured Commoner – Lulu

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Learn more about how you can publish your stuff via Lulu’s self-publishing service and how it incorporates CC-licensing in our latest Featured Commoner interview.

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Lulu offers a publishing service for “digital do-it-yourselfers” to publish all manner of media including books, music, comics, photographs, and movies. Lulu lets creators set the license terms, including Creative Commons licenses, for their works as part of the publishing process. Authors can also set the price at which they wish to sell their content.…

CC in Flickr Advanced Search!

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Flickr rolled out a bunch of new features today, among them adding a Creative Commons-specific search to the Flickr advanced search page, fulfilling a new year’s resolution. Now you can search the approximately 12.7 million CC-licensed photos on Flickr across all CC licenses or only those that allow commercial use or derivative works, just as…

Free Culture talk in Second Life Thursday

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Meet Fred Beckersted, who will speak on behalf of the Free Culture.org student movement which was inspired by Professor Lawrence Lessig’s book, Free Culture. Fred’s talk, Free Culture and Second Life : Virtually Extending Free Culture’s Work and Goals, will discuss his involvement in RL DRM Protests, ccArt Show, and Film Remix contest. Anyone interested…

Adobe Labs wiki under CC BY

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Adobe Labs wiki has been up since last October under the liberal Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 license and has become a great resource for information on recent Adobe (mostly former Macromedia) technologies.

Toronto and Berlin CC Salons

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Last night’s CC Salon San Francisco was probably the best so far, with just the right mix of art, legal, and technology mixed in the three excellent presentations. If you’re involved in U.S. politics, or make art that critiques U.S. politics, you must check out Metavid, the first presenters — keyword searchable public domain footage…

Jamendo 1k

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Jamendo recently passed the 1,000 album mark, more than doubling since the beginning of the year. Congratulations! Jamendo is a great place to find CC licensed music. See their top albums by popularity and a search form on the side of that page that allows you to only see albums that match your licensing needs…

ccPublisher 2 beta 3 Now Available

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We’ve been working hard on ccPublisher 2 lately, and I’m pleased to announce that the third beta is available for download. You can find release notes and downloads for Windows, Mac OS X and Linux here. This release is stable enough for regular use. If you’ve tried ccPublisher in the past and want to upload…