So it’s been a while since we discussed Version 3.0 but it is still happening. We’re putting the finishing touches on the new license drafts for the new US and new generic/unported licenses and working to make them public within the next 10 days. As you know, Creative Commons has long been hopeful of enabling…

The audio source files for the Vieux Farka Toure remix contest at ccMixter have been online for two weeks now, and today’s the day the competition begins accepting entries. There are already a bunch of great submissions online — check them out here. You have until March 7 to upload your remix — what are…

Vocoid is a local San Francisco net label/collective dedicated to supporting musicians by providing space and shared promotion. Last week they announced the first ever Vocoid Remix Contest. The contest utilizes ccMixter as the platform and the raw audio from their album Medly for your mixing and mashing pleasure. Check out their website for contest…

At the end of last year, we blogged about a second decision that had been handed down in Spain regarding the use of CC-licensed music. Thanks to the efforts of Thomas Margoni who works with the CC Italy team but currently has the pleasure of living in the beautiful city of Barcelona, we now have…

KRUU in Fairfield, Iowa is a community radio station run on open source software. Richard Poynder recently profiled the station: Moore’s use of the term “open radio” caught my attention. What, I wondered, did he mean? Amongst other things, it seems, he meant that KRUU has made a commitment to use only Open Source software.…

Netwaves is an awesome Creative Commons music program broadcast on Radio Scorpio 106FM, Belgium’s oldest independent radio station. Announcements in Dutch, interviews conducted in English, music CC-licensed, drawn from the best of the netlabel scene. Every episode is downloadable from archive.org. Netwaves 13 features an interview with Lawrence Lessig. Netwaves is also producing offline events:…

Technorati, the popular search service for identifying popular dynamic user-generated content, today launched a slyly titled service, WTF, or Where’s the Fire, which allows for Technorati users to comment upon searches across their system (and the web). Technorati has decided to use the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 2.5 license for all user generated content (UGC) for…

Commons advocates in India now have a localized version of Creative Commons licenses to use with today’s launch of the Creative Commons India project. Adding Creative Commons India, 35 jurisdictions around the world to date will have localized CC’s “some rights reserved” licenses and adapted this form of licensing system. The project celebrated its official…

Silicon-Valley-based NGO now offers licenses in 35 jurisdictions around the world San Francisco, CA, USA and Berlin, Germany — January 26, 2006 — Creative Commons, a nonprofit dedicated to building a body of creative work free to share and build upon, today unveiled a localized version of its innovative licensing system in India. Creative Commons…

Project lead of CC Chile, Claudio Ruiz Gallardo, recently posted to the Creative Commons community mailing list that the Biblioteca del Congreso Nacional del Chile released all of their content under the recently launched CC BY-NC-SA Chile License. Claudio stated on the cc-community mailing list that: This is a very important notice for the CC…