On Saturday, Creative Commons, a nonprofit dedicated to offering flexible copyrights for creative works, launched Science Commons, designed to easefrom Stanford Daily – USA

Creative Commons and Wired Magazine have launched “The Fine Art of Sampling” contest, encouraging fans to sample works from such well known acts asfrom AllHipHop – USA

Topics for discussion include Creative Commons, P2P, and music sampling. The folks at LinuxNews.pl report that prof. Lessig will spend three daysfrom OpenP2P.com – CA,USA

… Meanwhile, academics are examining how creative commons licences — which allow people and organisations such as schools to re-use imagesfrom Sunday Herald – Glasgow,Scotland,UK

Inc has capped a flurry of announcements this week by revealing that it will now be providing a search engine in collaboration with Creative Commons,from Earthtimes.org – USA

… today unveiled its new Creative Commons Search Beta where you can find content you can “use for commercial purposes” or content that you canfrom Search Engine Guide – Houston,TX,USA

The latest feature, released Thursday as a beta, allows users to searchfrom InternetNews.com – USA

A version of the Creative Commons licensing scheme adapted for the UK’s legal landscape will be formally launched in London on Wednesday evening.from ZDNet UK – UK

In the year since an innovative US copyright protocol known as Creative Commons has been created, it has attracted top movie, music and book deals.from Express Newsline – Mohali,India

… “No Meaning No” was released under an innovative licensing scheme called Creative Commons that some say may be better suited to the electronicfrom DetNews.com – Detroit,MI,USA