This week we’re featuring physics textbooks that are available for free download under Creative Commons licenses: The Light and Matter series of introductory physics textbooks, as implied by its title, has a story line built around light and matter. The outlines of Discover Physics and Simple Nature are based on conservation laws. The author states…
In case you haven’t heard yet, Governor Howard Dean is guestblogging on Lessig.org this week. (Be sure to check out the Lessig-Dean mash-up photo.)
Wired News has a nice article on our work with Supreme Court audio archivists OYEZ today. Download and fileshare a few megabytes of history.
Our friends at OYEZ.org have now made it ridiculously easy to download MP3s of classic U.S. Supreme Court oral arguments for free under a Creative Commons license. Here’s a list of the first wave of Supreme Court recordings that OYEZ has embedded with license information. Download (warning: big) a few here if you like, then…
On July 25th the Electronic Frontier Foundation will host a night of music, art, and conversation to celebrate digital culture. Hosted at the Black Box in downtown Oakland, this all-ages event will bring up-and-coming artists of electronica, digital film, and illegal art together with leaders from the cyber-rights movement. Among the event’s speakers, Creative Commons’…
Musicians Joshua Ellis and Big Friendly Corporation have implemented a new technology called BitPass to sell their Creative Commons-licensed content via micropayment. Joshua has offered his songs under an Attribution-Noncommercial-ShareAlike license. If you buy a song for 50 cents, or the entire album for $3.50, you’re then free to copy, distribute, and make derivative works…
Our licenses make another appearance on the campaign trail. Check out AmericansForDean.
You’ve got to hear this. This week’s featured content is exactly the sort of innovative co-authorship that Creative Commons, and good folks like Opsound, make possible. Colin Mutchler explains: About a month after submitting a few acoustic guitar tracks to Opsound‘s sound pool [and thus releasing the song under an Attribution-ShareAlike license], I got an…
This week’s featured content is Philadelphia-area rock band The Phoenix Trap. All their songs at MP3.com are available under a Creative Commons license (which also has streaming versions). Fans can purchase a CD of their full set of songs as well. “Not Me” and “You’re on Fire” were definitely my favorites.
A big part of the OYEZ Supreme Court audio announcement today is our new strategy for helping people associate license information with MP3s. (We’ll soon move on to other file formats.) Right now we’re just showing people how to associate verifiable license links with files. But we want to encourage the developer community and various…