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Our Virtual Make Over

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For those who haven’t already noticed, Creative Commons’ home on Kula 4 in Second Life is currently undergoing a complete make over – which is happening alongside our Real life office move! Thanks to the ideas of Professor Mark Perry (Learned Om) and Nic Suzor (Nic Marx) of CC Australia, and the work of our…

CC search archive.org and more with SpinXpress

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As recently promised we’ve added an exciting new CC-enabled search service to search.creativecommons.org. SpinXpress Get Media searches the Internet Archive‘s massive audio and video collections as well as media at several other sites, including Magnatune, Flickr, and blip.tv and allows filtering searches by desired source, media type, and license. We’re extremely pleased that the Internet…

OECD report on CC declassified

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Participative Web: User-Created Content (pdf, 74 pages) mentions Creative Commons several times. According to the foreword: This report was presented to the Working Party on the Information Economy (WPIE) in December 2006 and declassified by the Committee for Information, Computer and Communications Policy in March 2007. Now the whole world knows … about User Generated…

Most sophisticated Flickr/CC mashup yet

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FlickrCash uses the Flickr API to search by CC license, build lightboxes, and keep a record of licensed photos you intend to use. Augustine Fou, creator of FlickrCash, tells us: I created FlickrCash because I found many really beautiful photos on Flickr but could not use them for “commercial” purposes like design work for clients,…

Jamendo 3k, Integrating open content

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Another milestone for CC-centric music site Jamendo: 3,000 albums released, including 1,000 in the last three months. If you’re a Linux user the Rythmbox music player is a great way to explore these albums. It ships with a Jamendo plugin (and a Magnatune plugin), providing a seamless listening experience. Screenshot: Jono Bacon recently wrote about…

Science Commons goes virtual

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John Wilbanks will be giving a talk in the virtual world Second Life this Monday (4/16). Taking on avatar-form for his first official SL speaking engagement, Wilbanks will be giving an introduction to Science Commons. The talk – “Scientific Research and the Creative Commons Methodology” – will shed light on the application of CC copyright…

Dapper: In Exchange for Traffic Back

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Dapper aims to make it easy to extract and reuse content from any website. They just released Dapper Version 2, providing a good excuse to mention their support for CC licensing which they rolled out in February: Another exciting part of today’s release is the ability to ascribe licenses to your content allowing you to…