In July we celebrated the launch of the Peru version of the Creative Commons licenses. And now, we are thrilled to see the release by the Peruvian duo Alter Tempo of four singles: “Para estar contigo” (To be with you), “Gracias” (Thank you), “Tu voz en el viento” (Your voice in the wind) y “Libre”…

As we blogged yesterday, CC has a booth at LinuxWorld and our Chairman & CEO Larry Lessig gave a keynote there on Tuesday. Yesterday, we were thrilled to learn that ccHost won the Linux World Product Excellence Award for “Best Open Source Solution.” The other nominees were rPath Conary and Novell SUSE Linux 10.x. Mike…

Creative Commons founder Lawrence Lessig received a standing ovation for his LinuxWorld San Francisco keynote today on free culture and free software. Some press coverage: VNUNet News.com SecurityFocus Red Herring Internetnews.com PodTech (keynote audio) If you’re at LinuxWorld be sure to stop by the Creative Commons booth, say hello to CC staff and volunteers, and…

Ward Cunningham, creator of the first wiki, interviewed in Application Development Trends: The Creative Commons Attribution license is the “technology” we need to save patterns. If we’d known this 15 years ago we would not be in the mess we find ourselves in today. Instead creative individuals would be retelling the patterns in a way…

August 10 LibriVox celebrated its first anniversary with an hour long program celebreating the amazing community that has gathered around the project. Congratulations to everyone involved in this great effort to bring public domain books to life as audio. We posted about LibriVox and other CC litcasts six months ago.

Why version 3.0? As was mentioned a little while ago, we are looking to move ahead with versioning the CC licenses up to version 3.0 to improve the clarity of the terms of the licenses and to address some concerns of one of our first and very prominent license adopters — MIT, with their OpenCourseWare…

If you want an inside track on the future of free content licenses you could hardly do better than watch or listen to recordings of two Wikimania sessions — Lawrence Lessig on The Ethics of the Free Culture Movement (particularly the last twenty minutes) and Eben Moglen on Document Licenses and the Future of Free…

MCM, who last month published a DRM fable for children has published The Crow Who Could Fly, a patent fable for children, under the CC Attribution-ShareAlike license. German and Hungarian translations have already been published, with Chinese underway. There’s now an effort to turn MCM’s The Pig and the Box into a movie. If that…

Gratisvibes is a newish blog reviewing and recommending CC licensed electronic music: Gratisvibes aims to lead readers to the best of Creative Commons-licensed Electronic Music on the web, spreading the word for greater musical freedom for both artists and listeners alike. ccMixter star teru has a new remix project, ccMusictime: The following mixes were made…

Just a reminder that CC Salon is happening tonight from 6-9pm at Shine in San Francisco. CC Salon is a free, casual monthly get-together focused on conversation, networking, and presentations from people or groups who are developing projects that relate to open content and tools. CC Salon SF is now being presented in conjunction with…