Cory Doctorow, our current featured commoner, is interviewed in the San Francisco Chronicle‘s SFGate.

On XML.com, Kendall Clark gives a clear and accessible review of the semantic web transition, then criticizes our own RDF metadata strategy, specifically. It’s useful and insightful feedback, so we’ve taken the time to respond at length here. (If you’re not familiar with RDF or the semantic web, or why they’re important to our mission,…

If we were Margaret Mitchell’s estate, we might sue. Instead, we’ve gotten a good belly laugh at our own expense. Check out Imaginative Pastures for a very clever recasting of a familiar website. Thanks to Denise Howell for pointing it out.

Public Campaign, a campaign-finance reform advocacy group, made its “State of the Union” poster available under a Creative Commons license on its website today. The image features the president of the United States making a State of the Union address — not to the houses of Congress, but to the trading floors of a stock…

Creative Commons licenses are designed so that creators can share their works with others easily. You might ask “What can I create if I am not an artist, writer, or musican?” but there many options when it comes to personal publishing online. The first such example is a weblog. Many weblog authors have applied licenses…

The folks over at eastwest.nu have setup a small gallery of images that use Creative Commons licenses. This is a great example of how others can use CC licensed works that matches much of the intention behind the licenses. My own images are featured which I was surprised but pleased to see, and others featured…

“Digital art forming new battleground over royalties, by Sarah Lai Stirland

“A Kafkaesque state of affairs has effectively closed off access to thousands of old movies, books and pieces of music because the copyright owners can’t be located.” From a nice article about Creative Commons and content licensing by Sarah Lai Stirland in the Seattle Times.

The New York Times profiles our very own Matt Haughey’s Ticketstubs project today, and the Times’s Amy Harmon has a nice piece about the potential for positive developments in the wake of Eldred.

The Supreme Court has ruled 7-2 against the petitioners in Eldred v. Ashcroft. (See Lessig’s blog and the Eldred site for official news and responses.) What now? Creative Commons marches on as before, but with a pronounced sensitivity to the need to offer copyright holders who want to forgo long or broad copyright protections a…