Positron! Records follows the lead of the non-evil record label, Magnatune: Positron! Records is pleased to announce that our artists now have the option of releasing their works under Creative Commons licenses. Unlike those who suffer from what we like to call “major label retardation,” we here at Positron! have never believed it was bad…

This Friday at the National Assembly in Paris, Creative Commons released the French versions of our licenses. Hats off to project lead Melanie Dulong de Rosnay and the rest of the Creative Commons France team. France joins Austria, Brazil, Canada, Finland, Germany, Japan, the Netherlands, Spain, and Taiwan in offering localized Creative Commons licenses. Read…

CREATIVE COMMONS’ ONE-OF-A-KIND SEARCH ENGINE DEBUTS, HERALDING NEXT-GENERATION WEB SEARCH FEATURES EXTRA: The new Mozilla Firefox 1.0 browser ships with the Silicon Valley nonprofit’s new search technology, allowing users to comb the web for royalty-free content. SAN FRANCISCO, USA November 22, 2004 Creative Commons today unveiled an updated beta version of its search engine, which…

CREATIVE COMMONS COPYRIGHT TOOLS NOW AVAILABLE IN FRANCE The Silicon Valley nonprofit releases French versions of its innovative copyright licenses at the National Assembly in Paris. San Francisco, USA and Paris, FRANCE, Nov. 22, 2004 — Creative Commons, a non-profit organization that offers free, flexible copyright tools to the general public, today unveiled a localized…

Engadget is a great all-around blog about technology and the latest gadgets, but in the past few weeks they’ve began doing a “podcast” which is sort of like a home-brewed radio show, saved as mp3s and shared on their site. This week’s podcast has an interesting segment on “Mashing the Planet,” their call to arms…

There is a nice piece up at MP3.com by Eliot Van Buskirk about (what else?) the WIRED CD. Watch this blog for some juicy news regarding the CD very soon.

Scott Andrew Lepera, previously featured in our Audio section a couple years back, has a great post today looking at the benefits and costs of filesharing to a small, independent artist. He weighs the pros and cons of both filesharing and digital rights management (DRM), and comes to a different conclusion than he once held.…

Tomorrow, on Friday 19 November, the French launch of the Creative Commons licenses will be celebrated in Paris. There will be a press conference cum roundtable discussion in the French National Assembly starting at 2pm (Assemblée Nationale, 126 rue de l’Université, 75007 Paris, salle 62-17) and a launch party at the Maison des Métallos, 94…

Great news for the public domain: The National Endowment for the Arts and the Library of Congress are putting 30 million newspaper pages online, dating from 1836 to 1922. It’ll take until 2006 to complete the project but the Library of Congress has put up a sample from The Stars and Stripes, an armed forces…

Part of our not-so-secret plan for world domination here at Creative Commons includes encouraging developers to include licensing support right in their application. We want to make it easy for developers to integrate license creation, detection and manipulation in their applications. With that in mind, we’ve created 3 mailing lists and a Wiki. The CC…