An NYT story on classical and rock guitar players posting versions of 17th century chamber piece Pachelbel’s Canon to YouTube demonstrates the value of public domain materials and web-based collaboration: This process of influence, imitation and inspiration may bedevil the those who despair at the future of copyright but is heartening to connoisseurs of classical…

MozCC 2.2 is now available for Firefox 2 (beta 1). This release adds support for metadata described with RDFa, as well as correcting a few minor bugs. As usual you can find download information in the wiki.

Scott Leslie of EdTechPost writes: I have been working away listening to streams of fully CC-licensed remixes and tracks from the awesome CCMixter site all day, and just wanted to tell someone. What brought me there was the announcement that my old favourite, Freesound, is now integrated into ccMixter via the Sample Pool API. Ahh,…

Splice is a new music remixing site featuring an in-browser sound editor. All tracks in the beta are licensed under CC Attribution and creative reuse of works from Freesound and ccMixter is encouraged. Hopefully in the future we’ll see more thorough integration.

CC licensing commercials, at least under a restrictive Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs license, seems like a no-brainer (adverisers should want their message spread as much as possible) and allowing derivatives not much of a stretch (going “viral” and all that), but not many have taken these steps. Now multimedia pioneer Marc Canter has published a commercial for his…

ccMixter admin and ccHost developer Victor says this is better than any award. Listen (mp3) to KCentric talk about ccMixter. Victor also says “If you don’t know KCentric is an amazing talent, remixer, and rapper.” Check out KCentric’s music on ccMixter.

The New York Times has a story on LibriVox, a community of 1,800 volunteers reading out of copyright books and releasing them as public domain audiobooks. We mentioned LibriVox’s one year birthday earlier this month. The Times article mentions two more audiobook projects using public domain books: Literal Systems, which releases recordings under Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs terms,…

Lucky 7s is a jazz band made up of musicians from the New Orleans and Chicago jazz scenes: Lucky 7s is the brainchild of Jeb Bishop and Jeff Albert. In September 2005, shortly after Hurricane Katrina blew through Jeff’s hometown of New Orleans, Jeb and Jeff were discussing the future. Jeff wanted to try to…

Many congratulations to blip.tv, which was recently ranked the top video sharing site by Light Reading. The free videoblogging, podcasting, and video sharing service — which allows its users to publish their work under Creative Commons licenses — scored an incredible 95 out of 100 points. The review cited blip’s “simplicity … responsiveness, and impressive…

CC Netherlands held a music contest and had a distinguished panel of judges select 13 tracks of 130 submissions. They want to release a DVD … so they need video. That’s where you come in. Read about the video contest on iCommons.org and creativecommons.nl.