Signal vs. Noise is a blog run by the design gurus at 37 Signals, who strive for attractiveness and simplicity in all their designs. They have a regular feature where they ask their audience of designers to come up with ways to describe difficult concepts in 10 words or less. Today they decided to take…

Cult radio favorite Benjamen Walker takes listeners through a novel, lawyer-free look at recombinant art. SAN FRANCISCO, USA October 21, 2004 At 2pm this Sunday, October 24, San Francisco’s KALW will debut a unique new radio special: “The Creative Remix,” written and hosted by Benjamen Walker and sponsored by the nonprofit Creative Commons, is an…

Back cover of the inaugural issue of PLoS Medicine. Yesterday the Public Library of Science released the first issue of their second journal, PLoS Medicine. All articles are available under the Creative Commons Attribution License. Open Access News covers reactions to the new journal with several posts over the last few days. Also see our…

We just learned that the WIRED CD has been chosen as a finalist for “Best Use of Technology: Music Label” by the Billboard Digital Entertainment Awards. Hats off to WIRED for producing a hit before it’s even been released!

I forgot to blog this last week when a friend pointed me to it: online music mag Earplug’s current issue blurbs the forthcoming WIRED CD and November issue. A taste of the punchy and deliciously accurate write-up: The Creative Commons license is not a free-for-all: some of the artists permit only non-commercial sampling and sharing…

We’re happy to have launched our completely revamped and retooled website, at creativecommons.org. It’s a new direction towards simplicity and promoting the millions of license works found online today. We worked with Adaptive Path on tailoring the site along two major themes: Find to help you find works to listen to, look at, remix, and…

Two more countries join the International Commons discussion and drafting process today: South Africa and Belgium. Check out the drafts, subscribe to the lists, and congratulate your local Project Lead on making it all possible.

Creative Commons begins work with the University of Namur’s cyberlaw research center to offer Belgian versions of its “some rights reserved” copyright licenses San Francisco, USA and Brussels, BELGIUM Oct. 19, 2004 Creative Commons, a nonprofit dedicated to building a body of creative work free to share and build upon, announced today its plans to…

The innovative nonprofit pairs with South African experts to offer localized versions of its “some rights reserved” copyright licenses soon SAN FRANCISCO, USA AND JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA — October 19, 2004— Creative Commons, a nonprofit dedicated to building a body of creative work free to share and build upon, announced today that South Africa is…

A new site called P2P Politics is now live. The site enables anyone to select from a menu of video clips the ones that best express their view of the U.S. presidential elections, and then email links to those clips, along with a personalized message, to friends, family, and colleagues. It is like a cross…