We started CC Salon in San Francisco less than a year ago and have watched excitedly as the idea has spread internationally. Salons are now being held in Warsaw, Seoul, Beijing, Johannesburg, Brisbane, Berlin (called “Creative Commons Usergroup”), NYC, London, Taipei, and now Amsterdam! “The first Dutch ccSalon will kick off on Wed. Dec. 13th…

The good people of SF Beta are in the holiday spirit and because of that have changed their monthly mixer to a charity event. Donations gathered will be given to Creative Commons, the EFF, and the Josh Wolf Legal Defense Fund. CC’s portion will go towards our 2006 fundraising campaign goal of $ 300,000. Our…

Eben Moglen’s Plone Conference keynote address Software and Community in the Early 21st century places free software in the context of historical desire for freedom and social justice, closing with “The difference is, this time, we win.” While Moglen’s focus is free software, everything he says applies equally to free culture. He uses the first…

Creative Commons Taiwan created a cool license compatibility wizard in traditional Chinese and English based on the CC FAQ entry for I used part of a Creative Commons-licensed work, which Creative Commons license can I relicense my work under?

Red Hat Magazine has a great interview with Randall Munroe, creator of xkcd, a “webcomic of romance, saracasm, math, and language” that’s published under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial license. Excerpt: A former NASA contractor, Munroe now ekes out his living from xkcd. “I’m still sort of transitioning over to doing this full time,” he says,…

CC Labs is where we demo our new technology projects. Our current innovations are a “Freedoms” license generator, a simplified DHTML licensing engine, and experimental metadata.

From our last letter: “CC has come to be about much more than just licenses, and certainly much more than any of us dreamed.” The story continued: So this week we launched a fresh face to the Creative Commons website. Built within WordPress, we hope the site will make it easier for people to understand…

Creative Commons’ 4th Birthday Party is on December 15th. If you are located in the San Francisco Bay Area come celebrate with the CC SF staff at Songbird, the company that brought you the super cool media player. They have generously offered to host our party. The details: What: Creative Commons Turns Four! When: Friday,…

Creative Commons and Owl Multimedia Introduce the World’s First “True Music Search Engine” 10,444 Tracks Available Under Creative Commons License Searchable by Sound Via Collections From Magnatune and ccMixter San Francisco, CA, USA and New York, NY, USA — December 6, 1006 Creative Commons, a nonprofit organization that provides flexible copyright licenses for authors and…

Creative Commons and Owl Multimedia Introduce the World’s First “True Music Search Engine” 10,444 Tracks Available Under Creative Commons License Searchable by Sound Via Collections From Magnatune and ccMixter San Francisco, CA, USA and New York, NY, USA — December 6, 1006 Creative Commons, a nonprofit organization that provides flexible copyright licenses for authors and…