Interplast announced today the release of its 1997 Academy Award winning documentary A Story of Healing under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives license. Ten years later, this is the first time an Academy Award winning film has been released under a CC license. Kudos to Interplast for realizing that this film, which makes a compelling case…

Interplast announced today the release of its 1997 Academy Award winning documentary A Story of Healing under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives license. Ten years later, this is the first time an Academy Award winning film has been released under a CC license. Kudos to Interplast for realizing that this film, which makes a compelling case…

One last reminder to come to the CC Salon tonite at Shinesf.com (1337 Mission) from 7-9 PM in San Francisco. If you haven’t read other blog posts, check out out what Swivel.com, Technorati, Eric Zhu (Doublefish) and Jay Dedman have all blogged about their presentations tonite. Also, I wanted to underline that we will end…

Hello friends. We just added some great presentations for the CC Salon SF on April 18, 7-9 PM at Shinesf.com (1337 Mission St). Here is the quick run-down: Liz Dunn, Technorati, about WTF (Where’s the Fire and CC) Seth Mazow, Interplast.org, showing film at the end of the night Jay Dedman, SpinXpress.com and Outhink.com, about…

For those who haven’t already noticed, Creative Commons’ home on Kula 4 in Second Life is currently undergoing a complete make over – which is happening alongside our Real life office move! Thanks to the ideas of Professor Mark Perry (Learned Om) and Nic Suzor (Nic Marx) of CC Australia, and the work of our…

As recently promised we’ve added an exciting new CC-enabled search service to search.creativecommons.org. SpinXpress Get Media searches the Internet Archive‘s massive audio and video collections as well as media at several other sites, including Magnatune, Flickr, and blip.tv and allows filtering searches by desired source, media type, and license. We’re extremely pleased that the Internet…

Participative Web: User-Created Content (pdf, 74 pages) mentions Creative Commons several times. According to the foreword: This report was presented to the Working Party on the Information Economy (WPIE) in December 2006 and declassified by the Committee for Information, Computer and Communications Policy in March 2007. Now the whole world knows … about User Generated…

FlickrCash uses the Flickr API to search by CC license, build lightboxes, and keep a record of licensed photos you intend to use. Augustine Fou, creator of FlickrCash, tells us: I created FlickrCash because I found many really beautiful photos on Flickr but could not use them for “commercial” purposes like design work for clients,…

Another milestone for CC-centric music site Jamendo: 3,000 albums released, including 1,000 in the last three months. If you’re a Linux user the Rythmbox music player is a great way to explore these albums. It ships with a Jamendo plugin (and a Magnatune plugin), providing a seamless listening experience. Screenshot: Jono Bacon recently wrote about…

As if you didn’t have enough to do next week in San Francisco for the big Web 2.0 conference, Creative Commons is putting on another Creative Commons Salon at Shinesf.com from 7-9 PM (1337 Mission St in San Francisco) on Wednesday, April 18. It is a great place to meet-up with others interested in Creative…