Creative Commons Turns Four! Please join us on Friday, December 15, 2006, from 9pm until 2am, to celebrate Creative Commons’ birthday! Raise a glass and toast the four years that CC has worked to promote and enable a participatory culture. CC’s big day is being hosted by the good people at Songbird – the supercool…

Photojournalist Andrew Heavens on How I learned to stop worrying and love the Creative Commons: Time and distance have allowed me to reflect on the many benefits of learning to stop worrying and start loving the liberating effect of Creative Commons. On the personal side, lots of good things have come out of the fact…

So it’ s week three of the CC Swag Photo Contest and we openly acknowledge our excitement with the amount of participation! Even though we had some awesome entries this week, unfortunately we could only declare one winner. Tim Fritz, photographer and CC supporter from the US has won week three of the CC swag…

Dave’s Imaginary Sound Space has a highly amusing and informative review of this year’s Beatles news: What if The Beatles had used Creative Commons Licenses? Yes, much of the news is copyright related. Vi[v]a Victor!

Tucows, the Toronto based internet services company, has just announced its pledge of $5,000 towards Creative Commons 2007 goal of 300,000. “Tucows provides back office solutions and wholesale internet services to a global network of more than 6000 web-hosting companies, ISPs and other service providers worldwide.” They were the first to provide software on a…

The CC Australia team are holding their first ccSalon. Like the other ccSalons, the ccAu Salon will be a public exhibition/performance/expo of how artists are using Creative Commons licences and material worldwide. The ccAu event will feature CC-licensed material by a range of Australian artists, including a live audio/visual mash up including music by collapsicon…

Digital Garage, the innovative business that operates Technorati Japan and Web 2.0 Inc. has pledged 30, 000 dollars towards Creative Commons’ $300,000 fundraising goal for 2006. They have also pledged an additional 20K towards the annual iCommons iSummit that will take place this summer, a project that which they supported last year as well. Digital…

Creative Commons has always recommended and used free and open source licenses for software. We have long provided a deed and metadata wrapper for the GPL. Occasionally we’ve highlighted free software that complements CC licensed media, free software that we create, and pragmatic and philosophical correspondences between free software and free culture. Alex, Jon, and…

All of the videos on our support page are now available as Ogg Theora files. Theora is a high quality video codec that is not patent encumbered. You can read about free formats on Wikipedia. As to why you should care, read Jimmy Wales’ two year old blog post on Free Knowledge requires Free Software…

This weeks’ CC Swag Photo Contest winner was difficult to determine and we thank you all for your very creative submissions – but inevitably we felt compelled to support photography. This weeks’ winning photograph was taking by Franz Patzig who resides in Germany and is an avid supporter of CC and Flickr (he boasts over…