Rifflet, described by Gizmodo as “Twitter for Music”, is a new website that pushes musicians to post their unfinished song – a unique melody, bass line, guitar riff, drum beat, etc. – for the rest of the Rifflet community to hear, build upon, and recontextualize. From Rifflet: A rifflet is a piece of a song–a…

Creative Commons is working with University of Rosario and Karisma Foundation to create Colombia jurisdiction-specific licenses from the generic Creative Commons licenses. CC Colombia List Project Lead: Carolina Botero, Alfredo Vargas, and Andres Umaña License draft (PDF). English explanation of substantive legal changes. (PDF) Post a message. Subscribe to the discussion. Read the discussion archives.…

pete was juggling tomatoes. bored. so he telephoned a few friends instead. “how about getting together to make an anti-racism song and music video?” all said yes without hesitation. not because pete threatened them with a rusty knife. only because they love malaysia. And so began Malaysian Artistes For Unity, a collaboration which has since…

Denver Gingerich writes about a 1979 feature article about copyright that appeared in the University of Waterloo’s Gazette: I found it especially neat that the Gazette includes this note: “Editorial material may be reprinted freely; credit would be appreciated.” This seems similar in intent to the Creative Commons Attribution license (possibly with a No Derivative…

We are very honored to announce that our close collaborators, the Eurasia Partnership Foundation, has opened a grant competition to support the adoption of the Creative Commons licensing framework in the countries of the South Caucasus. Proposals may be submitted for Georgia, Armenia, and Azerbaijan. From their website: The initiative seeks to enable and popularize…

Nation Beat, a musical group that “bridges folkloric Brazilian rhythms with classic American roots music”, is set to release their sophomore album, Legends of the Preacher, on July 15th 2008. In conjunction with their release, Nation Beat and record label Modiba Productions are sponsoring an animation contest based on the band and their songs, with…

We’ve rolled out a few small changes to search.creativecommons.org: The part of the interface we control is now translatable, and has five languages enabled now — Afrikaans, Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional), English, and Japanese. You can suggest translations here. A screencast on using ccSearch with Firefox, including how to change your default search engine, and…

Tune Rooms is “a music company that was created for Musicians and Music Fans alike” that aims to “enable music collaboration, promotion, and distribution on your terms.” This is accomplished through the use of ‘tune rooms’ in which users can upload different ideas, song sketches, and the like to the Tune Rooms webspace and allow…

In April I blogged about Open Source Lab‘s fourth official workshop featuring ccLearn’s Executive Director, Ahrash Bissell. The Open Source Lab has now posted a video of the workshop at their blog. The workshop focuses on recent developments within open education, including but not limited to the impact of open licensing, as Ahrash emphasizes the…

Two new releases of ccHost today, the remix-oriented media hosting software that drives ccMixter: 4.5, the final release from the 4.x tree. 4.0 was released March 6 last year. 5.0beta is the code that has been running on ccMixter for several months (5.0alpha was available in February.) The missing piece needed to make 5.0 final…