Austria now has a music platform, Orange Music, featuring exclusively CC licensed music with over 88 bands on board for launch day. Orange Music seems to accept submissions rather readily, and while the platform focuses primarily on Austrian groups, international contributions seem welcome as well.

Creative Commons is pleased to announce the release of LiveContent 2.0, a LiveDVD of Creative Commons-licensed multimedia content and free and open source software. LiveContent allows users to explore open content such as music, video, photography, books, and educational materials that can be freely used, copied, and built upon. From the press release: The LiveContent…

San Francisco, CA — March 10, 2008 Creative Commons today announced the release of LiveContent 2.0, a LiveDVD full of Creative Commons-licensed multimedia content and free and open source software. LiveContent allows users to explore open content such as music, video, photography, books, and educational materials that can be freely used, copied, and built upon.…

This came through our RSS readers this week via Boing Boing and is really quite amazing, showing the power CC licenses can have in advancing positive results outside of culture and technology (the findings are released online, along with detailed instructions, under a CC BY license): Australian scientists have developed a blood test for African…

In case you missed it, we have extended our deadline for 2008 Summer Intern Applications to March 21, meaning that you have two more weeks to get all the necessary materials submitted! The CC internships are a great opportunity to engage with the CC-community as a whole and actively experience the amazing opportunities the bay…

Thanks to Alessandro for alerting us to kunstderfuge, the largest resource of classical music in MIDI format online. kunstderfuge is a subsidiary of OnClassical, the CC-friendly Italian net-label we featured earlier here. At kunstderfuge, there are complete piano works by Beethoven, Chopin, Haydn, Mozart, Bach, original piano rolls (including sacred hymns, medieval and renaissance music,…

The first beta of Microsoft Internet Explorer 8 launched yesterday. Doubtless hundreds if not thousands of reviews of just this beta will be posted on the web, many critiquing or celebrating the browser’s implementation of various web standards. However, one interesting item concerns specifications for standards developed alongside IE8: For the OpenService Format and WebSlice…

Creative Commons is working with Kusamotu & Kusamotu to create Nigeria jurisdiction-specific licenses from the generic Creative Commons licenses. CCi Nigeria List Project Lead: Ayo Kusamotu: kusamotu@yahoo.com License draft (PDF). Post a message. Subscribe to the discussion. Read the discussion archives. More about Kusamotu & Kusamotu The Creative Commons collaboration partner in Nigeria is the…

Creative Commons is working with University College Cork to create Ireland jurisdiction-specific licenses from the generic Creative Commons licenses. CCi Ireland List Project Lead: Dr. Darius Whelan, College Lecturer, UCC Law Faculty and Louise Crowley, College Lecturer, UCC Law Faculty License draft (v3.0, PDF). English explanation of substantive legal changes (v3.0, PDF). Post a message.…

Creative Commons is working with the Access to Knowledge Project to create Ukraine jurisdiction-specific licenses from the generic Creative Commons licenses. CCi Ukraine List Project Lead: Andriy Pazyuk, National Academy of Public Management, Fellow (Ukraine, Kyiv); Ms. Galina Sovenko, Public Agency for Copyright and Related Rights, Chief Legal Adviser (Ukraine, Kyiv). (email) License draft (PDF).…