Author Cory Doctorow, asked for the millionth time “What’s the deal with giving away your stuff for free?” by Joel Turnipseed guestblogging at kottke.org, covers the the usual economic and ethical grounds, and also comes up with something new and wonderful (emphasis added): But then there is the artistic reason: we live in a century…
Madonna and Trent Reznor lose their labels. Radiohead lets fans choose their price. Led Zeppelin … finally decides to make its music available on iTunes. Last month was an exciting one for those watching the future of the music distribution industry (except for the tardy Led Zeppelin announcement, which could lead one to conclude that…
JUMP系列 Photographer：老0 Yesterday, I attended the Creative Commons China Photo Content ceremony at the National Library in Beijing. There were 10,000 submissions of professional and amateur works licensed under various CC licenses. There were three categories: Society, Nature and Portraits. Winners were chosen by a panel of judges including famous photographers, professors and other notable…
Congratulations to LibriVox, who’ve just released their 1,000th public domain audio book! Previously featured on this site, LibriVox has been a consistent supporter of access to open content by building a digital library of free public domain audio books. From their release: LibriVox, the free audio book project has just cataloged its 1,000th book:…
Rudy Rucker, one of the founders of cyberpunk, has released the electronic version of his latest novel, Postsingular, under a CC Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs license. Via Boing Boing.
UPDATE: Jamglue has shut down – former users should see our music communities page for a list of additional communities working in a similar vein. Jamglue has been consistent blog-fuel for CC over the past couple months, combining some seriously cool remix contests with an exemplary online music collaboration platform. We recently caught up with…
Last year Creative Commons utilized an innovative fundraising model by using the video sharing platform Revver to disseminate the Creative Commons mission and to help raise funds for the Creative Commons’ second annual fundraising campaign. That experience demonstrated the strength of CC’s community and that viral fundraising is key to sustaining Creative Commons. This year…
As a digital creator, you have a vested interest in both the future of your work and the larger participatory culture. As an active participant in this community, you play a major role in helping ensure that our culture remains as free and accessible as possible. Because of this, we are releasing our own fundraising…
Detail from Paul Downey’s wonderful web architecture comic poster, licensed under CC Attribution: Full poster: There are a bunch of gems in the poster. Explore and remix.
Red Hat is now offering an opportunity to learn more about Linux and support CC at the same time! If you sign up for a Red Hat Linux course eligible for a promotional giveaway, you can waive that giveaway in exchange for a donation to CC. Thank you Red Hat for promoting sharing in so…