Last week Wikimedia Commons reached two million media files (images, audio, video), many of which are available under liberal CC licenses. Wikimedia Commons is “a central repository for freely licensed photographs, diagrams, animations, music, spoken text, video clips, and media of all sorts that are useful for any Wikimedia project.” While Wikimedia Commons is surely…

At the CC Greece launch Diomidis Spinellis presented a very interesting (but crude, with many caveats) look at CC adoption worldwide: To compile the metrics I used the Internet Systems Consortium July 2007 list of top-level domain names by host count distribution. From that I selected the 71 domains with more than 100,000 hosts. I…

Last year influential avant garde musician and activist Bob Ostertag made all of his recordings that he has the rights to available as digital downloads under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial license. Now he’s released a new recording under the even more liberal CC Attribution license. Ostertag writes about the new release, w00t: In March of…

Continuing with our Featured Commoner revival, we are pleased to present an interview with Brandt Cannici, founder of Strayform, a “creation network” that uniquely helps artists fund their works by utilizing Creative Commons licensing. What’s Strayform all about? What’s its history? How did it come about? Who’s involved? Strayform is a new model for digital…

Hello, everyone! My name is Evan Prodromou. I’m excited and honoured to be able to talk to all of you through this email newsletter. When Creative Commons asked me to write for their fundraising drive, I simply couldn’t refuse. In 2003, with my wife Maj, I started a project called Wikitravel – an effort to…

MIT has been a leader in supporting ways in which educators can retain rights to their academic writings and open up those creations to the world. MIT Libraries has produced a series of videocasts entitled Scholarly Publication and Copyright: Retaining Rights & Increasing the Impact of Research. Part 1 focuses on how copyright law intersects…

The launch of the Creative Commons licensing suite in Luxembourg marks the 40th jurisdiction worldwide to offer Creative Commons licenses adapted to national law. An event to commemorate the launch will be held on October 15th at the Public Research Center Henri Tudor (CRP) in Luxembourg, featuring speeches by John Buckman, founder and CEO of…

October 15, 2007 — San Francisco, CA, USA and Luxembourg, Luxembourg The launch of the Creative Commons licensing suite today in Luxembourg marks the 40th jurisdiction worldwide to offer Creative Commons licenses adapted to national law. Creative Commons worked in collaboration with Luxcommons ASBL, a local non-profit for researching and developing Open Content headed by…

This week the New York Times ran an article about Students for Free Culture, a national student organization that promotes engagement and activism in various areas of digital technology: creativity and innovation, communication and free expression, public access to knowledge and citizens’ civil liberties. Many active Creative Commons affiliates appeared in the article, including students…

A little over a month ago, WIRED Magazine held a concert to benefit Creative Commons in Los Angeles with Spoon, the Austin, TX based rock-quartet, headlining. The show was absolutely phenomenal – opener Kool Keith rocked the party hard and Spoon failed to disappoint with a killer set that spanned their varied discography. Oh, and…