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Podsafe Music Making Sense

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ccMixter-meister Victor Stone points to the definitive list for the moment of podcasting safe music resources at Dave’s Imaginary Sound Space. Many CC-licensed music sites are listed, including many I hadn’t seen before. Dave’s list is a great place to start if you’re looking for CC-licensed music for your podcast or otherwise. We have an…

Slomo Video

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Ryan Junell, who animated our Get Creative and Reticulum Rex videos is now spearheading a Slow Motion Video contest. You too can create “a video experience that isn’t afraid to put a 78 record on at 33 1/3rd and kick back in a beanbag to ponder the mysteries of space and time.” Here’s how. All…

'Leaders of the Free World' finally able to sing "Happy Birthday to You" to the Free Culture Movement after rights to song cleared

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San Francisco, USA, June 21, 2005: Creative Commons, a nonprofit organization that provides flexible copyright licenses for authors and artists, released today its long- awaited present to the Free Culture Movement, represented primarily by FreeCulture.org, which celebrated its first birthday on April 23, 2005. The present is a recording of “Happy Birthday to You” by…

Operation: Remix!

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Hosted by ccmixter and in collaboration with on-line record company Magnatune (“we are not evil”), our new remix contest has officially begun. Dust off those samples, record that guitar track, lay down some piano hooks, mix in some Lisa DeBenedictis vocals and send your lovely new creation directly to ccmixter. Not only will you be…

Debates about global issues, politics and culture set "CC-free"

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In recent news – openDemocracy.net has announced that it is releasing the articles of around 150 of its existing authors under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives license and will also be incorporating the option of Creative Commons licensing for all future contributors. openDemocracy is an online magazine that provides a forum in which global issues relating…

openDemocracy's Global Network of Writers Adopts Creative Commons Licenses

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San Francisco, USA & London, UK – June 14, 2005> Creative Commons, a nonprofit organization that provides flexible copyright licenses for authors and artists, and openDemocracy.net, an independent online magazine for debate about global politics, today unveiled a new partnership to bring works by the world’s leading scholars and writers into the global commons. openDemocracy.net…

CC search query breakdown

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In March we posted a CC search index breakdown showing what license properties publishers have chosen to use, based on content crawled for our search engine. The following table has corresponding numbers for search engine queries. Given a format-specific query, what percentage of users limit results to works that may be used commercially, to make…

Searching For CC on the Desktop

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As anyone who’s looked at Mac OS X lately knows, one of the major new features in 10.4 is Spotlight, which allows you to search files on your computer based on specific bits of metadata. The great thing about Spotlight is that it goes beyond the traditional filename, changed date search and allows you to…