Hello CC Community, I’m writing to tell you about an update we are proposing to our current version of our licenses (3.0). Because the update is intended simply to make clear something we intended the license to mean, this version would be numbered 3.01. As you know, in February 2007, after 9 months of public…

We love to see Creative Commons metadata everywhere. Thanks to the work of Scott and Jason this summer, we now have a library called liblicense and some demos for how to integrate that with desktop applications in GNOME and KDE, the two most-used Free Software desktop environments. So I went to the GNOME summit last…

Please join us tonight, Wednesday, October 10, for the San Francisco CC Salon. Stop by Shine (1337 Mission St.) from 7-9PM to help celebrate the launch of our fall fundraising campaign, hang out with fellow CC supporters, and learn about CC topics. Our presenters include: Sharon Daniel, Associate Professor of Film and Digital Media, and…

TempoStand is an online musical portal that promotes independent bands, artists, and musicians in India by using CC-licenses. TempoStand records tracks for groups and then releases these recordings under a CC-India BY-SA License, allowing people to remix and redistribute the tracks as they see fit. From TempoStand: TempoStand is a platform to promote independent musicians…

Aduki Independent Press, a boutique publishing company based in Melbourne, Australia, announced last week that one of their upcoming releases, Stick This In Your Memory Hole by Tristan Clark, will be made available under a CC Attribution-Noncommercial licence. A collection of 37 essays, Stick This In Your Memory Hole uses satire, insight and the occasional…

Last week we launched the Creative Commons annual fall fundraising campaign. Goal: US$500,000. We also launched a redesigned creativecommons.org site (more on that below) and now have matching campaign buttons: Get one for your site or blog! As you might guess from the buttons above, a map theme runs throughout the campaign, including on the…

I’m giving a presentation about Creative Commons at Electronic Frontier Foundation’s (EFF) Bootcamp (for Web 2.0 workers on user-generated content) next Wednesday, October 10, 2007. Here is a summary: EFF is hosting a one-day session for Web 2.0 workers who handle issues arising from users and user-generated content. From DMCA to CDA to ECPA, the…

To many, chess is simultaneously fascinating and perplexing. Enter Ward Fonsworth’s Predator at the Chessboard, a free online guide to chess tactics, released under a CC BY-NC-ND licence. No longer will you be baffled by a Sicilian Defense or a Queen’s Gambit (UPDATE: although these two moves are essential to understanding the game of chess,…

We’re going crazy over here at CC. Not only did we just go live with our website redesign, launch our 3rd Annual Fundraising Campaign, and get a new general counsel/vice president, we are also happy to announce the return of the “Featured Commoner” series to our blog! “Featured Commoners” are people, groups, or tools that…

COMMUNIA, the European Thematic Network on the Public Domain in the Digital Age, held its kick-off meeting in Turin, Italy on September 28, 2007. The network consists of over 35 members from 21 countries who are dedicated to developing “the single European point of reference for high-level policy discussion and strategic action on all issues…