Last week, I wrote to ask you to help us raise scholarship funds to help CCi Affiliates’ participation in the iCommons iSummit. Our goal was to raise $50,000 for the CCi Scholarship Fund in a two week period. I’m writing you today to inform you of an amazing opportunity that makes more urgent our need…

Last summer, we featured Wikitravel as one of our Featured Commoners. Today, Wikitravel won a Webby Award for their free, up-to-date, complete world travel on-line wiki. Wikitravel is licensed under the Creative Commons 1.0 Attribution, Share Alike license. Way to go Evan and Maj!

Yep – another slow day for the CCi Affiliate Scholarship Campaign. I had high hopes for the state of the campaign yesterday as I walked into work and I refuse to let them whither. As you all now assuredly know we believe that it’s truly important to fund the CCi Affiliates participation in the iCommons…

Musicians: you have until May 13 to submit your tracks to the Diesel-U-Music international music contest. Winners will receive a cash prize, tour support, and press coverage. Past winners include Duke Dumont, Mylo, We Are Scientists, Tom Vek, and DJ Yoda. All songs entered are licensed to the public under CC BY-NC. Successful entrants will…

The winners of this year’s Webby Awards were announced today, and prominent CC license users blip.tv, Flickr, and Wikitravel were among them. Congratulations to all of the nominees and winners!

From the Science Commons blog: A recent incident in the blogosphere has sparked a discussion on the role of copyright and fair use laws in the digital world. Last week, Shelley Batts – a PhD student – was accused of a fair use violation for pulling a figure and a chart from a scientific paper…

Well it is now day 4 of the campaign and we’ve raised $7058. Needless to say the momentum that we originally experienced has waned. The importance of this cause however has not and that is why we are not relenting. The CCi affiliates need to be at the iCommons iSummit to debate and discuss the…

Yesterday was another excruciatingly slow day for the campaign. We’ve now raised $6,818. At this rate over three days, we will fall short of our two week goal by a whopping $18,192, which will clearly not enable us to fund scholarships for all of our international volunteers who should be at the iSummit — to…

Sony has launched eyeVio, a CC-enabled video sharing site, which looks like a very slick (massive use of DHTML, AJAX, rounded corners, and other Web 2.0 techniques) and Japanese language only YouTube. eyeVio enables choosing any of the six main CC licenses when uploading a video. Here’s the John Perry Barlow/Jack Valenti video played at…

Day one of our two week/$50,000 Creative Commons International affiliate iSummit scholarship campaign exceeded expectations, but yesterday was a big letdown. We’ve raised $6,618 in two days. At this rate we will not be able to end the campaign early and will end up $3,674 short. (Please help!) As promised, we’re going to profile Creative…