The very good people of FreeCulture.org have launched a new website called the Free Music Project, where people can upload music available for free and legal sharing and remix. The site is working with the One Laptop per Child project; selected songs will be included on OLPC laptops to be distributed to children in the…
If you live in Austin, and/or will be at SXSW on March 14 (4:30-6:30 PM at Austin History Center), I’m giving a FREE introduction to Creative Commons in affiliation with EFF-Austin. Here is the quick blurb I wrote up about the presentation: In this presentation, Jon Phillips, Community Developer for Creative Commons, discusses how Creative…
Marco Raaphorst writes: VPRO (Dutch public radio, tv and internet – non-profit) will start promoting ‘open content’, Creative Commons music in their radio-show Wissel. … This will only be the first step. I am talking about other open content projects for the Publieke Omroep here in Holland as well. So stay sharp for future updates…
A few days ago we announced a new version implemented in Flash of the ccLabs experimental Freedoms License Generator and issued a challenge to DHTML developers to equal the performance and visual improvements of the Flash version, using DHTML. That didn’t take long. Sylvain Zimmer of Jamendo (see our most recent post about Jamendo’s CC…
The last two days I attended the Tech Policy Summit Silicon Valley. While the panels discussed important issues that impact the technology industry (including privacy, security, immigration, taxes, trade, networks, patents, and of course copyright), I got a distinct feeling of Washington, D.C. transported to San Jose, California — discussion (and fashion) constrained by the…
Jamendo just turned on a Creative Commons portal for browsing and searching albums by license (very similar to Flickr’s CC portal). While Jamendo has always been a CC music site, the portal interface makes using Jamendo extra convenient when you care about which CC license the music you’re using falls under (e.g., for remix or…
CHALLENGE We challenge you, our community, to raise $6000 for Creative Commons by subscribing to GOOD Magazine and having a drink with us at the famed South by Southwest (SXSW) conference in Austin, TX. All it takes is for 200 people over the next 2 weeks to subscribe to GOOD. No, my math skills are…
xlr8r tv is a new cc-licensed online tv show focused on music and club culture. it’s a collaboration between xlr8r magazine and revision3 — the internet tv network started by some of the guys behind digg.
That’s right! Students, get your applications in before the end of the day on March 1 (which means PST for us in San Francisco reviewing applications). As we announced before, we are picking one intern to help our tech team and another to help us with creating media and building up our community. If you…
We’ve updated the experimental license choosers on ccLabs to support the new version 3.0 licenses and given one a visual and performance refresh: This involved re-writing the license chooser in Flash. DHTML wizards, take this as a challenge. Free software advocates, we understand that free Flash is important, and on the chooser page urge contriubutions…