CREATIVE COMMONS, XLR8R MAGAZINE, AND GHOSTLY INTERNATIONAL ANNOUNCE THE CHRISTOPHER WILLITS / “COLORS SHIFTING” REMIX CONTEST ON CCMIXTER.ORG Winning Remix to Be Featured on Upcoming Compilation CD Released by XLR8R Magazine San Francisco, CA, USA — November 15, 2006 Creative Commons, XLR8R Magazine, and Ghostly International are pleased to announce that the Christopher Willits /…
Today, Creative Commons, XLR8R magazine, and Ghostly International launched the Christopher Willits “Colors Shifting” Remix Contest on ccMixter. The winning remix will be featured on an XLR8R Incite CD compilation, which will be included with a future issue of XLR8R magazine. The contest ends on December 27, 2006 — visit the contest site for more…
This in from CC pal Fred Benenson, current CC Salon NYC organizer: New York City’s next Creative Commons Salon is Friday November 17th, 6:30pm at Fontana’s (105 Eldridge St. between Broome and Grand in the Lower East Side). This salon features Megan Miller from PopSci.com who will be discussing and presenting Popular Science‘s recent foray…
We are pleased to announce that Sun Microsystems has pledged $25,000 towards our annual fundraising campaign goal of $300,000. They have chosen to continue their support of Creative Commons and the broader vision of a participatory culture, a culture to which both institutions are committed. Sun’s vision everyone and everything participating on the network means…
Today’s winner of this week’s CC Swag Photo Contest is Naufragio. We applaud his use of the CC and showing his CC pride. Good job Naufragio! To all our CC supporters who are considering entering the CC Swag Photo Contest, do not be discouraged! There are 5 weeks remaining, that means 5 more weeks of…
OWL multimedia has launched an audio similarity search engine stocked with 10,444 CC-licensed tracks from ccMixter and Magnatune, with many more to come from other CC supporting sound repositories. You can search OWL via search.creativecommons.org but its real power is finding new music through music. The OWL website allows you to choose an mp3 on…
The very awesome indie rock band Cursive is currently hosting the “Bad Sects” Remix Contest. Visit the contest site to download the CC-licensed audio stems for the song “Bad Sects” (from the group’s new album, Happy Hollow. Then use those tracks, along with your own music, to create a remix. Submit your best work to…
ZDNet has a short and very sweet item on Rice University’s Connexions, a very early adopter of the CC Attribution license: How far can this go? One of the big problems in college education is the cost of textbooks and courseware. It keeps smart kids from getting the degrees they need to succeed. Connexxions is…
The Tango Desktop Project is creating beautiful icons intended for use in free software desktop applications, but usable by anyone (vector and bitmap formats) under the CC Attribution-ShareAlike license. Old-school film graphic by Jakub Steiner, CC BY-SA. Via Digg.
Creative Commons Launches Photo Contest on Flickr Winners’ Photos to Be Featured on CC Postcards; Winners Can Also Choose a CC Board Member to Record a Personalized Outgoing Voicemail Message San Francisco, CA — November 8, 2006 Today, Creative Commons announced the launch of the first CC Swag Photo Contest on Flickr. The contest is…