I participated in Google’s excellent Summer of Code Mentor Summit last weekend and must send yet another big thank you across the blogosphere to Google for their support of our three successful Summer of Code sponsorships. Overall, last Saturday helped to forge the future of the Summer of Code project and to give everyone time…

Matt Haughey, who was Creative Commons’ first designer, writes about an annoying encounter with copyright paranoia in a distinctly non-digital field: Last year I moved into a new house with a big backyard, but the yard faces directly south, so it bakes in the summertime. I decided to find a local architect to help build…

A class of services that complements and builds upon the CC infrastructure includes assurance, provenance, registration, and warranty. Numly and RegisteredCommons are two currently pioneering organizations in this space. Chris Matthieu of Numly started a descrption and comparison table for the space on the CC wiki. People from RegisteredCommons have added. Other experts or those…

Yesterday saw the release of version 3.1 of the world’s premier (it won an award…) remix centric CMS — ccHost. Check out the developer discussion to get a sense of the cool projects people are building on this GPL codebase.

Mark Glaser of the PBS site Media Shift wrote a great article about the use and adoption of CC licenses with in the Flickr community. Glaser used a CC licensed Flickr photo by photographer Kris Krug for a blog post that he was writing about Mark Cuban. Krug gave Glasner a ‘virtual high-five’ for doing…

Some sharp guys over at Cogniview emailed me a couple of weeks ago, inquiring about embedding CC licenses in PDF files. Today I got a chance to look at the first fruits of that interchange, CCInfo. CCInfo is a plugin for Adobe Acrobat that lets you select and embed a Creative Commons license. Its Windows…

Creative Commons Launches 2nd Annual Fundraising Campaign San Francisco, USA — October 17, 2006 Creative Commons has just launched its 2nd Annual Fundraising Campaign. The second annual campaign features new support pages on the Creative Commons website which offer new swag including a new T-shirt design, new vinyl stickers and hipster CC buttons. In addition,…

So, with this email, Creative Commons launches its second (now officially) annual fundraising campaign. Last year, through the course of that first campaign, I wrote a series of letters explaining a bit about where Creative Commons came from, and where it was going. Those letters (creatively labeled “Lessig Letters”) are still available here. This year,…

There will be (at least) four Creative Commons talks October 27. Three in Toronto at the 5th annual Seneca Free Software & Open Source Symposium: Nathan Yergler on Little “s” Semantic: Exploring Metadata About the Web, Jon Phillips on ccHost: Open Service and Media Hosting with Creative Commons software, and CC Canada joint project lead…

FreeCulture.org has announced the five winners of its Down With DRM Video Contest. The winners will each receive a Neuros OSD media center. You can watch the videos (which are all CC-licensed) here.