CC Salon is happening tonight in San Francisco. Join us from 6-9pm at Shine (1337 Mission Street between 9th and 10th Streets). Tonight’s speakers are: Rick Prelinger (Prelinger Archives) Victor Stone (ccMixter) Marisa Olson (Rhizome.org) Amit Asaravala (Techsoup.org) And catch a live CC music mix set by Quarterbar. Read more details about this this event…
Last month we noted that Flickr added the same CC search options to its advanced search that Yahoo! web search offers (Google’s advanced search has differently phrased but equivalent functionality). Now we’ve added Flickr search to our find page, from which you can now search for CC-licensed content indexed by Google and Yahoo! as well…
In April we belatedly blogged license adoption estimates for December 2005, which had been published elsewhere in December. That estimate, based on Google queries restricted to CC-licensed content, came to 45 million web pages under a Creative Commons license. What a difference six months make. Our current aggregate estimate, also based on Google queries for…
San Francisco, USA, Berlin, GERMANY – June 12, 2006 Creative Commons, a nonprofit organization that provides flexible copyright licenses for authors and artists, unveiled a localized version of its innovative licensing system in Denmark on Saturday. Creative Commons copyright licenses are available free of charge from the group’s website.The licenses allow authors and artists to…
You might already be familiar with Free Beer – the beer recipe that was first released to the public by Copenhagen-based artist collective Superflex and students at the Copenhagen IT University under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike license. Our Summer ’05 interns Fred & Dana certainly were and cooked up their own V2.01 (sans the Guaraná)…
I am speaking at the Creative Commons Salon in Beijing on Sunday, June 11 about CC Salons and Community Building with examples from my primary Open Source projects Inkscape and Open Clip Art Library. Here are the details from CC Mainland China lead, Chunyan Wang: People from the National Library of China, CNBlog.cn, qiji.cn, Baidu.com,…
Add Warsaw to salons in Beijing and San Francisco and other events next week: Creative Commons Poland is proud to invite everyone to the first meeting of the Polish CC Salon in Warsaw. The meeting, titled “Godzilla or Gone With the Wind? Internet and Cinema” will focus on issues of open culture in relation to…
The first CC Salon Beijing is June 11. Jon Phillips will be there. June 13 in San Francisco I’m following up on my recent presentation at Netsquared with a brief talk at Net Tuesday, details at meetup or upcoming. June 14 you already know about the super-exciting CC Salon San Francisco. June 15 we have…
Scoopt, the world’s first commercial citizen journalism photography agency, has just launched ScooptWords to help bloggers sell their content to newspapers and magazines. Within the Scoopt interface, you can easily add a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial license to your blog right alongside a Scoopt commercial badge. Use the CC license to tell people how your work…
The DigiBarn is a computer museum located in a 90-year-old barn in California’s Santa Cruz Mountains. It is also an online repository of Creative Commons-licensed photos, video, audio, and technical documentation that tell the history of personal computing. The DigiBarn’s collections include computers, game systems, software, and schwag. For this month’s Featured Commoner, we spoke…