Lulu.tv is a new video site from do it yourself publisher Lulu (we profiled Lulu in May) with a twist — creators can get paid out of a pool of people who subscribe to the site. Lulu.tv was written up in the New York Times two days ago. The article also mentions Revver, which takes…

Bay Area CC friends: You are invited to a party on July 14 at the 111 Minna Gallery in San Francisco, hosted by GOOD Magazine! Join us for a night of art, music (provided by Odd Nosdam of Anticon), and an open bar. Admission is free if you purchase a year subscription to GOOD Magazine.…

Monkey Love Records and Fake Science are sponsoring a super cool CC-licensed remix contest for the Robberriff track “Stringing Away Revisited.” You have until July 16 to “rinse, cut, splice, add samples and do whatever the hell you want to it.” Fake Science will choose the top 20 remixes and post them online for people…

Many of us are enjoying the world cup at the moment – some more than others as our favorite teams suceed beyond our wildest dreams – but still, the World Cup means many different things to people around the world. Those of us at the Rio Summit certainly had a taste of what football means…

In the UK, the All Party Parliamentary Internet Group (APPIG) has recently released its report on Digital Rights Management. It contained strong and welcome recommendations in relation to DRM, some of which are succintly listed on Boing Boing. In addition to DRM, the inquiry also considered CC licensing; specifically, one of the issues for comment…

The University Channel – a collaboration between over 30 universities, thinktanks and other organizations that host events relevant to a range of public affairs issues – has released its webcasts, podcasts, vodcasts and blogs under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-Sharelike 2.5 license. UC invites contributors to submit recordings of lectures, seminars, panels and interviews to the…

Architecture for Humanity is a California-based non-profit organization aimed at encouraging architects and designers to seek architectural solutions to humanitarian crisis. Launched in 1999 from a single laptop computer, Architecture for Humanity has spread into a global movement with local chapters around the world engaging talented young architects to rethink the mission of their profession.…

Silicon Valley-based NGO reinforces its activities around the globe and introduces its innovative copyright licenses in Peru. San Francisco, CA, USA; Berlin, GERMANY; and Lima, Peru — June 29, 2006 — Creative Commons, a nonprofit dedicated to building a body of creative work free to share and build upon today announced the launch of its…

During the iSummit last weekend in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, I had the opportunity to sit down with Dwayne Bailey from the WordForge project. We discussed the tools used to translate Creative Commons software and he assisted me in installing the server-based tool Pootle on our servers. Pootle is a web-based tool that allows users…

We wrapped up the iCommons Summit yesterday. It was a fantastic and inspiring event bringing together a diversity of skills, viewpoints, experiences and cultures but all connected to and passionate about issues relevant to “the commons.” You can find more information about what was discussed from the summit website. In addition, the New York Times…