I’m pleased to announce the release of ccPublisher 2. ccPublisher is an application which allows users to select licenses for their work and publish them to the Internet Archive for permanent, free hosting. Files in supported formats will have license information embedded in them. If you’re more into hosting your work yourself, ccPublisher will generate…
The new music video for Pearl Jam’s “Life Wasted” was released today under the Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial-NoDerivs license, so that people anywhere can legally copy, distribute, and share the clip. This is the first Pearl Jam video to be released in eight years and, as far as we know, the first video produced by a…
The new music video for Pearl Jam’s “Life Wasted” was released today under the Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial-NoDerivs license, so that people anywhere can legally copy, distribute, and share the clip. This is the first Pearl Jam video to be released in eight years and, as far as we know, the first video produced by a…
“Life Wasted” Clip Available for Download at Google Video and PearlJam.com May 19, 2006 Today, Creative Commons announced that the video for Pearl Jam’s new single “Life Wasted” will be offered to the public under the Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial-NoDerivs license, so that the people around the world can legally copy, distribute, and share the clip.…
Esteemed composer and musician Ryuichi Sakamoto has launched stop-rokkasho.org in response to the opening of a nuclear reprocessing plant in the Japanese village of Rokkasho. To lead off an international awareness campaign, Sakamoto wrote and recorded a track called “Rokkasho,” featuring rapper Shing02 and guitarist/producer Christian Fennesz, under the group name Team 6. The vocal…
Elephants Dream, a short film that premiered late March, is now available for download in many formats, including a stunning AVI, MPEG4 (mp42) / AC3 5.1 Surround / HD 1920×1080 encoding. The production files are also downloadable. The film is released under a Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 license. It was created to show off the…
Ducth CC music site Simuze has created a CD titled Spread The Love featuring 19 excellent tracks (under various CC licenses — check the tracklist on the web or the CD cover) selected from the 640 contributed in the site’s ten months of public life so far. In addition to individual mp3 download links the…
It’s that fun time again when we start contemplating versioning up the licenses. An outline of why we’re thinking about doing this and how CC proposes to do this has just been posted to the cc-licenses list. Please participate in the discussions on the cc-licenses list – you can sign up here.
Learn more about how you can publish your stuff via Lulu’s self-publishing service and how it incorporates CC-licensing in our latest Featured Commoner interview.
Lulu offers a publishing service for “digital do-it-yourselfers” to publish all manner of media including books, music, comics, photographs, and movies. Lulu lets creators set the license terms, including Creative Commons licenses, for their works as part of the publishing process. Authors can also set the price at which they wish to sell their content.…