For those of you who followed the weekly Lessig Letters last year, you may recall that Larry outlined one of our planned projects for 2006 – a public domain registry or public domain wiki. Work on the registry has commenced in earnest. Today, Access Copyright, Creative Commons Canada and Creative Commons announced the project –…
San Francisco, CA, USA and Berlin, GERMANY — March 4, 2006 — Creative Commons, a nonprofit dedicated to building a body of creative work free to share and build upon, today unveils a localized version of its innovative licensing system in Malaysia. Creative Commons copyright licenses are available free of charge from the group’s website.…
Former Creative Commons Executive Director Glenn Otis Brown has added gloves to all that time he must have on his hands after leaving this crazy startup nonprofit organization. His boxing adventures as MEFISTO (very clever Glenn) are chronicled at Haymaker-SF. All videos are licensed under Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.0 and hosted at blip.tv, a cool new video…
This call for architects may not be a prestigious as The Pritzker Prize, but it’s not far from it. Creative Commons seeks a Second Life enthusiast and builder … see below. Calling Designers, Builders and Scripters — help Creative Commons set up its meeting place and multimedia gallery Creativecommons.org now has a home base in…
We’re very excited to announce the first CC Salon, taking place in San Francisco on Wednesday, March 8 from 6pm-9pm at Shine (1337 Mission Street). In the spirit of gatherings organized by groups like Remix Reading, Dorkbot, and Copynight, CC Salon will be a casual affair focused on conversation and community-building open to anyone interested…
Last time we reported on FreeCulture.org NYU, they were getting accolades in the Village Voice for taking part in a regional FreeCulture.org summit. Now NYU FreeCulture.org has organized an art show featuring works all licensed under Creative Commons. The opening is this Wednesday, March 1st on 7th floor of the Kimmel Student Center at 7…
News.com has an excellent article about the Copyright Criminals Remix Contest that Creative Commons is sponsoring over at ccMixter. It’s not too late to enter the remix showdown — we’re accepting tracks until March 14. Submit your music and it might be featured in Kembrew McLeod and Ben Franzen’s upcoming documentary Copyright Criminals.
Dion Hinchcliffe has put together a draft list of the first-order elements of Web 2.0 thinking. Number five (of sixteen): Be prepared to share everything with enthusiasm. Share everything possible, every piece of data you have, every service you offer. Encourage unintended uses, bend overbackward to contribute, don’t keep anything private that doesn’t absolutely have…
A National Public Radio (United States) story on audio books from early this month highlights two very different projects using CC tools. LibriVox provides free audiobooks of public domain works. The audiobooks themselves are dedicated to the public domain using the CC public domain dedication. LibriVox’s goal is “to record all the books in the…
Teach, filmmaker Davis Guggenheim’s powerful documentary about teachers in the Los Angeles Unified School District, is now available under a CC BY-NC-ND license. For more about this exciting news and to download a copy of the film, please see creativecommons.org/teach.