Kembrew McLeod is currently an Assistant Professor, University of Iowa, Department of Communication Studies. In addition to being an academic, Kembrew is a self-professed prankster. In 1998 he trademarked the phrase “Freedom of Expression®” as a comment on how the intellectual property law is being used to fence off culture and restrict the way in…

New vinyl label Unlockedgroove is releasing LPs under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike-2.5 License: As long as Moby doesn’t steal our stuff and make a billion dollars off of it, we want our music to be reworked Buy the record from the super cool Forced Exposure catalog and check out Unlockedgroove’s launch events in San Francisco…

1. Get yourself a button. 2. Put the button code in your site template or in a blog post, or both. 3. a) Profit? b) Priceless? c) Thanks for helping promote the campaign! Here’s a preview of the three buttons: Early examples of bloggers using a button in their site template include Jon Lebkowsky, Marc…

Silicon-Valley-based NGO reinforces its activities around the globe and introduces its innovative copyright licenses in Slovenia. San Francisco, CA, USA and Berlin, GERMANY, Ljubljana SLOVENIA — October 28, 2005 — Creative Commons, a nonprofit dedicated to building a body of creative work free to share and build upon, will launch the localization of the innovative…

[This is part of a weekly series written by Lawrence Lessig and others about the history and future of Creative Commons. Alternatively, if you know others who might find these interesting, please recommend they sign up at https://creativecommons.org/about/lessigletter] From last week’s episode: Widespread DRM would disable that interoperability. Or at least, it would disable interoperability…

Creative Commons Nigeria project lead Ayo Kusamotu will be moderating the Internetbar.org’s Africa Committee Forum as part of the upcoming Cyberweek conference to be held soon – October 23-28, 2005. Participating in Cyberweek this year will be 8 bar organizations of Africa, the Attorney General of Lagos state and Nigeria as well as major African…

A little while ago, we blogged about Wired’s article about The Lonely Island, LA-based comedy collective, who were recently signed to work with the Saturday Night Live team after releasing their Awesometown comedy pilot under a Creative Commons license. CC recently caught up with “the dudes” in our new Featured Commoner interview.

[This is part of a weekly series written by Lawrence Lessig and others about the history and future of Creative Commons. Alternatively, if you know others who might find these interesting, please recommend they sign up at https://creativecommons.org/about/lessigletter] From last week’s episode: … Like the Free Software Movement, we believed this device would help open…

Andy Samberg, Jorma Taccone and Akiva Schaffer are the members of The Lonely Island, an LA-based comedy collective, who have released much of their music and video shorts online under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike license. Also known as “the dudes”, Andy, Jorma and Akiva soon found that they were developing a fan base, some of…

I spent last Friday through Monday in Boston for the Gnome Boston Hacker Summit, held at MIT’s Stata Center. A free form gathering of hackers and Gnome enthusiasts, I was there to see how Creative Commons licensing and licensed content can work together with one of the leading Free Software desktop environments. The three days…