… Stanford professor Larry Lessig’s Creative Commons license is a good tool that allows for a variety of uses under a variety of circumstancesfrom eWeek – New York,NY,USA

… Creative Commons, a non-profit organization based at Stanford Law School, has established what it calls “Founders’ Copyright,” a legal mechanismfrom Naples Daily News – Naples,FL,USA

… Culture issues and building a bigger core of activists, the next step for FreeCulture.org is to encourage students to contribute to the creativefrom AlterNet – San Francisco,CA,USA

Songs uploaded to the service must meet specific terms and conditions, and the content is made available using a Creative Commons license, whichfrom MacWorld – San Francisco,CA,USA

Library Launches – Delivering Mobile Editions Of Books To Phones Postedfrom Return to Wireless Ink Blog Menu | print 12 Nov 2004 Creative Commons Licensed

… The licence will be similar to that developed by the highly successful Creative Commons initiative founded by Stanford law professor Lawrencefrom Spiked – London,UK

After years of toil the free music encyclopedia MusicBrainz is now backed by a nonprofit foundation with a fantastic best-of-the-usual-suspects board. MusicBrainz has taken an innovative approach to open data: core factual information (artist, album, track) is appropriately dedicated to the public domain, while community generated information is licensed under Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike. Also check out MetaBrainz’s…

In preparation for the International Computer Music Conference to be held in Barcelona in September 2005, the Music Technology Group and the Universitat Pompeu Fabra, have created the freesoundproject. The freesound project is a collaborative database of sounds – not songs or compositions – but sounds: audio snippets, samples, recordings, bleeps. All sounds uploaded to…

I spent the past weekend at Notacon in Cleveland, OH. While there was one talk devoted to a brief history of copyright in the US, the most exciting talk, for me, was completely unexpected. Jerry Rockwell presented a talk called “Evolution of a Tune: My process of arranging and composing in a Home Studio.” I…

We were quite happy to hear that today the Webby Award nominations came out, and Creative Commons is up for “Best Home/Welcome Page.” We couldn’t have done it without the crew at Adaptive Path leading the user research, prototyping, and testing, while Doug Bowman helped with the illustrations, and Ryan Junell with the logos. I…