The NY Times and WIRED News both have stories today on a recent survey by the Pew Internet and American Life Project about music and the Internet — specifically, musicians’ attitudes about the Internet and its effects on the business. Says the study’s author, Mary Madden: The first large-scale surveys of the internet’s impact on…

NGO Photos is a great new resource site (in Finnish) acting as a large free photograph repository for NGOs. Ramin Miraftabi, the person behind NGO Photos, explains the site here (in English) and why he set it up.

I just stumbled upon a great little site for electronic musician 31d1. There are beat loops, mixes, and even great little videos, all under a Creative Commons license. The video “gloucester” was my favorite, with public-domain looking video of a fly doing its thing.

Over the weekend we release yet another update to ccPublisher. ccPublisher is a tool which allows you to upload Creative Commons-licensed audio and video works to the Internet Archive for free hosting. We’re on the road to 1.0, and part of that process is fixing bugs. Thanks to Harold and Dave, we have two more…

Last month the Center for Social Media released Untold Stories: Creative Consequences of the Rights Clearance Culture for Documentary Filmmakers. Many of the stories are unfortunately of a familiar type: contemporary documentarians must go through incredible lengths to gain clearance for “culture” in essentially every second of their films. Often clearance means removal when the…

… under a new type of license. Called the Creative Commons, it is the… From The Charleston Post and Courier

p2pnet.net News:- Creative Commons has joined the search engine club with an updated beta which scours the web for text, images, audio, and video… From P2Pnet

A news release on the Creative Commons site lets us know that an “updated… From Search Engine Watch

… an array of toolbars — Google (Nasdaq: GOOG) , Amazon.com (Nasdaq: AMZN) , Dictionary.com, Ebay.com, Yahoo (Nasdaq: YHOO) and Creative Commons… From Linux Insider

… If you curious about the quality of Creative Commons works, here are… From P2Pnet