Reuters has a piece today about BitTorrent in which the WIRED CD is mentioned as one example among many of perfectly legal uses of the technology.

Leveraging the Internet Archive’s generous offer to host Creative Commons licensed (audio and video) files for free, we recently completed the 0.96 beta version of The Publisher, a desktop, drag-and-drop application that licenses audio and video files, and sends them to the Internet Archive for free hosting. When you’re done uploading, the application gives you…

Here’s a nice how-to piece from Endgadget that uses the WIRED CD as the guinea pig.

You can now listen online to NPR’s conversation about the WIRED CD with Wired’s Chris Anderson and Le Tigre’s Kathleen Hanna.

This weekend in San Francisco: The Remix Hotel, a three-day “immersion in technology” and music featuring Dan the Automator (of the WIRED CD!) and hometown phenom Kid 606. I’m curious to see what some of these guests could do with the WIRED CD and will try to find out for myself.

One of the many cool aspects of the November issue of WIRED are the blurbs about each artist who contributed to the CD. In the print mag, they dot the many-page Creative Commons spread like Easter eggs. Example: Track 7: Dan the Automator/Relaxation Spa Treatment The busy brain behind groups like Deltron 3030, Dr. Octagon,…

Another goodie from the elves in the CC Geek Workshop, this time for our friends using Linux; in particular, Gnome users. The new tool, as of yet unnamed (suggestions?) adds a Creative Commons tab to the file properties of any MP3 file. For example, a track from Copy Me/Remix Me : As you can see,…

Neal Conan, of NPR’s Talk of the Nation, is interviewing WIRED editor-in-chief Chris Anderson and Le Tigre’s Kathleen Hanna at this very moment. Tune in to NPR to catch it (88.5 in the Bay Area); you can even call into the show and sound off. One caller just now, from Waco, Texas: “I have remixed…

So to speak. Tune in to NPR today for a special program about the WIRED CD. Out here in the Pacific US time zone, it’s slated for 12:30pm, but you may want to check the Talk of the Nation site for airtime in your area.

Just in time for Halloween, Free Culture.org is having a zombie flicks remix contest. All the newly remixed content will be licensed under a Creative Commons BY-NC-SA license. So get your resuscitators out and start chopping and remixing.