I recently stumbled across a nice photoblog from Australia, called VIBGYOR. It’s sporting a Creative Commons license that allows for commercial use, too.

Breaking news: “In a move shocking to all, Duke University, of Durham, North Carolina, purchased the entirety of the public domain late last evening for a fee of 2.2 trillion dollars . . .” (Full story)

The Silicon Valley nonprofit announces new file-sharing-friendly music license alongside its new Get Content search engine. Austin, Texas, USA – March 18, 2004 – Creative Commons, a nonprofit dedicated to expanding the range of creative works free to share and build upon, announced its new Music Sharing License and Get Content search engine at the…

This Google Answers post about public domain sites brought up a wealth of good answers, in all sorts of categories. [via kottke]

Squarespace, an easy to use website and blog creation and hosting service, recently made it easy for users to license their content via our remote licesning application. Here’s what Squarespace says within their site management application about Creative Commons: We’ve integrated a utility that lets you generate Creative Commons licenses for your site. A Creative…

My french isn’t too good, but I’m going to guess that Autres Directions in Music is a new internet music label based in France releasing their songs under Creative Commons licenses. So far their releases consist of these four albums: (1, 2, 3, 4) all ready for download as MP3s or you can drop them…

Lisa Rein is one of the earliest adopters of Creative Commons. Wander is one of my favorite CC licensed songs and is licensed under an Attribution license — free to copy, remix, or even synch to a movie, as long as you give Lisa attribution.

Filmmaker Andy Pavis has made an eight-minute-long public service announcement about Creative Commons and our mission, entitled Some Rights Reserved. Andy cleverly frames the copyright debate between two extremes in the context of a talk show hosted by “Larry Commons.” The PSA then explores an example of Aaron, a musician who goes through the process…

Several of our iCommons partner groups have asked if they could translate our movies, Get Creative and Reticulum Rex into other languages. Thanks to the licenses we applied on each movie, those are definitely allowed and we’d like to encourage others to contribute to this effort. Towards that end, we’ve put up all the raw…

Ran across a couple interesting bits related to musicians having their songs online and record sales. In a roundtable interview with the Chicago Tribune (registration required to view), Creative Commons chairman Lawrence Lessig and the online manager of the band Wilco talk about the internet and music. The gist of is that putting Wilco’s music…