In case you missed it among our other many cool re-design features this fall, I’d strongly recommended subscribing to the RSS feeds for Common Content (RSS here) and the Internet Archive (RSS here). Put them in your favorite blog-/news-reader, and you’ve got a fresh batch of free culture waiting for you every morning.

Well, maybe not on its own. But now that I’ve gotten your attention with that spammish subject line, you might want to check out John Henshaw’s tips for avoiding spam at Family Resource, licensed under a Creative Commons license — which means you can copy and send them to everyone in your address book. Thanks…

This week’s featured content is PD Photo, a new photo archive containing thousands of photos released into the public domain. Photographer Jon Sullivan has opened up his personal archives of thousands of photos and made them free for re-use. His favorites are a good place to start if you’re looking for high quality outdoor and…

Customized Classics takes several classics of literature from the public domain, and weaves names of your choosing directly into the story to create custom one-off printings of your books. It’s a clever (and commercial) use of freely available works.

Why: One Year Anniversary of the Creative Commons tools and licenses. When: Sunday, December 14, 6:00 – 9:00 pm. Where: 111 Minna Gallery, 111 Minna Street, San Francisco, CA. (View Map). What: An address by Lawrence Lessig The sequel to the first Creative Commons animated hit, “Get Creative“ Special guests CC Tunes Appetizers & Drinks…

In celebration of Project Gutenberg‘s 10,000th book release, founder Michael Hart and CEO Greg Newby are planning a series of events to commemorate the milestone. Starting tomorrow with a lecture at the Golden Gate Club and finishing up this week with an appearance on TechTV. Along with the annoucement they’re offering all 10,000 books as…

We’ve recently announced the launch of the iCommons project in France. Like the other concurrent iCommons projects, there’s a mailing list, a proposed translation into French law, and a retranslation to explain the changes. If you understand French law and/or live in France and want to help shape the extension of Creative Commons, feel free…

CERSA (Research Center in Administrative Science) will lead the license translation and work to expand global access to French culture. Palo Alto, USA; Paris, FRANCE; Tokyo, JAPAN — Creative Commons, a nonprofit dedicated to building a body of creative works free for copying and re-use, announced today the expansion of its International Commons (iCommons) project…

This week’s featured content is MobileWhack. It’s a new site dedicated to tweaks, hacks, and hints on how to extend the phone, PDA, music player, and/or any other gadget you might carry around in a pocket. The content is released under a Creative Commons license and if you’re a gadget freak, I can assure you…

October 23 we posted about Nathan Yergler’s ccValidator web app, developed in response to our list of tech challenges. Challenged developers have been hard at work since: Nathan Yergler has created mozCC, an extension for Mozilla-based browsers that reads and displays CC metadata as you browse. In addition to creating mozCC and fixing ccValidator bugs,…