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ItrainOnline's Training Kit
by matt UncategorizedItrainOnline provides online training materials to NGOs and describes their new Creative Commons-licensed training kit as follows: The Multimedia Training Kit (MMTK) provides trainers in telecentres, community media organizations, and the development sector with a structured set of materials to help make that jump between new and traditional media or train in a new skill…
The League of Vaguely Familiar Gentlemen
by glenn UncategorizedIn a great article about the movie The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Brad Stone of Newsweek makes the perfect case why a stronger public domain would be a good thing — for show business itself.
Feedster now Creative Commons aware
by matt UncategorizedFeedster, the RSS search engine, now understands Creative Commons licenses found in feeds. This marks one of the first search engines of any sort to recognize our metadata and display information about it. They’ll start implementing them on search results and cache pages soon but are open to other suggestions for use.
GET CREATIVE! Moving Image Contest — Win a G5!!!
by neeru UncategorizedWith “Get Creative”, our Flash movie, we took a shot at explaining Creative Commons’ mission. We’re fond of it, but we think you could do an even better job. On August 1st Creative Commons is launching the GET CREATIVE! Moving Image Contest, a competition to create a 2-minute moving image that articulates the Creative Commons…
Washington Post
by press-robot Press“Reading between the lines of fan fiction” by Ariana Eunjung Cha
Wired News
by press-robot Press“Supreme Court vs. The Supremes” by Katie Dean
Guerrillas in the Mix
by glenn UncategorizedThere’s a good, brief article in Wired News today on the importance of digital editing tools to the underground film movement. They describe themselves as “guerrilla filmmakers,” independent directors who create for both fun and profit, and they see themselves as a resistance force battling the banality of mainstream movies. “There’s a world full of…
Take Another Little Piece of My Art
by glenn UncategorizedA museum exhibit called “Illegal Art” might sound like a history of naughty pictures. Turns out that the exhibit (through July 25 at SF MOMA Artist’s Gallery) is more innocuous than most primetime TV: A Mickey Mouse gasmask. Pez candy dispensers honoring fallen hip-hop stars. A litigious Little Mermaid. Not kids’ stuff, exactly—but illegal? Creative…
Physics Textbooks
by matt UncategorizedThis week we’re featuring physics textbooks that are available for free download under Creative Commons licenses: The Light and Matter series of introductory physics textbooks, as implied by its title, has a story line built around light and matter. The outlines of Discover Physics and Simple Nature are based on conservation laws. The author states…
Howard Dean on Lessig Blog
by glenn UncategorizedIn case you haven’t heard yet, Governor Howard Dean is guestblogging on Lessig.org this week. (Be sure to check out the Lessig-Dean mash-up photo.)