Do you know someone using a Creative Commons license for a unique or compelling project? We like to profile such Featured Commoners, and we’d like your suggestions. Email us.

UK-based media artist (and Creative Commons license adopter) People Like Us will perform in New York City this week. On January 8th, People Like Us (a.k.a. Vicki Bennett) will screen the intriguingly titled “We Edit Life” at Subtonic. On the 12th from 5pm to 7pm EST, People Like Us will hit the airwaves with WFMU,…

The Future of Music Coalition will host their third-annual Policy Summit January 4 through 7 in Washington D.C. The FMC3 summit will bring policymakers, academics, lawyers, activists — and, of course, a number of premier musicians — together for a discussion of artists’ rights and technology’s influence on the music industry. Glenn Otis Brown, Creaitve…

For some particularly excellent commentary about Creative Commons licenses, check out Denise M. Howell’s Bag and Baggage, one of the snappiest law-and-tech blogs out there. Denise chronicles her own experience applying one of our licenses to her blog and addresses readers’ questions about the licenses, among other things. As our chairman has pointed out in…

Clay Shirky, prominent web thinker and investor, has released essays from his email newsletter NEC (Networks, Economics, and Culture) under a Creative Commons attribution license. Here’s how to subscribe to the list if you haven’t already.

Just in time for the new year, we’re pleased to announce the new Creative Commons Weblog and associated RSS feed.

“Net Gains,” by Carly Berwick.

“Online Power to the People is Expanding,” by Paul Andrews.

“Creative Commons Opening Today,” by Steven Wu.

“Creative Commons Unveils Machine-Readable Copyright Licenses.”