San Francisco, USA — March 30, 2006 Creative Commons is pleased to announce the addition of two new members to its Board of Directors — Jimmy Wales and Laurie Racine. Jimmy Wales is the founder and President of the Wikimedia Foundation, the non-profit corporation which operates Wikipedia, the volunteer-created, multi-lingual, Web-based, free-content encyclopedia, in addition…
San Francisco, USA, March 28, 2006 ccHost, an Open Source project that provides web-based infrastructure to support collaboration, sharing, and storage of multi-media using Creative Commons licenses and metadata, released version 2.0 today. This major feature release combines approximately six months of development, usage, and testing into packages that anyone may download, install, and use…
San Francisco, CA, USA and Berlin, GERMANY — March 29, 2006 — Creative Commons, a nonprofit dedicated to building a body of creative work free to share and build upon, today unveils a localized version of its innovative licensing system in The People’s Republic of China. Creative Commons copyright licenses are available free of charge…
Spanish bar owner does not have to pay license fees to Spain’s primary collecting society for CC-licensed music Barcelona, Spain & San Francisco, USA — March 23, 2006 Last month, the Lower Court number six of Badajoz, a city in Extremadura, Spain, ruled that a bar owner did not have to pay license fees to…
San Francisco, USA, Berlin, GERMANY, March 16, 2006 Creative Commons, a nonprofit dedicated to building a body of creative work free to share and build upon, today unveils a localized version of its innovative licensing system in Mexico. Creative Commons copyright licenses are available free of charge from the group’s website. The licenses allow authors…
San Francisco, USA, & Amsterdam, The Netherlands, March 15, 2006 The first known court decision involving a Creative Commons license was handed down on March 9, 2006 by the District Court of Amsterdam. The case confirmed that the conditions of a Creative Commons license automatically apply to the content licensed under it. The proceedings arose…
San Francisco, USA, Berlin, GERMANY – March 14, 2006 Creative Commons, a nonprofit organization that provides a flexible copyright licenses for authors and artists, recently unveiled a localized version of its innovative licensing system in Bulgaria. Creative Commons copyright licenses are available free of charge from the group’s website. The licenses allow authors and artists…
San Francisco, USA & Los Angeles, USA – March 8, 2006 Creative Commons, along with Warner Bros. Records and Machine Shop Recordings, today announced the Fort Minor Remix Contest. Fort Minor, the hip-hop project led by Linkin Park vocalist/guitarist/keyboardist Mike Shinoda, has made the digital files from the recording session of its song “Remember the…
San Francisco, CA, USA and Berlin, GERMANY — March 4, 2006 — Creative Commons, a nonprofit dedicated to building a body of creative work free to share and build upon, today unveils a localized version of its innovative licensing system in Malaysia. Creative Commons copyright licenses are available free of charge from the group’s website.…
Budapest, Hungary & San Francisco, USA — February 15, 2006 Creative Commons Hungary, a collaboration between Center for Media Research and Education, and the nonprofit organization Creative Commons, is pleased to highlight the recent release by acting Hungarian Prime Minister Mr. Ferenc Gyurcsany and his publisher Napvilag of Mr. Gyurcsany’s recent book “Utkozben” (In Transit)…