Openscore’s plans to liberate sheet music
Open Culture
OpenScore is a new crowdsourcing initiative that aims to digitize classical sheet music by composers whose works are in the public domain, like Mozart and Beethoven.
GIFT film tells the story of sharing around the world
Open Culture
Inspired by The Gift, Lewis Hyde’s seminal work on creativity, culture, and art, McKenna’s film tells moving stories of remarkable generosity and sharing, from Alaska to Black Rock City to Seoul to New York City.
CCWorld: Connecting Worldwide Creative Commons Film Festivals
Open Culture
More than 1500 people attended the last edition of BccN (Barcelona Creative Commons Film Festival), celebrated in this city from June 7th to 11th. In 2010, it was the first worldwide festival for films licensed under Creative Commons, and eight years later, it is much more than that.
Independent cinema for Brazil and beyond: How Canal o Cubo inspires media makers around the world
Open Culture
Canal O Cubo is a popular Brazilian platform for independent Creative Commons licensed films and the promotion of Brazilian multimedia production
The World Theatre Map: A digital commons for the global theatre community
Open Culture
HowlRound is a non-profit knowledge commons by and for the theatre community based at Emerson College in Boston, Massachusetts.
Announcing 470,000 images from Europeana, now in CC Search
Open Culture
CC Search beta has added 470,000 images from the millions of materials contained in Europeana’s collection of Creative Commons images.
The revolution will be openly licensed!
Open Culture
An interview with Dave Mitchell of Beautiful Trouble After Occupy and the Arab Spring in 2011, the artist-activists of Beautiful Trouble burst on the scene with a number of seasoned professionals ready to change the dialogue by utilizing creative, radical protest. Since then, the organization has created a number of invaluable online resources for social…
Art up your life, Art up your tab with a new tool
Open Culture
What if every time you opened up a new tab you could spice up your day with an artwork selected from the collection of Europeana? Thanks to a new chrome browser plugin developed by Creative Commons Netherlands affiliate Kennisland you can.
Just make music and share it: Podington Bear’s music for storytelling and podcasts
Open Culture
In 2007, the artist Chad Crouch began releasing three instrumental songs per week under the pseudonym Podington Bear. Crouch revealed his identity in July 2008 upon the release of a box set of his work, ending a speculative mystery covered in NPR, KEXP, Wired, and the Globe and Mail. According to his bio on Free…
Agitate, Educate, Organize: The Radical Printmaking of Justseeds Collective
Open Culture
If you’ve ever attended a demonstration in North America, chances are you’ve seen the work of the 30 person artist collective Just Seeds