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Category: Open Culture

CASH Music: Exploring Creative Commons Licensing in the Music Industry

Open Culture

CASH Music, the CC license using music label/creative community we have discussed numerous times before, just launched a wonderful new Creative Commons Portal for understanding how CC licenses can be utilized by record labels and artists. The portal is beautifully designed with an emphasis on simplicity – an introduction to CC, hypothetical uses, and real…

Bandcamp Integrates CC-Licenses

Open Culture, Technology

Bandcamp, a feature-heavy music site that focuses on providing musicians with robust, easy-to-use, and visually pleasing artist pages, just integrated CC licensing options in to their UI: Hugs and kisses backatchu JD, and everyone else who requested Creative Commons support, then patiently worked around its absence by putting CC links in their tracks’ credits or…

CC Technology Summit Video Available

Events, Open Culture

As noted on the CC Labs blog, video and audio from the December CC Technology Summit is now available: In December we held our second CC Technology Summit at MIT in Cambridge, MA. I think the day provided a great perspective on what we’re doing at CC and how others are building a real community…

MixedInk: CC-Licensed Large Scale Document Collaboration

Open Culture

MixedInk is a recently launched service that allows large groups of people to collaboratively work on a single document together online. While many sites of this nature exist, MixedInk seems to be the first to focus on large group collaboration and does so in a unique manner. MixedInk’s submission system is based on a Digg-like…

Files seeded for Valkaama, "open source movie"

Open Culture

The source files have been seeded for Valkaama, a fresh collaborative “open source movie”, filmed in Krakow, Poland.  Director Tim Baumann intends to complete the post-production of the full feature movie publicly, with the help of volunteers both amateur and professional: Here all available media sources are published in order to give you the chance…

¡ YES WE PUEDE !: CC-Licensed Compilation for Inauguration

Open Culture

L.A.-based record label and former Featured Commoner Vosotros just went live with their latest release ¡ YES WE PUEDE !, a compilation of artists covering American public domain classics in honor of next week’s Presidential inauguration. The album features some amazing L.A. artists and is released under a CC BY-NC license, allowing others to share…

¡ YES WE PUEDE !: CC-Licensed Compilation for Inauguration

Open Culture

L.A.-based record label and former Featured Commoner Vosotros just went live with their latest release ¡ YES WE PUEDE !, a compilation of artists covering American public domain classics in honor of next week’s Presidential inauguration. The album features some amazing L.A. artists and is released under a CC BY-NC license, allowing others to share…

The Art of Community – Stories and Tips for Community Building

Open Culture

The ever enthusiastic musician, community leader, and now author Jono Bacon has just announced his next Creative Commons licensed endeavor: a book published by O’Reilly on building, maintaining, and energizing communities called Art of Community. The announcement posted on artofcommunityonline.org explains the project: The book covers a wide range of topics designed to build strong…

Muted on YouTube? Think CC!

Open Culture

As you might have heard by now, YouTube has begun to mute videos containing ‘unauthorized’ music or audio. What does ‘unauthorized’ mean? We’ll leave that for the lawyers to decide, but it probably has something to do with negotiating permissions for the right to use music in advance from rights holders. Instead of dealing with…

Al Jazeera Launches Creative Commons Repository

Open Culture

Al Jazeera is releasing 12 broadcast quality videos today shot in Gaza under Creative Commons’ least restrictive Attribution license. Each professionally recorded video has a detailed information page and is hosted on blip.tv allowing for easy downloads of the original files and integration into Miro. The value of this footage is best described by an…