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CCi Affiliate Scholarship Campaign launches today

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Two years ago, iCommons established the yearly iSummit conference as a way to bring together the thinkers, innovators, and pioneers of the “Open” movement. This year’s iSummit (taking place in Dubrovnik, Croatia from June 15th through 17th) will bring together more than 250 key players for two days of intense discussion and debate about our…

You on Make Internet TV

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Make Internet TV, previously blogged here is now officially launched and has a call for videos: see the post Submission Requirements Short (1-4 minutes) Narrow Focus Directly Related to Creating Internet Video. Licensed as Creative Commons BY-SA High Quality Video (we prefer having a copy that is higher than 320 by 240 pixels) Make Sure…

Enter the name of a mainstream artist…

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Jamendo has continued to add music and features at a torrid pace. Their latest feature is Jamendo+Radioblog, which allows navigating all 3041 albums available on Jamendo in one Flash-based web interface, including navigation by Creative Commons license. You can also type the name of a mainstream artist into the Jamendo+Radioblog interface and obtain recommendations for…

DJ Vadim Contest Extended

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The DJ Vadim remix contest currently under way at ccMixter ran afoul of server outages and other shenanigans yesterday so we decided to extend the deadline 48 hours to accommodate entries that could not access the site yesterday. The new deadline is 9 PM PDT Saturday April 21 (4 AM GMT Sunday April 22). The…

"please let this become a trend"

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please let this become a trend That’s the top-ranked comment on the Digg story about the first Academy Award winning film to be released under a Creative Commons license. Another Digg comment: This is as good as apple pie or chocolate. I am very impressed. A thumbs up to the Interplast volunteer surgical team, and…

“A Story of Healing” Becomes First Academy Award Winning Film Released Under A Creative Commons License

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Interplast announced today the release of its 1997 Academy Award winning documentary A Story of Healing under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives license. Ten years later, this is the first time an Academy Award winning film has been released under a CC license. Kudos to Interplast for realizing that this film, which makes a compelling case…

Our Virtual Make Over

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For those who haven’t already noticed, Creative Commons’ home on Kula 4 in Second Life is currently undergoing a complete make over – which is happening alongside our Real life office move! Thanks to the ideas of Professor Mark Perry (Learned Om) and Nic Suzor (Nic Marx) of CC Australia, and the work of our…