As recently promised we’ve added an exciting new CC-enabled search service to search.creativecommons.org. SpinXpress Get Media searches the Internet Archive‘s massive audio and video collections as well as media at several other sites, including Magnatune, Flickr, and blip.tv and allows filtering searches by desired source, media type, and license. We’re extremely pleased that the Internet…
Participative Web: User-Created Content (pdf, 74 pages) mentions Creative Commons several times. According to the foreword: This report was presented to the Working Party on the Information Economy (WPIE) in December 2006 and declassified by the Committee for Information, Computer and Communications Policy in March 2007. Now the whole world knows … about User Generated…
FlickrCash uses the Flickr API to search by CC license, build lightboxes, and keep a record of licensed photos you intend to use. Augustine Fou, creator of FlickrCash, tells us: I created FlickrCash because I found many really beautiful photos on Flickr but could not use them for “commercial” purposes like design work for clients,…
Another milestone for CC-centric music site Jamendo: 3,000 albums released, including 1,000 in the last three months. If you’re a Linux user the Rythmbox music player is a great way to explore these albums. It ships with a Jamendo plugin (and a Magnatune plugin), providing a seamless listening experience. Screenshot: Jono Bacon recently wrote about…
As if you didn’t have enough to do next week in San Francisco for the big Web 2.0 conference, Creative Commons is putting on another Creative Commons Salon at Shinesf.com from 7-9 PM (1337 Mission St in San Francisco) on Wednesday, April 18. It is a great place to meet-up with others interested in Creative…
John Wilbanks will be giving a talk in the virtual world Second Life this Monday (4/16). Taking on avatar-form for his first official SL speaking engagement, Wilbanks will be giving an introduction to Science Commons. The talk – “Scientific Research and the Creative Commons Methodology” – will shed light on the application of CC copyright…
Dapper aims to make it easy to extract and reuse content from any website. They just released Dapper Version 2, providing a good excuse to mention their support for CC licensing which they rolled out in February: Another exciting part of today’s release is the ability to ascribe licenses to your content allowing you to…
As noted in January, Black Sweater White Cat has taken the CC music pick of the day baton. Last week they reached 100 picks. Meanwhile, blocSonic has released their fourth beautifully packaged netlabel compilation: Soundtrack for the Coming Revolution. We mentioned their first release, also only in January. That’s 141 CC-licensed picks from music lovers…
The Participatory Culture Foundation has a great site called Make Internet TV with tutorials on making and publishing digital video from equipment to promotion, including a nice one page guide to using Creative Commons licenses. All content on MITV.org is licensed under CC Attribution-ShareAlike. There’s currently a call for videos to be used on the…
It’s a ccSalon… with a twist of sausage. Down south in South Africa we have the much-revered summer practice of the ‘braai’. The braai is just like a barbeque, except with a better selection of meat and southern blue skies. At a braai the norm is for people to bring their own meat and drink.…