Blogger Jim Lippard has put together an interesting mini-essay on derivative musical works and copyright spanning copying among classic rock groups in the 1970s, a 1983 science fiction story about perpetual copyright extension, and recent sampling madness. Read it for a reminder of the need for more reasonable copyright (hence CC) or to pick up…
Adobe has recently released a new project called Apollo. According to their announcement Apollo is “the code name for a cross-operating system runtime that allows developers to leverage their existing web development skills (Flash, Flex, HTML, JavaScript, Ajax) to build and deploy rich Internet applications (RISs) to the desktop. To accompany the release Apollo team…
Creative Commons is again participating in Google’s excellent Summer of Code program as a mentoring organization: students can earn $4500 for working on an open source application for the summer. Check out the CC Summer of Code page for ideas. Student applications are due March 24. Don’t hesitate to drop by #cc on the freenode…
The CCPA is a small group that meets semi-regularly in San Francisco to discuss questions about CC licensing and to establish best practices for publishers and others using Creative Commons’ legal tools. TechSoup‘s Amit Asaravala was kind enough to put together a set of notes that outline the most recent CCPA meeting’s questions and answers.…
Barcelona Visió is a new video sharing site sponsored by Barcelona’s Town Hall, where anyone can upload their footage of Catalonia’s lovely capital city. The site currently hosts many short videos that capture Barcelona’s beauty, as well as a few longer clips that cover current issues and events. Most of the material is available for…
Barcelona Visió is a new video sharing site sponsored by Barcelona’s Town Hall, where anyone can upload their footage of Catalonia’s lovely capital city. The site currently hosts many short videos that capture Barcelona’s beauty, as well as a few longer clips that cover current issues and events. Most of the material is available for…
Photo by believekevin, CC BY-SA. A query to the cc-community mailing list asking for resources on the history of the copyleft movement led to many good suggestions and turned up the cool chalkboard timeline pictured above. While impressive visually, the chalkboard only covers 1998-2007 and leaves much important stuff out (such as the launch of…
The snappy DHTML puzzle license chooser contributed by Sylvain Zimmer is now live at ccLabs. The previous iteration was implemented in Flash, which Sylvain demonstrated was unecessary. Try it out and please use the feedback form at the bottom of the page. Thank Sylvain by visiting Jamendo, of which he is CTO.
When Ben from the very cool indie label BBE Music got in touch with us and asked if we would be interested in a DJ Vadim remix contest at ccMixter we thought about it … for about a half a millisecond! You see, in the remixing/turntable world DJ Vadim is nothing short of a superstar…
Congressman Mike Doyle gave a great speech about mash-up artist Girl Talk and mixtape king DJ Drama as part of last week’s Future of Radio congressional hearing. The 463 has the transcript and some teriffic analysis; SplashCast has the must-see video. “I hope that everyone involved will take a step back and ask themselves if…