Jamendo just turned on a Creative Commons portal for browsing and searching albums by license (very similar to Flickr’s CC portal). While Jamendo has always been a CC music site, the portal interface makes using Jamendo extra convenient when you care about which CC license the music you’re using falls under (e.g., for remix or…
CHALLENGE We challenge you, our community, to raise $6000 for Creative Commons by subscribing to GOOD Magazine and having a drink with us at the famed South by Southwest (SXSW) conference in Austin, TX. All it takes is for 200 people over the next 2 weeks to subscribe to GOOD. No, my math skills are…
xlr8r tv is a new cc-licensed online tv show focused on music and club culture. it’s a collaboration between xlr8r magazine and revision3 — the internet tv network started by some of the guys behind digg.
That’s right! Students, get your applications in before the end of the day on March 1 (which means PST for us in San Francisco reviewing applications). As we announced before, we are picking one intern to help our tech team and another to help us with creating media and building up our community. If you…
We’ve updated the experimental license choosers on ccLabs to support the new version 3.0 licenses and given one a visual and performance refresh: This involved re-writing the license chooser in Flash. DHTML wizards, take this as a challenge. Free software advocates, we understand that free Flash is important, and on the chooser page urge contriubutions…
Dabble has launched a free version of its innovative web database application. All content created with the free version, Dabble DB Commons, is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution license (the same as Swivel, mentioned last month). For license nerds, this is a good time to link to the Science Commons Databases and Creative Commons…
Ottmar Liebert (you can read his Featured Commoner interview here) pondered that he would like someone to remix his his guitar solo recordings. Ottmar’s music is Nouveau Flamenco style, which mixes elements of flamenco with jazz, bossa nova, and other genres and is released online under the Creative Commons Sampling Plus license (for remixing pleasure),…
The latest version of the Creative Commons licenses — Version 3.0 — are now available. To briefly recap what is different in this version of the licenses: Separating the “generic” from the US license As part of Version 3.0, we have spun off the “generic” license to be the CC US license and created a…
The open source remix community project ccHost is proving to be more than an incubator for CC technologies; if you monitor the developer’s list you can’t help noticing the regularity of postings for job opportunities. The latest comes from Brett at Open Source Cinema… We’re looking for a PHP programmer to help with our CChost…
Please join us for CC Salon San Francisco, taking place tonight from 7-9pm at Shine (1337 Mission St.). There will be music and presentations by: * John Wilbanks, Executive Director, Science Commons * Joi Ito, Web Entrepreneur, Chairman of Creative Commons Board * Heather Ford, Executive Director, iCommons * Jim Sowers, Calabash Music and National…