CC Salon San Francisco is going bi-monthly. The next Salon will be in February featuring speakers from Flickr and BitTorrent. There’s a close substitute in January. Check out NetSquared’s Net Tuesday featuring the Public Library of Science, Tuesday, January 9 from 6-8PM at Citizen Space, 425 Second St., #300 in San Francisco: This month our…
As Creative Commons’ CEO Lawrence Lessig noted, we are pleased to announce that we have exceeded our $300,000 fundraising goal for 2006! The support we have received is vital to extending the work that we’ve already begun and initiating new projects that will help grow this vital movement. We want to take this opportunity to…
WIRED Science is a brand new television pilot from our good friends at Wired. You can watch it online or catch the premiere tonight on PBS. Another CC friend, David Byrne, did the music for the show’s opening. Watch the Pilot Episode of WIRED Science Wednesday, January 3, 2007 8:00 PM EST on PBS (Check…
After much deliberation we here at CC are excited to announce the winners for CC’s 1st annual CC swag photo contest. The winners are Franz Patzig with his photo “CC” and Yamababobo with his photo “CC on Light”. We have been humbled by the number and quality of entries and thank each and every participant…
As Lisa Williams noted her local paper – Watertown TAB – quietly switched over the site to use a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 2.5 license. Dave Weinberger noted that his local paper – the Brookline TAB – did likewise. The reason — GateHouse Media, a newspaper conglomerate that owns 75 daily and 231 weekly newspapers, has…
Swivel is a site that is all about data. You can upload your data and have it made into graphs, you can find datasets, comment on them or rate them, or you can compare different datasets that have been uploaded to the site. As the site itself explains, it’s “a place where curious people explore…
Creative Commons Hungary sent a nice happy new year wish to the Creative Commons community mailing list in the form of the first Hungarian CC licensed music album (all tracks are licensed under CC BY-NC 2.5 Hungary). CC Hungary’s Bodo Balazs says the remix album is made-up of “broken etno, beatbox’n’bass, world noise.” The remix…
Jamendo recently surpassed 2,000 albums released on the site. Look on the Jamendo stats page for a tale of growth and bandwidth, about half served by P2P. You can search every album, including filtering by license. They’ve also been quietly rolling out feature after feature. Most recent and exciting is the ability to find Jamendo…
Two different sorts of eye candy from Magnatune, a record label that uses CC licenses. First, magnatune in six [6], a video featuring interviews with six Magnatune artists. Second, a detailed post on 2006 sales and traffic statistics. The chart above shows the number of music licenses sold each month. For more on the Magnatune…
Wow, some really killer tracks have been submitted to ccMixter’s Christopher Willits Remix Contest. Check out some of the entries here. Or better yet, sign up for an account and upload your own remix — you still have four days left, as the contest stops accepting entries on December 27. Don’t forget — the winner…