A class of services that complements and builds upon the CC infrastructure includes assurance, provenance, registration, and warranty. Numly and RegisteredCommons are two currently pioneering organizations in this space. Chris Matthieu of Numly started a descrption and comparison table for the space on the CC wiki. People from RegisteredCommons have added. Other experts or those…
Yesterday saw the release of version 3.1 of the world’s premier (it won an award…) remix centric CMS — ccHost. Check out the developer discussion to get a sense of the cool projects people are building on this GPL codebase.
Mark Glaser of the PBS site Media Shift wrote a great article about the use and adoption of CC licenses with in the Flickr community. Glaser used a CC licensed Flickr photo by photographer Kris Krug for a blog post that he was writing about Mark Cuban. Krug gave Glasner a ‘virtual high-five’ for doing…
Some sharp guys over at Cogniview emailed me a couple of weeks ago, inquiring about embedding CC licenses in PDF files. Today I got a chance to look at the first fruits of that interchange, CCInfo. CCInfo is a plugin for Adobe Acrobat that lets you select and embed a Creative Commons license. Its Windows…
There will be (at least) four Creative Commons talks October 27. Three in Toronto at the 5th annual Seneca Free Software & Open Source Symposium: Nathan Yergler on Little “s” Semantic: Exploring Metadata About the Web, Jon Phillips on ccHost: Open Service and Media Hosting with Creative Commons software, and CC Canada joint project lead…
FreeCulture.org has announced the five winners of its Down With DRM Video Contest. The winners will each receive a Neuros OSD media center. You can watch the videos (which are all CC-licensed) here.
The legendary R.U. Sirius has a really great podcast called the R.U. Sirius Show. The most recent episode features an interview with Dan the Automator, the producer behind such projects as Dr. Octagon, Handsome Boy Modeling School, Deltron 3030, and the first Gorillaz album. The Automator, who contributed the CC-licensed track “Relaxation Spa Treatment” to…
There’s a great addition to the line-up for the CC Salon NYC happening at Nublu from 8-10pm this Friday, October 13: Evan Harper of Eyebeam Evan oversees technical things in the Production Studio. Professional highlights include recreating memorable scenes from the Donny & Marie Show in diorama form and fixing broken appliances he found on…
We’ve posted a new Featured Commoner interview with McKenzie Wark, a professor of cultural and media studies at the New School in New York. Wark is the author of A Hacker Manifesto and chose to post the draft of his next book, GAM3R 7H30RY, on a Web site designed in coordination with the Institute for…
Beatpick, which bills itself as the Fairplay Music Label and releases tracks online under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike license, has had two of its artists handpicked by Mercedes Benz for inclusion in Mercedes’ Mixtape compilation 14. Mercedes entered into a separate, non-exclusive licensing deal to use the tracks from the artists Foley and Napolitano Lounge…