Dropping Knowledge has announced that it will soon offer over 600 hours of audio-visual material from the recent Table of Free Voices event under a Creative Commons license. The Table of Free Voices took place in Berlin, Germany on September 9, 2006. At this historic gathering, more than 100 esteemed artists, academics, entrepreneurs, scientists, and…
Yesterday, Wagner James Au posted a great interview with Jonathan Coulton up at New World Notes. In it, they talk about tomorrow’s concert. Don’t forget: Tomorrow, September 14 at 5PM (SL/Pacific), Popular Science and Creative Commons will be hosting a concert at Menorca, in the 3D online digital world of Second Life. The show will…
If you’re in the Bay Area tonight (Wednesday, September 13, from 6-9pm), please make sure to join us for CC Salon at Shine (1337 Mission Street, between 9th and 10th Streets). Tonight’s event features presentations and performances by Irene McGee, Brian Malow, and Keldamuzik. Previously blogged (with more information and *lovely* photos) here.
Last month, we reported that Creative Commons CEO Larry Lessig delivered a keynote to LinuxWorld. For those of you who could not make it to San Francisco to hear his talk, Free Culture: What We Need From You, you can now watch and download it here from the LinuxWorld website.
Enrico Masala, a researcher at the Internet Media Group of the Politecnico di Torino, home of CC Italy‘s Juan Carlos De Martin, has imported his PdfLicenseManager code into the CC Tools project on sourceforge. PdfLicenseManager provides GUI and command line interfaces for embedding XMP metadata into PDF files.
The Open Source engine that powers ccMixter.org and the upcoming Open Clip Art Library infrastructure received a major feature release today. Part of the 3.0 release are native forums, multi-language support, e-mail notifications, support for XSPF 1.0, amongst several other wonderful features and bug fixes. ccHost is a great Open Source project for new and…
A Brazilian feature film – Cafuné – has been simultaneously released both in the cinemas and on the Internet, allowing the audience create different story ends. Bruno Vianna’s first feature film, called Cafuné, is pioneering an innovative distribution scheme. On August 25th, 2006, it started in the Brazilian movie theaters. In the same day, it…
A Brazilian feature film – Cafuné – has been simultaneously released both in the cinemas and on the Internet, allowing the audience create different story ends. Bruno Vianna’s first feature film, called Cafuné, is pioneering an innovative distribution scheme. On August 25th, 2006, it started in the Brazilian movie theaters. In the same day, it…
It’s time for another CC Salon SF! If you’re in the Bay Area, please join us on Wednesday, September 13, from 6-9pm (don’t worry if you’re late; there will be stuff happening all night) at Shine, (1337 Mission Street between 9th and 10th Streets). Shine has free wi-fi and a super cool Flickr photo booth.…
Lifehacker picks six ways to find reusable media: You need an image for that brochure you’re designing, and you need it now. Put your hands in the air and step away from the cheesy clipart, mister. Thanks to organizations like Creative Commons, licenses like the GNU Free Documentation License, and the public domain, there are…