ccMixter maestro Victor Stone summarizes the good news: The freesound project is a web site for collecting tiny audio snippets and samples and sharing them under a Creative Commons license for use in larger audio works such as soundtracks, original material and oh yea, remixes. In just over the first year of operation they accumulated…
Yes! The monthly CC Salon is next Wednesday, July 12, from 6-9pm at Shine, (1337 Mission Street between 9th and 10th Streets). Come out and discuss your interests around CC, copyright, creation and licensing (among other topics). Note: Shine is a bar, and thus, only people 21 and older may attend. CC Salon is a…
One of our Summer ’06 interns – Katy Frankel – has completed a Featured Commoner interview with Cameron Sinclair, who is the co-founder and Executive Director of Architecture for Humanity (AFH). AFH do incredibly important work and use the Creative Commons Developing Nations license to help achieve their goals. Read more here.
Due to requests for additional time we’re proactively extending the deadline for the Fedora/CC Open Video Contest by one month — you now have until August 20 to submit a 30 second video on the subject of openness. Previous post annoucing the contest.
In May, we reported that indie filmmaker Solomon Rothman had released the trailer to his movie Boy Who Never Slept online under Creative Commons’ BY-NC-SA license. The full feature is now online, along with the film’s source files, which are — quite wonderfully — offered to the public under CC’s Attribution license.
Lulu.tv is a new video site from do it yourself publisher Lulu (we profiled Lulu in May) with a twist — creators can get paid out of a pool of people who subscribe to the site. Lulu.tv was written up in the New York Times two days ago. The article also mentions Revver, which takes…
Bay Area CC friends: You are invited to a party on July 14 at the 111 Minna Gallery in San Francisco, hosted by GOOD Magazine! Join us for a night of art, music (provided by Odd Nosdam of Anticon), and an open bar. Admission is free if you purchase a year subscription to GOOD Magazine.…
Monkey Love Records and Fake Science are sponsoring a super cool CC-licensed remix contest for the Robberriff track “Stringing Away Revisited.” You have until July 16 to “rinse, cut, splice, add samples and do whatever the hell you want to it.” Fake Science will choose the top 20 remixes and post them online for people…
Many of us are enjoying the world cup at the moment – some more than others as our favorite teams suceed beyond our wildest dreams – but still, the World Cup means many different things to people around the world. Those of us at the Rio Summit certainly had a taste of what football means…
In the UK, the All Party Parliamentary Internet Group (APPIG) has recently released its report on Digital Rights Management. It contained strong and welcome recommendations in relation to DRM, some of which are succintly listed on Boing Boing. In addition to DRM, the inquiry also considered CC licensing; specifically, one of the issues for comment…