Ducth CC music site Simuze has created a CD titled Spread The Love featuring 19 excellent tracks (under various CC licenses — check the tracklist on the web or the CD cover) selected from the 640 contributed in the site’s ten months of public life so far. In addition to individual mp3 download links the…
It’s that fun time again when we start contemplating versioning up the licenses. An outline of why we’re thinking about doing this and how CC proposes to do this has just been posted to the cc-licenses list. Please participate in the discussions on the cc-licenses list – you can sign up here.
Learn more about how you can publish your stuff via Lulu’s self-publishing service and how it incorporates CC-licensing in our latest Featured Commoner interview.
Flickr rolled out a bunch of new features today, among them adding a Creative Commons-specific search to the Flickr advanced search page, fulfilling a new year’s resolution. Now you can search the approximately 12.7 million CC-licensed photos on Flickr across all CC licenses or only those that allow commercial use or derivative works, just as…
If you’re going to be in the Bay Area this weekend, come to the Lobot Gallery in Oakland on Saturday night (5/20/06) for the premiere of the SLOMO Video Festival. The show is a unique compilation of 100 one-minute-long slow motion videos by 85 artists and filmmakers. The majority of the collection is licensed under…
Meet Fred Beckersted, who will speak on behalf of the Free Culture.org student movement which was inspired by Professor Lawrence Lessig’s book, Free Culture. Fred’s talk, Free Culture and Second Life : Virtually Extending Free Culture’s Work and Goals, will discuss his involvement in RL DRM Protests, ccArt Show, and Film Remix contest. Anyone interested…
Adobe Labs wiki has been up since last October under the liberal Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 license and has become a great resource for information on recent Adobe (mostly former Macromedia) technologies.
Last night’s CC Salon San Francisco was probably the best so far, with just the right mix of art, legal, and technology mixed in the three excellent presentations. If you’re involved in U.S. politics, or make art that critiques U.S. politics, you must check out Metavid, the first presenters — keyword searchable public domain footage…
Jamendo recently passed the 1,000 album mark, more than doubling since the beginning of the year. Congratulations! Jamendo is a great place to find CC licensed music. See their top albums by popularity and a search form on the side of that page that allows you to only see albums that match your licensing needs…
We’ve been working hard on ccPublisher 2 lately, and I’m pleased to announce that the third beta is available for download. You can find release notes and downloads for Windows, Mac OS X and Linux here. This release is stable enough for regular use. If you’ve tried ccPublisher in the past and want to upload…