Hot on the heels of Free Culture @ NYU‘s Creative Commons Art Show, the good people of Harvard Free Culture are organizing Sharing Is Daring, an exhibition of Creative Commons-licensed artwork to be held in Cambridge the week of April 10. Wanna be a part? Lucky you — there’s an open call for submissions until…

SectionZ is an electronic music community that is home to more than 650 Creative Commons-licensed tracks. There are lots of truly excellent CC sounds on the site — some of my favorites are Vaetxh‘s spacy drum ‘n’ bass anthem “The Moon Is to the Stars as a Dust Mote Is to Mars” and Smiff’s driving…

Influential avant garde musician and activist Bob Ostertag has made all of his recordings that he has the rights to available as digital downloads under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial license: These works are now covered by a Creative Commons “Attribution Non-commercial” license that permits you to freely download, copy, remix, sample, manipulate, fold, spindle, tamper…

Following on from the recent decision in a Dutch Court, Creative Commons licenses have also been implicated in a decision in Spain. The issue in this case was not whether the CC license was enforceable, but instead whether the major collecting society in Spain could collect royalties from a bar that played CC-licensed music. Unfortunately,…

Attention all remixers: the Fort Minor Remix Contest over at ccMixter starts accepting entries today. We’re really excited to hear what you all have been cooking up since we posted the Creative Commons-licensed source material online two weeks ago. You have from now until May 6 to post your hottest track and compete to win…

CC-using label Magnatune has always had “We Are Not Evil” as a tagline. Now they have a page listing the many reasons they are not evil, prominently featuring Creative Commons licenses and remixing on ccMixter. If you’re interested in the business, technical, or music side of open music, check out Magnatune founder John Buckman’s blog,…

Former CC Executive Director Neeru Paharia (now working on a PhD at Harvard Business School) writes in: I’m entering this business plan contest that is focused on poverty alleviation: http://www.bidnetwork.org. They are dragging me through a CC license choice for my business plan! I admit, I never would have thought of it unless they made…

Grant Robertson of cc:365 (now up to 75 tracks) and The Revolution has been doing some in depth interviews with CC users. Check out John Buckman, Lisa DeBenedictis, and Scott Andrew so far. Buckman’s “most shocking revelation” isn’t all that shocking (read and you’ll see). Also check out Ben Shewmaker interviewing Grant Robertson on the…

Many people have asked us over the years whether any court had held that CC licenses were enforceable. I have always found this question to be amusing. In my many years as a lawyer in private practice, if the licenses I had drafted were *not* litigated, then I was considered to have done my job…

A few of us have just returned from Austin, Texas, where we attended SXSW Interactive. I’d like to share a few personal highlights. Saturday’s laptop battle, hosted by AMODA. Competitive live electronic musicmaking as it was meant to be: loud, manic, and super geeky. Manning the CC booth on the trade show floor with Mike…