Duke Law School’s Center for Study of the Public Domain has released an amazing 76 page copyright education in the shape of a documentary filmmaker and form of a comic book: BOUND BY LAW? A collaboration between cartoonist Keith Aoki, law professor (and CC board member) James Boyle and CSPD director Jennifer Jenkins, the work…
You only have two weeks left to upload your remix of the Hungarian band Nomada’s song Aven le Roma! – Here come the Roma!. The five-member group Nomada was founded by Roma singer-guitarist Balogh Gusztáv in 2003. Nomada’s music is derived from the Hungarian Gypsy tradition in addition to drawing from other musical styles such…
For everyone who has filed crash reports, sent me emails and generally wondered about the state of ccPublisher, I’m pleased to announce that our first widely publicized beta is now available. You can find information on downloads and installation instructions here. Note that while we think this code is ready for public consumption, it is…
Ten years ago Duke Law Professor (and now CC board member) Jamie Boyle coined the metaphor cultural environmentalism, drawing on lessons from the environmental movement for free culture and the legal environment that fosters or hinders free culture. A conference on Cultural Environmentalism at 10 was held at Stanford over the weekend. Today at SXSW…
SXSW attendee St. Murse ups the Flickr zeitgeist ante… Photo by St. Murse licensed under BY-NC-SA 2.0.
Creative Commons staff, board member and many friends will be at SXSW Interactive. Here’s a schedule of explicitly CC-linked events: Trade Show: CC will have a booth Sunday, Monday and Tuesday. Remixing Business for a Convergent World: CC Creative Director Eric Steuer moderates Monday 10AM. Digital Preservation and Blogs: CC CTO Mike Linksvayer empaneled Monday…
The first CC Salon San Francisco held Wednesday evening was a big success. The 1337 venue was filled, people drank, the presentations were just right, and Minus Kelvin delivered well-modulated jams. Next month we have Lucas Gonze presenting on How the net is changing music. Watch here and the wiki for details. Minus Kelvin photo…
Creative Commons, Warner Bros. Records, and Machine Shop Recordings, are proud to present the Fort Minor Remix Contest, starting today at ccMixter. Fort Minor — the hip-hop project led by Linkin Park vocalist/guitarist/keyboardist Mike Shinoda — is offering the separated audio elements of its hit single “Remember the Name” online under a Creative Commons BY-NC…
If imitation is the best form of flattery, London-based record label BeatPick is handing it to Berkeley and London-based label Magnatune in spades. Similarities include CC license used (Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike), a 50/50 artist/label revenue split, a menu of commercial licensing options and availability of wav, mp3 and ogg downloads. Of course it’s about the music and…
Former Creative Commons Executive Director Glenn Otis Brown has added gloves to all that time he must have on his hands after leaving this crazy startup nonprofit organization. His boxing adventures as MEFISTO (very clever Glenn) are chronicled at Haymaker-SF. All videos are licensed under Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.0 and hosted at blip.tv, a cool new video…