Caltech economics professor Preston McAfee appears to be mad as hell about high journal and textbook prices, and he’s doing something about it. He’s published a complete Introduction to Economic Analysis textbook under a Creative Commons license. See his page about the license and high textbook prices: Why open source? Academics do an enormous amount…
Attention all remixers: ccMixter is hosting the new Copyright Criminals Remix Contest. Producers from all over the world are encouraged to use CC-licensed audio samples from Kembrew McLeod and Ben Franzen’s upcoming documentary film Copyright Criminals in new musical compositions. The best entry will appear prominently in the final version of Copyright Criminals and the…
Technical wizard (music and code) Victor Stone retired as the lead ccMixter developer a few months ago. So what’s he doing with all that extra time (apart from continuing to commit ccHost patches)? One would assume a chunk of it went into completing his new album, La Vie Chill. Victor explains: [I]tâs dedicated to my…
Photo by Steve Jurveston licensed under cc by. Steve Jurveston comments about cool uses of his CC-licensed photos on Flickr: Imagine my surprise when I heard that the Charlie Rose show found my photo on flickr and wanted to use it on broadcast TV. They were interviewing Gordon Moore, co-founder of Intel and seer of…
Red Hat, a company with considerable claim to being the open source leader, has generously agreed to participate in the Creative Commons fundraising campaign with a Sponsor Challenge Match. Contribute now and double the impact of your gift to Creative Commons!
Creative Commons’ Science Commons project is looking for legal counsel to run its licensing work. Details are here.
Microsoft CTO Ray Ozzie writes that Microsoft has released another RSS extension specification under CC: One other important point: We’re releasing the SSE specification under a Creative Commons license â Attribution-ShareAlike. I’m very pleased that Microsoft is supporting the Creative Commons approach; you can see more about this at in the licensing section at the…
The Cylinder Presservation and Digitization Project has placed online amazing collection of over 5000 recordings from the late 1800s and early 1900s. Unrestored digitizations available as large .wav files are in the public domain, while restored mp3s are licensed under Attribution-NonCommercial, as described in the project’s note on copyright. Browse the collection. Listen to a…
For those of us dedicated to creating, expanding and enabling a commons of creativity and knowledge (expressed in a variety of formats), the issue of license interoperability is an important one. Already there has been valuable commentary about the interoperability between content licensed under different types of Creative Commons licenses â specifically, those that permit…
It is my duty as a member of the Xtech 2006 program committee to inform you of the call for participation. The theme of the conference, to be held May 16-19 in Amsterdam, is “Building Web 2.0.” Whatever you think of the Web 2.0 name, it is clear that Creative Commons is highly relevant, as…