NGO Photos is a great new resource site (in Finnish) acting as a large free photograph repository for NGOs. Ramin Miraftabi, the person behind NGO Photos, explains the site here (in English) and why he set it up.

I just stumbled upon a great little site for electronic musician 31d1. There are beat loops, mixes, and even great little videos, all under a Creative Commons license. The video “gloucester” was my favorite, with public-domain looking video of a fly doing its thing.

Over the weekend we release yet another update to ccPublisher. ccPublisher is a tool which allows you to upload Creative Commons-licensed audio and video works to the Internet Archive for free hosting. We’re on the road to 1.0, and part of that process is fixing bugs. Thanks to Harold and Dave, we have two more…

Last month the Center for Social Media released Untold Stories: Creative Consequences of the Rights Clearance Culture for Documentary Filmmakers. Many of the stories are unfortunately of a familiar type: contemporary documentarians must go through incredible lengths to gain clearance for “culture” in essentially every second of their films. Often clearance means removal when the…

Our World Wide Web Consortium representative Ben Adida will be present at meetings concurrent with the consortium’s tenth anniversary celebration. Ben has been doing important work to standardize embedding RDF metadata in HTML (I find the RDF/A proposal particularly compelling). Services like the Creative Commons search engine build on RDF metadata describing licensed works that…

CC French project lead Melanie Dulong de Rosnay and Daniele Bourcier have just published ‘International Commons at the Digital Age – la creation en partage‘, a book with some valuable chapters on our first experiences with the internationalized CC licenses. The book was written as a contribution to a day-long event in Paris on November…

La Vanguardia, the most popular newspaper in Catalonia, ran a story on the WIRED CD this weekend.

A group of former pupils at a London comprehensive school are poised to win thousands of pounds in unpaid royalties for singing on Pink Floyd’s classic Another Brick In The Wall 25 years ago. This is a great story. I’m looking forward to the guy who screams “How can yew have any pudding if you…

Snarky tech news site the INQUIRER interviews Magnatune’s John Buckman, who is refreshingly direct. Buckman: We sell a little over 1000 albums a month – about $10,000 a month – and this has been stable for about 6 months. Music Licensing has grown from about $2,000 a month 6 months ago to about $10,000 a…

Pittsburgh based label Big Sonic Recordings has released its catalog under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs license. At Big Sonic Recordings, you’ll notice that all of our artists give away all of their music for free, and every artist has an online store full of merchandise that you can purchase if you wish to support them.…