A New York Times article recently pointed to Tell Tale Weekly, an audio book site selling MP3s as cheap as $0.25 each. They’ve also committed to licensing the books under a Creative Commons license after 5 years or 100k downloads, whichever comes first. It’s not easy to find good, cheap, DRM-free audiobooks and Tell Tale…

Everyone in Silico is a futurist sci-fi novel set in Vancouver, 2036. It came out a couple years ago, but this week the author decided to license it under Creative Commons and produce free downloadable ebook versions. As the author says “So if you like the book, send pals this link, e-mail it to friends,…

Webjay is a cool little hack. You toss in a URL, and it scans pages for mp3 files, making iTunes/winamp/realplayer playlists on the fly. As an example, Common Content’s audio page as a MP3 playlist looks something like this.

Joel Blain recently wrote in with an interesting observation: “I’ve been reading a bio on Woody Guthrie. It’s pretty interesting. The book reprints one of the “Copyright Warnings” he included on his recordings in the ealry 40’s “This song is Copyrighted in U.S., under Seal of Copyright # 154085, for a period of 28 years,…

Nature is hosting a debate on open access science publishing. At the center of the debate are Public Library of Science and BioMed Central, two open access journal publishers using the Creative Commons Attribution License. The PLoS evidence paper presents a good summary of what is wrong with the current scholarly publishing model, why open…

I recently stumbled across a nice photoblog from Australia, called VIBGYOR. It’s sporting a Creative Commons license that allows for commercial use, too.

Breaking news: “In a move shocking to all, Duke University, of Durham, North Carolina, purchased the entirety of the public domain late last evening for a fee of 2.2 trillion dollars . . .” (Full story)

This Google Answers post about public domain sites brought up a wealth of good answers, in all sorts of categories. [via kottke]

Squarespace, an easy to use website and blog creation and hosting service, recently made it easy for users to license their content via our remote licesning application. Here’s what Squarespace says within their site management application about Creative Commons: We’ve integrated a utility that lets you generate Creative Commons licenses for your site. A Creative…

My french isn’t too good, but I’m going to guess that Autres Directions in Music is a new internet music label based in France releasing their songs under Creative Commons licenses. So far their releases consist of these four albums: (1, 2, 3, 4) all ready for download as MP3s or you can drop them…