The Silicon Valley nonprofit releases South Korean versions of its innovative copyright licenses at the High Court in Seoul. San Francisco, USA and Seoul, SOUTH KOREA, March 21, 2005 – Creative Commons, a non-profit organization that offers free, flexible copyright tools to the general public, today unveiled a localized version of its innovative licensing system…

Minus Kelvin, a physics and calculus teacher by day and composer by night, has been making regular contributions to ccMixter since February. Friday we learned that Runoff Records, Inc. has signed MinusKelvin, after discovering his music through a podcast of ccMixter (enabled by the licenses). Together with another ccMixter contributor, Pat Chilla, they will now…

Jim Munroe has released a CC-licensed flash movie called Time Management for Anarchists and he wants you to remix it (the .fla source for Flash creators). The movie gives pretty standard “getting things done” advice, as told by famous anarchists “Mike” (Mikhail Bukinin) and “Emma” (Goldman). It could use male and female voices for Mike…

(Score:1) by LawGeek (104616) on Thursday January 13, @09:58AM (#11348409).from Creative Commons Remix Contest. Music. … More Creative Commons Music

Topics for discussion include Creative Commons, P2P, and music sampling. The folks at LinuxNews.pl report that prof. Lessig will spend three daysfrom OpenP2P.com – CA,USA

In the year since an innovative US copyright protocol known as Creative Commons has been created, it has attracted top movie, music and book deals.from Express Newsline – Mohali,India

… For his music label, Leyton uses the Creative Commons Licence (www.creativecommons.org), which gives anyone the right to listen to and share his label’s musicfrom Varsity – Toronto,Ontario,Canada

After years of toil the free music encyclopedia MusicBrainz is now backed by a nonprofit foundation with a fantastic best-of-the-usual-suspects board. MusicBrainz has taken an innovative approach to open data: core factual information (artist, album, track) is appropriately dedicated to the public domain, while community generated information is licensed under Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike. Also check out MetaBrainz’s…

In preparation for the International Computer Music Conference to be held in Barcelona in September 2005, the Music Technology Group and the Universitat Pompeu Fabra, have created the freesoundproject. The freesound project is a collaborative database of sounds – not songs or compositions – but sounds: audio snippets, samples, recordings, bleeps. All sounds uploaded to…

I spent the past weekend at Notacon in Cleveland, OH. While there was one talk devoted to a brief history of copyright in the US, the most exciting talk, for me, was completely unexpected. Jerry Rockwell presented a talk called “Evolution of a Tune: My process of arranging and composing in a Home Studio.” I…