“Apple row goes to core of online music” by Bill Thompson

“Brazilian Revolutionaries at Town Hall” by Jon Pareles

“Music Notes” by Barry Willis

“No-Guilt Downloads: Free Books, Music, and Movies” by Scott Spanbauer

My favorite part of the WIRED concert and Creative Commons benefit that people are writing about: one of Gil’s percussionists had an instrument that perhaps looked and sounded a bit like two small steelpans put together (see brightened area of the photo below). Wonderful sound, little used to great effect. Detail of photo by Kathryn…

If you missed out on our moving images contest earlier this year, you have a second chance of sorts. The Center for the Study of the Public Domain’s Arts Project Contest is based on our moving images contest. A contest to create a 2-minute moving image that explains to the public some of the tensions…

Needless to say, the concert last week was unbelievable, especially after two years in the basement of the Stanford Law School (thank you Stanford), trying to convince people that new copyright licenses are the key to the evolution of culture and intellect in the new millennium — often responded to with a deafening silence, and…

This from someone who attended the concert last Tuesday: This was truly one of the most inspired shows I’ve seen in a while. Not just the music, which was tremendous, but the entire feeling, established early on through the films; that we were involved in reclaiming and resuscitating creativity and the cross fertilization of cultures.…

At Creative Commons, there is hardly ever time to look back and reminisce about great events past. But last week’s congregation in NYC being such a landmark event in our organization’s history, here are a few things to recall. First, Tuesday’s concert made it clear that we’re becoming truly global now. There is no better…

At last, I saw my long-time favorite rock band the Pixies in Berkeley this weekend. That doesn’t have much to do with Creative Commons — not yet anyway. Except that this band is the reason for my first picking up a guitar 13 years ago (and, I might argue, for my improving little since). Which…