Hello friends. We just added some great presentations for the CC Salon SF on April 18, 7-9 PM at Shinesf.com (1337 Mission St). Here is the quick run-down: Liz Dunn, Technorati, about WTF (Where’s the Fire and CC) Seth Mazow, Interplast.org, showing film at the end of the night Jay Dedman, SpinXpress.com and Outhink.com, about…

Today’s San Jose Mercury News has a wonderful article about Brazilian Minister of Culture Gilberto Gil taking time off for a solo tour. As readers of this blog know, Gil has been a tremendous friend of and influence on Creative Commons. The last three paragraphs of the article concern this, ending with this quote: “I…

Blogger Jim Lippard has put together an interesting mini-essay on derivative musical works and copyright spanning copying among classic rock groups in the 1970s, a 1983 science fiction story about perpetual copyright extension, and recent sampling madness. Read it for a reminder of the need for more reasonable copyright (hence CC) or to pick up…

Open music community Simuze has just released a free downloadable compilation of electronic music tracks published under various Creative Commons licenses. It’s called Share This Vibe and it’s available here.

The very good people of FreeCulture.org have launched a new website called the Free Music Project, where people can upload music available for free and legal sharing and remix. The site is working with the One Laptop per Child project; selected songs will be included on OLPC laptops to be distributed to children in the…

Marco Raaphorst writes: VPRO (Dutch public radio, tv and internet – non-profit) will start promoting ‘open content’, Creative Commons music in their radio-show Wissel. … This will only be the first step. I am talking about other open content projects for the Publieke Omroep here in Holland as well. So stay sharp for future updates…

Jamendo just turned on a Creative Commons portal for browsing and searching albums by license (very similar to Flickr’s CC portal). While Jamendo has always been a CC music site, the portal interface makes using Jamendo extra convenient when you care about which CC license the music you’re using falls under (e.g., for remix or…

The title of this post is a subheading from a great writeup of ccMixter’s new playlist features at Dave’s Imaginary Sound Space: Make no mistake, ccMixter is the complete package. No other remix site commands the same level of respect amongst musicians, producers and content creators. Read the entire article for a great overview, then…

It’s easy to predict that 2007 will be a good year for CC music when out of the gate three (that we know of) all-CC-all-the-time sites spring up: First up from Belgium there’s NetLabelism who are on their way to Den Haag to talk to our good buddy and CC music champ Marco Raaphorst. Next…

Check out dpop, a cool new music portal featuring CC-licensed podcasts and songs by Spanish pop groups. The site is really easy to navigate and features lots of great mp3 downloads from acts working in various styles of rock and electronic music. From dpop’s site: dpop is an independent platform to promote spanish artists supporting…