PUMP AUDIO AND CREATIVE COMMONS COLLABORATE ON COMMERCIAL LICENSING FOR INDEPENDENT MUSICIANS Hudson Valley, NY and San Francisco, CA – December 12, 2006 – Pump Audio, the leading provider of quality independent music to content creators globally, today announced that it has teamed up with Creative Commons to expand and promote fair commercial licensing options…

You know that CC licensing is reaching far into the music scene when you have a genre-specific region based podcast like the NY-NE Regional EDM Showcase. In yet another example of what is enabled by CC licenses this show features “original EDM tracks from independent musicians within upstate New York And Western New England” all CC…

Creative Commons and Owl Multimedia Introduce the World’s First “True Music Search Engine” 10,444 Tracks Available Under Creative Commons License Searchable by Sound Via Collections From Magnatune and ccMixter San Francisco, CA, USA and New York, NY, USA — December 6, 1006 Creative Commons, a nonprofit organization that provides flexible copyright licenses for authors and…

Creative Commons and Owl Multimedia Introduce the World’s First “True Music Search Engine” 10,444 Tracks Available Under Creative Commons License Searchable by Sound Via Collections From Magnatune and ccMixter San Francisco, CA, USA and New York, NY, USA — December 6, 1006 Creative Commons, a nonprofit organization that provides flexible copyright licenses for authors and…

Música Lliure II is a terrific new CD of Creative Commons-licensed jazz music by Catalan artists like Elisabet Raspall, Karion, Ismael Duenas, Joan Diaz, and La Orquesta de la Muerte (with a bonus contribution from Brazil’s Gilberto Gil). Produced by FOBSIC and Enderrock, the disc is available for free with the current issue of blues…

The April issue of Catalonian music magazine Enderrock includes a terrific article about Creative Commons and comes with a CD entitled Música Lliure, which features 19 CC-licensed songs from acts like Cheb Balowski, Dijous Paella, and Orxata Sound System. The CD’s bonus track, Gilberto Gil’s “Oslodum,” provides a sonic — and ideological — link to…

The 2006 edition of the popular international music contest Diesel-U-Music is open to unsigned artists playing rock, urban/hip-hop, and electronic music. All of the songs entered into this year’s contest will be licensed under CC’s Attribution-NonCommercial license, so they can be legally shared, reused, and remixed by people around the world. Go to diesel-u-music.com from…

Last year the Linux media player Amarok created a demo LiveCD using CC licensed music from the WIRED CD. In the meantime Amarok developers have added many features and have now added access to Magnatune within the player. (We’ve mentioned Magnatune here many times, but for new readers, it is an innovative record label that…

Our friends at the Future of Music Coalition have been producing a cool conference called the Future of Music Policy Summit since 2001. This year’s summit started today — and Creative Commons is a proud sponsor of the event. Check out the terrific program, featuring a presentation by David Byrne entitled Record Companies: Who Needs…

In December of 2003 Magnatune recording artist Lisa Debendictis released an album called Fruitless under a Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike license with an original composition and performance called “Brilliant Day” (stream here). In March of 2004 John at Magnatune was encouraging me to get in touch with artists on the label to remix and Lisa was gracious enough…