A bit late (exactly a month in fact), but in case you missed it the first time as well, Red Hat posted an amazing short about DRM titled “Bird Song: A Cartoon Requiem for DRM”. Its a beautifully made animation and Red Hat has gone the distance in licensing the different elements under a CC…

Interested in free culture, technology, the Internet, Creative Commons, new media, and anything in between? If so, iCommons, is throwing a last minute party this Saturday (9/22) in New York City! If you are in the area, you should absolutely check it out. There will be video and music performances, drinks, and cool people abound.…

Intentionally controversial (and funny) pointed out by Techdirt: However, as Bob Lefsetz points out, McCartney’s album looks like it’s a money loser for Starbucks — though McCartney likely made money from Starbucks who probably paid him a nice sum to put the album out on the new label. However, as Lefsetz points out, he could…

Debate over whether it makes sense to syndicate complete posts or only excerpts pops up regularly, most recently in reaction to the popular Freakonomics blog moving to the New York TImes, which brought with it a move to partial feeds. The idea of partial feeds is to make readers go to the syndicating site to…

Rhizome, “an online platform for the global new media art community”, announced yesterday that it will integrate Creative Commons licenses into its online art archive, the Artbase. From here onwards, artists who contribute to ArtBase will have the option to license their work under a Creative Commons License of their choosing, greatly adding to ArtBase’s…

CC and Mozilla have come together in order to throw one awesome party. Come celebrate the “open” movement with us this Wed. at the Wonder Ballroom. Portland local Mike Williams, of the Mercury News and host of the monthly dance party Branx, along with the popular Portland band Menomena will be performing so you know…

Bay Area CC friends: You are invited to a block party on July 15 at the 111 Minna Gallery in San Francisco, hosted by GOOD Magazine! Join us for an afternoon explosion of booth vendors, an outdoor stage and a unique combination of San Francisco’s best! There will be musical performances by A-Trak, Diplo, Kid…

Come celebrate open source, the open web, and the commons with CC and Mozilla on Wed. July 25th in Portland, OR. Several of the CC and Mozilla crew will be venturing out of San Francisco in order to attend the Open Source Convention (OSCON) and saw this as the perfect opportunity to bring our communities…

Two important CC friendly organizations have received major kudos and support recently. Brazilian free culture site Overmundo won the prestigious Prix Ars Electronica 2007 Golden Nica for Best Digital Community. CC won the 2004 Golden Nica for Net Vision and we’ve highlighted Overmundo before, including here. The Democracy media player (soon to be known as…

Jamendo has continued to add music and features at a torrid pace. Their latest feature is Jamendo+Radioblog, which allows navigating all 3041 albums available on Jamendo in one Flash-based web interface, including navigation by Creative Commons license. You can also type the name of a mainstream artist into the Jamendo+Radioblog interface and obtain recommendations for…