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…

Please join us for CC Salon / Creative Commons Fundraising Campaign Launch Party on Wednesday, October 11, from 6-9pm (don’t worry if you’re late; there will be stuff happening all night) at Shine , (1337 Mission Street between 9th and 10th Streets). Shine has free wi-fi and a super cool Flickr photo booth. Note: Since…

The good folks at Shine, where Creative Commons holds its San Francisco CC Salon events, are holding a benefit party this Friday (9/29) for Brian Walsh, who is the man behind Shine’s super cool Flickr photo booth (now with CC licensing!) Brian’s house was broken into recently and some of his equipment was stolen —…

Visit the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum‘s website to download “The Concert,” a new classical music podcast offered under the Creative Commons Music Sharing license. The podcast features unreleased live performances by master musicians and talented young artists recorded from the museum’s Sunday Concert Series. “The Concert” includes music by Beethoven, Mozart, Schubert, and Chopin for…

Visit the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum‘s website to download “The Concert,” a new classical music podcast offered under the Creative Commons Music Sharing license. The podcast features unreleased live performances by master musicians and talented young artists recorded from the museum’s Sunday Concert Series. “The Concert” includes music by Beethoven, Mozart, Schubert, and Chopin for…

Museum offers unreleased live performances by notable musicians and emerging young artists for free download and file sharing BOSTON, MA, USA — September 14, 2006 Starting today, everyone who visits the website of the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum will be able to download free classical music and share it with anyone, anywhere. “The Concert,” the…

Museum offers unreleased live performances by notable musicians and emerging young artists for free download and file sharing BOSTON, MA, USA — September 14, 2006 Starting today, everyone who visits the website of the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum will be able to download free classical music and share it with anyone, anywhere. “The Concert,” the…

San Francisco, USA — July 10, 2006 Scoopt, the citizen journalism agency that serves as a broker for selling user-created content to commercial media, has announced that it is offering Creative Commons licenses through its newly launched ScooptWords service. ScooptWords was designed to create a market between bloggers and commercial publishers. Once bloggers have registered…

This month CC is presenting a Remix Art event inspired by the Free Culture movement, in Second Life. Artists are encouraged to submit remixes based on the images from Sharing is Daring and Free Culture NYU, according to the appropriate CC licenses. Be ready to discuss your art remixes and other work! We want to…

iCommons.org has published a very cool article about Creative Commons Salon. Give it a read — there are some helpful hints about starting a CC Salon in your community.