Hyper awesome super CC-evangelist Cory Doctorow has had two great bits of news pop up in the past couple days, with the first being that his new novel, Little Brother (CC BY-NC-SA) has entered its 4th week on the New York Times Bestseller List! A huge accomplishment in its own right, we are especially excited…

And, you can be too! 2008 is half over. Seriously, this is a massively overdue in praise, adulation and support for Tim “TVOL” Vollmer and Rebecca “RRR” Rojer who started last summer 2007 at Creative Commons as interns along with the oustanding still-CC-blog-superstar Cameron Parkins tasked with specific projects all have seen through this blog.…

We wanted to recognize and celebrate the hard work and talent of musicians all over the world registering their songs under cc licenses – so we now feature a handful of such songs on CC’s Myspace page. CC’s page on this social network site receives a steady flow of visitors each day, and posting songs…

Two Bits: The Cultural Significance of Free Software is a new book by Christopher Kelty that explores the “history and cultural significance of Free Software”, narrating a time line about “the people and practices that have transformed not only software, but also music, film, science, and education” in contemporary society. Released in print by Duke…

Lingro is a project that aims to create an online environment that will allow anyone, in reading a foreign language website, a quick and easy means to translate words they don’t understand. Simple in concept, yet profound in implication, Lingro (which we have blogged about twice before) uses open dictionaries and user-submitted, CC BY-SA licensed,…

Acerca de CC Chile [English] Creative Commons ha colaborado con la Universidad de Chile, El sistema de Servicios de Información y Bibliotecas (SISIB), y la Corporación Derechos Digitales (CDD) para adaptar las licencias de Creative Commons al sistema legal de Chile. Líder del Proyecto: Prof. Alberto Cerda Silva (Fundador de CDD) y Gabriela Ortuzar (Director…

[Text in English and Norwegian] Oslo, Norway and Berlin, Germany — June 6, 2008 The Creative Commons Norway team has successfully ported the Creative Commons licensing suite to Norwegian law. The localized licenses will be unveiled today at a press conference at Oslo University College. The team responsible for coordinating the porting process and public…

Peter Lenda, Oslo University College and Gisle Hannemyr, Universtiy of Oslo

The fashion industry has always been an interesting topic for those interested in copyright and creativity – appropriation, reusue, sampling, etc. are approached in a sometimes similar, yet often starkly different, manner than in other content industries. Styles thrive off of building on pre-existing trends, sometimes directly imitating an established look, and the market decides…

Lucas Gonze, engaged in a blogversation about what music labels really are and what they can be in the future, doesn’t know, but has a suggestion for how a label might figure it out (emphasis added): Mo bettah, Mr. Hands Clustering is something labels are already doing. Blue Note is for jazz. Warp is for…