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Expo for the Artist
by glenn Uncategorized postCreative Commons spent the day at Expo for the Artist, the 5th annual gathering of artists, nonprofits, and community organizations at Cellspace, in San Francisco, USA. Celebrating its fifth year, the catch-all event included free workshops on grantwriting, burlesque, painting, self-publishing, navigating the music industry, metalworking, and more. Watch the Expo website for a series…
Open Clip Art Project
by mike Uncategorized postThe Open Clip Art Project is a new effort to catalog and encourage the creation of new clip art using the Creative Commons public domain dedication. Providing clipart for open source productivity applications is one of OCAP’s goals. Contribute your clipart creations now, perhaps your work will one day be available to OpenOffice‘s millions of…
Translation license discussion starts soon
by heather Uncategorized postPublic discussion on the Creative Commons translation license starts this Monday (April 26). The translation license would be used by authors who want to make their works available for others to translate into local languages. The initial idea for the license came from a lecturer at a conference in South Africa in January this year.…
Great copyright article at Mindjack
by matt Uncategorized postJ.D. Lasica has a new feature in the online magazine Mindjack entitled “The Killing Fields: Copyright Law and its Challengers.” It’s an overview of Jed Horowitz’ struggles with Disney and his film about overreaching copyright, Willful Infringement. An snippet from the article: At various points, the iconoclastic Horowitz appears on camera, appearing dumbfounded at the…
Goopymart!
by matt Uncategorized postThis week’s featured content is the wonderfully wacky and off-the-wall stuff at Goopymart. Flash movies and animated comics feature a variety of animal-like creatures. Yuggy is my favorite and a longtime popular fixture of the Goopy universe.
Song Science, Part II: Fact and Fiction?
by glenn Uncategorized postMatt’s post earlier today about Hit Song Science, a piece of software that uses algorithms to analyze songs to predict their likelihood of success in the market, reminded me of a favorite imaginative bit in Jonathan Franzen’s novel The Corrections, which was a big hit a couple years ago: . . . Brian spent his…
Whiteboarding as Art?
by glenn Uncategorized postI’m at the Institute for the Future today for the Future of Cooperation Expert Colloqium. (I’m in favor of the future, and cooperation, as it happens, so it’s a good fit.) One of the many interesting things I’ve learned about today is “visual journalism,” which you could also call “whiteboarding for posterity.” Eileen Clegg, who…
City art and CC licenses
by matt Uncategorized postOver at the blog “A Month Full Of Wednesdays” I noticed a post describing a recent Minneapolis call for music and video to play in stations and a recent call for artwork for Cleveland’s public transit. The post mentions an idea to extend Cleveland art requests to include audio for use in stations and the…
PARTY — You are invited!
by glenn Uncategorized postWhy: One Year Anniversary of the Creative Commons tools and licenses. When: Sunday, December 14, 6:00 – 9:00 pm. Where: 111 Minna Gallery, 111 Minna Street, San Francisco, CA. (View Map). What: An address by Lawrence Lessig The sequel to the first Creative Commons animated hit, “Get Creative“ Special guests CC Tunes Appetizers & Drinks…
Wow, that was fast, part 2
by matt Uncategorized postOn Saturday, we posted about the Creative Commons licensing used by Scott Andrew and Shannon Campbell on their collaborative music project. They ended up creating two songs by Sunday morning and released them under a license. Late Sunday night, Scott posted a link to the first derivative work made from it, a re-recording by previously…