Recently, Creative Commons launched ccLearn, an educational arm of CC whose mission aims “to minimize barriers to sharing and reuse of educational materials — legal barriers, technical barriers, and social barriers.” Yesterday, ccLearn director Ahrash Bissell and Creative Commons CTO Nathan Yergler spoke at the OpenCourseWare Consortium Conference at Utah State. Their presentation laid out…

CC Public Project Lead in Switzerland, Digitale Allmend, will join Wikipedia CH in organizing the third Wikipedia Day on September 29 in Bern at the the Pädagogischen Hochschule, PHBern. The event will highlight scientific articles by professors, librarians, archivists, journalists, and students, with the aim of exchanging experience and ideas for Wikipedia and related projects.…

After some web downtime, Australian Creative Resources Online (ACRO), a repository for open and CC-licensed creative content, is back in operation. Technically a not-for-profit research center, ACRO is simultaneously a research facility, a digital repository, a source of creative materials, and a place for people to display their digital works. From ACRO: This site is…

There is a great mix of CC-licensed electronic over at Gratisvibes, an amazing music blog based solely around CC-licensed electronic music. The mix itself stems from the Flash Forward Party in Singapore, part of iCommns’ 50 Great Parties Club. From GratisVibes: Well, it’s been a week but finally the guys (DJ FU, CT and I)…

Appearing in the Pepperdine University Graphic, the title and first paragraph of Internet offers more than Facebook read like a throwback to 1995: If you are sick of the same old sites, Facebook, Myspace and TMZ, there are some alternatives available on the Web that offer just as much mindless entertainment. (1995 version: There’s more…

  The Creative Commons team in Japan is ablaze with activism. At Mozilla 24 in Tokyo this September 15th, the Japanese team invited participants in their workshop to remix FireFox’s squeezeably-cute new mascot Foxkeh into over 45 uniquely designed CC-licensed T-shirts, a continuation of the successful C-Shirt project highlighted at the iSummit 2007 in Dubrovnik.…

Creative Commons is working with The University of Tokyo, Law Faculty to create Japan jurisdiction-specific licenses from the generic Creative Commons licenses. CCi Japan List Chairman: Professor Nobuhiro Nakayama (University of Tokyo, Law Faculty) Legal Project Lead: Yuko Noguchi Public Project Lead: Dominick Chen License draft. Post a message. Subscribe to the discussion. Read the…

Denise Howell writing at ZDNet has a nice report on IP and the user generated economy at TechCrunch40 about new collaboration services that have affordances for CC licenses, and some that should: The clips forming the foundation of musicshake creations are all licensed, and the company plans to let users sell their creations, keeping some…

CC in China Mainland has partnered with the online photo-sharing community nphoto.net and one of China’s largest internet portals, sohu.com, to co-sponsor the first CC-licensed photography contest in China Mainland. The first submissions were received on September 1st, 2007, and at the time of this posting, entries now number around 3,500 and span three major…

San Francisco, CA — September 18, 2007 Creative Commons and BBE Music are proud to announce the release of the original studio tracks from the album The Sound Catcher by DJ Vadim. The separated, solo instrumental and vocal tracks from the entire album are available for free and legal downloading and remixing. All are available…