World Intellectual Property Day is observed annually on April 26. “Encouraging Creativity” is the theme for 2007. For this day we’ve produced a flyer addressing how Creative Commons encourages creativity. You can download the PDF or read the text on our wiki. Here’s the closing paragaph: In sum, the Creative Commons toolset encourages and enables…

Two years ago, iCommons established the yearly iSummit conference as a way to bring together the thinkers, innovators, and pioneers of the “Open” movement. This year’s iSummit (taking place in Dubrovnik, Croatia from June 15th through 17th) will bring together more than 250 key players for two days of intense discussion and debate about our…

Make Internet TV, previously blogged here is now officially launched and has a call for videos: see the post Submission Requirements Short (1-4 minutes) Narrow Focus Directly Related to Creating Internet Video. Licensed as Creative Commons BY-SA High Quality Video (we prefer having a copy that is higher than 320 by 240 pixels) Make Sure…

please let this become a trend That’s the top-ranked comment on the Digg story about the first Academy Award winning film to be released under a Creative Commons license. Another Digg comment: This is as good as apple pie or chocolate. I am very impressed. A thumbs up to the Interplast volunteer surgical team, and…

“A Story of Healing” Becomes First Academy Award® Winning Film Released Under A Creative Commons License April 19, 2007 Interplast — the first humanitarian organization to provide free reconstructive surgery for children with clefts, disabling burns, and hand injuries — is proud to announce that its 1997 Academy Award® winning documentary, “A Story of Healing,”…

“A Story of Healing” Becomes First Academy Award® Winning Film Released Under A Creative Commons License April 19, 2007 Interplast — the first humanitarian organization to provide free reconstructive surgery for children with clefts, disabling burns, and hand injuries — is proud to announce that its 1997 Academy Award® winning documentary, “A Story of Healing,”…

Participative Web: User-Created Content (pdf, 74 pages) mentions Creative Commons several times. According to the foreword: This report was presented to the Working Party on the Information Economy (WPIE) in December 2006 and declassified by the Committee for Information, Computer and Communications Policy in March 2007. Now the whole world knows … about User Generated…

Another milestone for CC-centric music site Jamendo: 3,000 albums released, including 1,000 in the last three months. If you’re a Linux user the Rythmbox music player is a great way to explore these albums. It ships with a Jamendo plugin (and a Magnatune plugin), providing a seamless listening experience. Screenshot: Jono Bacon recently wrote about…

Dapper aims to make it easy to extract and reuse content from any website. They just released Dapper Version 2, providing a good excuse to mention their support for CC licensing which they rolled out in February: Another exciting part of today’s release is the ability to ascribe licenses to your content allowing you to…

The Participatory Culture Foundation has a great site called Make Internet TV with tutorials on making and publishing digital video from equipment to promotion, including a nice one page guide to using Creative Commons licenses. All content on MITV.org is licensed under CC Attribution-ShareAlike. There’s currently a call for videos to be used on the…