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PUMP AUDIO AND CREATIVE COMMONS COLLABORATE ON COMMERCIAL LICENSING FOR INDEPENDENT MUSICIANS
by Eric Steuer About CC postPUMP AUDIO AND CREATIVE COMMONS COLLABORATE ON COMMERCIAL LICENSING FOR INDEPENDENT MUSICIANS Hudson Valley, NY and San Francisco, CA – December 12, 2006 – Pump Audio, the leading provider of quality independent music to content creators globally, today announced that it has teamed up with Creative Commons to expand and promote fair commercial licensing options…
Drive-time CC Music
by victor Uncategorized postYou know that CC licensing is reaching far into the music scene when you have a genre-specific region based podcast like the NY-NE Regional EDM Showcase. In yet another example of what is enabled by CC licenses this show features “original EDM tracks from independent musicians within upstate New York And Western New England” all CC…
CC announces CC swag photo contest winner #5
by melissa Uncategorized postThis weeks’ winner of the Creative Commons first ever CC Swag Photo Contest is “andyket”. The fifth winning photograph titled “The CC Glow” shows an innovative use of our informational disk flyers. We are again amazed by the entries and participation and thank all of you very much. There is one week left so we…
Code v2 Launches Today
by melissa Uncategorized postLawrence Lessig’s book Code v2 officially launched today. Code v2 is the revision of his 1999 Code and Other Laws of Cyberspace. Code v2 is not so much a new book as it is a translation of a very old (in Internet time) one. Code v2 was written collaboratively with the world. Part of the…
ccSalon Amsterdam
by melissa Uncategorized postWe started CC Salon in San Francisco less than a year ago and have watched excitedly as the idea has spread internationally. Salons are now being held in Warsaw, Seoul, Beijing, Johannesburg, Brisbane, Berlin (called “Creative Commons Usergroup”), NYC, London, Taipei, and now Amsterdam! “The first Dutch ccSalon will kick off on Wed. Dec. 13th…
SF Beta Event supports CC
by melissa Uncategorized postThe good people of SF Beta are in the holiday spirit and because of that have changed their monthly mixer to a charity event. Donations gathered will be given to Creative Commons, the EFF, and the Josh Wolf Legal Defense Fund. CC’s portion will go towards our 2006 fundraising campaign goal of $ 300,000. Our…
The commons and liberation
by mike Uncategorized postEben Moglen’s Plone Conference keynote address Software and Community in the Early 21st century places free software in the context of historical desire for freedom and social justice, closing with “The difference is, this time, we win.” While Moglen’s focus is free software, everything he says applies equally to free culture. He uses the first…
License compatibility wizard from CC Taiwan
by mike Uncategorized postCreative Commons Taiwan created a cool license compatibility wizard in traditional Chinese and English based on the CC FAQ entry for I used part of a Creative Commons-licensed work, which Creative Commons license can I relicense my work under?
Romance, sarcasm, math, and language
by mike Uncategorized postRed Hat Magazine has a great interview with Randall Munroe, creator of xkcd, a “webcomic of romance, saracasm, math, and language” that’s published under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial license. Excerpt: A former NASA contractor, Munroe now ekes out his living from xkcd. “I’m still sort of transitioning over to doing this full time,” he says,…
CC Labs
by Lawrence Lessig Copyright postFrom our last letter: “CC has come to be about much more than just licenses, and certainly much more than any of us dreamed.” The story continued: So this week we launched a fresh face to the Creative Commons website. Built within WordPress, we hope the site will make it easier for people to understand…