Creative Commons’ 4th Birthday Party is on December 15th. If you are located in the San Francisco Bay Area come celebrate with the CC SF staff at Songbird, the company that brought you the super cool media player. They have generously offered to host our party. The details: What: Creative Commons Turns Four! When: Friday,…

Creative Commons and Owl Multimedia Introduce the World’s First “True Music Search Engine” 10,444 Tracks Available Under Creative Commons License Searchable by Sound Via Collections From Magnatune and ccMixter San Francisco, CA, USA and New York, NY, USA — December 6, 1006 Creative Commons, a nonprofit organization that provides flexible copyright licenses for authors and…

Creative Commons and Owl Multimedia Introduce the World’s First “True Music Search Engine” 10,444 Tracks Available Under Creative Commons License Searchable by Sound Via Collections From Magnatune and ccMixter San Francisco, CA, USA and New York, NY, USA — December 6, 1006 Creative Commons, a nonprofit organization that provides flexible copyright licenses for authors and…

San Francisco, CA, USA — December 5, 2006 Creative Commons and New World Notes are pleased to sponsor a conversation with Judge Richard A. Posner in the virtual world of Second Life on December 7, 2006 at 6-8pm PST. Second Life is an online society in a 3D world, where users can explore, build, socialize,…

LibriVox is a project that describes its mission to be the “acoustical liberation of books in the public domain.” It is a digital library of free public domain audio books that are read and recorded by volunteers. It was started just a year and a half ago, in August 2005, and already has amassed over…

In a recent article in Forbes.com, Cory Doctorow explains the impact of using Creative Commons licenses for him as a writer. Cory has used CC licenses on many of his writings — from his books (available here) to his postings on Boing Boing. We featured him back in October 2005. The Forbes article offers a…

The Creative Commons’ annual fundraising campaign is set to end on December 31st. The campaign was instituted last year in efforts to prove to the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) that the public was supporting CC financially as well as ideologically. This year we chose to focus the campaign more on building community and raising awareness…

We are happy to announce that this weeks’ winner of the CC Swag Contest is Cambodia4kids with her picture titled “Creative Commons”. I’ve set a precedent over the past couple of weeks of stating a bit of our reasoning behind choosing the winning photographs and how we responded to each winners’ creative use of CC…

Alternative Freedom, a documentary about free culture and copyright, is screening Saturday evening as part of the CounterCorp 2006 Anti-Corporate Film Festival. The screening is at 7:30PM at the Victoria Theatre, 2961 16th Street at Mission Street in San Francisco. Q&A will follow with the Samuelson Clinic’s Jack Lerner and Mike Linksvayer from Creative Commons.…

GiftTrap is a fun new board game based on predicting what gifts other players might like. It uses more than 600 cards that feature user-submitted photos of gifts – many of these images are Creative Commons-licensed and shot by Flickr photographers. The company behind GiftTrap has recently announced the GiftTRAP Experience, a contest where people…