CREATIVE COMMONS, XLR8R MAGAZINE, AND GHOSTLY INTERNATIONAL ANNOUNCE THE CHRISTOPHER WILLITS / “COLORS SHIFTING” REMIX CONTEST ON CCMIXTER.ORG Winning Remix to Be Featured on Upcoming Compilation CD Released by XLR8R Magazine San Francisco, CA, USA — November 15, 2006 Creative Commons, XLR8R Magazine, and Ghostly International are pleased to announce that the Christopher Willits /…

This in from CC pal Fred Benenson, current CC Salon NYC organizer: New York City’s next Creative Commons Salon is Friday November 17th, 6:30pm at Fontana’s (105 Eldridge St. between Broome and Grand in the Lower East Side). This salon features Megan Miller from PopSci.com who will be discussing and presenting Popular Science‘s recent foray…

We are pleased to announce that Sun Microsystems has pledged $25,000 towards our annual fundraising campaign goal of $300,000. They have chosen to continue their support  of Creative Commons and the broader vision of  a participatory culture, a culture to which both institutions are committed. Sun’s vision everyone and everything participating on the network means…

Today’s winner of this week’s CC Swag Photo Contest is Naufragio. We applaud his use of the CC and showing his CC pride. Good job Naufragio! To all our CC supporters who are considering entering the CC Swag Photo Contest, do not be discouraged! There are 5 weeks remaining, that means 5 more weeks of…

OWL multimedia has launched an audio similarity search engine stocked with 10,444 CC-licensed tracks from ccMixter and Magnatune, with many more to come from other CC supporting sound repositories. You can search OWL via search.creativecommons.org but its real power is finding new music through music. The OWL website allows you to choose an mp3 on…

ZDNet has a short and very sweet item on Rice University’s Connexions, a very early adopter of the CC Attribution license: How far can this go? One of the big problems in college education is the cost of textbooks and courseware. It keeps smart kids from getting the degrees they need to succeed. Connexxions is…

Creative Commons Launches Photo Contest on Flickr Winners’ Photos to Be Featured on CC Postcards; Winners Can Also Choose a CC Board Member to Record a Personalized Outgoing Voicemail Message San Francisco, CA — November 8, 2006 Today, Creative Commons announced the launch of the first CC Swag Photo Contest on Flickr. The contest is…

Newsforge has a story about Digital Tipping Point, a documentary on the free software and free culture movements now entering post-production. 59 clips have been posted so far to the DTP collection at the Internet Archive, all licensed under the CC Attribution-ShareAlike license: Welcome to the The Digital Tipping Point (DTP) collection. The DTP crew…

CC board member and Duke law professor Jamie Boyle is serializing his 19 years in progress novel, started “when I was Shakespeare’s lawyer in a televised mock trial in front of three Supreme Court Justices. He was accused of not being the real author of his own works.” Each chapter of The Shakespeare Chronicles is…

Don’t miss the next CC Salon at shinesf from 6-9 PM on Wednesday, November 8 in San Francisco. This salon features famed blogger and SF Bay Guardian writer, Annalee Newitz. Also, Homebrew Mobile Club’s, Matthew Hamrick and other HB Mobile Club members will be on hand to discuss his project’s “Complete Open Phone,” a project…