Spanish bar owner does not have to pay license fees to Spain’s primary collecting society for CC-licensed music Barcelona, Spain & San Francisco, USA — March 23, 2006 Last month, the Lower Court number six of Badajoz, a city in Extremadura, Spain, ruled that a bar owner did not have to pay license fees to…

Attention all remixers: the Fort Minor Remix Contest over at ccMixter starts accepting entries today. We’re really excited to hear what you all have been cooking up since we posted the Creative Commons-licensed source material online two weeks ago. You have from now until May 6 to post your hottest track and compete to win…

Former CC Executive Director Neeru Paharia (now working on a PhD at Harvard Business School) writes in: I’m entering this business plan contest that is focused on poverty alleviation: http://www.bidnetwork.org. They are dragging me through a CC license choice for my business plan! I admit, I never would have thought of it unless they made…

San Francisco, USA, Berlin, GERMANY, March 16, 2006 Creative Commons, a nonprofit dedicated to building a body of creative work free to share and build upon, today unveils a localized version of its innovative licensing system in Mexico. Creative Commons copyright licenses are available free of charge from the group’s website. The licenses allow authors…

Many people have asked us over the years whether any court had held that CC licenses were enforceable. I have always found this question to be amusing. In my many years as a lawyer in private practice, if the licenses I had drafted were *not* litigated, then I was considered to have done my job…

San Francisco, USA, & Amsterdam, The Netherlands, March 15, 2006 The first known court decision involving a Creative Commons license was handed down on March 9, 2006 by the District Court of Amsterdam. The case confirmed that the conditions of a Creative Commons license automatically apply to the content licensed under it. The proceedings arose…

A few of us have just returned from Austin, Texas, where we attended SXSW Interactive. I’d like to share a few personal highlights. Saturday’s laptop battle, hosted by AMODA. Competitive live electronic musicmaking as it was meant to be: loud, manic, and super geeky. Manning the CC booth on the trade show floor with Mike…

San Francisco, USA, Berlin, GERMANY – March 14, 2006 Creative Commons, a nonprofit organization that provides a flexible copyright licenses for authors and artists, recently unveiled a localized version of its innovative licensing system in Bulgaria. Creative Commons copyright licenses are available free of charge from the group’s website. The licenses allow authors and artists…

Duke Law School’s Center for Study of the Public Domain has released an amazing 76 page copyright education in the shape of a documentary filmmaker and form of a comic book: BOUND BY LAW? A collaboration between cartoonist Keith Aoki, law professor (and CC board member) James Boyle and CSPD director Jennifer Jenkins, the work…

You only have two weeks left to upload your remix of the Hungarian band Nomada’s song Aven le Roma! – Here come the Roma!. The five-member group Nomada was founded by Roma singer-guitarist Balogh Gusztáv in 2003. Nomada’s music is derived from the Hungarian Gypsy tradition in addition to drawing from other musical styles such…