News.com has an excellent article about the Copyright Criminals Remix Contest that Creative Commons is sponsoring over at ccMixter. It’s not too late to enter the remix showdown — we’re accepting tracks until March 14. Submit your music and it might be featured in Kembrew McLeod and Ben Franzen’s upcoming documentary Copyright Criminals.

Budapest, Hungary & San Francisco, USA — February 15, 2006 Creative Commons Hungary, a collaboration between Center for Media Research and Education, and the nonprofit organization Creative Commons, is pleased to highlight the recent release by acting Hungarian Prime Minister Mr. Ferenc Gyurcsany and his publisher Napvilag of Mr. Gyurcsany’s recent book “Utkozben” (In Transit)…

Budapest, Hungary & San Francisco, USA — February 15, 2006 Creative Commons Hungary, a collaboration between Center for Media Research and Education, and the nonprofit organization Creative Commons, is pleased to highlight the recent release by acting Hungarian Prime Minister Mr. Ferenc Gyurcsany and his publisher Napvilag of Mr. Gyurcsany’s recent book “Utkozben” (In Transit)…

New Vocal Samples from Chuck D and George Clinton Made Available for Use San Francisco, CA, USA – February 15, 2006 Creative Commons, along with filmmakers Kembrew McLeod and Ben Franzen, today announced that due to overwhelmingly positive response, the Copyright Criminals Remix Contest has been extended by two weeks, ending on March 14. Additionally,…

Budapest, Hungary — February 15, 2006 Creative Commons Hungary, a collaboration between Center for Media Research and Education and the nonprofit organization Creative Commons, today announced, together with the band Nomada and Tilos Radio, the first Creative Commons remix competition in Hungary. The five-member group Nomada was founded by Roma singer-guitarist Balogh Gusztáv in 2003.…

ccMixter tracks in-community mixversations. We’ve now released a very simple beta API that allows tracking remix relationships across sites. The API is implemented in ccHost, the GPL software that runs ccMixter, and you can implement it for your site. For details see ccMixter developer Victor Stone’s blog entry and the beta documentation. Feedback to the…

CC BY-NC — Courtesy of Second Life Second Life, the virtual world created in 2003, has recently been hosting various “free culture” related events in world. Mia Garlick caught up with Wagner James Au, who writes the blog New World Notes as an embedded journalist in Second Life, to learn more about these events and…

Sylvain Zimmer, founder and CTO of the awesome CC music site jamendo, reports on his blog that this past weekend, French television station TF1 ran a profile on jamendo, focusing on the artists who use the system, as well as the company’s use of Creative Commons licenses. It’s estimated that more than 10 million people…

UniProt, the world’s largest protein database, is now available under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivs 2.5 License. Please see Science Commons’ database licensing FAQ concerning which elements of the database are under copyright and which are not. The UniProt background page explains what the database is all about: Protein sequence databases have become a…

The Streaming Suitcase is a brand new site developed by Adam Hyde, where you can find CC-licensed manuals on a variety of technical topics. Learn how to stream media over the internet, study Linux basics, or even build your own mini FM transmitter. The whole site is great, but one thing that especially struck us…