Winning Track to Be Featured in Film; Top 12 Tracks to Appear on CD San Francisco, CA, USA ¬– December 6, 2005 Creative Commons, along with filmmakers Kembrew McLeod and Ben Franzen, today announced the Copyright Criminals Remix Contest. The competition encourages producers, DJs, and remixers from around the world to use audio snippets from…

Creative Commons’ innovative copyright licenses now offered in Scotland. San Francisco, CA, USA; Berlin, GERMANY; and Edinburgh, Scotland — December 2, 2005 — Creative Commons, a nonprofit dedicated to building a body of creative work free to share and build upon today announced the launch of its licenses in Scotland. Creative Commons copyright licenses are…

Silicon Valley-based NGO introduces its innovative copyright licenses in Sweden San Francisco, CA, USA and Berlin, GERMANY — November 30, 2005 — 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 Sweden. Creative Commons copyright…

Public discussion of adaptation of Creative Commons licenses to Malta to start in November 2005 San Francisco, CA, USA and Berlin, GERMANY — November 28, 2005 — Creative Commons, a nonprofit dedicated to building a body of creative work free to share and build upon, announced today that Malta is the latest country to join…

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Photo by Steve Jurveston licensed under cc by. Steve Jurveston comments about cool uses of his CC-licensed photos on Flickr: Imagine my surprise when I heard that the Charlie Rose show found my photo on flickr and wanted to use it on broadcast TV. They were interviewing Gordon Moore, co-founder of Intel and seer of…

Red Hat, a company with considerable claim to being the open source leader, has generously agreed to participate in the Creative Commons fundraising campaign with a Sponsor Challenge Match. Contribute now and double the impact of your gift to Creative Commons!

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The Cylinder Presservation and Digitization Project has placed online amazing collection of over 5000 recordings from the late 1800s and early 1900s. Unrestored digitizations available as large .wav files are in the public domain, while restored mp3s are licensed under Attribution-NonCommercial, as described in the project’s note on copyright. Browse the collection. Listen to a…

For those of us dedicated to creating, expanding and enabling a commons of creativity and knowledge (expressed in a variety of formats), the issue of license interoperability is an important one. Already there has been valuable commentary about the interoperability between content licensed under different types of Creative Commons licenses — specifically, those that permit…