ccMixter-meister Victor Stone points to the definitive list for the moment of podcasting safe music resources at Dave’s Imaginary Sound Space. Many CC-licensed music sites are listed, including many I hadn’t seen before. Dave’s list is a great place to start if you’re looking for CC-licensed music for your podcast or otherwise. We have an…

Ryan Junell, who animated our Get Creative and Reticulum Rex videos is now spearheading a Slow Motion Video contest. You too can create “a video experience that isn’t afraid to put a 78 record on at 33 1/3rd and kick back in a beanbag to ponder the mysteries of space and time.” Here’s how. All…

San Francisco, USA, June 21, 2005: Creative Commons, a nonprofit organization that provides flexible copyright licenses for authors and artists, released today its long- awaited present to the Free Culture Movement, represented primarily by FreeCulture.org, which celebrated its first birthday on April 23, 2005. The present is a recording of “Happy Birthday to You” by…

Hosted by ccmixter and in collaboration with on-line record company Magnatune (“we are not evil”), our new remix contest has officially begun. Dust off those samples, record that guitar track, lay down some piano hooks, mix in some Lisa DeBenedictis vocals and send your lovely new creation directly to ccmixter. Not only will you be…

In recent news – openDemocracy.net has announced that it is releasing the articles of around 150 of its existing authors under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives license and will also be incorporating the option of Creative Commons licensing for all future contributors. openDemocracy is an online magazine that provides a forum in which global issues relating…

San Francisco, USA & London, UK – June 14, 2005> Creative Commons, a nonprofit organization that provides flexible copyright licenses for authors and artists, and openDemocracy.net, an independent online magazine for debate about global politics, today unveiled a new partnership to bring works by the world’s leading scholars and writers into the global commons. openDemocracy.net…

As anyone who’s looked at Mac OS X lately knows, one of the major new features in 10.4 is Spotlight, which allows you to search files on your computer based on specific bits of metadata. The great thing about Spotlight is that it goes beyond the traditional filename, changed date search and allows you to…

Week before last, Creative Commons South Africa officially launched at the Commons-Sense: Towards an African Digital Information Commons conference in Johannesburgh. The launch event and conference, primarily organized by Heather Ford, South Africa Project Lead, and Andrew Rens, South Africa Legal Lead, was nothing short of spectacular. The launch event on the night preceeding the…

A little late on the blogging (due to travel), but still worth reporting on: A few weeks ago, I was lucky enough to attend the Free Culture Phase 2 conference. The conference was organized by Malkia Lydia and Colin Mutchler (father of Creative Commons’ theme song My Life and Free Culture Tour), and sponsored by…

Science Commons – a new project of Creative Commons that works to encourage sharing of scientific and academic knowledge – has launched an Open Access Law Program. The Program is designed to make legal scholarship “open access,” that is freely available online to everyone, without undue copyright and licensing restrictions. The Program involves an Open…