‘That’s the watchword of Creative Commons, a non-profit organization dedicatedfrom DisInfo.com – USA

… an article on a new licensing scheme being used to bring civility to the world of copyright.” From the article: “Interest in Creative Commonsfrom Slashdot – USA

… But seriously, wouldn’t it render the new Creative Commons Samplingfrom Slashdot – USA

The program was interesting, I was only half watching and Ken Goffman startsfrom Onlamp – USA

from Creative Commons For Science. … Do you think Eli Lilly will allow its

… Stanford professor Larry Lessig’s Creative Commons license is a good tool that allows for a variety of uses under a variety of circumstancesfrom eWeek – New York,NY,USA

… The licence will be similar to that developed by the highly successful Creative Commons initiative founded by Stanford law professor Lawrencefrom Spiked – London,UK

After years of toil the free music encyclopedia MusicBrainz is now backed by a nonprofit foundation with a fantastic best-of-the-usual-suspects board. MusicBrainz has taken an innovative approach to open data: core factual information (artist, album, track) is appropriately dedicated to the public domain, while community generated information is licensed under Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike. Also check out MetaBrainz’s…

In preparation for the International Computer Music Conference to be held in Barcelona in September 2005, the Music Technology Group and the Universitat Pompeu Fabra, have created the freesoundproject. The freesound project is a collaborative database of sounds – not songs or compositions – but sounds: audio snippets, samples, recordings, bleeps. All sounds uploaded to…

I spent the past weekend at Notacon in Cleveland, OH. While there was one talk devoted to a brief history of copyright in the US, the most exciting talk, for me, was completely unexpected. Jerry Rockwell presented a talk called “Evolution of a Tune: My process of arranging and composing in a Home Studio.” I…