Andreas Bovens suggested looking at this comment on a Slashdot story on the future of digital audio. You may be able to pick up the gist of the comment thread from the punchline: Maybe the problem isn’t that the music is fragile, only that your rights are. Maybe the solution isn’t worrying so much about…

While you’re watching the Internet’s über librarian check out ccPublisher, our desktop app that makes it easy for you to add your CC-licensed audio and video to the über library for free. Keep an eye out for future installments of C-SPAN’s Digital Future. Creative Commons chair Lawrence Lessig will entertain on March 3 next year.…

Making music mash-ups (combining two songs, layered one over the other) is relatively easy for those in the know when compared with recording your own tracks, but it’s not always easy to pick up an audio application and understand the ins and outs of it. While some have called for tutorials to help music fans…

The NY Times and WIRED News both have stories today on a recent survey by the Pew Internet and American Life Project about music and the Internet — specifically, musicians’ attitudes about the Internet and its effects on the business. Says the study’s author, Mary Madden: The first large-scale surveys of the internet’s impact on…

Over the weekend we release yet another update to ccPublisher. ccPublisher is a tool which allows you to upload Creative Commons-licensed audio and video works to the Internet Archive for free hosting. We’re on the road to 1.0, and part of that process is fixing bugs. Thanks to Harold and Dave, we have two more…

… license to use. I was curious if anyone had considered or compared… From Slashdot

Our World Wide Web Consortium representative Ben Adida will be present at meetings concurrent with the consortium’s tenth anniversary celebration. Ben has been doing important work to standardize embedding RDF metadata in HTML (I find the RDF/A proposal particularly compelling). Services like the Creative Commons search engine build on RDF metadata describing licensed works that…

A group of former pupils at a London comprehensive school are poised to win thousands of pounds in unpaid royalties for singing on Pink Floyd’s classic Another Brick In The Wall 25 years ago. This is a great story. I’m looking forward to the guy who screams “How can yew have any pudding if you…

Snarky tech news site the INQUIRER interviews Magnatune’s John Buckman, who is refreshingly direct. Buckman: We sell a little over 1000 albums a month – about $10,000 a month – and this has been stable for about 6 months. Music Licensing has grown from about $2,000 a month 6 months ago to about $10,000 a…

Pittsburgh based label Big Sonic Recordings has released its catalog under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs license. At Big Sonic Recordings, you’ll notice that all of our artists give away all of their music for free, and every artist has an online store full of merchandise that you can purchase if you wish to support them.…