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Reminder: CC Salon tomorrow night in SF featuring Facebook, EFF, and Good Magazine
by Eric Steuer Uncategorized postJoin us tomorrow night (Wednesday, July 12, from 6-9pm) at Shine, (1337 Mission Street between 9th and 10th Streets) for CC Salon! This month’s line-up: Chris Hughes and Jeff Hammerbacher from Facebook Derek Slater and Jason Schultz from the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) Max Schorr of GOOD Magazine We’re also going to try something new…
Wednesday, July 12 in San Francisco: Creative Commons Salon
by kidproto Uncategorized postYes! The monthly CC Salon is next Wednesday, July 12, from 6-9pm at Shine, (1337 Mission Street between 9th and 10th Streets). Come out and discuss your interests around CC, copyright, creation and licensing (among other topics). Note: Shine is a bar, and thus, only people 21 and older may attend. CC Salon is a…
Wikitravel
by mia Open Culture postWikitravel is a wiki dedicated to providing a “free, complete, up-to-date and reliable world-wide travel guide” that is built by collaboration of wikitravellers from 42 countries around the globe and in a variety of different languages including English, German, French and Japanese. The wiki tool, of course, lets any Internet reader create, update, edit, and…
ccPublisher 2.0 Released
by nathan Uncategorized postI’m pleased to announce the release of ccPublisher 2. ccPublisher is an application which allows users to select licenses for their work and publish them to the Internet Archive for permanent, free hosting. Files in supported formats will have license information embedded in them. If you’re more into hosting your work yourself, ccPublisher will generate…
Lulu
by mia Open Culture postLulu offers a publishing service for “digital do-it-yourselfers” to publish all manner of media including books, music, comics, photographs, and movies. Lulu lets creators set the license terms, including Creative Commons licenses, for their works as part of the publishing process. Authors can also set the price at which they wish to sell their content.…
Creative Commons Releases Open Source Software ccHost 2.0
by Eric Steuer About CC postSan Francisco, USA, March 28, 2006 ccHost, an Open Source project that provides web-based infrastructure to support collaboration, sharing, and storage of multi-media using Creative Commons licenses and metadata, released version 2.0 today. This major feature release combines approximately six months of development, usage, and testing into packages that anyone may download, install, and use…
Good Times for CC at SXSW Interactive
by Eric Steuer Uncategorized postA few of us have just returned from Austin, Texas, where we attended SXSW Interactive. I’d like to share a few personal highlights. Saturday’s laptop battle, hosted by AMODA. Competitive live electronic musicmaking as it was meant to be: loud, manic, and super geeky. Manning the CC booth on the trade show floor with Mike…
RESTful RSS2/Atom Remix API
by mike Uncategorized postccMixter 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…
200,000 CC mp3s
by mike Uncategorized postThe Soundclick music community passed the 200,000 mark for CC-licensed mp3s over the weekend. That’s a whole lot of music. Soundclick doesn’t offer CC-specific search or feeds, which rather points out an opportunity for aggregators. Forunately Google and Yahoo! have both indexed the Soundclick site rather well. Click on one of the previous links or…
Start your own netlabel
by mike Uncategorized postThe first Black Sweater White Cat of the year is an all-Comfort Stand program — two hours featuring twenty Comfort Stand tracks and an extended interview with Otis Fodder and Mr. Melvis, two of the netlabel’s musician-operators. If you don’t want to hear about how great Creative Commons and the Internet Archive are, or be…