Remember the infectious video of Keepon the robot dancing to Spoon‘s hit “I Turn My Camera On?” Well, the cute, cuddly droid and the awesome Austin indie band are back together with an incredible new clip for Spoon’s “Don’t You Evah,” shot in Tokyo by director Jeff Nichols. We’re thrilled to announce that the video…

Tay Zonday, the singer/keyboardist behind the insanely popular Creative Commons-licensed hit “Chocolate Rain” (the video for which has now been viewed on YouTube more than 5.5 million times) is set to make his concert debut in Minneapolis on October 5 at a show featuring none other than remix king Girl Talk (who you might recall…

If you been looking for some new music to sing along to lately, make sure to check out the wonderful “Chocolate Rain” by Tay Zonday. A catchy tune to say the least, Zonday released “Chocolate Rain” on to YouTube under a CC BY-NC-ND licence and has since seen his video reach over 2.5 million views…

WIRED magazine today announced that rock band Spoon will headline a concert to benefit Creative Commons on September 10, 2007 at the Henry Fonda Theater in Los Angeles. The concert is a kick-off event for WIRED NextFest, a unique world’s-fair-style event showcasing future technologies in design, entertainment, communication, healthcare, transportation, sustainable living, and more, at…

We are very pleased to announce that Spoon, the Austin, TX based rock-quartet, will headline a benefit concert for Creative Commons on September 10, 2007, at the Henry Fonda Theater in Los Angeles! The concert will function not only as a fundraiser for CC, but also as a kick off for WIRED NextFest, “a unique…

Last Friday (June 15th), Where are the Joneses?, a “daily fictional interactive comedy shot entirely for the web”, went live. The show is written collaboratively by the Where are the Joneses? community, released on to YouTube under a CC Attribution-Sharealike licence, and funded as a marketing experiment for Ford Motors (as a big purple van…

Watch CC founder/CEO Lawrence Lessig’s keynote at YouTube or eyeVio with required reading on the next 10 years at his blog.

Today marks a turning point in the campaign to fund the CCi Affiliates thanks to a VERY generous donor. It also marks the first time that we’ve highlighted two jurisdictions in one day. Both of these jurisdictions and projects are very active so it is my pleasure to post this lengthy yet amazing and inspirational…

Sony has launched eyeVio, a CC-enabled video sharing site, which looks like a very slick (massive use of DHTML, AJAX, rounded corners, and other Web 2.0 techniques) and Japanese language only YouTube. eyeVio enables choosing any of the six main CC licenses when uploading a video. Here’s the John Perry Barlow/Jack Valenti video played at…

As mentioned before, Jay Dedman invited myself and Colette Vogel to speak about Creative Commons Licensing and the Podcasting Legal Guide as the kick-off event to this week, the annual international Videoblogging Week. Both Colette and I led a discussion with many popular videobloggers outside in a nice sunny park in mission bay in SF.…