Today the wonderfully nasty Hollywood gossip blog Defamer points to the media blog Low Culture, which noted that a recent Entertainment Weekly story looks awfully familiar to one of Low Culture’s own pieces, which itself noted that several elements of the new Olson Twins “film” New York Minute look awfully familiar to scenes from the…

“Music for Nothing; Tracks for Free” by Eric Dahl

“Giving It Away (for Fun and Profit)” by Andy Raskin

A hearty congratulations goes out to The Fray for winning a webby this year. The Fray is an online storytelling site where contributors share tales and allow for comment by readers afterwards. There are also live events held several times a year where folks gather to tell stories on stage, all the audio of which…

Ben Adida will represent Creative Commons at the World Wide Web Consortium Advisory Committee meeting next week, held concurrently with WWW2004 in New York City. This year has seen a number of new proposals on W3C lists for RDF-in-XHTML. Ben has been encouraging the development of a solution that will meet Creative Commons’ requirements. We…

The Center for Hellenic Studies of Harvard University has started applying Creative Commons licenses to its journals. Classics@ is available online at their site. It’s great to see further uptake in the educational world, as the ideals of academic publishing are pretty close to the goals of Creative Commons.

Apple just announced they sold 3.3 million songs in 7 days on the iTunes Music Store. To put this in perspective, the entire top ten of the Billboard music chart is tracking just over 2 million units. If anyone in the music industry doubted that people would ever want to pay for music online, Apple’s…

Prix Ars Electronica, a 25 year-old international arts award, has announced their 2004 prize winners. We are honored to learn that Creative Commons has been awarded one of the top honors, the Golden Nicas, in the “Net Vision” category.

Oldest independent digital music community and Silicon Valley nonprofit announce new copyright option for musicians Palo Alto, CA and Jenkintown, PA, USA – DMusic, the first and oldest independent digital music community, announced today that it will offer Creative Commons licenses as an option to all DMusic contributing musicians. The licenses, provided by the nonprofit…

The Swiss movie CH7 was released on the internet under a CC licence at the end of April. The 90min action film – featuring Denise Meili, Yvan Piccino and Noe Muller – is currently being shown exclusively in Switzerland but can be downloaded for free (www.CH7.ch). CH7 is a production of Cineartis, an organisation seeking…