Nature is hosting a debate on open access science publishing. At the center of the debate are Public Library of Science and BioMed Central, two open access journal publishers using the Creative Commons Attribution License. The PLoS evidence paper presents a good summary of what is wrong with the current scholarly publishing model, why open…

The Silicon Valley nonprofit announces new file-sharing-friendly music license alongside its new Get Content search engine. Austin, Texas, USA – March 18, 2004 – Creative Commons, a nonprofit dedicated to expanding the range of creative works free to share and build upon, announced its new Music Sharing License and Get Content search engine at the…

Several of our iCommons partner groups have asked if they could translate our movies, Get Creative and Reticulum Rex into other languages. Thanks to the licenses we applied on each movie, those are definitely allowed and we’d like to encourage others to contribute to this effort. Towards that end, we’ve put up all the raw…

Ran across a couple interesting bits related to musicians having their songs online and record sales. In a roundtable interview with the Chicago Tribune (registration required to view), Creative Commons chairman Lawrence Lessig and the online manager of the band Wilco talk about the internet and music. The gist of is that putting Wilco’s music…

“Copyfight” interview by Chicago Tribune

dadaIMC, a content management system that offer a codebase for the operation of Independent Media Center sites, now supports Creative Commons licenses for users uploading content to the system. There are currently twenty eight Independent Media Center sites that run on dadaIMC. Independent Media Centers, like the one in Baltimore, are based on a philosophy…

Abu-Ghazaleh Intellectual Property (AGIP) is the first to bring the International Commons (iCommons) project to the Middle East. Palo Alto, USA, and Amman, JORDAN – March 25, 2004 – Creative Commons, a non-profit corporation dedicated to building a body of creative works free for copying and re-use, announced today that it would expand its International…

Queensland University of Technology (QUT) will lead the license translation and work to expand global access to Australia’s culture Palo Alto, USA, and Brisbane, AUSTRALIA – March 25, 2004 – Creative Commons, a nonprofit dedicated to building a body of creative works free for copying and re-use, announced today that it would expand its International…

“Trois Questions a Glenn Otis Brown,” by Marie Lechner.

SoundShelf.com hosts free music of various genres and makes it all available under the EFF Open Audio License, or a Creative Commons license. This was taken directly from their FAQ: 2. When is free music legal? Free music is legal when the artists want it to be. Until recently it was near impossible to know…