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Kembrew McLeod
by mia Open Culture postKembrew McLeod is currently an Assistant Professor, University of Iowa, Department of Communication Studies. In addition to being an academic, Kembrew is a self-professed prankster. In 1998 he trademarked the phrase “Freedom of Expression®” as a comment on how the intellectual property law is being used to fence off culture and restrict the way in…
Interview with Flickr
by matt Open Culture postFlickr is a new photo management application that lets you annotate photos, share them with friends and family, and now, apply Creative Commons licenses to your shared photos. Flickr’s co-founder, Stewart Butterfield, talked to Creative Commons about this interesting application. Creative Commons: Can you tell us how flickr came to be? Stewart Butterfield, Flickr: That’s…
Independent Musicians
by matt Open Culture postScott Andrew LePera founded the lo-fi folk-rock project the Walkingbirds in 1998, around the same time he discovered the Web. Since then he’s actively recorded and released songs in MP3 format directly onto the Web from his little bedroom studio in Northern California. The Walkingbirds’ website sees several hundred downloads each month from all over…
Freesound
by mike Open Culture postFreesound is a repository of CC-licensed samples … around 20,000 samples, recently integrated with ccMixter via the Sample Pool API. We recently spoke to Bram de Jong, Freesound founder and researcher at the Music Technology Group of Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona. Creative Commons (“CC”): How did Freesound come about? Bram de Jong, Freesound Founder…
ccPublisher 2 Developer Preview 1
by nathan Uncategorized postToday we’re launching the first packaged release of ccPublisher 2, Developer Preview 1 (DP1). DP1 is exactly what it sounds like — a preview. This isn’t even beta code, folks, but we need to get stuff tested and we need to get feedback. So what’s new in ccPublisher 2? Well, most of the code is…
Cory Doctorow
by glenn Open Culture postI got to feeling like I was someone special — not everyone had a chum as exotic as Keep-A-Movin’ Dan, the legendary missionary who visited the only places left that were closed to the Bitchun Society. I can’t say for sure why he hung around with me. He mentioned once or twice that he’d liked…
Doc Searls
by lisa Open Culture postSpeaker, blogger, writer, and former radio personality, Doc Searls is the Senior Editor of Linux Journal, co-founder of GeekPAC and the American Open Technology Consortium, and a leading blogger. Widely recognized as an authority on technology and marketing, Doc is co-author of the #1 sales and marketing bestseller The Cluetrain Manifesto, which will be released…
Updating the FAQ – What questions would you like to see answered?
by mia Uncategorized postSo our FAQ is out-of-date (no surprises there) and we’d like to make it up-to-date so that it is relevant and useful to people who use our licenses and tools, and people who use works licensed under one of the Creative Commons licenses. To make sure it is useful & relevant, we’d like feedback from…
Yahoo! Search for CC forum
by mike Uncategorized postYahoo! has added a forum to support Yahoo! Search for Creative Commons. If you have questions or feedback for Yahoo! concerning this service, now you have a place to ask. See this post introducing Yahoo! Search for Creative Commons. Today Yahoo! also took their video search out of beta. You can’t (yet — hint, hint!)…
UNDERSTANDING (and Avoiding) Software Patents?
by press-robot Press post… They would be available under something like a creative commons license, with a feedback/rating system, standard disclaimers that original legalesefrom Slashdot – USA