Stay up to date with CC news by subscribing to our newsletter and following us on Twitter. Top stories: #cc10 Costa RicaAdrián Coto / CC BY Celebrate ten years of Creative Commons, and consider making an investment in the next ten. Aaron SwartzJacob Appelbaum / CC BY-SA As a teenager, Aaron Swartz helped start Creative…

Each year on January 1st, copyright protection expires for millions of creative works, allowing those works to be used by anyone without restriction or need for permission. On this Public Domain Day, we celebrate the rich creative works that have risen into the public domain, and mourn the massive number of works that could have…

CC10 – dublab’s Creative Commons 10th Birthday Video Mix from dublab / CC BY-NC Ten years ago today, the first Creative Commons licenses were released. Over the past ten days, the CC community has celebrated around the world with concerts, discussions, hackathons, and parties. People in the community have put together mixtapes, created iPhone apps,…

Each day during CC’s tenth anniversary celebration, we’ve featured a different platform that hosts CC-licensed content, ranging from music to science to education. Today, we feature a favorite of ours, Bad Panda Records. Bad Panda is a netlabel that releases one song a week, all under CC BY-NC-SA. Bad Panda also offers CDs and LPs…

Jonathan Worth As a well-known British portrait photographer, Jonathan Worth has taken photographs of hundreds of famous people. But don’t take his photography classes if you’re hoping to meet Jude Law. “I see that I am quite a commodity for a university: I’m one step away from someone who’s incredibly famous. And there’s a misguided…

Creative Commons Korea It’s getting hard to keep up with all of the CC10 commotion. Today, the CC community is celebrating in Muscat, Paris, Rio de Janeiro, and Seoul. Not to be outdone by the #cc10 Europe mixtape, Creative Commons Korea has created a #cc10 iPhone app featuring ten musicians who license their work under…

“Hatsune Miku has inspired thousands of people to create their own musical recordings and remixes. It’s fitting that she’d become CC-licensed, joining forces with a movement that lives to make sharing and remixing easier. I’m thrilled to welcome to welcome Hatsune to the ranks of CC-licensed works.”–Catherine Casserly, Creative Commons CEO “Crypton’s Hatsune Miku is…

@ivanlanin Wow. There are not one, but four five CC10 mixes of Creative Commons–licensed music! Dublab #cc10 mix (for the San Francisco party) pEtEr Withoutfield – Creative Commons Mixtape (for the Berlin party) #cc10 Europe mixtape #cc10 mix by Jamendo staff #cc10 mix by Bad Panda Records That’s enough CC music to get you well…

Pierre Gérard / Joi Ito / CC BY Throughout CC’s tenth anniversary celebrations, we’re highlighting various media platforms with CC implementation. For today, we spoke with Jamendo cofounder and managing director Pierre Gérard. If you’re not familiar with Jamendo, it’s a community of musicians and tool for discovering new music. Unlike most other CC-enabled platforms,…

CC hearts cake / David Kindler / CC BY Today, an exciting announcement. In honor of CC’s tenth birthday, our friends at Free Music Archive are launching a competition to find a new birthday song – one that can be shared and sung without paying a cent. Read about the contest and start working on…