Doc Searls and others have been writing about Vendor Relationship Management — infrastructure facilitating relationships where the customer is the vendor’s equal, contra Customer Relationship Management. Searls’ most recent essay on VRM, Building an Relationship Economy, says that Creative Commons licenses have a role to play: Let’s ignore the record companies for a minute. Instead,…

Are you thinking about hosting a web site dedicated to the CC remix culture? How about in the next few day? The official Release Candidate for the award winning ccHost 4.0 is now available (update: RC period is over, thanks to everybody who participated). The code has been running for a few weeks on ccMixter…

I’m a bit late, so not-quite-in-time for Valentine’s Day, I’m happy to announce a proverbial match made in heaven: MozCC and Songbird. You might recall Songbird, the previously mentioned wicked-cool music player built on Mozilla. They’re busy readying their next milestone release, 0.2.5. In anticipation of that release, I’ve just shipped MozCC 2.4.2. MozCC 2.4.22.4.3…

Please join us for the first CC Salon of 2007 at ShineSF.com on Wednesday, February 21, from 7-9 PM in San Francisco. It will be major! And, yes, please note, we are not doing this event monthly now, but every other month to maximize the impact in SF! The line-up for the evening: John Wilbanks,…

Nathan whipped up an OS X Dashboard widget for playing ccMixter editors’ picks on your (Mac) desktop. Snowy details on Nathan’s personal blog.

You’ve probably seen this video already, or at least noticed that others have blogged it. I didn’t get around to actually watching it until I noticed that Eben Moglen broke five plus months of blog silence to rave about it. “Web 2.0 … The Machine is Us/ing Us” by Michael Wesch is licensed under CC…

Wendy Seltzer: You can do great things with free content, and great things with free code, but combining the two multiplies their effect. So I found when I wanted to enhance my Free Software music system with more information about the compositions it played. This specific post isn’t about Creative Commons and free software, but…

The title of this post is a subheading from a great writeup of ccMixter’s new playlist features at Dave’s Imaginary Sound Space: Make no mistake, ccMixter is the complete package. No other remix site commands the same level of respect amongst musicians, producers and content creators. Read the entire article for a great overview, then…

I am moving on, so Creative Commons needs a new General Counsel. The description of the job and its requirements is here. If you are experienced in intellectual property law (with a liking for copyright issues) and want to be involved in an organization that will give you unique opportunities and a chance to be…

The Creative Commons UK:England & Wales team have launched a film remix contest — “Mix & Mash” — in association with Google UK. The theme is “Britannia Rules, Britannia Sucks.” The competition invites short video submissions mixing and mashing digital content that are less than 3 minutes in length. You can only use content that…