Commons advocates in India now have a localized version of Creative Commons licenses to use with today’s launch of the Creative Commons India project. Adding Creative Commons India, 35 jurisdictions around the world to date will have localized CC’s “some rights reserved” licenses and adapted this form of licensing system. The project celebrated its official…

Silicon-Valley-based NGO now offers licenses in 35 jurisdictions around the world San Francisco, CA, USA and Berlin, Germany — January 26, 2006 — Creative Commons, a nonprofit dedicated to building a body of creative work free to share and build upon, today unveiled a localized version of its innovative licensing system in India. Creative Commons…

Project lead of CC Chile, Claudio Ruiz Gallardo, recently posted to the Creative Commons community mailing list that the Biblioteca del Congreso Nacional del Chile released all of their content under the recently launched CC BY-NC-SA Chile License. Claudio stated on the cc-community mailing list that: This is a very important notice for the CC…

Owl Multimedia has more than doubled the number of CC licensed tracks you can search via audio similarity (sounds like a mp3 you already have) or keywords. How? By adding over 10,000 tracks from Jamendo. You can find CC music through music via the CC Search Portal or directly at Owl Multimedia.

VIEUX FARKA TOURÉ REMIX CONTEST LAUNCHES TODAY AT CCMIXTER Winning Remix To Be Featured On Upcoming “Vieux Remixed” CD January 24, 2007 Creative Commons, Modiba Productions and Global Beat Fusion are pleased to announce that the Vieux Farka Touré / “Ana” Remix Contest is now taking place now at ccMixter. Visit the contest at http://www.ccmixter.org/vieux.…

VIEUX FARKA TOURÉ REMIX CONTEST LAUNCHES TODAY AT CCMIXTER Winning Remix To Be Featured On Upcoming “Vieux Remixed” CD January 24, 2007 Creative Commons, Modiba Productions and Global Beat Fusion are pleased to announce that the Vieux Farka Touré / “Ana” Remix Contest is now taking place now at ccMixter. Visit the contest at http://www.ccmixter.org/vieux.…

Creative Commons, in conjunction with Modiba Productions and Global Beat Fusion are pleased to present the Vieux Farka Touré Remix Contest, taking place at ccMixter. Vieux Farka Touré — a highly talented guitarist, singer, songwriter, and percussionist from Mali — is offering the audio source files from the song “Ana” online under a Creative Commons…

Creative Commons, in conjunction with Modiba Productions and Global Beat Fusion are pleased to present the Vieux Farka Touré Remix Contest, taking place at ccMixter. Vieux Farka Touré — a highly talented guitarist, singer, songwriter, and percussionist from Mali — is offering the audio source files from the song “Ana” online under a Creative Commons…

This year, we are looking for tech and community + media development interns. If you are interested in working with us at the San Francisco office, please follow the instructions for applying. We are accepting applications until March 1, 2007. If you know of a student who fits the description(s), please refer them to our…

CC Finland project lead Herkko Hietanen has co-authored a book with Ville Oksanen and Mikko Välimäki that provides a useful overview of the law, business and policy of “community created content,” entitled (not suprisingly) “Community Created Content. It is published by Turre Legal Publishing and available for download as a PDF under the Creative Commons…