Creative Commons Hungary sent a nice happy new year wish to the Creative Commons community mailing list in the form of the first Hungarian CC licensed music album (all tracks are licensed under CC BY-NC 2.5 Hungary). CC Hungary’s Bodo Balazs says the remix album is made-up of “broken etno, beatbox’n’bass, world noise.” The remix…

The story so far: “Next week, a final letter with some final thoughts for CC.” The story continued… The hardest thing about pushing the work of Creative Commons is the thought that in 15 years, it will be impossible to explain just why this work was important — either because the worst would have happened,…

Jamendo recently surpassed 2,000 albums released on the site. Look on the Jamendo stats page for a tale of growth and bandwidth, about half served by P2P. You can search every album, including filtering by license. They’ve also been quietly rolling out feature after feature. Most recent and exciting is the ability to find Jamendo…

Two different sorts of eye candy from Magnatune, a record label that uses CC licenses. First, magnatune in six [6], a video featuring interviews with six Magnatune artists. Second, a detailed post on 2006 sales and traffic statistics. The chart above shows the number of music licenses sold each month. For more on the Magnatune…

Wow, some really killer tracks have been submitted to ccMixter’s Christopher Willits Remix Contest. Check out some of the entries here. Or better yet, sign up for an account and upload your own remix — you still have four days left, as the contest stops accepting entries on December 27. Don’t forget — the winner…

Looking for a new way to search for CC licensed photos? We’ve just been informed about a tool that searches Flickr for CC licensed content based on their color hue and saturation. Now you can easily puruse the millions of CC licensed photos based on all your color palette needs.

Creative Commons and CC board member John Buckman will be hosting a CC Business Mixer on Thursday, Jan. 18th from 6pm-8pm at the Creative Commons offices in San Francisco. If you have an idea for a Creative Commons related business, this is your chance to present your idea to other like minded entrepreneurs and network…

Creative Commons is excited to launch a beta version of its “Returning Authors Rights: Termination of Transfer” tool. The tool has been included in ccLabs — CC’s platform for demoing new tech tools. It’s a beta demo so it doesn’t produce any useable results at this stage. We have launched it to get your feedback.…

This past September, Wired hosted a sold-out concert in New York with all proceeds donated to Creative Commons. The show celebrated creative reuse and featured mash-up/remix artist Girl Talk, DJ/producer Diplo, and experimental pop supergroup Peeping Tom. The incredibly talented people at Missing Pieces created a mini-documentary about the event, which also includes portions of…

JOI ITO NAMED CHAIRMAN OF CREATIVE COMMONS; LAWRENCE LESSIG TO REMAIN CEO AND BOARD MEMBER Announcement Coincides With Final Call for Contributions to CC’s Annual Fundraising Campaign, Ending December 31 San Francisco, CA — December 18, 2006 Today, Creative Commons announced that Lawrence Lessig will step down as the organization’s chairman. He will be replaced…