On behalf of Creative Commons I want to thank everyone that partook in celebrating CC’s 4th birthday this past Friday. There were celebrations in San Francisco, New York, Warsaw, Turin, Beijing, Amsterdam, Copenhagen and Lisbon, as well as in Second Life. During the Second Life presentation Lawrence Lessig, Creative Commons’ CEO and Chairman retired his…

Today marks the last weekly winner for the first ever CC Swag Photo Contest. We have been encouraged and excited by everyone’s participation. This weeks winner is yamabobobo, with the photo titled “CC on Light”. We at CC think this photo is visually and conceptually captivating. This photo ends the weekly winners series and now…

Last week, culminating Friday night, in parties around the world, Creative Commons celebrated its fourth birthday. Hundreds of people helped mark this event. My 3 year old son, Willem, and I cut the first cake at the party in Portugal. Five hours later, in the Creative Commons party in the virtual world of Second Life,…

Time magazine’s person of the year is You. The article doesn’t mention Creative Commons but it’s all about what Creative Commons is all about: But look at 2006 through a different lens and you’ll see another story, one that isn’t about conflict or great men. It’s a story about community and collaboration on a scale…

Tonight we’re celebrating the 4 phenomenal years of Creative Commons! Over the past 4 years our licenses have grown to number over 140,000,000 and have been ported to over 30 countries. We have experienced exponential growth because of our community’s support and for that we thank you. In order to thank you and celebrate CC…

Rebecca Kahn from iCommons.org is asking for people to send her images directly wishing a happy birthday to Creative Commons for its 4th birthday celebration tomorrow, December 15 – 16, depending on which timezone you are in. Along witht he photo, she wants people to send a nice message to CC. You could also save…

As Andres from our CC Scotland team has already blogged, there has been another court case in Spain involving the use of CC licensed music. For those keeping track, there has already been a similar case decided earlier this year. In the earlier case, the main Spanish collecting society — Sociedad General de Autores y…

San Francisco, CA, USA; Berlin, GERMANY; and Lisbon, Portugal — December 13, 2006 — Creative Commons, a nonprofit dedicated to building a body of creative work free to share and build upon, is proud to announce the celebration of the launch of its licenses in Portugal on December 15, 2006. Creative Commons copyright licenses are…

PUMP AUDIO AND CREATIVE COMMONS COLLABORATE ON COMMERCIAL LICENSING FOR INDEPENDENT MUSICIANS Hudson Valley, NY and San Francisco, CA – December 12, 2006 – Pump Audio, the leading provider of quality independent music to content creators globally, today announced that it has teamed up with Creative Commons to expand and promote fair commercial licensing options…

You know that CC licensing is reaching far into the music scene when you have a genre-specific region based podcast like the NY-NE Regional EDM Showcase. In yet another example of what is enabled by CC licenses this show features “original EDM tracks from independent musicians within upstate New York And Western New England” all CC…