This weeks’ winner of the Creative Commons first ever CC Swag Photo Contest is “andyket”. The fifth winning photograph titled “The CC Glow” shows an innovative use of our informational disk flyers. We are again amazed by the entries and participation and thank all of you very much. There is one week left so we…

The Wall Street Journal on a new ‘Wiki’ book project: In a move that could shake up the book industry, publishing giant Pearson PLC is joining with two top business schools to create a business book authored and edited by a “wiki” — an online community dedicated to writing … The wiki book, produced by…

Lawrence Lessig’s book Code v2 officially launched today. Code v2 is the revision of his 1999 Code and Other Laws of Cyberspace. Code v2 is not so much a new book as it is a translation of a very old (in Internet time) one. Code v2 was written collaboratively with the world. Part of the…

We started CC Salon in San Francisco less than a year ago and have watched excitedly as the idea has spread internationally. Salons are now being held in Warsaw, Seoul, Beijing, Johannesburg, Brisbane, Berlin (called “Creative Commons Usergroup”), NYC, London, Taipei, and now Amsterdam! “The first Dutch ccSalon will kick off on Wed. Dec. 13th…

The good people of SF Beta are in the holiday spirit and because of that have changed their monthly mixer to a charity event. Donations gathered will be given to Creative Commons, the EFF, and the Josh Wolf Legal Defense Fund. CC’s portion will go towards our 2006 fundraising campaign goal of $ 300,000. Our…

Eben Moglen’s Plone Conference keynote address Software and Community in the Early 21st century places free software in the context of historical desire for freedom and social justice, closing with “The difference is, this time, we win.” While Moglen’s focus is free software, everything he says applies equally to free culture. He uses the first…

Creative Commons Taiwan created a cool license compatibility wizard in traditional Chinese and English based on the CC FAQ entry for I used part of a Creative Commons-licensed work, which Creative Commons license can I relicense my work under?

Red Hat Magazine has a great interview with Randall Munroe, creator of xkcd, a “webcomic of romance, saracasm, math, and language” that’s published under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial license. Excerpt: A former NASA contractor, Munroe now ekes out his living from xkcd. “I’m still sort of transitioning over to doing this full time,” he says,…

CC Labs is where we demo our new technology projects. Our current innovations are a “Freedoms” license generator, a simplified DHTML licensing engine, and experimental metadata.

From our last letter: “CC has come to be about much more than just licenses, and certainly much more than any of us dreamed.” The story continued: So this week we launched a fresh face to the Creative Commons website. Built within WordPress, we hope the site will make it easier for people to understand…