When Jeremy Keith, a web developer living and working in England took a photo of Vehicle Assembly Building at Cape Canaveral and posted it to Flickr under our Attribution license (which seems to be the flavor of the month around here), he had no idea it was eventually going to end up in the blockbuster…

After the great success of the first Ubuntu FreeCulture Showcase just 4 months ago the great people at Ubuntu have opened up the door for submissions for the latest Showcase. The Ubuntu Free Culture Showcase is a way to show off the high-quality creativeness of the Free/Open Source community. The winners of the competition are…

UPDATE: We’ve officially too big for TOPP, so we’re moving the Salon to the For Your Imagination Loft. Details below. Creative Commons turns 6 in mid-December, and we’ll be celebrating Salon style (as has been the tradition in NYC for CC’s birthdays in years past) at The Open Planning Project once again For Your Imagination…

Creative Commons is working with CRID, Centre de Recherches Informatique et Droit / Centre for Research on Computer Law, University of Namur to create Belgium jurisdiction-specific licenses from the generic Creative Commons licenses. CCi Belgium List Project Lead: Séverine Dusollier, License draft in English (PDF). License draft in Dutch (PDF). License draft in French (PDF).…

Last week we mentioned that you can follow short updates from Creative Commons on the microblogging services twitter and identi.ca. Identi.ca has a feature allowing you to view (or subscribe via a feed) all microbloggers a particular account subscribes to. So we’ve made the CC identi.ca account subscribe to the microblogs of CC jurisdiction project…

In yesterday’s Personal Tech Q&A section of The New York Times, there was a useful item called Making Use of Public Domain (registration required, although I was able to see the page at first without logging in) that describes a bit about how images that are found online can be used. The article points to…

Creative Commons is working with Universitat de Barcelona to create Spain jurisdiction-specific licenses from the generic Creative Commons licenses. CCi Spain List Project Lead: Ignasi Labastida i Juan License draft (PDF). English re-translation (PDF). Post a message. Subscribe to the discussion. Read the discussion archives. Archives English explanation of substantive legal changes (v1.0) (PDF). More…

Bre Pettis, the uber-DIY hacker of NYC’s Resistor space and self-replicator guru Zach Hoeken are launching Thingiverse today. Thingiverse is an “object sharing” site that enables anyone to upload the schematics, designs, and images for their projects. Users can then download and reuse the work in their projects using their own laser cutters, 3D printers,…

Creative Commons is working with European Academy of Law and Computing and the Institute of Law and Informatics at Saarland University to create Germany jurisdiction-specific licenses from the generic Creative Commons licenses. CCi Germany List Legal Project Lead: John Hendrik Weitzmann Public Project Lead: Markus Beckedahl License draft. English explanation of substantive legal changes. Post…

Lucky Dragons, an experimental music/art group based in Los Angeles, is the moniker given to “any recorded or performed or installed or packaged or shared pieces made by Luke Fischbeck, Sarah Rara, and any sometimes collaborator.” Blending an organic approach to electronic music with a background in the arts, everything Lucky Dragons produces is released…