Creative Commons is pleased to announce that the O’Reilly Foundation has donated $10,000 towards CC’s $300,000 annual campaign goal. We are honored to be a receipient of such significant support. Tim O’Reilly is the founder of O’Reilly Media and a supporter of both open source and the free software movements, which this donation exemplifies.

In a recent article in Forbes.com, Cory Doctorow explains the impact of using Creative Commons licenses for him as a writer. Cory has used CC licenses on many of his writings — from his books (available here) to his postings on Boing Boing. We featured him back in October 2005. The Forbes article offers a…

The Creative Commons’ annual fundraising campaign is set to end on December 31st. The campaign was instituted last year in efforts to prove to the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) that the public was supporting CC financially as well as ideologically. This year we chose to focus the campaign more on building community and raising awareness…

We are happy to announce that this weeks’ winner of the CC Swag Contest is Cambodia4kids with her picture titled “Creative Commons”. I’ve set a precedent over the past couple of weeks of stating a bit of our reasoning behind choosing the winning photographs and how we responded to each winners’ creative use of CC…

Last month NetzpolitikTV interviewed CC CEO Lawrence Lessig. The extended interview is available in raw DV and high quality OGG Theora formats, superb for watching and remixing.

Richard A. Posner, a senior lecturer at the University of Chicago Law School and a judge in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, will be logging into Second Life to discuss his new book, Not a Suicide Pact: The Constitution in a Time of National Emergency. James aka Hamlet Au is going…

Alternative Freedom, a documentary about free culture and copyright, is screening Saturday evening as part of the CounterCorp 2006 Anti-Corporate Film Festival. The screening is at 7:30PM at the Victoria Theatre, 2961 16th Street at Mission Street in San Francisco. Q&A will follow with the Samuelson Clinic’s Jack Lerner and Mike Linksvayer from Creative Commons.…

We’ve launched a new fundraising model and are raising money through online video sharing. We’ve uploaded several short videos to Revver, a video-sharing platform that uses Creative Commons licenses to help creators make money from their work. So, watch our videos (including our latest clip — “Wanna Work Together?”), check out the ads at the…

Use your photographic skills to show your support for Creative Commons! Take a cool, creative picture of your favorite CC swag (t-shirts, buttons, stickers, etc. — all available from the Support the Commons store) and upload it to your Flickr account. Two winners will have their photos used on Creative Commons’ informational postcards, which will…

GiftTrap is a fun new board game based on predicting what gifts other players might like. It uses more than 600 cards that feature user-submitted photos of gifts – many of these images are Creative Commons-licensed and shot by Flickr photographers. The company behind GiftTrap has recently announced the GiftTRAP Experience, a contest where people…