Acerca de CC Chile [English] Creative Commons ha colaborado con la Universidad de Chile, El sistema de Servicios de Información y Bibliotecas (SISIB), y la Corporación Derechos Digitales (CDD) para adaptar las licencias de Creative Commons al sistema legal de Chile. Líder del Proyecto: Prof. Alberto Cerda Silva (Fundador de CDD) y Gabriela Ortuzar (Director…

CC got a nice plug in a recent article in The Art Newspaper, highlighted in regards to the 36th Annual Conference on Legal Issues in Museum Administration that took place in early April: Sharon Farb, associate university librarian at UCLA Library in Los Angeles, said that as museums put more images and content online, more…

CC Australia recently announced that their second ccSalon will be held on June 24, 2008 in Brisbane: After Building an Australasian Commons conference, stay on to experience Creative Commons in action at the second Australian ccSalon. Grab a drink and watch the CC Film and Video showcase, or peruse Sydney’s Powerhouse Museum’s Photo of the…

Late last year we started a process for moving ccMixter.org, the remix community we launched November 2004, to an entity or person(s) that could take the community to the next (several) levels. eMXR describes ccMixter: trend setting web destination … which has become the premier on-line artist’s village for music makers from around the world,…

Podington Bear, a musical artist known for releasing 3 songs a week during 2007 – all under a CC BY-NC license – recently began an exciting new project titled Sound of Picture. The project finds Podington Bear scoring ‘single-frame films’, adding an atmospheric/mood driven musical piece to a particular photo he has taken. These compositions…

Creative Commons is working with University of Rosario and Karisma Foundation to create Colombia jurisdiction-specific licenses from the generic Creative Commons licenses. CC Colombia List Project Lead: Carolina Botero, Alfredo Vargas, and Andres Umaña License draft (PDF). English explanation of substantive legal changes. (PDF) Post a message. Subscribe to the discussion. Read the discussion archives.…

Apture is a new tool for bloggers that allows “content creators the power to find and incorporate relevant multimedia items directly into their pages” by adding links and small navigator windows to pages and posts automatically. Better understood in practice (see screenshot below), Apture seems poised to add incredible functionality to web pages that, while…

Creative Commons is working with UCT Intellectual Property Law Research Unit to create South Africa jurisdiction-specific licenses from the generic Creative Commons licenses. CCi South Africa List Legal Project Lead: Tobias Schonwetter Public Project Lead: Dave Duarte Team member:  Andrew Rens License draft. English explanation of substantive legal changes. See the project website. Subscribe to…

On Tuesday, April 29, Creative Commons, the Art Law Committee of the New York City Bar Association, the College Art Association, and ARTstor are cosponsoring “Who Owns This Image?: Art, Access, and the Public Domain after Bridgeman v. Corel”, a public panel discussion on the issues surrounding the reproduction of public domain works. Virginia Rutledge,…

Wondering what those moving images popping up in your friends’ Flickr photostream are? Last week Flickr introduced the ability for users to upload videos as well as photos, adding new functionality to one of the web’s leading media-sharing sites. Flickr has long been exemplary of a well executed, CC-enabled content community. By utilizing the same…