Creative Commons today unveiled an updated beta version of its search engine, which scours the web for text, images, audio, and video free to re-use From Search Engine Journal

18, 2004–With the launch of the new Creative Commons Web site, Adaptive Path is proud to have played a key role in what the San Jose Mercury News from Business Wire

… under a new type of license. Called the Creative Commons, it is the from Seattle Times

Our World Wide Web Consortium representative Ben Adida will be present at meetings concurrent with the consortium’s tenth anniversary celebration. Ben has been doing important work to standardize embedding RDF metadata in HTML (I find the RDF/A proposal particularly compelling). Services like the Creative Commons search engine build on RDF metadata describing licensed works that…

CC French project lead Melanie Dulong de Rosnay and Daniele Bourcier have just published ‘International Commons at the Digital Age – la creation en partage‘, a book with some valuable chapters on our first experiences with the internationalized CC licenses. The book was written as a contribution to a day-long event in Paris on November…

La Vanguardia, the most popular newspaper in Catalonia, ran a story on the WIRED CD this weekend.

A group of former pupils at a London comprehensive school are poised to win thousands of pounds in unpaid royalties for singing on Pink Floyd’s classic Another Brick In The Wall 25 years ago. This is a great story. I’m looking forward to the guy who screams “How can yew have any pudding if you…

Snarky tech news site the INQUIRER interviews Magnatune’s John Buckman, who is refreshingly direct. Buckman: We sell a little over 1000 albums a month – about $10,000 a month – and this has been stable for about 6 months. Music Licensing has grown from about $2,000 a month 6 months ago to about $10,000 a…

Pittsburgh based label Big Sonic Recordings has released its catalog under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs license. At Big Sonic Recordings, you’ll notice that all of our artists give away all of their music for free, and every artist has an online store full of merchandise that you can purchase if you wish to support them.…

We’d like to produce a short, new animated/motion graphics film, and we need a great designer and/or animator to help us do so on a fairly tight deadline. You should know how to animate in Flash or After Effects (or both) and have experience with any necessary drawing tools, like Adobe Illustrator. You should have…