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W3C10
by mike Uncategorized postOur 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…
La creation en partage
by roland Uncategorized postCC 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…
The WIRED CD: La Vanguardia
by glenn Uncategorized postLa Vanguardia, the most popular newspaper in Catalonia, ran a story on the WIRED CD this weekend.
We Don't Need No Exploitation
by glenn Uncategorized postA 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…
INQUIRER does Magnatune
by mike Uncategorized postSnarky 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…
Big Sonic Sharing
by mike Uncategorized postPittsburgh 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.…
Flash/AfterEffects/Video Design Person Wanted
by glenn Uncategorized postWe’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…
Opsound Party: CBGB NYC December 2
by mike Uncategorized postIf you’re in New York City get over to CBGB Lounge next Thursday for a party celebrating Opsound’s first CD release. Buy the CD and download the MP3s by the band Catalpa Catalpa. All tracks are CC licensed, as is everything in the Opsound Pool. Congratulations to Opsound founder Sal Randolph and all of the…
Perdition Remix Contest
by mike Uncategorized postPositron! Records, whose recent adoption of Creative Commons licenses was noted on this weblog two days ago, is encouraging users to take advantage of their first licensed album with a remix contest. They’ve helpfully made a remix kit containing vocal tracks and loops from the target track, Perdition. [via Rob Myers]
ccPublisher Updated: Now With More Crunchy Metadata!
by nathan Uncategorized postJust in time for Thanksgiving (and yet another thing to be thankful for), we’ve released an update to ccPublisher. ccPublisher 0.9.9 (windows, mac) adds support for Internet Archive keywords and description information. Supplying this information will allow visitors to the Archive find your work, become your fan, and stalk you by going through your trash.…