Collaborative data and graphing site Swivel (blogged here — copyrightable elements are under CC Attribution) now features a dataset mapping the growth of CC licensing at Flickr over the last eleven months: Photo: Franz Patzig / CC BY Explore 33 million CC licensed photos at Flickr. Challenge: add datasets for other CC enabled content repositories…

Photo by believekevin, CC BY-SA. A query to the cc-community mailing list asking for resources on the history of the copyleft movement led to many good suggestions and turned up the cool chalkboard timeline pictured above. While impressive visually, the chalkboard only covers 1998-2007 and leaves much important stuff out (such as the launch of…

The last two days I attended the Tech Policy Summit Silicon Valley. While the panels discussed important issues that impact the technology industry (including privacy, security, immigration, taxes, trade, networks, patents, and of course copyright), I got a distinct feeling of Washington, D.C. transported to San Jose, California — discussion (and fashion) constrained by the…

CHALLENGE We challenge you, our community, to raise $6000 for Creative Commons by subscribing to GOOD Magazine and having a drink with us at the famed South by Southwest (SXSW) conference in Austin, TX. All it takes is for 200 people over the next 2 weeks to subscribe to GOOD. No, my math skills are…

About a year after Free Culture @ NYU’s Creative Commons Art Show 2006, Free Culture Florida is putting on Open Art, a Creative Commons art show in the University of Florida’s Reitz Union Gallery. The show will feature mixed media and prints. Digital versions of the latter may be viewed at the Open Art 2007…

Last month, we blogged about the first CC Business Mixer, an event that seeks to bring together entrepreneurs who have ideas for a Creative Commons related business and VCs. Last Thursday CC board member John Buckman hosted a number of entrepreneurs who presented their business ideas to CC supporters and VCs. This networking event was…

Many of us share our images on Flickr, and some of us at Creative Commons were thrilled when Flickr introduced Moo Cards for purchase. Flickr describes Moo Cards as “tiny wonderful calling cards” for the real world. To make Moo Cards, log into your Flickr account and click on Moo in the “Do More With…

Mosaickr helps you build mosaics from Flickr photos published under an Attribution license (and your own photos). The process is simple: 1) choose a master image, which will serve as a template for the mosaic, 2) choose images that will be used to fill in the mosaic and 3) download your mosaic. Any art form…

FlickrCC uses the Flickr API to search for CC licensed images and for images with a license permitting derivative use provides basic image editing operations (e.g., cropping, adding text) online, without downloading the image and starting a paint program. Last month we noted a tool that searches Flickr for CC licensed images based on color,…

Today marks the last weekly winner for the first ever CC Swag Photo Contest. We have been encouraged and excited by everyone’s participation. This weeks winner is yamabobobo, with the photo titled “CC on Light”. We at CC think this photo is visually and conceptually captivating. This photo ends the weekly winners series and now…