When Ben from the very cool indie label BBE Music got in touch with us and asked if we would be interested in a DJ Vadim remix contest at ccMixter we thought about it … for about a half a millisecond! You see, in the remixing/turntable world DJ Vadim is nothing short of a superstar…

Congressman Mike Doyle gave a great speech about mash-up artist Girl Talk and mixtape king DJ Drama as part of last week’s Future of Radio congressional hearing. The 463 has the transcript and some teriffic analysis; SplashCast has the must-see video. “I hope that everyone involved will take a step back and ask themselves if…

Today’s New York Times features an excellent story on musician and Brazil’s Minister of Culture Gilberto Gil titled Gilberto Gil Hears the Future, Some Rights Reserved, featuring quotes from Lawrence Lessig: “Look at remixing on music sites, which has become a core of creativity on the Internet and produced a huge archive of legally usable…

The Vieux Farka Touré remix contest has been a phenomenal success so far — and there’s still one more day to get your remixes of “Ana” uploaded to ccMixter before the contest ends. Don’t miss out on this opportunity to have your music included on Modiba Productions’ upcoming “Vieux Remixed” CD compilation! It’s been really…

The Vieux Farka Touré remix contest has been a phenomenal success so far — and there’s still one more day to get your remixes of “Ana” uploaded to ccMixter before the contest ends. Don’t miss out on this opportunity to have your music included on Modiba Productions’ upcoming “Vieux Remixed” CD compilation! It’s been really…

We are proud to announce the official release of Creative Commons’ open source remix community project ccHost 4.0 which is now available for immediate download and install (it’s actually version 4.0.1 so if you downloaded 4.0 or 4.0 RC1 then you should upgrade immediately to get the last minute bug fixes). More information about this…

SXSW is not just any conference. It’s a time for innovation, conversation, and collaboration. It’s also a week chock full of shows, events, get-togethers, and parties. So while you map out your SXSW week you should definitely add these two events to your route. Fun times. GOOD Magazine SXSW Party (CC FUNDRAISER) Double your CC…

If you live in Austin, and/or will be at SXSW on March 14 (4:30-6:30 PM at Austin History Center), I’m giving a FREE introduction to Creative Commons in affiliation with EFF-Austin. Here is the quick blurb I wrote up about the presentation: In this presentation, Jon Phillips, Community Developer for Creative Commons, discusses how Creative…

A few days ago we announced a new version implemented in Flash of the ccLabs experimental Freedoms License Generator and issued a challenge to DHTML developers to equal the performance and visual improvements of the Flash version, using DHTML. That didn’t take long. Sylvain Zimmer of Jamendo (see our most recent post about Jamendo’s CC…

xlr8r tv is a new cc-licensed online tv show focused on music and club culture. it’s a collaboration between xlr8r magazine and revision3 — the internet tv network started by some of the guys behind digg.