Ottmar Liebert (you can read his Featured Commoner interview here) pondered that he would like someone to remix his his guitar solo recordings. Ottmar’s music is Nouveau Flamenco style, which mixes elements of flamenco with jazz, bossa nova, and other genres and is released online under the Creative Commons Sampling Plus license (for remixing pleasure),…

Please join us for CC Salon San Francisco, taking place tonight from 7-9pm at Shine (1337 Mission St.). There will be music and presentations by: * John Wilbanks, Executive Director, Science Commons * Joi Ito, Web Entrepreneur, Chairman of Creative Commons Board * Heather Ford, Executive Director, iCommons * Jim Sowers, Calabash Music and National…

Doc Searls and others have been writing about Vendor Relationship Management — infrastructure facilitating relationships where the customer is the vendor’s equal, contra Customer Relationship Management. Searls’ most recent essay on VRM, Building an Relationship Economy, says that Creative Commons licenses have a role to play: Let’s ignore the record companies for a minute. Instead,…

I’m a bit late, so not-quite-in-time for Valentine’s Day, I’m happy to announce a proverbial match made in heaven: MozCC and Songbird. You might recall Songbird, the previously mentioned wicked-cool music player built on Mozilla. They’re busy readying their next milestone release, 0.2.5. In anticipation of that release, I’ve just shipped MozCC 2.4.2. MozCC 2.4.22.4.3…

Please join us for the first CC Salon of 2007 at ShineSF.com on Wednesday, February 21, from 7-9 PM in San Francisco. It will be major! And, yes, please note, we are not doing this event monthly now, but every other month to maximize the impact in SF! The line-up for the evening: John Wilbanks,…

You’ve probably seen this video already, or at least noticed that others have blogged it. I didn’t get around to actually watching it until I noticed that Eben Moglen broke five plus months of blog silence to rave about it. “Web 2.0 … The Machine is Us/ing Us” by Michael Wesch is licensed under CC…

Wendy Seltzer: You can do great things with free content, and great things with free code, but combining the two multiplies their effect. So I found when I wanted to enhance my Free Software music system with more information about the compositions it played. This specific post isn’t about Creative Commons and free software, but…

Vocoid is a local San Francisco net label/collective dedicated to supporting musicians by providing space and shared promotion. Last week they announced the first ever Vocoid Remix Contest. The contest utilizes ccMixter as the platform and the raw audio from their album Medly for your mixing and mashing pleasure. Check out their website for contest…

At the end of last year, we blogged about a second decision that had been handed down in Spain regarding the use of CC-licensed music. Thanks to the efforts of Thomas Margoni who works with the CC Italy team but currently has the pleasure of living in the beautiful city of Barcelona, we now have…

KRUU in Fairfield, Iowa is a community radio station run on open source software. Richard Poynder recently profiled the station: Moore’s use of the term “open radio” caught my attention. What, I wondered, did he mean? Amongst other things, it seems, he meant that KRUU has made a commitment to use only Open Source software.…