If you’ll be around New York City on September 29, please join us at Irving Plaza for a Creative Commons concert presented by WIRED and Flavorpill. The show will feature Mike Patton‘s experimental pop supergroup Peeping Tom, DJ/producer Diplo, and mash-up/remix artist Girl Talk. Creative Commons’ CEO Lawrence Lessig will be on hand to introduce…

Since last month, bestselling author Greg Palast has been offering tracks from his recent audio book Armed Madhouse online under a Creative Commons BY-NC license, so that musicians and producers can use them in remixes. If you’re into sampling and mash-ups, download the audio, create a remix, and send your finished mp3 to submitremix@gregpalast.com before…

Visit the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum‘s website to download “The Concert,” a new classical music podcast offered under the Creative Commons Music Sharing license. The podcast features unreleased live performances by master musicians and talented young artists recorded from the museum’s Sunday Concert Series. “The Concert” includes music by Beethoven, Mozart, Schubert, and Chopin for…

Visit the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum‘s website to download “The Concert,” a new classical music podcast offered under the Creative Commons Music Sharing license. The podcast features unreleased live performances by master musicians and talented young artists recorded from the museum’s Sunday Concert Series. “The Concert” includes music by Beethoven, Mozart, Schubert, and Chopin for…

The lonelygirl15 videos have been featuring music from ccMixter. Grant Robertson sorts it out: Ever wondered where to find all that great music used in the Lonelygirl 15 videos? Having spent months looking for songs featured in TV commercials, I totally feel your pain. (Metric’s beautiful “Grow up and Blow Away”, which was featured for…

Mark Pilgrim: Freely licensed Creative Commons music that I liked enough to put on a mix tape. With attitude! Thanks Mark! That’s what I’m talking about.

Yesterday, Wagner James Au posted a great interview with Jonathan Coulton up at New World Notes. In it, they talk about tomorrow’s concert. Don’t forget: Tomorrow, September 14 at 5PM (SL/Pacific), Popular Science and Creative Commons will be hosting a concert at Menorca, in the 3D online digital world of Second Life. The show will…

San Francisco, USA – September 8, 2006 Creative Commons, a nonprofit organization that provides flexible copyright licenses for authors and artists along with the Creative Commons Developer Community released the ccHost 3.0 today. ccHost is an Open Source web-based media sharing software. This major feature release comes on the heals of winning the Linux Journal…

Mark your calenders: On Thursday, September 14 at 5PM (SL/Pacific), PopSci.com and Creative Commons will be hosting a special concert in Second Life featuring Jonathan Coulton as well as popular Second Life musicians Melvin Took, Kourosh Eusebio, Etherian Kamaboko, and Slim Warrior. From Jonathan Coulton’s blog: I will be playing live from a secure, undisclosed…

An NYT story on classical and rock guitar players posting versions of 17th century chamber piece Pachelbel’s Canon to YouTube demonstrates the value of public domain materials and web-based collaboration: This process of influence, imitation and inspiration may bedevil the those who despair at the future of copyright but is heartening to connoisseurs of classical…