CREATIVE COMMONS COPYRIGHT TOOLS NOW AVAILABLE IN FRANCE The Silicon Valley nonprofit releases French versions of its innovative copyright licenses at the National Assembly in Paris. San Francisco, USA and Paris, FRANCE, Nov. 22, 2004 — Creative Commons, a non-profit organization that offers free, flexible copyright tools to the general public, today unveiled a localized…
There is a nice piece up at MP3.com by Eliot Van Buskirk about (what else?) the WIRED CD. Watch this blog for some juicy news regarding the CD very soon.
Evergreen Creative Commoner Cory Doctorow has a new short story out at Salon.com — the first piece ever to run on Salon with a Creative Commons license. (You can see the “some rights reserved” badge here.) Hats off to Cory and Salon — this is an excellent precedent for online publishing.
The Buzz with Richard Aedy, a great tech-oriented program on Australian national radio, recently aired a piece about Creative Commons and the WIRED CD. Read the transcript or listen to the show.
This flow chart might come in handy the next time you face that insanely complex modern ehtical dilemma: whether to rip a CD or not. (Or, you can just look for a little (cc) Some Rights Reserved and skip all this fuss.) (Via Serendipity.)