Today I had one of the best experiences of my time at Creative Commons, which is saying a lot. I had the pleasure of visiting the Chandler School in Pasadena, CA, USA, to talk about copyright and Creative Commons. Some 200 sixth-, seventh-, and eighth-graders and I talked about the ins and outs and dos…

Some Creative Commons-licensed, political-mash music from “the Internet’s first virtual band.”

Breaking news: “In a move shocking to all, Duke University, of Durham, North Carolina, purchased the entirety of the public domain late last evening for a fee of 2.2 trillion dollars . . .” (Full story)

The Berkman Center’s Mary Bridges and Benjamen Walker — the sound designer behind Creative Commons’ animations — recently produced an audio postcard for NPR on the SXSW Interactive conference. It’s subtly funny, and a nice self-exemplifying piece of, and about, instant bricolage media. (Listen closely for the voices of Creative Commons board member Joi Ito…

As we announced in our short film “Reticulum Rex” and on this blog in January, one of Creative Commons’ New Year’s Resolutions was to explore a Science Commons — a new, parallel branch of our organization dedicated to investigating how our “some rights reserved” model can be applied to pressing problems in science and the…