Why: One Year Anniversary of the Creative Commons tools and licenses. When: Sunday, December 14, 6:00 – 9:00 pm. Where: 111 Minna Gallery, 111 Minna Street, San Francisco, CA. (View Map). What: An address by Lawrence Lessig The sequel to the first Creative Commons animated hit, “Get Creative“ Special guests CC Tunes Appetizers & Drinks…
Wired News has a nice profile of our good friends and long-time Creative Commons supporters iBiblio, of the University of North Carolina. .
A nice article on the Berklee Shares project we profiled earlier this week.
Berklee College of Music, the world’s largest independent music college and the premier institution for the study of contemporary music, today launched Berklee Shares, a groundbreaking new program that offers music lessons — free under Creative Commons licenses — and encourages musicians to share and distribute the lessons online. Berklee Shares consist of a growing…
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit (in California) ruled yesterday that the Beastie Boys’ sampling of a three-note segment of James Newton’s composition to the song “Choir” did not infringe Newton’s copyright. The court ruled that the sample was a “de minimis” — or trivial — instance of copying and thus not…