The Geograph British Isles project, which aims to collect geographically representative photographs and information for every square kilometer of Great Britain and Ireland, has started releasing torrents of their photographs available for anyone to download and use. The project has divided the area of Great Britain and Ireland into a grid with equal size squares…

Creative Commons held our first TechSummit at Google last month.  This event included an update and overview of Creative Commons technologies, panels featuring other leaders in open digital rights technologies, and a look at the future, including the role of digital copyright registries.  If you are curious of who all the speakers were you can…

Just one week after the big release of the Case Studies project, things are doing great!  The project has garnered a lot of attention as can be seen from this example list. Some of the things said about the project include these two excerpts. Ruth Suehle from Red Hat Magazine said: Despite having just launched,…

Today is the Creative Commons TechSummit in Mountain View, CA. The wonderful group of interns will be live blogging the event on the CC Techblog, be sure to watch. Schedule of speakers and more can be found on the wiki page.

Jono Bacon, the Community Manager for Ubuntu and full-time metal head, recently announced a new musical project he is undertaking, SeveredFifth. SeveredFifth is Jono’s new music project with the aims of seeing how far one musician can take the concept of Free (as in Freedom) music. Jono: “Severed Fifth is really here to ask questions…