New Year’s Resolutions: Make worry-free sampling and re-creativity mainstream. Make 25 country-specific sets of iCommons licenses available. Explore Science Commons. Version licenses. Begin Save-a-Book campaign, revive out-of-print books. Debut metadata search engine prototype. Unveil CC-Mixter — Friendster for musicians. Launch “Anatomy of a Film” project. Build licenses into at least two applications per medium: photography,…

At our first anniversary party Sunday night, we unveiled a new movie called Reticulum Rex. For those of you that missed the event, the movie can now be seen here, and it acts as a continuation of the story started in our first short, Get Creative. A big thanks to everyone that attended the party,…

LegalTorrents is a new site offering 5Gb of electronic music from a variety of labels, all licensed under Creative Commons. What makes this site unique is the large downloads are shared among everyone downloading, thanks to the P2P technology of BitTorrent. Once you download a client and load up a music torrent file, you’ll be…

This week’s featured content is PD Photo, a new photo archive containing thousands of photos released into the public domain. Photographer Jon Sullivan has opened up his personal archives of thousands of photos and made them free for re-use. His favorites are a good place to start if you’re looking for high quality outdoor and…

Customized Classics takes several classics of literature from the public domain, and weaves names of your choosing directly into the story to create custom one-off printings of your books. It’s a clever (and commercial) use of freely available works.