Today, Creative Commons launched the first CC Swag Photo Contest on Flickr to promote our Annual Fundraising Campaign. The contest offers a chance for people to win prizes for creatively photographing their CC Swag (t-shirts, buttons, stickers, etc. — all available from the Support the Commons store) and showing their support for CC during this…

Last week we blogged the story of a CC supporter who decided to auction off on eBay the historic domain name 01b.com and to donate 90% of the generated revenue to CC. This week, since we launched our Revverized videos, several CC supporters, such as CC Australia’s Elliott Bledsoe have proposed uploading their videos to…

Creative Commons has worked diligently to provide non-traditional ways for our community to support CC, and it’s exciting when our community responds with their own creative ways as well. There is now a historical domain name – 01b.com – up for auction on eBay. The owner will be donating 90 percent of all revenue to…

Creative Commons Taps Revver to Launch New Viral Video Fundraising Model Nonprofit Organization Uses Online Video Sharing to Raise Money San Francisco, CA and Los Angeles, CA – 10/31/06 – Today, Creative Commons announced that it will be the first non-profit organization to raise money through online video sharing. Revver, the first marketplace for viral…

Red Hat recently launched a matching sponsorship program for their employees in order to continue their support of Creative Commons. They will match their employees’ donations dollar for dollar up to $5,000. We’d like to extend a warm thanks to our friends at Red Hat for their continued support — we are very appreciative! If…