Every major software release has bugs and ccHost 2.0, released last week, is no exception. Today we released ccHost 2.0.1, fixing a problem with contests and making it easier to install in a non-webroot directory. (ccHost is the GPL-licensed web app that runs ccMixter, read all about it here.) In other development news Nathan has…

The iCommons site is now live with some exciting news about this summer’s iSummit. What is iCommons? Incubated by Creative Commons, iCommons is an organisation with a broad vision to develop a united global commons front by collaborating with open content, access to knowledge, open access publishing and free culture communities around the world. Using…

We’ve just released ccHost 2.0, the GPL-licensed software platform that powers ccMixter. Thanks to Victor Stone for months of mad coding (when he’s not remixing) and Jon Phillips for packaging the release. I’ve already blogged about two new features included in this release, remix statistics and the sample pool API, but there’s much more. Check…

Influential avant garde musician and activist Bob Ostertag has made all of his recordings that he has the rights to available as digital downloads under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial license: These works are now covered by a Creative Commons “Attribution Non-commercial” license that permits you to freely download, copy, remix, sample, manipulate, fold, spindle, tamper…

CC-using label Magnatune has always had “We Are Not Evil” as a tagline. Now they have a page listing the many reasons they are not evil, prominently featuring Creative Commons licenses and remixing on ccMixter. If you’re interested in the business, technical, or music side of open music, check out Magnatune founder John Buckman’s blog,…