New vinyl label Unlockedgroove is releasing LPs under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike-2.5 License: As long as Moby doesn’t steal our stuff and make a billion dollars off of it, we want our music to be reworked Buy the record from the super cool Forced Exposure catalog and check out Unlockedgroove’s launch events in San Francisco…

1. Get yourself a button. 2. Put the button code in your site template or in a blog post, or both. 3. a) Profit? b) Priceless? c) Thanks for helping promote the campaign! Here’s a preview of the three buttons: Early examples of bloggers using a button in their site template include Jon Lebkowsky, Marc…

In May we noted the first ccMixter user to be discovered and signed to a record label via their participation in ccMixter. Now we have the first record label started by people who first met on the site. Victor Stone explains: Cezary Ostrowski from Poland and Marco Raaphorst from Holland met online at ccMixter and…

Creative Commons makes a cameo appearance in a New York Times article about the just announced Open Content Alliance: When it comes to copyrighted materials, the newly formed group appears to be taking a more cautious approach by seeking permission from copyright holders and by making works available though a Creative Commons license, whereby the…

by Ethan Smith, Staff Reporter of The Wall Street Journal For some people, the future of copyright law is here, and it looks a lot like Gilberto Gil. The Brazilian singer-songwriter plans to release a groundbreaking CD this winter, which will include three of his biggest hits from the 1970s. It isn’t the content of…