The Pawtucket Film Festival, September 10-23 (Rhode Island, United States) includes several Creative Commons-licensed films. Watch the PFF Online Filmcast provided by Open Network Television. From the press release (PDF): As a part of the PFF Online, select filmmakers will be making their work available under copyright licenses generated by the Creative Commons giving them…

Monday night Victor switched ccMixter over to the GPL-licensed ccHost codebase and yesterday made the first stable release of that code on SourceForge. Now you can run your own remix contest (and remix context–ccHost tracks remix sources and derivatives) site out of the box.

Since Will posted a brief survey of CC-licensed science fiction and fantasy novels last month I’ve noticed three more exciting CC-licensed SF items: Charlie Stross won the Hugo award for best novella for his CC-licensed The Concrete Jungle. Orion’s Arm is a CC-licensed post-singularity “shared world” where authors are collaborating on fiction and games based…

Yesterday Yahoo! announced that their search index had grown to 20 billion documents. That, along with continued adoption of Creative Commons licenses, explains 53 million linkbacks to our licenses according to Yahoo! linkback queries. In May, when Yahoo!’s index apparently consisted of 8 billion documents, we found 16 million pages with license links. So discounting…

Forbes magazine columnist Sam Whitmore writes about “four distinct groups that will create content no matter what transpires on the business end of media”: Then there’s the rise of the mixmaster. … Traditional copyright law didn’t foresee this kind of thing. … A potential solution already exists from San Francisco-based Creative Commons, a non-profit organization…