Our World Wide Web Consortium representative Ben Adida will be present at meetings concurrent with the consortium’s tenth anniversary celebration. Ben has been doing important work to standardize embedding RDF metadata in HTML (I find the RDF/A proposal particularly compelling). Services like the Creative Commons search engine build on RDF metadata describing licensed works that…

Snarky tech news site the INQUIRER interviews Magnatune’s John Buckman, who is refreshingly direct. Buckman: We sell a little over 1000 albums a month – about $10,000 a month – and this has been stable for about 6 months. Music Licensing has grown from about $2,000 a month 6 months ago to about $10,000 a…

Pittsburgh based label Big Sonic Recordings has released its catalog under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs license. At Big Sonic Recordings, you’ll notice that all of our artists give away all of their music for free, and every artist has an online store full of merchandise that you can purchase if you wish to support them.…

If you’re in New York City get over to CBGB Lounge next Thursday for a party celebrating Opsound’s first CD release. Buy the CD and download the MP3s by the band Catalpa Catalpa. All tracks are CC licensed, as is everything in the Opsound Pool. Congratulations to Opsound founder Sal Randolph and all of the…

Positron! Records, whose recent adoption of Creative Commons licenses was noted on this weblog two days ago, is encouraging users to take advantage of their first licensed album with a remix contest. They’ve helpfully made a remix kit containing vocal tracks and loops from the target track, Perdition. [via Rob Myers]