The Open Media Streaming Project has added CC metadata support to their streaming audio server and player. OMSP’s NeMeSi player displaying license info for a stream. They say: Please note that the CC stuff in the source code is in very alpha stage: no more than IETF’s-style “running code” to test a soon-to-be-released specification proposal…

Dave Kim and James Grimmelmann, hailing from Georgetown and Yale law schools respectively, are Creative Commons’ summer interns this year. They’re both doing great work. So great that we forgot to blog their presence until now.

Wikipedia now publishes license metadata, using the Creative Commons license metadata vocabulary to describe the GNU FDL license. Browsing Wikipedia with mozCC installed. MediaWiki, the software that runs Wikipedia, now has support for CC metadata built in. WikiTravel, a CC-licensed world travel guide also already uses this capability. Many thanks to Brion Vibber and Evan…

A major upgrade to mozCC, the Creative Commons metadata companion for Mozilla-based browers, is now available. This version looks better, fixes a performance problem with some pages, and sets the stage for version 1.0. See Nathan Yergler’s blog post for details. Mozilla status bar: browsing a CC-licensed page. Click on status bar icons, see metadata…

We are happy to hear that current and upcoming operating systems will have built-in support for application-level metadata. Gnome (Linux), Longhorn (next version of Windows) , and Tiger (next release of OS X) all will be offering some way to store and search metadata for files and applications. Google is also expected to get into…