Legal ports to Brazilian law of Creative Commons 2.0 licenses are now live. Commoners Glenn Otis Brown and Neeru Paharia are at Software Livre 2004 in Porto Alegre for the launch celebration. Chairman Lawrence Lessig will arrive later this week for the official announcement, which will be led by Brazilian Minister of Culture Gilberto Gil.…

Creative Commons is one of this month’s features on the Ibiblio home page. Ibiblio hosts Creative Commons’ movies and mailing lists, among many other resources. “The public’s library and digital archive” lives up to its tagline. Browse their virtual stacks.

Upgrading to one of our version 2.0 licenses or selecting one for the first time? Consider providing optional metadata about your work via the choose license process. Specifying a format will help people find your work via format-specific searches (e.g., a picture of the Eiffel Tower). If your work is derived from another, you might…

Ben Adida will represent Creative Commons at the World Wide Web Consortium Advisory Committee meeting next week, held concurrently with WWW2004 in New York City. This year has seen a number of new proposals on W3C lists for RDF-in-XHTML. Ben has been encouraging the development of a solution that will meet Creative Commons’ requirements. We…

The Open Clip Art Project is a new effort to catalog and encourage the creation of new clip art using the Creative Commons public domain dedication. Providing clipart for open source productivity applications is one of OCAP’s goals. Contribute your clipart creations now, perhaps your work will one day be available to OpenOffice‘s millions of…