Magnatune, a record label that uses a CC BY-NC-SA license for all releases (Magnatune founder John Buckman is also on the CC board), has just hired free software developer Nikolaj Hald Nielsen to work on Amarok, a free software media player. While software and services companies for years have hired many free software developers to…

Michael W. Dean and Chris Caulder have made their “guide to making a living making music out of your backpack, from anywhere, and everywhere” available as an ebook download licensed under CC Attribution-ShareAlike. Even better, they’ve put up all the book’s source files up for download and remixing. Via Boing Boing.

Evan Prodromou just published a great essay on paying wiki contributors. He says don’t, offering solid reasons and alternatives. One alternative that I won’t argue with (but probably one of the least interesting–read the essay for more): Donate. Set aside a good part of the profits from the site (if there are any…) to donations…

Congratulations yet again to Jamendo, though this time not for adding CC licensed music and features, but for raising money to do even more: Jamendo allows users to listen and download for free more than 40.000 DRM-less music tracks under Creative Commons license. So far, 3 million albums have been legally downloaded from the Jamendo…

The OWL Music Search presentation at last week’s CC Salon San Francisco has been written up by CNET’s Webware, “cool web apps for everyone.” You can use OWL via CC Search or directly. Mark your calendar for the next CC Salon SF: August 8.