Magnatune founder and CC board member John Buckman is giving a presentation today (and again next month) in London provocatively titled How to piss off the Industry for Fun and Profit. Check out John’s slides (PDF) (licensed under CC Attribution). I’ll give away the the big picture answer below, but do check out the whole…

Nimrod Lev, a musician who has released many songs and videos under CC licenses, writes to tell us that former Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu has decided (English) to publish his blog under the CC Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs Israel license, after hearing from Nimrod about CC. Thanks Nimrod! For exciting and ongoing news about copyright and candidates…

iSummit 2005 group photo by Creative Commons / BY iSummit 2006 group photo by Fred Benenson / BY-SA You determine what 2007 looks like. More participation from our dedicated volunteers at the iSummit is not just a side effect of the last year’s growth, but a critical enabler of the spread of Creative Commons over…

So far we’ve profiled Creative Commons international volunteers in Hungary, Taiwan, Chile, France, Catalonia, Spain, Malaysia and Peru. Today we’ll stay in South America with Creative Commons Argentina. Please donate in support of scholarships for our international project volunteers. Read letters from Lawrence Lessig explaining the campaign and an exciting new opportunity. After the launch…

Four articles turned up yesterday all advocating use of different Creative Commons licenses in different contexts, nicely demonstrating the not-really-niche-anymore scope covered by Creative Commons. Newspapers: In GateHouse’s case, they’ve reserved the right to commercialize, the right to preserve the content’s integrity, and the right of attribution. [Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs] It’s all “part of being a good…