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OECD report on CC declassified

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Participative Web: User-Created Content (pdf, 74 pages) mentions Creative Commons several times. According to the foreword: This report was presented to the Working Party on the Information Economy (WPIE) in December 2006 and declassified by the Committee for Information, Computer and Communications Policy in March 2007. Now the whole world knows … about User Generated…

Most sophisticated Flickr/CC mashup yet

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FlickrCash uses the Flickr API to search by CC license, build lightboxes, and keep a record of licensed photos you intend to use. Augustine Fou, creator of FlickrCash, tells us: I created FlickrCash because I found many really beautiful photos on Flickr but could not use them for “commercial” purposes like design work for clients,…

Jamendo 3k, Integrating open content

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Another milestone for CC-centric music site Jamendo: 3,000 albums released, including 1,000 in the last three months. If you’re a Linux user the Rythmbox music player is a great way to explore these albums. It ships with a Jamendo plugin (and a Magnatune plugin), providing a seamless listening experience. Screenshot: Jono Bacon recently wrote about…

Dapper: In Exchange for Traffic Back

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Dapper aims to make it easy to extract and reuse content from any website. They just released Dapper Version 2, providing a good excuse to mention their support for CC licensing which they rolled out in February: Another exciting part of today’s release is the ability to ascribe licenses to your content allowing you to…

141 picks

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As noted in January, Black Sweater White Cat has taken the CC music pick of the day baton. Last week they reached 100 picks. Meanwhile, blocSonic has released their fourth beautifully packaged netlabel compilation: Soundtrack for the Coming Revolution. We mentioned their first release, also only in January. That’s 141 CC-licensed picks from music lovers…