Jamendo just turned on a Creative Commons portal for browsing and searching albums by license (very similar to Flickr’s CC portal). While Jamendo has always been a CC music site, the portal interface makes using Jamendo extra convenient when you care about which CC license the music you’re using falls under (e.g., for remix or…

We’ve updated the experimental license choosers on ccLabs to support the new version 3.0 licenses and given one a visual and performance refresh: This involved re-writing the license chooser in Flash. DHTML wizards, take this as a challenge. Free software advocates, we understand that free Flash is important, and on the chooser page urge contriubutions…

Dabble has launched a free version of its innovative web database application. All content created with the free version, Dabble DB Commons, is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution license (the same as Swivel, mentioned last month). For license nerds, this is a good time to link to the Science Commons Databases and Creative Commons…

About a year after Free Culture @ NYU’s Creative Commons Art Show 2006, Free Culture Florida is putting on Open Art, a Creative Commons art show in the University of Florida’s Reitz Union Gallery. The show will feature mixed media and prints. Digital versions of the latter may be viewed at the Open Art 2007…

Doc Searls and others have been writing about Vendor Relationship Management — infrastructure facilitating relationships where the customer is the vendor’s equal, contra Customer Relationship Management. Searls’ most recent essay on VRM, Building an Relationship Economy, says that Creative Commons licenses have a role to play: Let’s ignore the record companies for a minute. Instead,…