A class of services that complements and builds upon the CC infrastructure includes assurance, provenance, registration, and warranty. Numly and RegisteredCommons are two currently pioneering organizations in this space. Chris Matthieu of Numly started a descrption and comparison table for the space on the CC wiki. People from RegisteredCommons have added. Other experts or those…

Yesterday saw the release of version 3.1 of the world’s premier (it won an award…) remix centric CMS — ccHost. Check out the developer discussion to get a sense of the cool projects people are building on this GPL codebase.

There will be (at least) four Creative Commons talks October 27. Three in Toronto at the 5th annual Seneca Free Software & Open Source Symposium: Nathan Yergler on Little “s” Semantic: Exploring Metadata About the Web, Jon Phillips on ccHost: Open Service and Media Hosting with Creative Commons software, and CC Canada joint project lead…

An article in Fortune magazine about expensive museum acquisitions includes this bit about the impact of a work’s copyright status on demand for viewing the original (emphasis added): An example of the long-term benefit of an iconic artwork such as “Adele” can be found at the Art Institute of Chicago, home to three of the…

The first Creative Commons licensed PhD to be defended on 2nd October in Göteborg, Sweden. The PhD thesis entitled Disruptive Technology: Effects of Technology Regulation on Democracy deals with the negative democratic effects which often arise when attempts are made to regulate the Internet technology. By studying the attempts to regulate the disruptive effects of…