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LibriVox is One Year Old!

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August 10 LibriVox celebrated its first anniversary with an hour long program celebreating the amazing community that has gathered around the project. Congratulations to everyone involved in this great effort to bring public domain books to life as audio. We posted about LibriVox and other CC litcasts six months ago.

Inside track on the future of free content licenses

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If you want an inside track on the future of free content licenses you could hardly do better than watch or listen to recordings of two Wikimania sessions — Lawrence Lessig on The Ethics of the Free Culture Movement (particularly the last twenty minutes) and Eben Moglen on Document Licenses and the Future of Free…

Crow book, Pig movie, Lavender soap

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MCM, who last month published a DRM fable for children has published The Crow Who Could Fly, a patent fable for children, under the CC Attribution-ShareAlike license. German and Hungarian translations have already been published, with Chinese underway. There’s now an effort to turn MCM’s The Pig and the Box into a movie. If that…

CC tastemaking and timekeeping

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Gratisvibes is a newish blog reviewing and recommending CC licensed electronic music: Gratisvibes aims to lead readers to the best of Creative Commons-licensed Electronic Music on the web, spreading the word for greater musical freedom for both artists and listeners alike. ccMixter star teru has a new remix project, ccMusictime: The following mixes were made…

Evoca

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Evoca is a new service that helps you record audio via their web application, phone, or skype (you can also upload a .mp3 or .wav file) and allows people to choose a CC license or public domain dedication for their recordings. Many people seem to be doing just that! Via Tom Raftery.