Now through July 20 entires are being accepted for the Open Video Contest promoting open content, open formats and open source. Entries should be under 30 seconds, under 10 megabytes, in OGG Theora format and released under the Attribution-ShareAlike license. Check out the press release and see the contest page for rules and other information.…

After a brief hiatus cc365 returns with help from Black Sweater, White Cat collaborators Biotic and Subsystem7. Grant Robertson is also inviting anyone to join Indieish.com (cc365’s host): I invite anyone who loves Indiesh.com to register for an account, and post whatever you like, whenever you like as long as it relates to the progressive…

Jamendo CEO Laurent Kratz writes in about Under the Radar (see our previous post): The conference went well, the most impressive part was the closing session. This closing session was an interview of Denmark West, Executive Vice President of MTV in charge of strategy, by a reporter of CNET. And guess what? When the interviewer…

This week CC music company Jamendo is presenting at a raft of conferences. CTO Sylvain Zimmer is in Amsterdam presenting at “Holland Open Conference” and the “Digital Pioneers Academy.” His slides make interesting reading if you’re interested in CC music and related business models. CEO Laurent Kratz and CFO Pierre Gérard are in the San…

Last month we noted that Flickr added the same CC search options to its advanced search that Yahoo! web search offers (Google’s advanced search has differently phrased but equivalent functionality). Now we’ve added Flickr search to our find page, from which you can now search for CC-licensed content indexed by Google and Yahoo! as well…