In April we belatedly blogged license adoption estimates for December 2005, which had been published elsewhere in December. That estimate, based on Google queries restricted to CC-licensed content, came to 45 million web pages under a Creative Commons license. What a difference six months make. Our current aggregate estimate, also based on Google queries for…

Add Warsaw to salons in Beijing and San Francisco and other events next week: Creative Commons Poland is proud to invite everyone to the first meeting of the Polish CC Salon in Warsaw. The meeting, titled “Godzilla or Gone With the Wind? Internet and Cinema” will focus on issues of open culture in relation to…

The first CC Salon Beijing is June 11. Jon Phillips will be there. June 13 in San Francisco I’m following up on my recent presentation at Netsquared with a brief talk at Net Tuesday, details at meetup or upcoming. June 14 you already know about the super-exciting CC Salon San Francisco. June 15 we have…

John Panzer of AOL has been writing about feed licensing. His recommendation: So, here’s my new summary, which is shorter but more complicated: Support and promote feed standards for embedded licenses. Allow fair use for unlicensed feed content. You’ll need to consult your legal department on what fair use is in each case, and figure…

In Pictures has published 22 computer books under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 2.5 license. These books cover computer basics with several operating systems, productivity applications and basic web design and programming. These books make maximum use of images. A quote published at DesktopLinux and elsewhere explains: Most computer books contain 50,000 to 100,000 words, but…