Yesterday, I had the opportunity to speak at the Open Source and Free Software conference, held by the Knowledge Media Design Institute at the University of Toronto. The conference was designed to explore the legal, moral, political, social, commercial, and technical perspectives of open source and free software, to build a broader understanding of the…

When Creative Commons’ model was forming, members of the founding team often cited an example of one day being able to search for photos of the Eiffel Tower that could be used noncommercially — an arbitrary example to articulate our vision. Our licenses, and metadata schema were built to make this a reality. We can…

Check out some of the entries in the comments. You’ve still got till May 28th to make your remix! Post your entry to the comments on the blog, or send email to us. Here is the original call for entries: Take a crack at remixing, or making a video for Jim’s Big Ego’s song Mix…

A new book entitled Theory and Practice of Online Learning, published by Athabasca University, is now available for download under an Attribution-NoDerivs-NonCommercial license. The book is also being sold. Sir John Daniel, Assistant Director-General for Education of UNESCO, had this to say about it: “I am delighted that educators all over the world will be…

Opsound has a great Flash-based Internet radio application, highlighting an hours worth of Opsound music. Lots of mellow electronica, and low-fi tracks — a very soothing collection of tunes, all offered under Attribution-ShareAlike licenses.