WINKsite, a publishing and community platform that helps creators bring their content into the mobile environment, has recently launched the Creative Commons Mobile Library, containing Creative Commons licensed works that can be viewed from mobile devices. The initial group of content contains a selection of books licensed under Creative Commons licenses, and is set to…

I had the pleasure of speaking on two panels recently. Last Thursday, I participated in The Open Source Paradigm at the SF MOMA, an event aimed to explore the history of open-source, and find new applications of its concepts in art. A few interesting ideas came out of the panel including a No Military Use…

Two great articles about Creative Commons recently came out in the press. A story in the Los Angeles Times by John Healey, details how the most recent release of Morpheus, the popular file-sharing network, is able to identify MP3 files marked with Creative Commons licenses (registration required). Yesterday, Dawn C. Chmielewski wrote a story on…

Yesterday, I had the pleasure of speaking on a panel at the California Laywers for the Arts, Music Business Seminar. It was a great event — we discussed how the Internet is affecting commercial music distribution, and business models. In the context of the file-sharing debate, I spoke about how Creative Commons can clarify whether…

Leveraging the Internet Archive’s generous offer to host Creative Commons licensed (audio and video) files for free, we recently completed the 0.96 beta version of The Publisher, a desktop, drag-and-drop application that licenses audio and video files, and sends them to the Internet Archive for free hosting. When you’re done uploading, the application gives you…