Tomorrow (December 15th), Creative Commons will celebrate its fifth birthday here in San Francisco and in cities all over the world, including Bangalore, Beijing, Belgrade, Berlin, Brisbane, Los Angeles, New York, Pasay, and Seoul. The San Francisco party will feature announcements by Joi Ito and Lawrence Lessig, a performance by Gilberto Gil and his son…

Today Yale College announced Open Yale Courses, thereby making a collection of Yale courses freely available online. Along with MIT’s recent announcement, this is fantastic news for the open education movement. “Open Yale Courses,” presents unique access to the full content of a selection of college-level courses and makes them available in various formats, including…

Our good friends over at Magnatune are offering a sweet holiday deal–free music! Create an elegantly merry mood with the Magnatune Christmas Compilation, featuring over 60 minutes of the most timeless and classic carols of the season, by ten of Magnatune’s best-selling artists. When you download this album, you’ll be able to choose from one…

Image courtesy Steve Carson | CC BY-NC-SA Congratulations to MIT’s OpenCourseWare (OCW) initiative, which has recently passed the 1,800-course mark. First announced in 2001, MIT OCW has grown from a 50-course pilot to a site that includes virtually the entire MIT undergraduate and graduate curriculum. Like many OCW projects, MIT uses the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share…

Kudos to Pix-Yu for creating an engaging social networking site where users can easily share photo events. Pix-Yu supports Creative Commons licensing and is promoted as an “online virtual space in which users can share life experiences, events, journeys, holidays and meetings etc, by uploading an unlimited number of pictures.” Flickr has been one of…