Book publisher Tim O’Reilly writes: As part of our continued effort to understand the impact on book sales of the availability of free downloads, I wanted to share some data on downloads versus sales of the book Asterisk: The Future of Telephony, by Leif Madsen, Jared Smith, and Jim Van Meggelen, which was released for…

(©urve)music™* is a very cool UK label which specializes in chilly Latin jazz and collects brilliant vocalists like nobody’s business. They have agreed to throw several a cappellas and instrumental tracks into the Commons looking to gather enough material for a pair of all CC music remix albums later this year. ccMixter is only happy…

Photo by mecredis (FRED!) licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0. For all that did and did not attend the fabulous FreeCulture.org National Conference this year, there is a great blog post that gives a birds eye view of the event last weekend. John Wilbanks from Science Commons presented as well as many others from various projects…

After a brilliant CC Salon in Seoul at the beginning of May, Judge Jongsoo (Jay) Yoon, sent me a URL with the most media I’ve seen captured from one salon. I wish I could have been there to eat some good bibimbap or other dish and talk CC Korea (1 of the 36 CC Project…

Copy Me/Remix Me is the second CD assembled and released by Creative Commons. The following is a list of all the submitted remixes of BM Relocation Program’s Superego Exchange song (original song here), which we held a mini-contest for. We picked out our favorites for the album, but you’re welcome to download all the entires…

Copy Me/Remix Me is the second CD assembled and released by Creative Commons, and is given away at events that feature members of the Creative Commons team. The songs are available for direct download and feature embedded metadata, following our guidelines for placing license information into files. Also featured on this CD are multiple remixes…

Distribute your music online — on your own terms. Allow some public uses of your music — on certain conditions. Choose your own DIY copyright license — at no charge at all. Digitally tag your tunes for easy search — with just a few clicks. Creative Commons is a non-profit dedicated to helping artists of…

Creative Commons CD Copy Me Remix Me Remixes of Copy Me Remix Me CD

The WIRED CD: Rip. Sample. Mash. Share. These musicians are saying that true creativity needs to be open, fluid, and alive. When it comes to copyright, they are pro-choice. Here are 16 songs that encourage people to play with their tunes, not just play them. — WIRED magazine, November 2004 issue (CD was included with…

This is the list of licenses that have been approved by Creative Commons as compatible with the two Creative Commons ShareAlike licenses, CC BY-SA and CC BY-NC-SA. You must use one of the licenses listed on this page for your contribution when you make adaptations of material under BY-SA or BY-NC-SA and share the adaptation,…