As Andres from our CC Scotland team has already blogged, there has been another court case in Spain involving the use of CC licensed music. For those keeping track, there has already been a similar case decided earlier this year. In the earlier case, the main Spanish collecting society — Sociedad General de Autores y…

San Francisco, CA, USA — December 5, 2006 Creative Commons and New World Notes are pleased to sponsor a conversation with Judge Richard A. Posner in the virtual world of Second Life on December 7, 2006 at 6-8pm PST. Second Life is an online society in a 3D world, where users can explore, build, socialize,…

Richard A. Posner, a senior lecturer at the University of Chicago Law School and a judge in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, will be logging into Second Life to discuss his new book, Not a Suicide Pact: The Constitution in a Time of National Emergency. James aka Hamlet Au is going…

Enter the Armed Madhouse Remix Contest! Bestselling author Greg Palast is offering tracks from his recent audio book Armed Madhouse online under a Creative Commons BY-NC license, so that musicians and producers can use them in remixes. If you’re into sampling and mash-ups, download the audio, create a remix, and send your finished MP3 to…

Creative Commons Turns Four! Please join us on Friday, December 15, 2006, from 9pm until 2am, to celebrate Creative Commons’ birthday! Raise a glass and toast the four years that CC has worked to promote and enable a participatory culture. CC’s big day is being hosted by the good people at Songbird – the supercool…

CC board member and Duke law professor Jamie Boyle is serializing his 19 years in progress novel, started “when I was Shakespeare’s lawyer in a televised mock trial in front of three Supreme Court Justices. He was accused of not being the real author of his own works.” Each chapter of The Shakespeare Chronicles is…

New license drafts for version 3.0 for the CC US license and the new generic/unported license have been posted. There have been several new amendments to the licenses — mainly as a result of the discussions on the cc-licenses list, but some as a result of discussions internally and amongst CC’s international affiliates. A first…

Since last month, bestselling author Greg Palast has been offering tracks from his recent audio book Armed Madhouse online under a Creative Commons BY-NC license, so that musicians and producers can use them in remixes. If you’re into sampling and mash-ups, download the audio, create a remix, and send your finished mp3 to submitremix@gregpalast.com before…

Museum offers unreleased live performances by notable musicians and emerging young artists for free download and file sharing BOSTON, MA, USA — September 14, 2006 Starting today, everyone who visits the website of the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum will be able to download free classical music and share it with anyone, anywhere. “The Concert,” the…

Museum offers unreleased live performances by notable musicians and emerging young artists for free download and file sharing BOSTON, MA, USA — September 14, 2006 Starting today, everyone who visits the website of the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum will be able to download free classical music and share it with anyone, anywhere. “The Concert,” the…