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…

The DigiBarn is a computer museum located in a 90-year-old barn in California’s Santa Cruz Mountains. It is also an online repository of Creative Commons-licensed photos, video, audio, and technical documentation that tell the history of personal computing. The DigiBarn’s collections include small and big computers, game systems, software, and schwag. We recently spoke with…

The Fort Minor Remix Contest at ccMixter has been a smash success, with hundreds of incredible entries by producers from all around the globe. The contest ends tonight at 9pm PT, so get your last minute submissions in today! The winner will receive a Technics SL-1200 turntable, courtesy of Warner Bros. Records and Machine Shop…

Attention all remixers: the Fort Minor Remix Contest over at ccMixter starts accepting entries today. We’re really excited to hear what you all have been cooking up since we posted the Creative Commons-licensed source material online two weeks ago. You have from now until May 6 to post your hottest track and compete to win…

Creative Commons, Warner Bros. Records, and Machine Shop Recordings, are proud to present the Fort Minor Remix Contest, starting today at ccMixter. Fort Minor — the hip-hop project led by Linkin Park vocalist/guitarist/keyboardist Mike Shinoda — is offering the separated audio elements of its hit single “Remember the Name” online under a Creative Commons BY-NC…

San Francisco, USA & Los Angeles, USA – March 8, 2006 Creative Commons, along with Warner Bros. Records and Machine Shop Recordings, today announced the Fort Minor Remix Contest. Fort Minor, the hip-hop project led by Linkin Park vocalist/guitarist/keyboardist Mike Shinoda, has made the digital files from the recording session of its song “Remember the…

CC BY-NC — Courtesy of Second Life Second Life, the virtual world created in 2003, has recently been hosting various “free culture” related events in world. Mia Garlick caught up with Wagner James Au, who writes the blog New World Notes as an embedded journalist in Second Life, to learn more about these events and…

So today, Creative Commons launches its first fund raising campaign. Until now, we’ve lived on very generous grants from some very wise foundations. But the IRS doesn’t allow nonprofits to live such favored lives for long. To maintain our nonprofit status, the IRS says we must meet a “public support test” — which means we…

A museum exhibit called “Illegal Art” might sound like a history of naughty pictures. Turns out that the exhibit (through July 25 at SF MOMA Artist’s Gallery) is more innocuous than most primetime TV: A Mickey Mouse gasmask. Pez candy dispensers honoring fallen hip-hop stars. A litigious Little Mermaid. Not kids’ stuff, exactly—but illegal? Copyright…