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Our friends at OYEZ, the U.S. Supreme Court audio archivists dedicated to releasing their decades of recordings online with our licenses, have already posted the audio from yesterday’s arguments in the challenge to the McCain-Feingold campaign finance reform law. Check it out.
“Supreme Court oral arguments now available for file-swapping” by Phuong Le
“Getting audio recordings of landmark legal arguments is becoming as easy as downloading the latest Snoop Dogg single.” There are two nice pieces on the OYEZ project’s recent release of Supreme Court audio under Creative Commons licenses in the New York Times and AP today, among a few other places.
“Supreme Court vs. The Supremes” by Katie Dean
Wired News has a nice article on our work with Supreme Court audio archivists OYEZ today. Download and fileshare a few megabytes of history.
Our friends at OYEZ.org have now made it ridiculously easy to download MP3s of classic U.S. Supreme Court oral arguments for free under a Creative Commons license. Here’s a list of the first wave of Supreme Court recordings that OYEZ has embedded with license information. Download (warning: big) a few here if you like, then…
A big part of the OYEZ Supreme Court audio announcement today is our new strategy for helping people associate license information with MP3s. (We’ll soon move on to other file formats.) Right now we’re just showing people how to associate verifiable license links with files. But we want to encourage the developer community and various…
The Helsinki Institute for Information Technology Will Drive Public Discussion from the Silicon Valley Nonprofit’s Website Palo Alto, California, USA – Creative Commons, a nonprofit dedicated to building a layer of reasonable copyright, announced today that it would begin development of Finnish versions of its copyright licenses as part of its ongoing International Commons (iCommons)…
This is the second of several postings describing potential innovations to our licenses. It comes courtesy of Rob Hallman, a Stanford Law School student in the “Advanced Contracts: Creative Commons” seminar. Commons.edu? You have the power to make learning fun. At least partly. Promoting education is a personal goal and a corporate mission for many…
The Supreme Court has ruled 7-2 against the petitioners in Eldred v. Ashcroft. (See Lessig’s blog and the Eldred site for official news and responses.) What now? Creative Commons marches on as before, but with a pronounced sensitivity to the need to offer copyright holders who want to forgo long or broad copyright protections a…