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Who holds the copyright to the Universe?
by mike Uncategorized postBack cover of the inaugural issue of PLoS Medicine. Yesterday the Public Library of Science released the first issue of their second journal, PLoS Medicine. All articles are available under the Creative Commons Attribution License. Open Access News covers reactions to the new journal with several posts over the last few days. Also see our…
P2P-Politics.org
by glenn Uncategorized postA new site called P2P Politics is now live. The site enables anyone to select from a menu of video clips the ones that best express their view of the U.S. presidential elections, and then email links to those clips, along with a personalized message, to friends, family, and colleagues. It is like a cross…
New Website Puts 2004 Campaign Media in the People's Hands
by matt About CC postP2P-Politics.org lets friends and colleagues share political videos with just a click, thanks to Creative Commons copyright licensing SAN FRANCISCO, CA, USA —October 17, 2004—A new people-to-people website, P2P-Politics.org, today announced a free service for sharing political expression online. The site enables anyone to select from a menu of video clips the ones that best…
Browsing and searching for licensed photos at Flickr
by matt Uncategorized postFlickr is a great online photo sharing app that allows you to tag all your photos with a Creative Commons license. We’ve blogged about it in the past and interviewed the founder as well. Today they launched an entire area of their site devoted to showing off all the photos within their system that are…
We can work it out
by mike Uncategorized postBBC commentator Bill Thompson, riffing on the ongoing dispute between Apple Computer and Apple Corps (the Beatles), has a suggestion: In the days they set up Apple Corps they were radical hippies who challenged the establishment in many ways. Wouldn’t it be nice if they did the same thing now, and made the music available…
Political Expression and Copyright
by glenn Uncategorized postToday Robert Greenwald announced the release of footage from his controversial film Outfoxed under the Creative Commons Sampling Plus license. The release of his earlier film, Uncovered, will follow soon. Says Greenwald: In making Outfoxed and Uncovered, I learned how cumbersome and expensive it can be to license footage from news organizations. Creative Commons licenses…
Some clarifications about the "Commonwealth" list
by glenn Uncategorized postA few of you have expressed concern about a discussion list we announced recently. These are all good points and I feel I should make a couple of things clear: (1) It is never a foregone conclusion that a project in discussion will be adopted by Creative Commons. Check out the image on our discuss…
CC on Seybold DRM Panel
by mike Uncategorized postI’m speaking on a DRM Roundtable 10:30AM tomorrow at Seybold San Francisco. The panel will address current and future trends in Digital Rights Management (or the pejorative: Digital Restrictions Management). We have two FAQs addressing Creative Commons and DRM, reproduced below: Is Creative Commons involved in digital rights management (DRM)? No; we prefer to describe…
Dan Gillmor interview up
by matt Uncategorized postWe caught up with Dan Gillmor this week and conducted a short interview about the future of journalism and his new book, We The Media.
Live Modern
by matt Uncategorized postLive Modern is a new community site that describes themselves as “a free and open community for modern home buyers, architects, builders, developers, lenders, realtors–anyone interested in modernist housing.” They’ve got a Creative Commons license on all their own content, a section devoted to a new, affordable, custom modern home called The Glide House, a…