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Videoblogging Week Report: Video Bumpers for Your CC Licensed Content
by kidproto Uncategorized postAs mentioned before, Jay Dedman invited myself and Colette Vogel to speak about Creative Commons Licensing and the Podcasting Legal Guide as the kick-off event to this week, the annual international Videoblogging Week. Both Colette and I led a discussion with many popular videobloggers outside in a nice sunny park in mission bay in SF.…
Dabble DB Commons
by mike Uncategorized postDabble has launched a free version of its innovative web database application. All content created with the free version, Dabble DB Commons, is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution license (the same as Swivel, mentioned last month). For license nerds, this is a good time to link to the Science Commons Databases and Creative Commons…
Creative Commons Salon SF Next Wednesday: Joi, John, Heather and Jim
by kidproto Uncategorized postPlease join us for the first CC Salon of 2007 at ShineSF.com on Wednesday, February 21, from 7-9 PM in San Francisco. It will be major! And, yes, please note, we are not doing this event monthly now, but every other month to maximize the impact in SF! The line-up for the evening: John Wilbanks,…
Chilean Library of Congress Releases All of their Content under CC BY-NC-SA Chile License
by kidproto Uncategorized postProject lead of CC Chile, Claudio Ruiz Gallardo, recently posted to the Creative Commons community mailing list that the Biblioteca del Congreso Nacional del Chile released all of their content under the recently launched CC BY-NC-SA Chile License. Claudio stated on the cc-community mailing list that: This is a very important notice for the CC…
Review of the Law, Business & Policy of Community Created Content Now Available
by mia Uncategorized postCC Finland project lead Herkko Hietanen has co-authored a book with Ville Oksanen and Mikko Välimäki that provides a useful overview of the law, business and policy of “community created content,” entitled (not suprisingly) “Community Created Content. It is published by Turre Legal Publishing and available for download as a PDF under the Creative Commons…
KEY CORPORATE CONTRIBUTIONS HELP CREATIVE COMMONS BEAT ITS FUNDRAISING GOAL 1.6x OVER.
by melissa About CC postSan Francisco, USA — January 7, 2007 Creative Commons today announced that generous support from a variety of key technology companies — including Microsoft, Mozilla, Digital Garage, Yahoo!, Macrovision, Red Hat, DivX, Tucows and Second Life — pushed Creative Commons’ fundraising campaign to an extraordinary success. In combination with the proceeds from the Wired Benefit…
PUMP AUDIO AND CREATIVE COMMONS COLLABORATE ON COMMERCIAL LICENSING FOR INDEPENDENT MUSICIANS
by Eric Steuer About CC postPUMP AUDIO AND CREATIVE COMMONS COLLABORATE ON COMMERCIAL LICENSING FOR INDEPENDENT MUSICIANS Hudson Valley, NY and San Francisco, CA – December 12, 2006 – Pump Audio, the leading provider of quality independent music to content creators globally, today announced that it has teamed up with Creative Commons to expand and promote fair commercial licensing options…
The commons and liberation
by mike Uncategorized postEben Moglen’s Plone Conference keynote address Software and Community in the Early 21st century places free software in the context of historical desire for freedom and social justice, closing with “The difference is, this time, we win.” While Moglen’s focus is free software, everything he says applies equally to free culture. He uses the first…
Creative Commons and Owl Multimedia Introduce the World’s First “True Music Search Engineâ€
by Eric Steuer About CC postCreative Commons and Owl Multimedia Introduce the World’s First “True Music Search Engine†10,444 Tracks Available Under Creative Commons License Searchable by Sound Via Collections From Magnatune and ccMixter San Francisco, CA, USA and New York, NY, USA — December 6, 1006 Creative Commons, a nonprofit organization that provides flexible copyright licenses for authors and…
Creative Commons and Owl Multimedia Introduce the World’s First “True Music Search Engine”
by Eric Steuer About CC postCreative Commons and Owl Multimedia Introduce the World’s First “True Music Search Engine” 10,444 Tracks Available Under Creative Commons License Searchable by Sound Via Collections From Magnatune and ccMixter San Francisco, CA, USA and New York, NY, USA — December 6, 1006 Creative Commons, a nonprofit organization that provides flexible copyright licenses for authors and…