Distribute your music online — on your own terms. Allow some public uses of your music — on certain conditions. Choose your own DIY copyright license — at no charge at all. Digitally tag your tunes for easy search — with just a few clicks. Creative Commons is a non-profit dedicated to helping artists of…

Four articles turned up yesterday all advocating use of different Creative Commons licenses in different contexts, nicely demonstrating the not-really-niche-anymore scope covered by Creative Commons. Newspapers: In GateHouse’s case, they’ve reserved the right to commercialize, the right to preserve the content’s integrity, and the right of attribution. [Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs] It’s all “part of being a good…

Another milestone for CC-centric music site Jamendo: 3,000 albums released, including 1,000 in the last three months. If you’re a Linux user the Rythmbox music player is a great way to explore these albums. It ships with a Jamendo plugin (and a Magnatune plugin), providing a seamless listening experience. Screenshot: Jono Bacon recently wrote about…

As 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 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…

Please 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,…

Project 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…

CC 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…

San 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 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…