One of the many cool aspects of the November issue of WIRED are the blurbs about each artist who contributed to the CD. In the print mag, they dot the many-page Creative Commons spread like Easter eggs. Example: Track 7: Dan the Automator/Relaxation Spa Treatment The busy brain behind groups like Deltron 3030, Dr. Octagon,…

At 2pm this Sunday on the Bay Area’s KALW (91.7), Benjamen Walker’s “The Creative Remix” will debut on the airwaves. The main point of the show: “If remixing is an art form why are the lawyers running the conversation?” Follow Ben, whose insight and sense of humor have drawn him a cult radio following, as…

PRICKLY PARADIGM PRESS RELEASES ITS BACKLIST UNDER A CREATIVE COMMONS LICENSE Tradition of pamphleteering is reincarnated online with release of scholarly pamphlets under “some rights reserved” copyright licenses San Francisco, CA and Chicago, IL, USA — October 13, 2004 — Prickly Paradigm Press (http://www.prickly-paradigm.com), a pamphlet-publishing press distributed by the University of Chicago Press, this…

The Creative Remix, with host Benjamen Walker, is an hour-long “lawyer free” examination of the art, culture, and history of the remix. The hour kicks off with a musical analysis of DJ Dangermouse’s infamous remix of the Beatles and Jay-Z. Then we go back in time to check out the ancient Roman art of the…

Another cool aspect of the WIRED show last week: Gil and Byrne both played a lot of covers. As Justin Cone’s award-winning Creative Commons film says, “Creativity always builds on the past . . .” Among his originals, Gil also played: –Cambalache (Enrique Santos Discepolo — a dark Argentine tango) –Imagine (John Lennon) –Three Little…

Flipping through Film Festival Today, I came across an article about actor Kevin Spacey‘s project Triggerstreet, an on-line community for indie filmmakers and screenwriters. Now, I’m fairly new to this movie stuff, so Triggerstreet may be old news for all I know. But I was intrigued by what I read in the piece and saw…

My favorite part of the WIRED concert last week were the two songs Gilberto Gil and David Byrne performed together. The first was called “Asa Branca,” a 1947 song penned by Luiz Gonzaga and Humberto Teixeira and based on a traditional Brazilian tune. Gil and Bryne traded verses in Portuguese and English as their percussionists…

BBC 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…

Brad Neuberg has discovered a CC licensed street mural in San Francisco, California: Check out Brad’s post for more pictures. No kidding! The Market Street Railway Mural is at 300 Church Street in San Francisco. More from the muralist and the Market Street Railway.

Last month Norman Walsh started using a Creative Commons license for his essays (consistently informed and provocative on XML, Semantic Web, and other technical topics) and photographs. Norm does us the favor of explaining his choice: When I started writing this collection of essays, I slapped on a quick copyright statement asserting “All Rights Reserved.”…