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Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum’s “The Concert” Podcast Reaches Over 1 Million Downloads
by cameron Open Culture post“The Concert” is a classical music podcast produced by the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum which is released under our Music Sharing license. Here is what we had to say back in 2006 when the podcast first launched: The podcast features unreleased live performances by master musicians and talented young artists recorded from the museum’s Sunday…
Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum’s “The Concert†Podcast Reaches Over 1 Million Downloads
by cameron Open Culture post“The Concert” is a classical music podcast produced by the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum which is released under our Music Sharing license. Here is what we had to say back in 2006 when the podcast first launched: The podcast features unreleased live performances by master musicians and talented young artists recorded from the museum’s Sunday…
Eric Steuer, CC's Creative Director, Interviewed on Epic FU
by cameron Open Culture postEpic FU, the web-based art/tech/music/culture show we recentlly profiled as a Featured Commoner, just posted a great episode that includes an interview with CC’s Creative Director Eric Steuer. For those who are familiar with CC there isn’t a ton of new information on what we do but for those who are new to CC, the…
CC Salon Paris on October 15
by michelle Events postCC France is organizing the first CC Salon in Paris on October 15, 2008, in partnership with La Cantine by Silicon Sentier. At a moment where copyright laws are becoming always more restrictive, in particular in France with the HADOPI initiative, this event will give the opportunity to the Creative Commons community to reaffirm its…
Brad Sucks
by cameron Open Culture postBrad Sucks, a CC license using pop/rock musician, recently released his latest album Out Of It for free online and under a CC BY-SA license. Brad is one of the most remixed artists over at ccMixter, runs an active blog, interacts with fans directly, and was recently interview by the Featured Commoners behind The Indie…
Freesound.org Update: Name Change, Radio, CC Licensed PHD, and more
by cameron Uncategorized postFreesound, a venerable repository of CC-licensed samples, has been up to a bevy of good work since we last checked in with them. This includes developing a beautiful successor to wav2png, changing their name to freesound.org, teaming up with Happy New Ears to develop an interactive sample machine aimed at children, and launching Freesound Radio,…
Jordan
by mike Uncategorized postCreative Commons is working with Abu-Ghazaleh Intellectual Property (AGIP) to create Jordan jurisdiction-specific licenses from the generic Creative Commons licenses. CCi Jordan List Project Leads: Ziad Maraqa (Legal Cases & Court Decisions Manager, AGIP) and Rami Olwan (Researcher at CCI ARC Center for Excellence for Creative Industries and Innovation). License draft v3.0 (PDF). English re-translation…
FSCONS: Free Society Conference and Nordic Summit
by michelle Events postFree Culture, Free Software, and Free Content will join forces under the banner of “Free Society” at FSCONS on October 24-26 at the IT University of Götheborg, Sweden. The orgnaizing trinity, Creative Commons Sweden, Free Software Foundation Europe, and Wikimedia Sverige, see FSCONS as a chance to reach out with their respective communities and build…
The Indie Band Survival Guide
by cameron Uncategorized postRandy Chertkow and Jason Feehan are true polymaths – founders of the pop band Beatnik Turtle, authors of The Indie Band Survival Guide, and a computer engineer and attorney respectively, they continuously have their hands in a bevy of different projects. Their most recent project, the wide publication of The Indie Band Survival Guide –…
Creative Commons Launches Study of “Noncommercial Use”
by Eric Steuer About CC postSan Francisco, California, USA — September 18, 2008 The nonprofit organization Creative Commons has launched a research study that will explore differences between commercial and noncommercial uses of content, as those uses are understood among various communities and in connection with a wide variety of content. Generous support for the study has been provided by…