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Hey, CC musicians! Enter the Free! Music! Contest!
by elliot UncategorizedEvery year, our friends at Musikpiraten e.V. host the Free! Music! Contest to find the best Creative Commons–licensed music of the year. CC is proud to serve as a partner in this awesome tradition. This year, anyone who preorders the album of winning selections earns the right to vote for their favorite entries. From the…
Affiliate Project Grants Wrap Up
by meryl Uncategorizedopensource.com / CC BY-SA One year ago, CC announced the Affiliate Project Grants to support and expand CC’s global network of dedicated experts. With a little help from Google, we were able to increase the capacity of CC’s Affiliates to undertake projects around the world benefiting a more free, open, and innovative internet. We received…
Affiliate Project Grant Update: Latin America
by meryl UncategorizedThis is the final installment in our five week blog post series on the Affiliate Team project grants. You’ve heard about projects in Africa, Arab World, Asia-Pacific, and Europe. Today, you’ll hear about projects from our Latin America region, including: a report on the evolution of the academic journals’ presence and dissemination in Chile, a…
Affiliate Project Grant Update: Arab World
by meryl UncategorizedCC is doing a five week series on the Affiliate Team project grants. Last week, you heard about the exciting events and activties from CC’s African region, and today we are featuring those from the Arab World. You’ll learn about a book about Arabic iconic figures that is first of its kind, videos explaining CC…
Disquiet Junto honors Bassel Khartabil
by elliot Uncategorized#FREEBASSEL / Kennisland / CC BY-SA We’re big fans of Disquiet Junto, a group of Creative Commons musicians who create original works and remixes each week around a different theme. This week, Disquiet Junto is honoring Bassel Khartabil, the Syrian CC community leader who’s been in prison in Syria since March 2012, with a music…
Innerviews' Anil Prasad – Music Without Borders
by meryl Uncategorizedphoto by: Jeremy Harris “Could you please print out your website on company letterhead and mail it to me to process your request?” This is the kind of question Anil Prasad received from music industry professionals and publicists when he began Innerviews in 1994—the internet’s first and longest-running music magazine. The internet has evolved since…
#cc10 Featured Content: Jason Sigal on Chris Zabriskie
by elliot UncategorizedIn celebration of Creative Commons’ tenth anniversary, we asked various friends of CC to write about their favorite CC-licensed works. Today, Jason Sigal tells the story of how Chris Zabriskie started licensing his music under CC BY and, in the process, opened new professional doors in his music career. Happy 10th, CC! From the Free…
Dublab Celebrates #cc10 with a New Music Mix
by Eric Steuer UncategorizedIn celebration of the tenth anniversary of Creative Commons, our good friends at Dublab created an awesome #cc10 music mix. The continuous blend includes 22 tracks by esteemed artists like Bradford Cox, Lucky Dragons, Nite Jewel, Dntel, and Matthewdavid. The mix is available for free download and is available to the world under CC’s BY-NC…
On CBC podcasts and CC-licensed music available for commercial use
by mike UncategorizedOn Friday, Michael Geist broke the story that the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation had apparently banned use of CC-licensed music in its podcasts. This seemed odd, given that the CBC’s Spark podcast has long used, promoted, and done interesting projects with CC-licensed music. It is always gratifying to see CC supporters (superheroes even!) quickly respond —…
Update from pioneering Creative Commons and open source friendly music label Magnatune
by mike UncategorizedWe’ve been following Magnatune since it launched in 2003 as a record label that embraced the net, including giving fans the legal right to do what comes naturally given the net — share an remix music noncommercially — by offering all label music under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike license. At the time a fairly radical…