Indaba Music, in their words, is “an international community of musicians, music professionals, and fans exploring the creative possibilities of making music with people in different places”. Enabling exciting forms of online musical creation, Indaba allows musicians to work with each other in ways that are both fresh and exciting, facilitating new and interesting means…

This hit the net last week, but it took a little while for us to go through our various channels to figure out what was going on (i.e. if only I had taken German in high school). CC-evangelist Cory Doctorow was recently interviewed on the German show Metropolis (a product of the German-French network Arte)…

A few members of the Creative Commons staff are headed to Austin, Texas later this week to attend South by Southwest Interactive. If you’re going to be in town for it too, make sure to find us and say hello. During the days of March 9, 10, and 11, we’ll have a booth at the…

Thanks again to everyone who participated in Creative Commons’ 2007 Annual Fundraising Campaign. We received financial support from individuals in 52 jurisdictions and many companies, totaling $601,976. Your support, however you’re able to give it, is what sustains and drives CC. This was our third annual campaign (and the second I’ve been involved with) and…

We were recently turned onto That Other Paper, an Austin based online-publication that focuses on technology and culture with its feet firmly planted in the CC-community. Not only do they license all their works under a CC BY-NC-ND license but they also release their library of professional photography under a CC BY-SA license. Similarly, Four…

CASH Music (who we blogged about glowingly here) has recentlly added new media from both seminal rocker Donita Sparks and experimental indie act Xiu Xiu. Donita Spark’s page has CC licensed free downloads as well as the ability for people to own a share of a percentage of the sync license royalty check for Spark’s…

CC Serbia will be hosting the first CC Salon in Belgrade on March 7th – 10th. The program features many fantastic local projects, including CCBit, the first Creative Commons-licensed music CD compilation in Serbia, and Freedom Toaster, a device/interface for individual file-sharing in public spaces. The CC Salon Belgrade also welcomes guest speakers from Brazil,…

Some very exciting news for music fans: Tonight, Nine Inch Nails released Ghosts I-IV, a collection of 36 new instrumental tracks that are available to the world under a Creative Commons BY-NC-SA license. This music arrived unexpectedly as the result of an experiment. The rules were as follows: 10 weeks, no clear agenda, no overthinking,…

The Encyclopedia of Life, an ambitious project to document all of Earth’s known species, has released its first 30,000 pages of content. Over the next 10 years, the project aims to aggregate, in one place, information on an estimated 1.8 million species. From the Encyclopedia of Life (EOL) press release: Intended as a tool for…

In the universe of blogs and other syndicated content, a planet is a service that aggregates a specific set of blogs, usually all relevant to a particular community, so that one may easily follow conversations (or at least blogged updates) in the community or drop in and see what is happening in a community without…