There is a great mix of CC-licensed electronic over at Gratisvibes, an amazing music blog based solely around CC-licensed electronic music. The mix itself stems from the Flash Forward Party in Singapore, part of iCommns’ 50 Great Parties Club. From GratisVibes: Well, it’s been a week but finally the guys (DJ FU, CT and I)…
The Craft Economy, an indie band out of Toronto, have recently (and rightfully) garnered some internet fame for their unique approach to content distribution. From Torontoist: If you dig free stuff and you happen to be walking through Kensington Market or Queen West this week, local band The Craft Economy have burned a hundred copies…
Wikipages.com, a “wiki-fied” business directory that allows anyone to add and edit entries on business listings, has recentlly gone CC by licensing all their content under a CC BY-SA licence. Although currently focused on the NYC-Metro area, Wikipages is gearing up to take on more cities in the immediate future. This is another fine example…
Appearing in the Pepperdine University Graphic, the title and first paragraph of Internet offers more than Facebook read like a throwback to 1995: If you are sick of the same old sites, Facebook, Myspace and TMZ, there are some alternatives available on the Web that offer just as much mindless entertainment. (1995 version: There’s more…
The Creative Commons team in Japan is ablaze with activism. At Mozilla 24 in Tokyo this September 15th, the Japanese team invited participants in their workshop to remix FireFox’s squeezeably-cute new mascot Foxkeh into over 45 uniquely designed CC-licensed T-shirts, a continuation of the successful C-Shirt project highlighted at the iSummit 2007 in Dubrovnik.…
Interested in free culture, technology, the Internet, Creative Commons, new media, and anything in between? If so, iCommons, is throwing a last minute party this Saturday (9/22) in New York City! If you are in the area, you should absolutely check it out. There will be video and music performances, drinks, and cool people abound.…
Denise Howell writing at ZDNet has a nice report on IP and the user generated economy at TechCrunch40 about new collaboration services that have affordances for CC licenses, and some that should: The clips forming the foundation of musicshake creations are all licensed, and the company plans to let users sell their creations, keeping some…
CC in China Mainland has partnered with the online photo-sharing community nphoto.net and one of China’s largest internet portals, sohu.com, to co-sponsor the first CC-licensed photography contest in China Mainland. The first submissions were received on September 1st, 2007, and at the time of this posting, entries now number around 3,500 and span three major…
One way to think of Digital Asset Management is as “enterprise software” for media shops. Another is as the functional opposite of DRM — DAM helps organizations deal with and make use of huge volumes of media, including of course tracking licensing, while DRM attempts to “deal” with users who might want to use individual…
Besting Creative Commons 1967 by a mere 1099 years is the Diamond Sutra, which according to Wikipedia is the earliest example of block printing that includes a date: The colophon, at the inner end, reads: Reverently [caused to be] made for universal free distribution by Wang Jie on behalf of his two parents on the…