WIRED Science is a brand new television pilot from our good friends at Wired. You can watch it online or catch the premiere tonight on PBS. Another CC friend, David Byrne, did the music for the show’s opening. Watch the Pilot Episode of WIRED Science Wednesday, January 3, 2007 8:00 PM EST on PBS (Check…

After much deliberation we here at CC are excited to announce the winners for CC’s 1st annual CC swag photo contest. The winners are Franz Patzig with his photo “CC” and Yamababobo with his photo “CC on Light”. We have been humbled by the number and quality of entries and thank each and every participant…

As Lisa Williams noted her local paper – Watertown TAB – quietly switched over the site to use a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 2.5 license. Dave Weinberger noted that his local paper – the Brookline TAB – did likewise. The reason — GateHouse Media, a newspaper conglomerate that owns 75 daily and 231 weekly newspapers, has…

Swivel is a site that is all about data. You can upload your data and have it made into graphs, you can find datasets, comment on them or rate them, or you can compare different datasets that have been uploaded to the site. As the site itself explains, it’s “a place where curious people explore…

Creative Commons Hungary sent a nice happy new year wish to the Creative Commons community mailing list in the form of the first Hungarian CC licensed music album (all tracks are licensed under CC BY-NC 2.5 Hungary). CC Hungary’s Bodo Balazs says the remix album is made-up of “broken etno, beatbox’n’bass, world noise.” The remix…

The story so far: “Next week, a final letter with some final thoughts for CC.” The story continued… The hardest thing about pushing the work of Creative Commons is the thought that in 15 years, it will be impossible to explain just why this work was important — either because the worst would have happened,…

Jamendo recently surpassed 2,000 albums released on the site. Look on the Jamendo stats page for a tale of growth and bandwidth, about half served by P2P. You can search every album, including filtering by license. They’ve also been quietly rolling out feature after feature. Most recent and exciting is the ability to find Jamendo…

Two different sorts of eye candy from Magnatune, a record label that uses CC licenses. First, magnatune in six [6], a video featuring interviews with six Magnatune artists. Second, a detailed post on 2006 sales and traffic statistics. The chart above shows the number of music licenses sold each month. For more on the Magnatune…

Wow, some really killer tracks have been submitted to ccMixter’s Christopher Willits Remix Contest. Check out some of the entries here. Or better yet, sign up for an account and upload your own remix — you still have four days left, as the contest stops accepting entries on December 27. Don’t forget — the winner…

Looking for a new way to search for CC licensed photos? We’ve just been informed about a tool that searches Flickr for CC licensed content based on their color hue and saturation. Now you can easily puruse the millions of CC licensed photos based on all your color palette needs.