Creative Commons’ 4th Birthday Party is on December 15th. If you are located in the San Francisco Bay Area come celebrate with the CC SF staff at Songbird, the company that brought you the super cool media player. They have generously offered to host our party. The details: What: Creative Commons Turns Four! When: Friday,…

LibriVox is a project that describes its mission to be the “acoustical liberation of books in the public domain.” It is a digital library of free public domain audio books that are read and recorded by volunteers. LibriVox’s catalogue includes an impressive range of books, short works and poems from a diverse range of writers.…

LibriVox is a project that describes its mission to be the “acoustical liberation of books in the public domain.” It is a digital library of free public domain audio books that are read and recorded by volunteers. It was started just a year and a half ago, in August 2005, and already has amassed over…

Creative Commons is pleased to announce that the O’Reilly Foundation has donated $10,000 towards CC’s $300,000 annual campaign goal. We are honored to be a receipient of such significant support. Tim O’Reilly is the founder of O’Reilly Media and a supporter of both open source and the free software movements, which this donation exemplifies.

In a recent article in Forbes.com, Cory Doctorow explains the impact of using Creative Commons licenses for him as a writer. Cory has used CC licenses on many of his writings — from his books (available here) to his postings on Boing Boing. We featured him back in October 2005. The Forbes article offers a…

The Creative Commons’ annual fundraising campaign is set to end on December 31st. The campaign was instituted last year in efforts to prove to the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) that the public was supporting CC financially as well as ideologically. This year we chose to focus the campaign more on building community and raising awareness…

We are happy to announce that this weeks’ winner of the CC Swag Contest is Cambodia4kids with her picture titled “Creative Commons”. I’ve set a precedent over the past couple of weeks of stating a bit of our reasoning behind choosing the winning photographs and how we responded to each winners’ creative use of CC…

Last month NetzpolitikTV interviewed CC CEO Lawrence Lessig. The extended interview is available in raw DV and high quality OGG Theora formats, superb for watching and remixing.

Richard A. Posner, a senior lecturer at the University of Chicago Law School and a judge in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, will be logging into Second Life to discuss his new book, Not a Suicide Pact: The Constitution in a Time of National Emergency. James aka Hamlet Au is going…

Alternative Freedom, a documentary about free culture and copyright, is screening Saturday evening as part of the CounterCorp 2006 Anti-Corporate Film Festival. The screening is at 7:30PM at the Victoria Theatre, 2961 16th Street at Mission Street in San Francisco. Q&A will follow with the Samuelson Clinic’s Jack Lerner and Mike Linksvayer from Creative Commons.…