Now through July 20 entires are being accepted for the Open Video Contest promoting open content, open formats and open source. Entries should be under 30 seconds, under 10 megabytes, in OGG Theora format and released under the Attribution-ShareAlike license. Check out the press release and see the contest page for rules and other information.…
Wikitravel is a wiki dedicated to providing a “free, complete, up-to-date and reliable world-wide travel guide” that is built by collaboration of wikitravellers from 42 countries around the globe and in a variety of different languages including English, German, French and Japanese. The wiki tool, of course, lets any Internet reader create, update, edit, and…
A little while ago, we blogged about the recent decisions – one in Spain and one in the Netherlands – that have been handed down that involve Creative Commons licenses. English translations of these are now available for those people whose Spanish or Dutch is a little rusty. The Spanish one is here; the Dutch…
After a brief hiatus cc365 returns with help from Black Sweater, White Cat collaborators Biotic and Subsystem7. Grant Robertson is also inviting anyone to join Indieish.com (cc365’s host): I invite anyone who loves Indiesh.com to register for an account, and post whatever you like, whenever you like as long as it relates to the progressive…
Jamendo CEO Laurent Kratz writes in about Under the Radar (see our previous post): The conference went well, the most impressive part was the closing session. This closing session was an interview of Denmark West, Executive Vice President of MTV in charge of strategy, by a reporter of CNET. And guess what? When the interviewer…
This week CC music company Jamendo is presenting at a raft of conferences. CTO Sylvain Zimmer is in Amsterdam presenting at “Holland Open Conference” and the “Digital Pioneers Academy.” His slides make interesting reading if you’re interested in CC music and related business models. CEO Laurent Kratz and CFO Pierre Gérard are in the San…
CC Salon is happening tonight in San Francisco. Join us from 6-9pm at Shine (1337 Mission Street between 9th and 10th Streets). Tonight’s speakers are: Rick Prelinger (Prelinger Archives) Victor Stone (ccMixter) Marisa Olson (Rhizome.org) Amit Asaravala (Techsoup.org) And catch a live CC music mix set by Quarterbar. Read more details about this this event…
Last month we noted that Flickr added the same CC search options to its advanced search that Yahoo! web search offers (Google’s advanced search has differently phrased but equivalent functionality). Now we’ve added Flickr search to our find page, from which you can now search for CC-licensed content indexed by Google and Yahoo! as well…
In April we belatedly blogged license adoption estimates for December 2005, which had been published elsewhere in December. That estimate, based on Google queries restricted to CC-licensed content, came to 45 million web pages under a Creative Commons license. What a difference six months make. Our current aggregate estimate, also based on Google queries for…
You might already be familiar with Free Beer – the beer recipe that was first released to the public by Copenhagen-based artist collective Superflex and students at the Copenhagen IT University under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike license. Our Summer ’05 interns Fred & Dana certainly were and cooked up their own V2.01 (sans the Guaraná)…