Radio Radicale, the official radio station of Italy’s Radical Party, recently announced that it is applying a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0 license to much of its archived audio content. What that means: Thirty years of history, parliamentary sittings, political conferences, trials, intelligence scandals, interviews, declarations, denunciations; the material collected with ant-like patience by Radio Radicale,…
What’s that you say? You don’t have enough opportunities to hear geeks talking about Creative Commons work? Well, let me see if I can help remedy that situation. The PyCon 2006 committee has announced the slate of papers for the conference, and I’m pleased to have had my proposal accepted. I’ll be presenting on “Extensible…
Lowell, MA-based zine and music publisher Outlet is hosting a remix contest to promote Neighbor Hater, the new CC-licensed album by Alex Burr. From Outlet’s press release: [D]ownload the raw tracks from three songs: Neighbor Hater, Throne of Blood, and Bullet Train. From there, it’s all in your hands, use whatever you deem necessary to…
Caltech economics professor Preston McAfee appears to be mad as hell about high journal and textbook prices, and he’s doing something about it. He’s published a complete Introduction to Economic Analysis textbook under a Creative Commons license. See his page about the license and high textbook prices: Why open source? Academics do an enormous amount…
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Attention all remixers: ccMixter is hosting the new Copyright Criminals Remix Contest. Producers from all over the world are encouraged to use CC-licensed audio samples from Kembrew McLeod and Ben Franzen’s upcoming documentary film Copyright Criminals in new musical compositions. The best entry will appear prominently in the final version of Copyright Criminals and the…
Technical wizard (music and code) Victor Stone retired as the lead ccMixter developer a few months ago. So what’s he doing with all that extra time (apart from continuing to commit ccHost patches)? One would assume a chunk of it went into completing his new album, La Vie Chill. Victor explains: [I]t’s dedicated to my…
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Photo by Steve Jurveston licensed under cc by. Steve Jurveston comments about cool uses of his CC-licensed photos on Flickr: Imagine my surprise when I heard that the Charlie Rose show found my photo on flickr and wanted to use it on broadcast TV. They were interviewing Gordon Moore, co-founder of Intel and seer of…
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