Scott Andrew Lepera, previously featured in our Audio section a couple years back, has a great post today looking at the benefits and costs of filesharing to a small, independent artist. He weighs the pros and cons of both filesharing and digital rights management (DRM), and comes to a different conclusion than he once held.…

Tomorrow, on Friday 19 November, the French launch of the Creative Commons licenses will be celebrated in Paris. There will be a press conference cum roundtable discussion in the French National Assembly starting at 2pm (Assemblée Nationale, 126 rue de l’Université, 75007 Paris, salle 62-17) and a launch party at the Maison des Métallos, 94…

Great news for the public domain: The National Endowment for the Arts and the Library of Congress are putting 30 million newspaper pages online, dating from 1836 to 1922. It’ll take until 2006 to complete the project but the Library of Congress has put up a sample from The Stars and Stripes, an armed forces…

Part of our not-so-secret plan for world domination here at Creative Commons includes encouraging developers to include licensing support right in their application. We want to make it easy for developers to integrate license creation, detection and manipulation in their applications. With that in mind, we’ve created 3 mailing lists and a Wiki. The CC…

There’s a great (long) New Yorker piece this week covering the world of plagarism, copyright, and sampling. In it, Malcolm Gladwell recounts the story of an earlier article that ended up in a hit Broadway play and how in the end, he didn’t feel cheated but instead felt the playwright had created a new work…

Evergreen Creative Commoner Cory Doctorow has a new short story out at Salon.com — the first piece ever to run on Salon with a Creative Commons license. (You can see the “some rights reserved” badge here.) Hats off to Cory and Salon — this is an excellent precedent for online publishing.

The Buzz with Richard Aedy, a great tech-oriented program on Australian national radio, recently aired a piece about Creative Commons and the WIRED CD. Read the transcript or listen to the show.

We’re pleased to announce that we’ve uploaded all the WIRED CD tracks to the Internet Archive in lossless formats. We’ve linked the MP3s on the WIRED page as well. Another big announcement is our new music remix community site, which we’re calling CC Mixter. It’s a way to upload songs, loops, and acapella tracks to…

Today, NPR’s Morning Edition covered the difficulty in getting public domain speeches by politicans earlier today. Even though a speech is likely in the public domain, recordings by TV Networks retain copyright. It’s a sticky point Creative Commons Chairman and co-founder Lawrence Lessig also argued in a WIRED article a few months ago. [via 90%…

Two great articles about Creative Commons recently came out in the press. A story in the Los Angeles Times by John Healey, details how the most recent release of Morpheus, the popular file-sharing network, is able to identify MP3 files marked with Creative Commons licenses (registration required). Yesterday, Dawn C. Chmielewski wrote a story on…