As mentioned earlier on the blog, Creative Commons took part in 5th Annual Software Livre Conference in Porto Alegre earlier this month. Here are some select photos from the event: The IBM booth. The pillar says “the future is open” in Portuguese: A conference sign: The Minster of Culture’s booth, displaying both of our stickers:…

Street Memes is a new Eyebeam R&D project designed to track the spread of street art. All submissions are licensed under the Noncommercial-ShareAlike licence. Read more about it, or just grab a camera!

Maarten Sneep has created a pdflatex macro for embedding XMP in PDF files generated from LaTeX source, the de facto standard for scientific documents. As Maarten’s documentation points out, one may obtain XMP suitable for embedding via choose license process. We have a tech challenge calling for Creative Commons and XMP support in open source…

Though the graphics on this project probably reveal the author’s personal positions on the President, it is pretty cool that someone went to the trouble of creating an audio archive of every speech President George W Bush has made publicly. They’re available for download as mp3, or you can get all 10 Gb of audio…

The Center for Cooperative Research is building a database application which will allow the public to conduct grassroots investigations, and participate in the documentation of public historical records by contributing data to their history engine. All the entries will be under an Attribution-Noncommercial-ShareAlike license.

Our most prolific technical volunteer (soon to join the CC staff, more on that shortly) strikes again with a cute hack — ccSaver, a screensaver for Linux and Windows that displays random CC-licensed images from OpenPhoto.net at times when your display really ought to power down, but you want eye candy instead. This development merits…

We were honored to get this letter, and a check, from the recently married Joanna and Jaroslaw, of Warsaw, Poland: We (Joanna and Jaroslaw) had decided, that during our wedding we want people to donate for charity instead of buying flowers, and as people somehow connected with copyleft/free_content movement we have chosen CC as a…

Los Angeles-based soul band Simple Flower has released the source tracks for their song Flowers and Pain under the Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike license. They’re also offering to host remixes. Give it a shot!

FAIRCOPY has developed an innovative way for musicians to distribute their content over P2P networks and get paid. They’ve also built in a way for fans to leverage the power of P2P to resdistribute their favorite FAIRCOPY artists, and make a commission. Musicians can also offer free samples of their work under Creative Commons licenses.

Legal ports of Creative Commons licenses to the copyright law of the Netherlands are now available via our choose license app. A launch event was held today in Amsterdam. Thanks to the Instititute for Information Law (IViR) in collaboration with DISC, a public domain initiative by Nederland Kennisland and Waag Society, funded by the Dutch…