Salon has a fun piece, “Pillaging the Cartoon Universe,” about the Cartoon Network’s “Birdman: Attorney at Law,” a show saturated with cameos by characters from classic cartoons and other pop culture artifacts. Two disappointing aspects to this piece: 1) the bulk of it is available only to Salon “premium” subscribers, and 2) author Scott Thill…

We’ve updated our list of O’Reilly book titles, adding 33 more titles that are set to be released under the Founders’ Copyright.

Today we’re starting a new feature on the Creative Commons weblog: the Featured Content of the Week. Each week, we’ll link to some interesting licensed content that we’ve found on the web. These can be single photographs, songs, movies, e-books, or even new weblogs. If you’ve got some interesting material you’d like to be considered…

Lund University in Sweden has recently launched the Directory of Open Access Journals featuring hundreds of peer-reviewed, scholarly journals from scientific and cultural communities. Their principal aim is to secure the right of “users to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of these articles.” Along with the searchable directory,…

We’ve just flipped the switch on a discussion area for public participation as part of our new project development process (image). We’re using mailing lists to facilitate the discussion of new license options, our International Commons project, and metadata strategies. We kicked off the new model today with development of a sampling license, with discussion…

The keen eye of Professor Karl-Friedrich Lenz found what appears to be a discrepancy between the warranty provision of Creative Commons’ licenses and our own policies page, which reads in part: This website provides general information about legal topics but it does not provide individual legal advice. Creative Commons Corporation is not a law firm…

In response to the ongoing discussion of our licences’ warranty provision, I’ve decided to raise the issue at our upcoming board meeting. Meantime, please keep fleshing out what you think our approach to warranties should be. The how is as important as the why. Is there any disadvantage to making a quitclaim-style warranty optional (as…

Web Developers and designers looking for that perfect color might want to check out Eric Meyer’s Color Blender, recently released under a Creative Commons license. You input two colors and specify how many midtones you’ll need, and it does the rest. Since it’s written entirely in javascript, you can download it and use it yourself.

Check out a new interview with actor, animator, author, and Austinite Wiley Wiggins, by our own Matt Haughey. You may remember Wiggins’ star turns in Richard Linklater’s films Dazed and Confused and Waking Life. But if you’re really in, you recognize him as a friendly blogger and all-around web dude.

The people at Project Gutenberg, long known for creating and hosting public domain works, are releasing a “Best Of” CD under a Creative Commons license.