Category Archives: creative commons

CC-AU has produced an extremely cool educational clip about Creative Commons. You can download it here
(13 meg). The video is under an Australian CC-Attribution-ShareAlike license. Continue reading →

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So read this twice, because it is extraordinary news.
MinusKelvin is a physics and calculus teacher by day. A composer by night. He makes tracks available to podcasters using Creative Commons licenses. On Edison’s birthday this year, he joined ccMixter.
Friday we learned that Runoff Records, Inc. has signed MinusKelvin, after discovering him on ccMixter. Together with another ccMixter, Pat Chilla, the label will now be “doing the next three seasons of America’s Next Top Model.” Continue reading →

Roger Clarke’s got a useful “Proposal for Open Content License for Research Paper (Pr)ePrints” that has some nice things to say about Creative Commons licenses…. Continue reading →

We read; we’ve discussed; we’ve lost sleep; we’ve decided…. Continue reading →

Creative Commons recently launched a relationship with BzzAgent. The blogs were not amused. See Corante, Corante_II , Corante III, Just a Gwai Lo. BzzAgents has now responded poorly, calling Corante “liars.” As I’m partial to Corante, I’d be willing to ask CC to pull the relationship on the basis of that bad judgment alone. But I’d be really keen for some feedback.
Here are the facts to keep in mind:
(1) This “partnership” (like all our partnerships) is pro bono: CC doesn’t get or give money in these commercial contexts.
(2) The aim of the partnership is to extend our work offline. The vast majority of BzzAgent action occurs offline.
Thanks for the help. Continue reading →

Late last night, Yahoo! launched a Creative Commons search engine, permitting you to search the web, filtering results on the basis of Creative Commons licenses. So, as I feel like I’ve said 10,000 times when explaining CC on the road, “Show me pictures of the Empire State Building that I can use for noncommercial use,” and this is the first of about 13,000 on the list.
This is exciting news for us. It confirms great news about Yahoo!. I met their senior management last October. They had, imho, precisely the right vision of a future net. Not a platform for delivering whatever, but instead a platform for communities to develop. With the acquisition of Flickr, the step into blogging and now this tool to locate the welcome mats spread across the net, that vision begins to turn real. Continue reading →

The wikification of Code has launched. To all the insanely insightful souls who’ve criticized and extended the book, welcome.

Creative Commons has also taken this opportunity to launch a beta version of a newly branded tweak of an old license — the CC-Wiki license. We’ve been talking to wiki developers for some time now. They’ve been looking for a license that was (1) share alike, but (2) required attribution back to the wiki, rather than to the individual contributors to the wiki. We realized that could be achieved with a very slight change to our existing Attribution-ShareAlike license: rather than requiring attribution back to the copyright holder, require attribution back to either the copyright holder or a designated entity.
So we’ve made that slight modification to the attribution clause in this beta version, and used it for this wiki. But we won’t release the license generally till we’ve had the ordinary time for discussion. Click here to join a discussion about the license, and any further changes people think we should make. Continue reading →

CC’s Fine Art of Sampling contest has announced its winners. Read about it on the CC blog. Continue reading →

The only mag I read cover to cover (except Wired of course!) is Scientific American. So it was a pleasant surprise to find on page 1 (sort of) this editorial endorsing Creative Commons. Alas, you need to pay to read it – but if people can make money spreading the message of CC, more power (or at least, more money) to them. Continue reading →

Let us know if you can make it by contacting Francesca. Space is limited and filling fast. Continue reading →