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Netwaves Bytes: Electro 1 (Oct 10 2008 23:21 GMT)
Netwaves Records, a netlabel that focuses on genre-oriented compilations, just released their first album, Electro 1. Focusing on music that ranges from “electro-pop” to “electro-clash”
flickrleech (Oct 10 2008 22:17 GMT)
flickrleech is a great tool for those looking to search a large number of flickr photos at once - by utilizing Flickr’s API, flickrleech is able to display 200 images per page rather than the standard 10. As pointed out by Alvin Trusty, it simply “makes scanning for a picture much quicker.”
Two MIT OCW Courses Reach Million Visit Milestone (Oct 10 2008 18:48 GMT)
A long-standing provider of open courseware, MITOpenCourseWare reached a million visit milestone yesterday for two of their online courses: 8.01 Physics I: Classical Mechanics and 18.06 Linear Algebra.
RecombinaSOM: Brazillian Remix Contest (Oct 08 2008 20:18 GMT)
RecombinaSOM is a remix contest taking place as part of the São Carlos’s Federal University’s multimedia festival, “Contato“. The festival’
Ubuntu FreeCulture Showcase Winners Announced (Oct 07 2008 17:41 GMT)
The Ubuntu FreeCulture Showcase, which was announced back in August, has now come to an end and the winners revealed. Congratulations to both Andrés Vidau and Andrew Higginson! Their winning submissions will be on over a million Ubuntu users’
Colin Mutchler (Oct 06 2008 21:09 GMT)
Colin Mutchler is one of the original CC success stories. Back in 2003, he posted his song, My Life, to Opsound under a CC BY-SA license. A month later a violinist name Nora Beth added a violin track, calling the new work My Life Changed. It was one of the first instances of CC facilitating [...]
Latam Commons 2008 (Oct 06 2008 20:31 GMT)
Santiago, Chile: ccLearn is hosting a three day conference on “open licensing, open technologies, and the future of education in Latin America” from November 19th to the 21st. The conference is split up into three meetings over the three
Zemanta (Oct 06 2008 20:27 GMT)
Zemanta is an online platform for finding and adding “relevant images, smart links, keywords and text” to blog postings. Available in numerous incarnations (Firefox add-on, Wordpress Plugin, etc.), Zemanta queries the text of a blog post against their own “
Presidential candidates show support for ?open debates? (Oct 06 2008 19:04 GMT)
Two recent posts on Lessig’s blog show that both of the major party US presidential candidates support the idea of debate footage being available to the public for free and legal use. Last Thursday, Lessig posted a letter of reply he’d received from Trevor Potter, the general counsel of the McCain-Palin campaign.
Bill Enabling Community Colleges to Establish OER Pilot Program is signed into law (Oct 06 2008 17:36 GMT)
Last week, a bill enabling the California Community Colleges to integrate open educational resources (OER) into its core curriculum was signed into law by Governor Schwarzenegger. AB 2261 authorizes the Board of Governors of the California Community Colleges “to establish a pilot program to provide faculty and staff from community college districts around the state with [...]
Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum?s ?The Concert? Podcast Reaches Over 1 Million Downloads (Oct 01 2008 21:15 GMT)
“The Concert” is a classical music podcast produced by the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum which is released under our Music Sharing license. Here is what we had to say back in 2006 when the podcast first launched:
Eric Steuer, CC?s Creative Director, Interviewed on Epic FU (Oct 01 2008 19:32 GMT)
Epic FU, the web-based art/tech/music/culture show we recentlly profiled as a Featured Commoner, just posted a great episode that includes an interview with CC’s Creative Director Eric Steuer. For those who are familiar with CC there isn’t a ton of new information on what we do but for those who are new to CC, the [...]
Calling Software Engineers (Oct 01 2008 17:56 GMT)
Creative Commons needs to expand our tech team! Please check out our new contractor posting. If you have the skills and interest in joining the CC team, please submit your resume and cover letter asap!
CC Salon Paris on October 15 (Oct 01 2008 13:44 GMT)
CC France is organizing the first CC Salon in Paris on October 15, 2008, in partnership with La Cantine by Silicon Sentier. At a moment where copyright laws are becoming always more restrictive, in particular in France with the HADOPI initiative, this event will give the opportunity to the Creative Commons community to reaffirm its commitment to [...]
CC Jordan: First Arabic Version 3.0 License Draft in Public Discussion (Oct 01 2008 10:07 GMT)
Jordanian legal experts are making major strides in the Creative Commons license porting process by producing the first Version 3.0 CC license draft in Arabic. Adapted to Jordanian law, the license draft is being discussed on CC Jordan’s mailing list, along with the license’s English re-translation and an explanation of its substantial legal
ccLearn?s COSL Open Ed ?08 download (Sep 30 2008 17:12 GMT)
Although we’ve already had a weekend plus a Monday to digest COSL’s Open Ed ‘08, the events from the conference and general good feeling inspired by speakers and individual conversations still drives us forward into the week and the beginning of next month. This year’
SomeRightsReserved, CC Licensed Design (Sep 29 2008 21:31 GMT)
SomeRightsReserved is a download-only design firm that produces “blueprints to a range of different products and objects”, connecting “designer straight to consumer, empowering all parties.”
Brad Sucks (Sep 29 2008 21:07 GMT)
Brad Sucks, a CC license using pop/rock musician, recently released his latest album Out Of It for free online and under a CC BY-SA license. Brad is one of the most remixed artists over at ccMixter, runs an active blog, interacts with fans directly, and was recently interview by the Featured Commoners behind The Indie [...]
Freesound.org Update: Name Change, Radio, CC Licensed PHD, and more (Sep 29 2008 18:59 GMT)
Freesound, a venerable repository of CC-licensed samples, has been up to a bevy of good work since we last checked in with them. This includes developing a beautiful successor to wav2png, changing their name to freesound.org, teaming up with Happy New Ears to develop an interactive sample machine aimed at children, and launching Freesound Radio, [...]
H-Net Reviews (Sep 29 2008 16:35 GMT)
H-Net is “an international consortium of scholars and teachers…[creating] and [coordinating] Internet networks with the common objective of advancing teaching and research in the arts, humanities, and social sciences. H-Net is committed to pioneering the use of new communication technology to facilitate the free exchange of academic ideas and scholarly resources.”
The Transaction Costs of All Rights Reserved (Sep 26 2008 19:21 GMT)
I’ve been thinking a lot about transaction costs lately, and how they’re at the core of what Creative Commons tries help the world with. By giving permission in advance by using a CC license and metadata, creators can lower the transaction costs of distributing their work. Aliza Sherman relates a story over at WebWorkerDaily that [...
The Free Culture Game (Sep 26 2008 19:14 GMT)
The Free Culture Game, created by Molleindustria, is a flashed based abstract art piece that attempts to articulate the interplay between the commons and culture at large. Released under a CC BY-NC-SA license, we heard about it first on our community lists, but it has since been getting some nice traction elsewhere on the blogosphere. [...]
FSCONS: Free Society Conference and Nordic Summit (Sep 26 2008 09:28 GMT)
Free Culture, Free Software, and Free Content will join forces under the banner of “Free Society” at FSCONS on October 24-26 at the IT University of Götheborg, Sweden. The orgnaizing trinity, Creative Commons Sweden, Free Software Foundation Europe, and Wikimedia Sverige, see FSCONS as a chance to reach out with their respective communities and build [...]
The Websters? Dictionary (Sep 24 2008 20:03 GMT)
The Websters’ Dictionary: How to Use the Web to Transform the World is a newly released book on “how to create communities of thousands [...] and channel their energy to effect political, social and cultural transformation.
The Indie Band Survival Guide (Sep 24 2008 19:14 GMT)
Randy Chertkow and Jason Feehan are true polymaths - founders of the pop band Beatnik Turtle, authors of The Indie Band Survival Guide, and a computer engineer and attorney respectively, they continuously have their hands in a bevy of different projects. Their most recent project, the wide publication of The Indie Band Survival Guide - [...]
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