Pointers to Public Domain sites

Matt Haughey, March 31st, 2004

This Google Answers post about public domain sites brought up a wealth of good answers, in all sorts of categories. [via kottke]

Squarespace website service CC-enabled

Mike Linksvayer, March 31st, 2004

Squarespace, an easy to use website and blog creation and hosting service, recently made it easy for users to license their content via our remote licesning application.

Here’s what Squarespace says within their site management application about Creative Commons:

We’ve integrated a utility that lets you generate Creative Commons licenses for your site. A Creative Commons License is an excellent alternative to default copyright, and lets you retain very specific rights over the works you place on your website. The process for generating a license is one step, and free. Takes about 30 seconds. We recommend giving them a look!

Well said! We recommend giving Squarespace and other CC-enabled applications a look.

Autres Directions in Music

Matt Haughey, March 30th, 2004

My french isn’t too good, but I’m going to guess that Autres Directions in Music is a new internet music label based in France releasing their songs under Creative Commons licenses. So far their releases consist of these four albums: (1, 2, 3, 4) all ready for download as MP3s or you can drop them 5 euros to get a disc. [via Aeiou]

CC Remix Music — Lisa Rein

Neeru Paharia, March 30th, 2004

Lisa Rein is one of the earliest adopters of Creative Commons. Wander is one of my favorite CC licensed songs and is licensed under an Attribution license — free to copy, remix, or even synch to a movie, as long as you give Lisa attribution.

Holy Cow — a CC PSA!!!

Neeru Paharia, March 30th, 2004

Filmmaker Andy Pavis has made an eight-minute-long public service announcement about Creative Commons and our mission, entitled Some Rights Reserved. Andy cleverly frames the copyright debate between two extremes in the context of a talk show hosted by “Larry Commons.” The PSA then explores an example of Aaron, a musician who goes through the process of choosing a license to put his song into the commons. The PSA ends on an inspiring note when a filmmaker, a dancer, and a musician find Aaron’s song and build upon it. The PSA itself is licensed under an Attribution-Noncommercial-ShareAlike license — so feel free to distribute noncommercially, or even remix as long as you give Andy credit.

Translating Creative Commons animations

Matt Haughey, March 29th, 2004

Several of our iCommons partner groups have asked if they could translate our movies, Get Creative and Reticulum Rex into other languages. Thanks to the licenses we applied on each movie, those are definitely allowed and we’d like to encourage others to contribute to this effort. Towards that end, we’ve put up all the raw audio, script, and flash files for translation purposes.

Internet helping record sales?

Matt Haughey, March 29th, 2004

Ran across a couple interesting bits related to musicians having their songs online and record sales.

In a roundtable interview with the Chicago Tribune (registration required to view), Creative Commons chairman Lawrence Lessig and the online manager of the band Wilco talk about the internet and music. The gist of is that putting Wilco’s music online helped them sell more records and greatly increase attendance at their live shows.

Cory Doctorow points at a recent Cato Institute study (PDF) that shows popular searches on a P2P network didn’t correlate with lower sales.

Chicago Tribune

Press Robot, March 29th, 2004

“Copyfight” interview by Chicago Tribune

dadaIMC codebase used by Independent Media Centers supports CC

Neeru Paharia, March 26th, 2004

dadaIMC, a content management system that offer a codebase for the operation of Independent Media Center sites, now supports Creative Commons licenses for users uploading content to the system. There are currently twenty eight Independent Media Center sites that run on dadaIMC.

Independent Media Centers, like the one in Baltimore, are based on a philosophy of open publishing. Their newswire is open to public use, and anyone can post articles, audio, video, or images to the site. The interface for posting media includes
a section for selecting between
copyright, public domain, or any of the Creative Commons licenses. dadaIMC has also innovated to offer a new logo that explicity signals the allowance of derivative works, something our current license engine doesn’t support.

Winksite adds CC to mobile blogging

Matt Haughey, March 26th, 2004

Winksite is a popular mobile blogging application that lets you both post to a blog from your phone or PDA and read other blogs, in addition to a slew of other community tools. They’ve recently added Creative Commons support for blogs hosted on the service, so you can make it clear to readers how your content is licensed.