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Creative Commons licensed journal online

Creative Commons licensed journal online 05/06/2004 02:30 PM

The Center for Hellenic Studies of Harvard University has started ap plying Creative Commons licenses to its journals. Classics@ is available online at their site. It's great to see further uptake in the educational world, as the ideals of academic publishing are pretty close to the goals of Creative Commons.

Creative Commons -licensed mobile videos

Creative Commons -licensed mobile videos 06/06/2005 12:11 AM
Digitoday reports (in Finnish) that Elisa [a Finnish operator] has started to distribute Creative Commons -licensed material on a mobile TV channel for test users.

Of course, being CC -licensed, Elisa does not have to pay any license fees to Kopiosto (the Finnish copyright organization) or anyone else, which probably is the real reason behind this move. There is already quite a lot of decent quality CC-material out there that's not getting the publicity it deserves, so this kind of a move is likely to bolster goodwill on Elisa, and more public recognition to Creative Commons.

(Though, my guess is that someone is going to inhale a stack of peas on this one and start screaming that corporations supporting free content means that artists will starve to death [starvation in general is a very big problem in Finland] and demand banning of anything that's freely available, and that corporations should "observe their responsibilities towards Finnish artists" and support them instead of some "crap, second-rate free content just because they're being greedy." The concept of sharing seems to go above some people's heads... There is nothing wrong in sharing your work for free, as much as there is nothing wrong in asking for money from what you do. Both ways have their advantages and disadvantages, and in the end, the customer should be allowed to decide.)

Update: Elisa spokesperson says "users can freely download and share the content without fear." That is also a reason why looking into CC-licensed content is a good idea: if you use only that, you don't need to implement costly and complicated Digital Rights Management solutions which usually kill all usability. You can even play up the fact that "it's okay to share this" to gain extra publicity. Especially for a pilot, it makes little sense to spend all that money.

Update2: Nope says in the comment section: "Just in case somebody was wondering, the project website is at http://www.indica.tv/ where anyone can also submit their own video clips at http://www.indica.tv/cc/." Thanks!

Creative Commons-licensed phonecam
bl0gging service

Creative Commons-licensed phonecam
bl0gging service 04/14/2004 10:31 AM
Alfie Dennen of the phonecam blogging service Moblog UK says:

We operate the site code on a copyright commons basis, and with users like Warren Ellis (who want to retain control of their images/video/audio), we urge people using the site to do the same. The fact that Textamerica and mblog etc own your content once it hits their servers got us so angry we felt we had to make an alternative.

We carry no advertising, and are donation supported. In terms of the code itself, we support multiple image posts, multiple audio and image posts, in pretty much every format that phones can produce. The site is very malleable, if you can make a css style sheet, you can make the site entirely your own look, still hosting it with us. We are a community that consists partly of a lot of artists who want to make sure they keep some ownership of their work.

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Flickr's Creative Commons area back,
grown way over a million images licensed

Flickr's Creative Commons area back,
grown way over a million images licensed 06/05/2005 11:40 PM
Flickr, who we interviewed last year, has reopened the area of their site devoted to Creative Commons licensed images. If you're looking for a photo to drop into a collage, a report for school, or even onto a t-shirt, this is a great place to browse and search for specific licensed photos. We're also happy to see growth at Flickr has gone way beyond our expectations to nearly 1.5 million photos licensed for reuse.

"BBC Creative Archive licensing to be
based on Creative Commons -
Digital-Lifestyles.info"

"BBC Creative Archive licensing to be
based on Creative Commons -
Digital-Lifestyles.info" 05/27/2004 09:08 PM

BBC Creative Archive Based On Creative
Commons

BBC Creative Archive Based On Creative
Commons 05/26/2004 04:39 PM

Science Commons | Creative Commons

Science Commons | Creative Commons 12/31/2004 05:09 PM
Creative Commons announces the Science Commons project .. patents and scientific publishing .. scientific CC license

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Creative Commons

Creative Commons 06/12/2004 06:10 AM
Sparked by the copyright discussion raging elsewhere in this blog, I decided to license the content of this weblog under a Creative Commons Attribution - Share Alike license. In essence, what this means:

You are free:

• to copy, distribute, display, and perform the work
• to make derivative works
• to make commercial use of the work

Under the following conditions:

• Attribution. You must give the original author credit.
• Share Alike. If you alter, transform, or build upon this work, you may distribute the resulting work only under a license identical to this one.
• For any reuse or distribution, you must make clear to others the license terms of this work.

For the full text of the license, click here for the English version, or in Finnish - the Finnish version being the legally valid one, since this blog is physically located in Finland and written by a Finnish citizen.

Note that this license does not affect whatever rights you have under the law - it's still completely okay to quote this blog without relicensing under CC, for example.

Creative Commons at the W3C

Creative Commons at the W3C 03/06/2004 01:53 AM
Ben Adida, one of our tech advisors, will attend the Semantic Web portion of the World Wide Web Consortium Plenary Session this Thursday and Friday in Cannes, France. RDF, the technology we chose 18 months ago to build our machine-readable licenses, recently became a finalized W3C recommendation.

UK take on Creative Commons

UK take on Creative Commons 09/21/2004 06:23 AM
Cory Doctorow: Becky sez, "My piece on Larry Lessig and the BBC Creative Archive was published in the New Media Guardian today. The in-depth article discusses copyright in the digital age and the Creative Commons project.

"Unfortunately, to read the article you need to register." Reg Req'd Link, use "feeshfeeshfeesh@hotmail.com/feeshfeesh" (Thanks, Becky!)

Creative Commons 2.0

Creative Commons 2.0 05/26/2004 04:43 PM

After considering a lot of the feedback and statistics from the original Creative Commons licenses, we (I personally was only a small part of this) have launched the 2.0 licenses which I think make them easier to use and easier to understand. Congratulations and thanks to the team for all the work and an excellent step forward.

The details are on the Creative Commons page.

Creative Commons Milestone

Creative Commons Milestone 12/15/2003 10:33 PM
It's a 7 meg flash file .. great new stuff .. 7MB Flash Link .. flash

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honoring Creative Commons

honoring Creative Commons 05/11/2004 09:11 AM
Creative Commons has won a Prix Ars Electronica Award.

Creative Commons in Europe

Creative Commons in Europe 02/11/2004 07:13 PM

Neeru Paharia, our assistant director, will be in Holland over the next few days to attend the Third Zwolle Conference, entitled "Optimal management of copyright: Making it happen," on February 13 and 14. Neeru will also be checking in with friends of CC in Holland.

Meanwhile, iCommons coordinator Christiane Asschenfeldt will be visiting Switzerland over the next couple of days to speak about Creative Commons at the CERN Workshop Series on Innovation in Scholarly Communication.

If you're at either event or nearby and would like to meet up with Neeru or Christiane, let us know.

Support Creative Commons

Support Creative Commons 12/19/2004 02:55 PM

Friends of Creative Commons,

As 2004 draws to a close, Creative Commons is strong. In the past two years since Creative Commons licenses have been available, we've taken our first large first steps with you--building some of the essential tools, adding critical pieces of infrastructure and assembling a vibrant community.

In 2004, Glenn, Larry, and the legal team made huge improvements and released version 2.0 of the main Creative Commons licenses. These new versions added many needed features while at the same time they reduced the complexity of the licenses for our users. Christine, Roland and all of the iCommons volunteers worldwide took that work, and have ported Creative Commons licenses to 12 countries. We expect to add another dozen countries early next year, and we're in conversation with more than 70.

We've found more than 5,000,000 pages with content and links back to our licenses. But the commons is about more than simply putting the work out there. So, Mike, Neeru, Matt, and Nutch.org have collaborated to develop and debut a metadata search engine that makes it easy to find content marked with Creative Commons licenses. As if that were not enough, that search functionality now ships with the amazing Firefox browser from mozilla.org.

Neeru and the tech team have also worked with other software developers to make it easy to integrate Creative Commons licenses. The list is long, and includes Flickr, Moveable Type, Squarespace, Manila, Archive.org, WinkSite, plus DMusic, Soundclick, Garageband.com, and others I'm sure I've forgotten.

We're nearer to making worry-free sampling and re-creativity mainstream. What better place to start than the cover of WIRED magazine? The WIRED CD contains sixteen sampling-friendly tunes -- and includes the Beastie Boys, David Byrne, Gilberto Gil, Chuck D and more.

In 2005 we will continue to build our worldwide community of contributors to free culture. We will continue to enable more images, music, films and text, and we'll start to work on the Science Commons. We'll have much more to tell you about it at the start of the year.

ou can help make Creative Commons and "some rights reserved" household phrases. Visit http://creativecommons.org/ support/ and you'll find out how you can make your contribution via PayPal, Amazon's Honor System, or by sending a check to Creative Commons at 543 Howard Street, 5th Floor, San Francisco, CA 94105.

Thank you for your support. It's not the commons without you.

Mark Resch, CEO
Creative Commons

Creative Commons a not-for-profit 501(c)(3) organization. Contributions are tax-deductible in the U.S. to the extent allowed by law.

"Creative Commons License"

"Creative Commons License" 12/19/2003 11:55 AM

Searching Creative Commons

Searching Creative Commons 03/24/2005 08:16 PM

BBC to use Creative Commons licenses

BBC to use Creative Commons licenses 05/26/2004 06:16 PM
Digital Lifestyles is reporting that Larry Lessig has been named to a BBC advisory board and that the BBC's Creative Archive project (which aims to put the BBC's archives online for non-commercial re-use) will use Creative Commons licenses:

Professor Lawrence Lessig, chair of the Creative Commons project was clearly excited: "The announcement by the BBC of its intent to develop a Creative Archive has been the single most important event in getting people to understand the potential for digital creativity, and to see how such potential actually supports artists and artistic creativity." He went to enthuse "If the vision proves a reality, Britain will become a centre for digital creativity, and will drive the many markets – in broadband deployment and technology – that digital creativity will support."

Link (Thanks, Simon!)

Creative Commons Europe

Creative Commons Europe 03/22/2005 04:43 PM

I had the good fortune to attend the Creative Commons Europe summit in Amsterdam this week. The meeting, part of the Creative Capital conference, was organized by the Waag Society's Paul Keller, the public project lead of CC-Netherlands. It was one of those great happenings, more and more frequent these days, that snap your eyes open to Creative Commons' long-term potential, and to how far we've come already: over 40 European Creative Commons project leads and volunteers from Spain, the Ukraine, and everywhere in between, brainstorming for two days about organizational structures, promotion strategy, and tough legal issues, like a free-culture EU. I thoroughly enjoyed seeing everyone -- many for the first time -- after so many email exchanges, and having the chance to listen to their stories about all their work. Paul deserves a medal (if we had those to give out) for pulling the event together, and there aren't words to describe Creative Commons' indebtedness to Christiane Asschenfeldt and Roland Honekamp for coordinating, over only the last year and a half no less, the development of such a great network of people. It was one of those events that feels both like a milestone and yet a beginning. Indeed, watch this space as we try to develop similar meetings around the world. (Photos will soon follow, too.)

Wyman on DRM and Creative Commons

Wyman on DRM and Creative Commons 03/25/2005 03:47 PM
From the Atom Working Group mailing list, some remarks from Bob Wyman that are both educational and sobering on what Creative Commons licenses do and don’t do; and yet more gloom and doom about the whole DRM train-wreck.

Creative Commons UK: will it flower?

Creative Commons UK: will it flower? 04/06/2005 07:37 AM
Cory Doctorow: Edward sez, "Becky Hogge has written an excellent article about the launch of Creative Commons in the UK. She discusses the problems faced by CC in the UK, the institutions supporting it like the BBC, and how Creative Commons will become a household name in the UK."

The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), the most influential public service content provider in the world, has been behind the project from the start and is using the Creative Commons ideology as a lynchpin for its core digital project, the Creative Archive. Beyond this, institutions such as OfCom, Research Councils U.K., JISC, the Museums Libraries and Archives Council, The National Health Service, and the British Library are all making mention of CC in policy documents mapping the future dissemination of knowledge and culture. It may just represent good timing, but Lawrence Lessig's thinking has emerged as a framework for a country looking to maintain its lead role as a global content provider in the digital age.

By contrast, the commercial creative industries have raised the kind of misinformed objections to Creative Commons that will be tiresomely familiar to those engaged in the IP debate in the States. Although, during his research, Tsiavos received a warm welcome from many of the U.K.'s copyright revenue collecting societies, themselves keen to modernise practice for the digital age, the music business press in particular have been incredibly skeptical about the value of Creative Commons. Key concerns voiced have been that Creative Commons somehow undermines traditional copyright protection, that through taking part in what is in the U.K. a novel "registration process," creators may unwittingly give away their rights irrevocably, and also, in a wonderfully pitched recursive argument, that signing a CC licence could result in musicians being discounted by a music business hostile to CC. For the time being at least, the idea that, as Tsiavos puts it, "commons are not against markets; they only create new ones" appears to be falling on deaf ears.

Link

Creative Commons in Sweden

Creative Commons in Sweden 08/19/2004 11:03 PM

It just keeps growing: the International Commons (iCommons) expands to Sweden, under the leadership of the premier law firm Lindahl and man-about-the-Net Mikael Pawlo. Public discussion of the Swedish drafts of the Creative Commons licenses has begun.

Why the BBS Documentary is Creative
Commons

Why the BBS Documentary is Creative
Commons 06/05/2005 11:29 PM
Great defense of CC

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Somebody please tell Bjork about
Creative Commons

Somebody please tell Bjork about
Creative Commons 08/27/2004 02:01 PM

Here's why. Another reason: she's cool. It's ok to give her our phone number. Thanks.

(Via Xeni @ BoingBoing.)

Creative Commons Audiobooks

Creative Commons Audiobooks 04/12/2004 07:33 AM

Creative Commons Deed

Creative Commons Deed 04/25/2004 04:49 PM
excellent use of the Creative Commons License .. Condiciones de copia y distribucin .. Attribution-NoDerivs-NonCommercial .. most restrictive license .. Rights Reserved .. CC 2000-2003 .. Good Rule II .. cc

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Enforcing the Creative Commons

Enforcing the Creative Commons 05/26/2004 12:11 PM
The Creative Commons is a good thing. It allows people near and far to share creative work. It's easy to... (596 words)

Creative Commons For Science

Creative Commons For Science 12/29/2004 11:48 AM

Creative Commons search

Creative Commons search 09/05/2004 01:21 PM

Connecting two projects together - teh Creative Commons has put into beta a servcie which uses the open source spider/search engine - named Nutch. I believe Gordon Mohr works on that.

Here's the post from John Batelle.....

Doug Cutting reminds me that his Nutch open source engine is powering a beta version of Creative Commons search. This is a great example of a domain specific search application, in this case, the engine crawls and indexes all CC licensed sites and lets you find stuff by how you might want to use it. As Doug points out, there's no way the Creative Commons could have built an engine like this had it not been for open source. Cool....

[http://battellemedia.com/archives/000864.php
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Creative Commons and The Plains

Creative Commons and The Plains 08/06/2004 05:00 PM

There's a been good discussion about music and Creative Commons licenses happening on the pho list the last day or so. The most novel post comes from Jim Griffin:

Here's an example from my new reality: In our neighborhood (The Plains, VA, population 266) and in our region there are many people who adopt for their land a conservation easement, essentially signing away (sometimes with certain modifications) their right and any future owner's right to develop the land outside some fairly restrictive parameters.

On a strictly financial basis, it makes little sense. The dramatic reduction in the land's value does bring lower property taxes, but this pales by comparison to the lost right to develop the land. And make no mistake about it: The Washington area sprawls, especially so with the restriction on the height of buildings in the city. Northern Virginia is a hotbed of real estate development, and plots of land of 30 or more acres go for a massive premium to builders ready to sell about 40 houses per acre. It is the OBS, the One Big Score, rivaling a hit album, or a string of them, in the financial payday it delivers.

Put simply, you'd be an irresponsible fiduciary to adopt a conservation easement on your land.

On the other hand, it is not uncommon for an owner to choose to do so.

Why?

They have a long-term perspective on their role in the community. They know they at most use the land during their lifetime, and they want to preserve its place in the "commons" that surround us.

The move to The Plains has been a journey from ME to WE, from the ego-sphere of Hollywood to the community grain silo, the volunteer fire department and a wave of the hand to and from the neighbors who share this valley. I can't remember my neighbors in Los Angeles; already I cannot forget those who share this place between the mountains.

So I guess I get the Creative Commons. Or I hope to. Or there is hope that I might, and that some of it may rub off on our son. And as I write this, as the fading twilight of The Plains reflects off the pond, Creative Commons makes sense. These songs, like this land, are ours for a time, and there comes a time we should pass them on to the community.

The Creative Commons story has many altruistic and pragmatic readings. Jim's story above adds one of the former. In the same thread Lucas Gonze adds an insightful rendition of the latter:

My own perspective on CC is that it doesn't matter whether licenses declare that files are redistributable or anything else in particular. What matters is that there is legal metadata.

A big part of the current impasse is caused by the need to automate clearances. We need to be able to write programs which look up rights, or at the least have a computer assisted method for looking them up by hand.

About the plains, conservationism and altruism, I personally don't see open media (or code) that way. Making your media more open gives you certain practical benefits, and if it isn't the selfish thing to do then you shouldn't do it.

Either, or, neither? Make up your own story. Keep those ideas around for the next contest. (None planned at the moment!)

Text by Jim Griffin and Lucas Gonze above copied from pho-list postings with permission.

SGAE y Creative Commons

SGAE y Creative Commons 04/16/2005 03:17 PM

Publicadas las licencias Creative
Commons 2.0

Publicadas las licencias Creative
Commons 2.0 05/26/2004 10:30 AM

Yahoo! Search for Creative Commons

Yahoo! Search for Creative Commons 03/24/2005 04:31 AM

Six months ago we noted that one could use Yahoo! link: searches to find Creative Commons licensed content out of 4.7 million indexed pages that linked to a Creative Commons license at that time.

Last month we mentioned that the Yahoo! search index contained over 10 million pages that link to a Creative Commons license.

Now we're very happy that Yahoo! has built a Creative Commons search interface. As with our own search engine, you can limit results to works you can use commercially or that you can build upon or both.

We've added a box to our search engine's results page that allows you to easily try a similar search at Yahoo! -- try out this search for 'shark'.

For developers, Yahoo! has added a license parameter to their Web Search API.

Read more on the Yahoo! Search blog, where the announcement of Yahoo! Search for Creative Commons features an inspiring guest post from Creative Commons chairperson Lawrence Lessig.

Way to go Yahoo!

(Now close to 14 million pages linking to a CC license.)

Creative Commons » Home

Creative Commons » Home 03/24/2005 04:42 AM
Creative Commons goes live on October 9th .. needs to be fixed/replaced .. Open Source Copyright .. (cc) creative commons .. licencia copylef .. rethink .. that .. CC .. ©©

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Creative Commons at Australia Launch

Creative Commons at Australia Launch 02/01/2005 08:39 PM
I'll be at the Creative Commons Australia launch next week at the Queensland University of Technology, as well as making brief visits to Melbourne and Sydney. I'd love to visit with any organizations or groups interested in Creative Commons while I'm there. Drop me a line if you're around and would like to discuss Creative Commons in Australia.

Business 2.0 feature on Creative Commons

Business 2.0 feature on Creative Commons 04/22/2004 12:03 PM
Andy Raskin has turned in a very good, long feature on Creative Commons -- including some quotes from me -- that does a terrrific job of explaining the project and why it's important.

The "sharing economy" is built on a supply-and-demand equation wholly alien to traditional media companies -- the record labels, Hollywood studios, and publishing houses that support strict copyright enforcement. It's powered instead by the Allan Vilhans of the world, digital artists who promote sharing as a means to obtain everything from 15 minutes of Internet fame to licensing deals, job offers, and mainstream publishing contracts. For these artists, rampant Internet file swapping isn't a threat, but a blessing: the cheapest way to move from unknown to known.

The sharing economy is already worth billions of dollars, but its direct beneficiaries aren't mainstream entertainment companies. Instead, they're the likes of Apple (AAPL), Adobe (ADBE), and EarthLink (ELNK) -- firms that sell the hardware, software, and bandwidth required to produce and distribute, say, a Howard Dean howl remix. But for the sharing economy to expand its scope and realize its full potential, it needs a signpost: a branded icon participants can use to tell each other, "Download my work. Modify it. Send it to a friend. Please." Creative Commons aims to play that role.

Link (Thanks, Todd!)

Using Creative Commons in the Real World

Using Creative Commons in the Real World 03/24/2005 02:23 PM
Magnatune founder John Buckman has posted an interview he did with Five Eight Magazine, about the use of Creative Commons licenses in Magnatunes song catalog. He covers the whys and hows of licensing, and how it helped at Magnatune.

Business 2.0 article on Creative Commons

Business 2.0 article on Creative Commons 04/24/2004 06:23 AM

Giving It Away (for Fun and Profit) - By Andy Raskin, May 2004 Issue, Business 2.0

Good article about Creative Commons and the business case.

New tutorials for Creative Commons
Tools, plus P2P

New tutorials for Creative Commons
Tools, plus P2P 01/04/2005 08:46 PM
While we've been testing out CC Publisher betas over the past few weeks, we've recently gone 1.0 on the application and figured it was a good time to create an easy to follow tutorial for using CC Publisher. We've also created one for CC Lookup, our audio file verification app. In addition to both new tutorials, we've also added one that highlights new Creative Commons aware features that were added to the Windows P2P application Morpheus. If you'd like to share your Creative Commons licensed music on their P2P network in a way that others can find it, follow our instructions.
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