CC-licensed papercraft iPod stand

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Carboard iPod stand made from an iPod
box

Carboard iPod stand made from an iPod
box 03/30/2005 02:35 PM
Cory Doctorow: After seeing the post about making an iPod dock out of cut-and-fold PDFs glued onto cardboard, Colin had the brainstorm of using the box that the iPod comes in to fashion its docking cradle. The results are fine. Link (Thanks, Colin!)

Can iPod stand on its own footprint?

Can iPod stand on its own footprint? 09/18/2004 12:52 PM
A recent <A HREF="http://www.forbes.com/technology/2004/09/17/cx_ah_0917tente ch.html">article</A> on Forbes.com about the Apple/Beatles lawsuit contains an interesting footnote that brings to light and an more interesting question: Can the iPod name survive without the Apple brand? While the reverse is already being tested by Hewlett Packard, it remains to be see whether any of Apple's products can survive without their namesake. For all of Apple's unique and unmistakable designs, what would happen if the Apple was removed from the front of the iMac? Or the 23-inch Cinema Display? Or the back of the iPod? Forbes seems to think that a move away from the Apple name and symbol "would harm its prospects not one bit. "The iPod brand is turning out to be as powerful a brand name as that of its corporate parent. By itself, it's also free of any expensive encumbrances involving musicians who haven't done anything terribly interesting in the last few years (i.e., The Beatles)." The iPod name is certainly strong enough to exist on its own, but would there be any benefit (aside from the Apple/AppleCorps dispute)? Could Apple create better computers — or better music players — if the pressure was off to do both under the same moniker? I'd like to personally think not, and with the unveiling of the latest iteration of the iMac, it seems that Steve Jobs & Co. can certainly do both, and do it well, if not borrowing from the other side along the way. The iPod is as much Apple as it is its own individual namesake, but splitting the two would likely cause separation anxiety for one — or even both — parties. It's not secret that the iPod has brought Apple back to major player status, and while it may be true that Apple the computer company has ridden Apple the music company to new heights, they most certainly need each other to survive. I mean, just take a look at <A HREF"www.apple.com">Apple.com</A>…

Stainless steel Podboard iPod stand
debuts

Stainless steel Podboard iPod stand
debuts 01/05/2004 06:14 AM
Swiss designers Role and Urs Alscher -- the two principals of the Podboard Project -- have developed a new desk stand for the iPod called Podboard. It supports all iPod versions.

"The standard rap against us
armchair warriors is that we can't stand
the heat of real war, but poor Mary Ann
can't stand the heat of real armchairs."

"The standard rap against us
armchair warriors is that we can't stand
the heat of real war, but poor Mary Ann
can't stand the heat of real armchairs." 05/30/2004 10:18 PM
Read Mark Steyn Now .. rationalizations

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Licensed to clone

Licensed to clone 08/12/2004 02:38 AM
USA Today Aug 12 2004 6:21AM GMT

But Is It Licensed for Mars?

But Is It Licensed for Mars? 01/17/2004 11:07 PM
Tropos's equipment tested by NASA as an idea for manned Mars missions: Next thing you know, there will be a Mars Communications Commission (MCC) insisting that a single newspaper and television station could provide all the news on the Red Planet. Mesh wireless equipment makes sense for the terrain and goals of the mission. Will the low pressures affect signal transmission? And then there's hardening against radiation and temperature. I guess we have 20 to 40 years to figure it all out....

CC licensed Microsoft site

CC licensed Microsoft site 03/14/2005 06:06 PM

The Microsoft-hosted PatternShare community brings together information on software patterns organized by wiki inventor and now Microsoft employee Ward Cunningham.

PatternShare uses the liberal Creative Commons Attribution License.

Thanks Ward Cunningham and thanks Microsoft!

Although it predates the availability of Creative Commons licensing by many years, I would be remiss to not recommend Cunningham's still active Portland Pattern Repository Wiki, which I suppose could be characterized as the wild and woolly counterpart of PatternShare.

CC-licensed prose: "Always Be Closing"

CC-licensed prose: "Always Be Closing" 05/04/2004 08:10 AM
Casey Childers has produced a chunk of Creative Commons-licensed prose called "Always Be Closing." It's the same scene, told thirteen times, with (often NSFW) variations, a remix of something that has no original, a kind of simulacra. He's chosen a license that allows for noncommercial remixing -- I'm curious as to what new works can be made out of these often disturbing scenes.

The waitress interrupted, "You boys need anything?"

The old man grinned, his mouth full. He made a quick effort to swallow, but didn't hesitate to speak around the mess of potatoes that remained. "The name of the man that cooked my lunch, miss. This is heaven on a goddamn plate."

She returned a grin of her own. "His name's Merv, hon, and I'll be sure to pass that along. Now how 'bout a warm-up on your coffee?"

"I served with a commie sympathizer who went by the name of Merv. He had weak stomach, you know, loved to recite the poems he wrote about his wife. He got his head blown off in a French whorehouse."

Link (Thanks, CA!)

3G Licensed and Unlicensed Spectrum

3G Licensed and Unlicensed Spectrum 06/23/2004 02:51 AM
3G Jun 23 2004 7:28AM GMT

More CC-licensed banjo manuals

More CC-licensed banjo manuals 12/29/2004 11:27 AM
Cory Doctorow: Patrick sez, "'A Book Of Five Strings' is another Creative Commons banjo book- you guys posted a link to my first CC project, 'The How and the Tao of Old Time Banjo' back in September. 'Five Strings' was released a few weeks ago and it's already selling pretty well. Going CC actually boosted sales for my first book so I figured I might as well do it again." Link (Thanks, Patrick!)

Democratizing Innovation as CC-licensed
PDF

Democratizing Innovation as CC-licensed
PDF 04/04/2005 03:44 PM
Mark Frauenfelder: I've been reading the print version of Eric von Hippel's Democratizing Innovation, an interesting book about the way that "lead users" are making significant contributions to the development of products and services. Von Hippel is a professor of management of innovation and entrepreneurship, at MIT's Sloan School of Management.

In this traditional model, a user’s only role is to have needs, which manufacturers then identify and fill by designing and producing new products. The manufacturer-centric model does fit some fields and conditions. However, a growing body of empirical work shows that users are the first to develop many and perhaps most new industrial and consumer products. Further, the contribution of users is growing steadily larger as a result of continuing advances in computer and communications capabilities.

You can download the entire book at no charge from von Hippel's site.
Link

UPDATE: Peggy Salz of TheFeature interviewed Eric von Hippel today.

TheFeature: In your book, you talk mostly about product development. How do you know the lead-user approach can also create breakthrough services?

Von Hippel: A field study involving a major Swedish mobile telecoms company recently tested this and produced some surprising results. These researchers adopted the "toolkit innovation method" and supplied a sample of university students tools to develop their own services. Compared to the services generated by professional developers the students' services were by far more novel, creative and cutting-edge.

For example, one girl was frustrated because she was unable to find an apartment. She cleverly developed a mobile alert service that would contact her phone every time the university web site posted an ad for an apartment that fit her requirements. This insight can obviously become the basis for a suite of mobile alert services.
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World Live (and Licensed) Web

World Live (and Licensed) Web 02/01/2005 08:39 PM

Kevin Marks mentioned on the cc-metadata list that you can query Technorati for a list of recently syndicated content, grouped by Creative Commons license.

You can also drill down and get a list of recently syndicated content under a specific Creative Commons license.

The results are a bit rough now, but one can easily imagine combining license searches with keyword and other search filters to effect an ongoing search for specific licensed content. For example, tell me whenever a Creative Commons licensed image of horses is syndicated.

Marks, who works at Technorati, indicates this sort of capability is "an important future direction." Other blog and search outfits take note.

(Glenn found the beautiful horse image linked above via the Creative Commons search engine.)

O'Reilly Licensing Book, Licensed

O'Reilly Licensing Book, Licensed 02/01/2005 08:39 PM

I just noticed that Understanding Open Source and Free Software Licensing, published last year by O'Reilly, is now available as a no cost download under a Creative Commons license. The book includes a chapter (PDF) on Creative Commons licenses.

Thanks O'Reilly and Andrew St. Laurent, the book's author!

V ia Slashdot.

Award-winning sf as CC-licensed
audiobooks

Award-winning sf as CC-licensed
audiobooks 09/10/2004 06:38 PM
Cory Doctorow: Hugo-award-winning author James Patrick Kelly's "Free Reads" site is a place where he posts Creative-Commons-licensed studio recordings of him reading his works. He's a fantastic reader, and an even better writer, and he made enough off his tipjar the last time around to go into the studio and record three more:

"Faith" first published in Asimov's Science Fiction, June 1989. Time:59:25, File Size 27.86 MB.

"The Best Christmas Ever" first published in SciFiction, May, 2004. Time:39:38, File Size 19.03 MB.

"Serpent" first published in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, May 2004. Time:22:53, File Size 10.74 MB.

Link (Thanks, Jim!)

Healers licensed in South Africa

Healers licensed in South Africa 09/09/2004 11:08 AM
A bill to regulate South Africa's 200,000 traditional healers is adopted by parliament.

Are you disaster-recovery plans
licensed?

Are you disaster-recovery plans
licensed? 03/23/2005 10:41 PM
ZDNet Mar 23 2005 11:59PM GMT

30,000 songs licensed on Soundclick in
one month

30,000 songs licensed on Soundclick in
one month 08/11/2004 09:11 PM

Soundclick, one of the Internet's biggest music community sites, prominently integrated our license engine just one month ago. In that time, over 30,000 tracks have been licensed under Creative Commons licenses. Genres vary, and many of the tracks allow derivatives, so break out your music editing software and mix away.

More details from the press release.

Creative Commons licensed mural

Creative Commons licensed mural 08/03/2004 11:24 PM

These pictures taken by Brad Neuberg

Mona Caron has created a beautiful mural on Church street near Market in San Francisco with a Creative Commons Attribution-N onCommercial-ShareAlike 2.0 License. So cool. More pictures on Brad Neuberg's site and her site.

via Creative Commons Weblog

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Are your disaster-recovery plans
licensed?

Are your disaster-recovery plans
licensed? 03/29/2005 06:49 AM
ZDNet Mar 29 2005 10:35AM GMT

3G mobile services to be licensed in
2005

3G mobile services to be licensed in
2005 06/16/2004 01:05 PM
RBC Jun 16 2004 4:38PM GMT

Core Licensed For 3G Multimedia Phones

Core Licensed For 3G Multimedia Phones 12/10/2003 05:47 AM
3G Dec 10 2003 4:50AM ET

CC-licensed book of fictitious forewords

CC-licensed book of fictitious forewords 07/05/2004 02:30 PM
David sez, "I just wrote my first book and posted it online under a creative commons license. It is entitled Dr. Lewis B. Turndevelt's Big Book of Forewords and is a fictitious collection of fictitious forewords written by this fictitious guy, Dr. Turndevelt." Link (Thanks, David!)

Benjamin Rosenbaum's "The Orange" online
and CC-licensed

Benjamin Rosenbaum's "The Orange" online
and CC-licensed 07/18/2004 08:45 AM
Benjamin Rosenbaum, whose knockout story "The Ant King: A California Fairytale" convinced me that he was desitined to be one of the great talents in science fiction, has Creative-Commons-licensed his story "The Orange," which originally appeared in Harper's Magazine (selling an sf story to Harper's is itself quite a coup!).

An orange ruled the world.

It was an unexpected thing, the temporary abdication of Heavenly Providence, entrusting the whole matter to a simple orange.

The orange, in a grove in Florida, humbly accepted the honor. The other oranges, the birds, and the men in their tractors wept with joy; the tractors' motors rumbled hymns of praise.

Airplane pilots passing over would circle the grove and tell their passengers, "Below us is the grove where the orange who rules the world grows on a simple branch." And the passengers would be silent with awe.

Link (Thanks, Ben!)

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.

Industry analysts releasing licensed
whitepapers

Industry analysts releasing licensed
whitepapers 08/19/2004 03:21 PM

Redmonk is an analyst firm that studies the Technology industry. One aspect of their work is publishing whitepapers on various technology subjects, which are usually sold for hundreds of dollars to companies seeking research. Tech magazine Info wWorld noticed their most recent publication was released for free, and on top of that, licensed under Creative Commons. Stephen O'Grady of Redmonk explains the reasoning behind the licensing in this post to his technology weblog. In a followup post, he sums up the paralells between Creative Commons licensed technology papers and open sourced code:

"I see no reason to believe that the open source model is any less applicable to our business model than it is to software. It's not one-to-one, of course, because of the inherent differences between source code and analysis, but at the end of the day they are both just information. Information that can be used and built on. If you allow it."

It's great to see an analyst firm try out licensing their whitepapers, and I hope it's the start of a new trend in the industry.

Old Atari games being licensed for slot
machines

Old Atari games being licensed for slot
machines 09/10/2004 02:53 PM
Xeni Jardin: Vegas, baby. BoingBoing reader Clive says, "Atari has signed a deal to produce a series of casino slot machines based on their early arcade classics -- including Pong, Asteroids, and Centipede." Link to Atari press release.

licensed images in squared circle
2005-01-25

licensed images in squared circle
2005-01-25 02/01/2005 08:44 PM

(licensed images in squared circle 2005-01-25, originally uploaded by jbum)

Pretty cool visualization of the state of copyright licensing over at flickr

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!

Licensed character breakfast cereal
gallery

Licensed character breakfast cereal
gallery 11/12/2003 01:27 PM
Ralston -- now a division of General Mills -- is the cereal company best known for Cookie Crisp and Chex, but the company also had a sideline in short-lived, craptacular cereals based on licensed characters from GI Joe to Rainbow Brite to Slimer. Some of the most forgettable are gathered into this annotated gallery. Link (via Fark)

Shipwrecked U-Boat salvage bl0g with
CC-licensed A/V

Shipwrecked U-Boat salvage bl0g with
CC-licensed A/V 07/23/2004 07:54 AM
Thor (who has the same birthday as me -- happy b-day, Thor!) sez,

We made International news last week when our team found the shipwreck of the rare U-215, a U-Boat that was on a secret mission to mine Boston Harbor when it decided to disobey orders and sink an American liberty ship in July 1942. That action lead to a watery grave for 48 German sailors, and 10 more who went down on the Alexander Macomb.

During the whole dive I was blogging the event from shore, keeping in touch by satellite phone. Unfortunately our website, Shipwreck Central, wasn't ready to go online so I was left to ponder the question of "if a blogger blogs in the woods..."

It's 5:30 AM here in Halifax and I'm back at home having a Wi-Fi beer on the porch. A couple of hours ago we opened up the site for a 'soft launch'. We're pretty happy with it, it's like the IMDB of shipwrecks with a kick-ass map interface, and best of all we've made our audio and video available under a Creative Commons license. I can't wait to hear live from the dive audio mixed in with some downtempo-ambient... it goes quite well from my experience.

Link

US court rules that music sampling must
be licensed

US court rules that music sampling must
be licensed 09/10/2004 01:17 PM

The US 6th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that ruled that creators mixing music from other sources, or sampling , must license music they sample , and pay as required.

"If you cannot pirate the whole sound recording, can you 'lift' or 'sample' something less than the whole? Our answer to that question is in the negative."

Critics and musicians, especially rappers, have argued that sampling is either fair use , or uses small enough pieces in a transformative way as to not cost sales of the original. Others argue that culture, including legal argument , assumes a great deal of sampling from various media.

Protecting Licensed Intellectual
Property in Bankruptcy

Protecting Licensed Intellectual
Property in Bankruptcy 08/03/2004 05:38 AM
Mondaq Aug 3 2004 10:03AM GMT

Al-Qaeda may have trained and licensed
pilots in their ranks

Al-Qaeda may have trained and licensed
pilots in their ranks 12/23/2003 06:53 PM
trained pilots working for foreign airlines .. feeling safer .. From MSNBC .. MSNBC

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King Spot: CC-licensed fairy tale well
told

King Spot: CC-licensed fairy tale well
told 04/17/2005 04:04 AM
Cory Doctorow: Mike sez, "I've written a 48-chapter all-ages novella while looking for work, and I have begun posting it reserving rights under the creative commons license. It's 20,000 words and some change, but should be about 230 pages when illustrated (comic-panel storytelling has been sketched for most pages)."

I read the first couple short chapters this morning. It's a snappy, witty fairy-tale kind of thing, like Geek Love without the squick, and if I didn't have to run, I'd be reading it still. It concerns itself with the adventures of King Spot, a runaway circus dog who is the king of the world.

"Hey, look over there," said Roger. "Check out the peg-legged guy with the funny-looking dog." Roger was talking about a very large man in an overcoat, whose face was hidden by a scarf. To his left was a tiny, spotted dog.

"Are you trying to trick me?" said Brian. "I have to be careful, because, unlike lying for fun, using deception to win a game is not considered immoral. It's called bluffing."

"Brian, you talk like you're going to read shampoo instructions for a living when you grow up," said Roger. "You'll find a job where you can talk like this: 'After you lather the shampoo in your hair, rinse it out. Then lather and rinse it from your hair again.' You'll do this in the supermarkets where they sell the shampoo. They'll pay you to go away."

Link (Thanks, Mike!)

My Tokyo Death Cult: CC-licensed science
fiction

My Tokyo Death Cult: CC-licensed science
fiction 07/06/2004 03:41 AM
My Tokyo Death Cult is a science fiction novel released under a CC license by Marc Horne -- haven't read it, but it's got a hell of an opener:

Japanese policemen's guns are small and sort of puny. Except when they are shooting at you. Right now, they are shooting at me and my companion and we are running scared. The Policemen's shots are a little tentative, like someone picking chewing gum out of their hair. In fairness to the police, I should mention that we are in Shinjuku station, the world's busiest. Currently it is occupied by... oh, I don't know... 2.5 Lichtensteins. I am on average 4 inches taller than those around me, and a crucial 4 inches to boot, so as I barge through the crowd, hurting everyone, I must remember to crouch. To help me remember this, I visualize two things: the cloth that hangs in front of every drinking establishment in this country and those photos of JFK's autopsy that my father and I discussed over breakfast in 1977.

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Department of Justice wants Microsoft to
better document licensed code

Department of Justice wants Microsoft to
better document licensed code 04/17/2004 11:26 AM
The DoJ wants Microsoft to do a better job documenting protocols opened up and covered under 2001's settlement. Microsoft is going along, but will it really have any effect on competition?

Lexicon: CC-licensed RPG based on
compiling fictional encyclopedia

Lexicon: CC-licensed RPG based on
compiling fictional encyclopedia 04/15/2005 09:01 PM
Cory Doctorow: Morbus Iff sez, "Ghyll is a Creative Common licensed player-created world per the rules of "Lexicon: an RPG" (think: a fictional wikipedia, constrained by integration, consecutive letter definitions, and cranky scholars that write before 'before scholarly pursuits became professionalized (or possibly after they ceased to be)'). It has reached nearly 30 players, 200 pages of text, an incredibly large timeline, a hundred characters, and a to-scale ASCII map of the known world. Darkly humorous? Possible. Odd? Mmhmmm. All CC? Ayup.

"We're starting Round 2 next month (in essence, starting over again at letter A to further define the world). Notes about the announcement here, as well as links to the timeline, characters, and ASCII map." Link (Thanks, Morbus!)

Simba Technologies Announces Aleri has
Licensed SimbaProvider SDK

Simba Technologies Announces Aleri has
Licensed SimbaProvider SDK 07/05/2004 02:29 PM
BC Technology Jul 5 2004 6:15PM GMT

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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