Highly recommended: Flash Movie of the Creative Commons one year on
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Creative Commons Flash online
Creative Commons Flash online
12/15/2003 11:36 AMThe brilliant new Creative Commons Flash animation (which premiered
last night at the one-year anniversary party, which was a blast) is
now online! I'm very flattered at being featured in it...
7M
B Flash Link
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via Lessig)
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NB: Two minor corrections: I won a Campbell Award, not a Hugo, and
sold out one print run, not two)
Highly Recommended
Highly Recommended
12/19/2004 03:36 PMBloggers
Beware: Debunking Eight Copyright Myths of the Online World
"Kathy Biehl addresses eight 'myths' about copyright law
with factual responses, resources and guidelines that are of special
relevance to bloggers and website owners." [LLRX.com]
"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 PMBBC Creative Archive Based On Creative
Commons
BBC Creative Archive Based On Creative
Commons
05/26/2004 04:39 PMScience Commons | Creative Commons
Science Commons | Creative Commons
12/31/2004 05:09 PMCreative Commons announces the Science Commons project .. patents and
scientific publishing .. scientific CC
license
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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 at the W3C
Creative Commons at the W3C
03/06/2004 01:53 AMBen
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.
Creative Commons
Creative Commons
06/12/2004 06:10 AMSparked 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 2.0
Creative Commons 2.0
05/26/2004 04:43 PMAfter 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.
Why the BBS Documentary is Creative
Commons
Why the BBS Documentary is Creative
Commons
06/05/2005 11:29 PMGreat defense of CC
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Enforcing the Creative Commons
Enforcing the Creative Commons
05/26/2004 12:11 PMThe Creative Commons is a good thing. It allows people near and far to
share creative work. It's easy to... (596 words)
Creative Commons search
Creative Commons search
09/05/2004 01:21 PMConnecting 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
]
Searching Creative Commons
Searching Creative Commons
03/24/2005 08:16 PMCreative Commons in Europe
Creative Commons in Europe
02/11/2004 07:13 PMNeeru 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 PMFriends 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.
honoring Creative Commons
honoring Creative Commons
05/11/2004 09:11 AMCreative Commons has won a
Prix Ars Electronica
Award.
Creative Commons For Science
Creative Commons For Science
12/29/2004 11:48 AMWyman on DRM and Creative Commons
Wyman on DRM and Creative Commons
03/25/2005 03:47 PMFrom 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 Milestone
Creative Commons Milestone
12/15/2003 10:33 PMIt's a 7 meg flash file .. great new stuff .. 7MB Flash Link ..
flash
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Somebody please tell Bjork about
Creative Commons
Somebody please tell Bjork about
Creative Commons
08/27/2004 02:01 PMHere's
why. Another reason: she's cool. It's ok to give her our phone
number. Thanks.
(Via Xeni @ BoingBoing.)
Creative Commons in Sweden
Creative Commons in Sweden
08/19/2004 11:03 PMIt 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.
BBC to use Creative Commons licenses
BBC to use Creative Commons licenses
05/26/2004 06:16 PMDigital 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
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Thanks, Simon!)
SGAE y Creative Commons
SGAE y Creative Commons
04/16/2005 03:17 PMCreative Commons Audiobooks
Creative Commons Audiobooks
04/12/2004 07:33 AMCreative Commons Deed
Creative Commons Deed
04/25/2004 04:49 PMexcellent 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
creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd-nc/1.0
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Creative Commons Europe
Creative Commons Europe
03/22/2005 04:43 PMI 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.)
Creative Commons UK: will it flower?
Creative Commons UK: will it flower?
04/06/2005 07:37 AMCory 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 License"
"Creative Commons License"
12/19/2003 11:55 AMCreative Commons and The Plains
Creative Commons and The Plains
08/06/2004 05:00 PMThere'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.
Creative Commons presentation in
Helsinki on May 24
Creative Commons presentation in
Helsinki on May 24
05/21/2004 11:24 PMLawrence Lessig will be giving
a public Creative
Commons presentation in Helsinki. It will be at Korjaamo organized by Aula. It will from 5:30PM on May 24.
It's open to the public and will be in English. Details
are on the Aula web page. I'm leaving for Helsinki tomorrow and
will be there.
Creative Commons » Home
Creative Commons » Home
03/24/2005 04:42 AMCreative 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 Internship
Opportunities
Creative Commons Internship
Opportunities
03/14/2005 06:06 PMCreative Commons is happy to announce this summer's internship
opportunities at the San Francisco office. If you are interested in
applying, please follow the instructions below.
Legal Internship
Creative Commons is currently accepting resumés from law
students interested in interning in the San Francisco office. This
paid internship will focus on intellectual property and copyright,
especially in relation to the internet as it relates to building the
pool of licensed content and encouraging the reuse of content.
Technology
Creative Commons is currently accepting resumés from persons
interested in interning in the San Francisco office. This paid
internship will focus on aiding the Chief Technology Officer and
Software Engineer with the development of software and maintenance of
services. Knowledge of Linux and Python a must.
Free Culture Marketing/Media Internship
This internship is open to students involved in their respected
colleges' FREE CULTURE club.
Creative Commons is currently accepting resumés from those
students interested in interning in the San Francisco office. This
paid internship will focus on a grass roots effort, and/or media
development to encourage the reuse of content. Duties will also
include working on a "street team" campaign to other Free Culture club
members. This position will be offered to a non-law student.
Internship terms
- SPRING (Mid-January through late April)
Applications should be sent between October 1st and December 1st
- SUMMER (Late May through August)
Applications should be sent between January 1st and April 1st
- FALL (Mid August/Early September through December)
Applications should be sent between July 1st and August 31
Quotes from past Creative Commons interns
Here are what some of the past intern from Creative Commons had to
say about their internship.
"I loved working for Creative Commons. The people are
wonderful and I had the chance to do cutting-edge legal work that made
a real difference to a great cause. My summer at CC was like taking a
vacation to the future."
James Grimmelman, Yale Law School '05
"My experience at Creative Commons was invaluable. I got
to work closely with a diverse team, improve my writing, and study
copyright, all while serving an important public
interest."
Derek Slater, Harvard College '05
Compensation
Creative Commons does offer compensation for internships. If your
school offers a stipend for internships, this factor is figured into
the compensation.
How to apply
If you are a student interested in our internship program, send us
your:
- Cover Letter
- Resumé
- Two References
- School Transcript (optional with your application, required at the
interview)
- Writing sample (optional with your application, required at the
interview)
Applications and questions can be sent to:
Francesca Rodriquez
Office/Project Manager
francesca@creativecommons.org
fax: 415.946.3001
Thank you for your interest in our organization.
Garageband adds Creative Commons
Garageband adds Creative Commons
06/07/2004 03:39 PMWired has a short write-up of the GarageBand (the website for
musicians, not the Apple software) annoucement to include a Creative
Commons license during song uploads. If you've never tried out
GarageBand, sign up and give it a whirl. Listeners rate song samples
as one vs. another, and you can view the top rated songs in numerous
genres. There's an impressive array of music, all from unsigned bands.
On the musician side of things, you can upload music and get feedback
and ratings from fans, sort of like a musical HotOrNot.com.
Washington Post on Creative Commons
Washington Post on Creative Commons
03/17/2005 03:47 AMGreat and particularly well researched article on Creative Commons
in the Washington Post today.
"Creative Commons has been awarded one
of the top honors"
"Creative Commons has been awarded one
of the top honors"
05/05/2004 03:49 PMCreative Commons, a wedding beneficiary
Creative Commons, a wedding beneficiary
06/18/2004 08:41 PMWe were honored to get this letter, and a check, from the recently
married Joanna and Jaroslaw, of Warsaw, Poland:
We (Joanna and Jaroslaw) had decided, that during our wedding we want
people to donate for charity instead of buying flowers, and as people
somehow connected with copyleft/free_content movement we have chosen
CC as a beneficiary. We hope, that this money may be spent on starting
iCommons Poland.
Our professional-looking charity box was made from one plastic pot,
parts of tea can and lots of duck-tape (see enclosed photos :-))).
Response was pretty good, and we collected 552 polish zloty (pln) and
6 Euro (e). With 1e = 4,662pln that made 579,97pln. Bank and sending
cost was 30,30pln, what made 549,67pln. With 1$=3.94pln we were able
to send you 139,52$.
BTW our wedding took place on 24th April, but i took us some (too
much) time to send a check. Finally we did it yesterday, on May 25th.
Please let us now, when (and if) money will arrive. We don't want it
to get lost somewhere over Atlantic :-)
Few words about us: Joanna Maksymiuk is a student of philosophy at Curie-Sklodowska University
(Lublin, Poland). Jaroslaw Lipszyc is an editor of Warsaw daily Zycie Warszawy, but also a poet (all
works avalaible under GNU GPL), part of the Copyleft Art project and
one of translators of
Lawrence Lessig book "Free Culture."
Thank you for all your efforts in making our world a better place.
Supporting you is a pleasure.
Joanna and Jaroslaw
from Warsaw, Poland
PS.
more photos from our wedding you will find here.
Happy 2nd Birthday Creative Commons!
Happy 2nd Birthday Creative Commons!
12/17/2004 06:33 PMToday marks the second anniversary of the
first
release of Creative Commons licenses. What an amazing two years it
has been -- we can only hope the coming years will be as
extraordinary.
Creative Commons launches in Belgium
Creative Commons launches in Belgium
12/22/2004 01:09 AM
The launch ceremony of the Belgian CC Licences took place in the
Bibliotheque Royale in Brussels on 10 December as part of the
electronic music and free software festival Jonctions 8.
Creative Commons country head Severine Dusollier – a young
researcher of copyright law at the University of Namur – had invited
an interesting panel comprising artists, publishers, academics,
lawyers and representatives from the collecting societies. With more
than 150 participants in the audience, the panel discussion took place
in a splendid setting and was lead by Suzanne Capiau, a prominent
avocate in Brussels. It focussed (1) on the legal viability of the
licences under Belgian law, (2) on a comparative analysis of the
licences within an EU perspective as well as (3) on the necessary
adjustments collecting societies will have to make to accommodate the
growing desire of artists to distribute their works on a ‘Some
Rights Reserved’ basis. The latter issue in particular is becoming
increasingly urgent and was much debated at various conferences I
attended throughout Europe in the second half of 2004.
The launch event ended on a somewhat lighter note, as local DJ Lo-bat
was showing off some of his new works licenced under CC in an
exclusive concert for us. Here’s Lo-bat’s personal introduction to
what he’s doing:
“Lo-bat is all about squeezing dirt cheap computers so hard they
start moaning and rattling like nothing you heard before […] No
style is safe: from brutal experiments to soft pop, he can do it all.
He picked up the guitar again […] so watch out, maybe you’re lucky
enough to be the first one seeing him torturing it live.” So we all
relaxed to Lo-bat’s music!
Many thanks are due to Severine for her outstanding efforts during the
last months. Belgium was the seventh EU country to launch.
Creative Commons party this Sunday
Creative Commons party this Sunday
12/11/2003 09:38 AMThe Creative Commons anniversary party is taking place in San
Francisco this Sunday:
Creative Commons is having its anniversary party on Sunday, December
14, from 6-9pm at 111 Minna Gallery, 111 Minna Street, San Francisco
(directions). There will be some cool new CC tunes, and great-news
annoucements, and most of Joi’s cool SF friends. Be sure to RSVP.
LinkGrok Description matches for Highly recommended: Flash Movie of the Creative Commons one year on
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Germany debuts Creative Commons
Germany debuts Creative Commons
06/15/2004 06:43 AMBerlin 'This time, we win'
MacJams adds Creative Commons
MacJams adds Creative Commons
06/14/2004 09:21 PMSeveral months ago, Apple released the music software Garageband, allowing
anyone with a mac to make some music. Soon after the release,
community websites sprang up to allow Garageband users to share music
with each other, and build songs together. This is a perfect use for
Creative Commons licenses, and earlier we noted that
the site Macband added our licenses
to their site. We were delighted to hear that MacJ
ams has also incorporated Creative Commons licenses into their
song uploading process.
So if you're a Garageband user that needs some drum loops or other
song parts to share, check out Macband and MacJams.
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