Creative Commons » CC NewsShare, reuse, and remix — legally.Adam Gnade Releases Hymnn- June 30, 2008 Adam Gnade, a musician based in Portland, OR, recently published his first book, Hymn California, through CC-friendly distribution group CASH Music (blogged earlier here and here). Released under a CC BY-NC-ND license, the book is being serialized online in PDF form, one chapter a month over the next year along with a piece of music ...http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/8415 Severed Fifth- June 27, 2008 Severed Fifth is a new project from Ubuntu community manager Jono Bacon in which he plans to document the process of becoming a musician in the &8216;new music economy&8217;, something he hopes to accomplish largely through using CC licensing. Two goals of the project, from Severed Fifth: One. Severed Fifth is the name of my new ...http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/8413 Google Book Search Adds Copyright Renewal Data- June 27, 2008 Google Book Search recently did a great service for those interested in the public domain by digitizing a huge amount of copyright renewal data for books dating as far back as 1923. From Inside Google Book Search: How do you find out whether a book was renewed You have to check the U.S. Copyright Office records. ...http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/8412 CcTeamspace: a collaborative project management software- June 27, 2008 The CC staff has been developing and using their internal project management tool for too long, now has come the time for a release! To sum up, CcTeamspace is nothing more than a clever combination of different open source tools with a solid data structure. It&8217;s mainly powered by SemanticMediaWiki, an extension which adds semantic abilities ...http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/8411 50 Millionth View of TEDTalks- June 26, 2008 Today TED announced the 50 millionth view of a TED talk, marking its success since it first launched online two years ago in June of 2006. TED stands for Technology, Entertainment, Design&8212;and it features talks by various speakers from Bill Clinton to Bono. However, the most viewed talks are actually given by persons previously unknown. ...http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/8410 REMINDER: CC Salon LA Tonight FOUND LA7:30PM Curt Smith and Monk Turner Discuss CCMusic- June 26, 2008 Just a reminder that the CC Salon LA is back TONIGHT with Curt Smith, solo-artist and co-founder of Tears for Fears, discussing his decision to release Halfway, Pleased under a CC license and Monk Turner, an LA-based multi-instrumentalist (and former Featured Commoner) discussing how he has used CC licences and archive.org to release numerous concept ...http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/8409 WikiHow Promotes Universal Edit Button- June 26, 2008 Big news recently that our friends at Wikihow (and a growing list of other wiki projects large and small) are teaming up to promote and enable the Universal Edit Button (UEB), an extension for Firefox that automatically notifies users with an icon when a page is editable &8212; like an RSS. It&8217;s a simple and great ...http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/8408 |