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Creative Commons appeals for cash
News Creative Commons launched an appeal this week for cash to meet its goal of raising $225,000 by the end of this year. Set up in 2002 by US academic Lawrence Lessig, author of Code and other laws of Cyberspace, Creative Commons aims to provide a...
[October 7, 2005, 17:55]
Creative Commons licence upheld by court
News A court in the Netherlands has ruled that a Creative Commons (CC) licence is binding in a case brought against a Dutch gossip magazine by an ex-MTV star. The Creative Commons licences are quite new, so there has been very little in the way of case...
[March 21, 2006, 10:50]
Creative Commons comes to Microsoft Office
News Microsoft and the Creative Commons on Wednesday plan to release a free tool that will let people attach a Creative Commons copyright licence to Microsoft Office documents. Creative Commons is a nonprofit organisation that has written licences that...
[June 21, 2006, 10:00]
UK gets its own Creative Commons
News A version of the Creative Commons licensing scheme adapted for the UK's legal landscape will be formally launched in London on Wednesday evening. Creative Commons was first developed by US academic Lawrence Lessig as a more flexible alternative to...
[March 16, 2005, 16:20]
Creative Commons comes to Microsoft Office
Talkback Or.make a macro keyboard shortcut (embedded in a customized menu button or whatever) and paste in predefined text (with logo's, links, whatever) in OpenOffice. Which would also make it possible to add exactly that what you want to add and thus be...
[June 22, 2006, 23:52]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog Off to the October Gallery in Holborn for the launch of the Creative Commons UK licence. You don't need to decode the motives behind Creative Commons. Which is odd: Creative Commons in the US has been a practical and conceptual success: by letting...
[March 18, 2005, 17:00]
BBC prepares to put TV archive on Web
News The BBC has given a major boost to the Creative Commons movement this week by revealing how it plans to open up its archive of broadcasting material to UK Internet users. A Creative Commons licence allows content creators to dictate whether or not...
[May 27, 2004, 16:30]
Free Software Foundation gives annual awards
News The Creative Commons organisation and the Dutch security programmer Wietse Venema have become winners of the Free Software Foundation's annual awards. The FSF named its award winners for 2008 as the Creative Commons organisation, for projects of...
[March 25, 2009, 11:52]
Government intellectual property under scrutiny
News The Common Information Environment (CIE) has commissioned a study on the potential for the deployment of Creative Commons licences or their equivalent. He said the Creative Commons framework could provide more consistency and clarity for users.
[June 30, 2005, 16:05]
Google search filters for free-to-use images
News The Google filter covers a variety of licensing methods, including Creative Commons, GNU Free Documentation licence, and items that are in the public domain. In the meantime, there are several search tools that let users quickly seek out images...
[July 10, 2009, 12:17]
Webcasting 'excluded from WIPO broadcasting treaty'
News Cory Doctorow, the former European affairs coordinator for the EFF, warned last year that giving such protection to webcasters could allow them to monopolise material covered by Creative Commons licences, and would enforce the use of DRM.
[May 8, 2006, 17:10]
Is Website-Envy Provoking Digital Plagiarism?
Blog Even fewer understand the importance of licensing their work - whether under Creative Commons or a commercial license - and the differences between various licenses which can have a profound impact on the balance between the amount of control you...
[June 22, 2009, 8:51]
Open-source licence victory in model-railway case
News Stanford Law School's Professor Lawrence Lessig — a long-standing advocate of software freedom and a founder of the Creative Commons movement — wrote on his blog that White's judgement was "huge" and "a very important victory" for the legal...
[August 14, 2008, 17:32]
Quartonian Mixer
Downloads Quartonian is a creative commons licensed VJ Mixer program created entirely in Quartz Composer. It allows Triggering, Mixing and Core Image effects on Quicktimes, Still Images, Quartz Composer compositions or flash animations.
[May 1, 2006, 8:00]
What Open Source shares with Science
Blog Comment No issues at all about reproduction; most everything I write is available under a Creative Commons of free documentation-style licence. Hello Asheyna! Thanks for the feedback ;-) If it's of interest, this short piece is directly descended from a...
[June 14, 2009, 8:50]
Verify
Downloads Verify checks media files for compliance with the Creative Commons license metadata standard (http://creativecommons.org/learn/technology/metadata/). Verify scans folders for media files and checks those files for embedded license metadata.
[September 18, 2003, 8:00]
Fascinating flowers Screensaver
Downloads Playcolors has been offering royalty free images under the creative commons license on CDROMs. No nags free screensaver. This screensaver is a slideshow of high quality close up pictures of flowers. This screensaver is a selection of 10 high...
[July 24, 2007, 17:56]
They must regard me as the ultimate enemy then.
Talkback It is all under creative Commons license (or public domain). I download a lot of extremely high quality music, and don't pay a penny for it. Mind you none of it is on sale. I only ever have the radio on when driving, and that's really to catch...
[August 27, 2009, 10:09]
BookShelfLT
Downloads Access thousands of free books from the classics of literature to the newest creative Commons licensed SciFi. BookShelfLT may carry up to 10 books at one time. Read your own ebooks or discover new titles.
[June 10, 2009, 9:39]
Alive Wire RSS Screensaver
Downloads The screensaver is share within the creative commons 2.0 attribution no-derivatives license. A screensaver displaying TheAliveWire.com's RSS newsfeed composited with an original SDR photo and a video loop of Alive Wire's band logo.
[July 12, 2007, 14:09]
