YouTube Tests Download and Creative Commons License

YouTube just made an incredibly exciting announcement: it's testing an option that gives video owners the ability to allow downloads and share their work under Creative Commons licenses. The test is being launched with a handful of partners, including Stanford, Duke, UC …

Reminder: CC Salon SF tomorrow

We hope you'll join us tomorrow evening at our CC Salon SF from 7-9pm at PariSoMa, located at 1436 Howard Street, San Francisco (map and directions). You'll get the chance to meet the entire CC staff and hear about our latest projects on the international scene and in …

Miro 2.0 Launches

Miro, the free and open source video player launched their 2.0 version today. The update has tons of new features that will help you explore video on the web, including YouTube HD, Hulu and the like. Dean writes on the Miro blog about the new chrome on 2.0:

• A …

GreenXchange - a project of Creative Commons, Nike and Best

Today, Creative Commons, in collaboration with Nike and Best Buy, announces a new project - GreenXchange - exploring how the digital commons can help holders of patents collaborate for sustainability. GreenXchange will be hosted inside the Science Commons wing of …

Announcing February's CC Salon

Creative Commons Salons in NYC have been building momentum and it is now time for our February salon. Come out to have some beers with the CC community (don't worry, we'll open it up early this time) watch some cool presentations, and meet some new faces in the free …

Access to OER Discussion

by the UNESCO Open Educational Resources Community today. For those of you who don't know, the UNESCO OER Community is an international online community "[connecting] over 700 individuals in 105 countries to share information and discuss issues surrounding the …

CC Q&A and the joy of being

We mentioned late last year that Jeremy Keith's CC BY licensed photo was used in the film Iron Man. While that was particularly notable, Jeremy is a prolific user of CC licenses for his photos and other materials, garnering many reuses. A graphic design student asked …

NIN case study video: Connect with Fans + Reason to

Techdirt's Mike Masnick gave a great case study lecture on Nine Inch Nails' music business successes at MidemNet last month. He describes the "formula" as:

Connect With Fans (CwF) + Reason To Buy (RtB) = The Business Model ($$$$)

Toward the end of the video he explains …

Wikipedia Loves Art Launches this

Following up the success of Wikis Take Manhattan, a new project, Wikipedia Loves Art is launching this weekend:

Wikipedia Loves Art is a scavenger hunt and free content photography contest among museums and cultural institutions worldwide, and aimed at illustrating …

Updates from CC in the Arab

More than a year ago, Free Culture advocate Anas Tawileh analyzed the state of Arabic content online. His portal Arab Commons has grown modestly but steadily since its launch in 2007, offering 11 full textbooks in Arabic, plus magazines, podcasts, poetry collections, …

2008 Sparky Award

The winners of last year's Sparky Awards are now officially up online (see today's press release). The Sparky Awards is "a contest organized by SPARC (the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition) and adopted by campuses nationwide that calls on entrants …

ccNewsletter

We're at a very exciting time in the life of CC. We had a great year last year, and as you'll read in this newsletter, CC is poised for even more growth and success in 2009 — in the realms of education, science, culture, internationally, and more.

February also marks …

New TED Fellows

If you're like me, you probably never even heard of the TED conference until TED Talks launched online (in April of 2007). TED stands for "Technology, Entertainment, Design" and their talks are given annually at the TED conference in Long Beach, CA. 50 speakers give …

CC on BeyondTheBook podcast and at UGCX

The latest Beyond The Book podcast (mp3) features an interview with CC staff Mike Linksvayer and Melissa Reeder. The two main themes discussed are the intersection of public sharing under CC licenses and alternative private arrangements (see our post on Ozmo, a service …

CC Salon in

CC Colombia has proudly announced their first CC Salon will be held in Bogot

Indaba Music on Colbert Report

Following up Lawrence Lessig's remix-tastic appearance on the Colbert Report earlier in January, Indaba Music's Dan Zaccagnino will be chatting with Stephen tonight about Indaba's remix and online collaboration community. If you're looking to create your own Colbert …

Koblo: Online Music

Koblo is a new online music collaboration site that utilizes CC licensing on tracks and song stems to promote community remixing and reuse. Uniquely, Koblo exists beyond the web in the form of Koblo Studio, a free and opensource software DAW that has the ability to …

Joi Ito at DLD on Creative

Creative Commons' CEO, Joi Ito recently gave a talk at the Digital Life Design conference in Munich. If you've been waiting to watch a talk introducing Creative Commons to 2009, this is your talk.

Joi first hits on how CC helps innovators (especially those online) …

Thanks and congratulations to Catherine

Catherine Casserly, Director of Open Educational Resources Initiative at the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, and long-time supporter of CC, has taken a new position at The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. As stated in the press release:

As the …

wikiHow Reaches 50,000

wikiHow, a community site that aims to be the world's largest how-to manual, just reached the incredible milestone of 50,000 articles with the publication of How to Obtain a Copy of Your Birth Certificate in New Mexico. All of the content on wikiHow is released under a