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Google Books adds Creative Commons license options

http://creativecommons.org

"Some very exciting news for authors, publishers, and readers: Today, Google launched a program to enable rightsholders to make their Creative Commons-licensed books available for the public to download, use, remix, and share via Google Books..."

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The tragedy of the Creative Commons

http://www.theregister.co.uk

The Creative Commons initiative fulfilled a major ambition last week - but it's taken only days for the dream to turn to crap.

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Wikimedia Foundation to Add Creative Commons License for All Content

http://www.readwriteweb.com

"Recently, the Wikimedia Foundation proposed that the copyright licensing terms on its wikis be changed to include a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike license in addition to its longstanding GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL). The proposal was approved by a 75 percent majority of community voters as announced this week..."

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Remixtures: an introduction for English-speaking readers

http://remixtures.com

"...I started Remixtures in the beginning of October 2006, a few months after I finished my master’s thesis about online activism and the (re)appropriation of technology for social goals.

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Freedom, Future and Fred

http://portal.vibewire.org

"An interview with Fred Benenson, from Creative Commons, based in New York. By Bianca Bautista...

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Vote for free music --- vote four Jamendo on Cnet.com!

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Jamendo, the internet platform for free and semi-free Creative Commons music, has been selected by Cnet.com as one of 100 finalists among Amazon Mp3, iTunes, Napster and all those big names.

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Free Software Supporter -- Issue 13, April 2009

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* Version 2.2 of gNewSense released
* FSF releases audio recording of LibrePlanet conference
* Winners of the annual free software awards announced!
* Help spring the Javascript Trap
* European Elections and the Free Software Pact
* Can you help the Open Graphics Project?
* Nintendo DSi: Defective by DESiGN
* Join Amazon authors' "drmfree" effort

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Stallman discusses Free Software and GPLv3

http://broadcast.oreilly.com

"On June 29, 2007 the Free Software Foundation released the GNU General Public License, version 3. What happened since then? I had the opportunity to discuss many subjects with FSF's founder and president Richard Stallman..."

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Wietse Venema and Creative Commons announced as winners of the annual free software awards

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"The Free Software Foundation (FSF) announced the winners of the annual free software awards during the GNU/Linux conference LibrePlanet, held on March 21-22 at Harvard Science Center in Cambridge, MA. Creative Commons was honored with the Award for Projects of Social Benefit, and Wietse Venema was honored with the Award for the Advancement of Free Software.

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Social Contracts, Social Justice, and the Creative Commons

http://coffs.free.net.au

For some time now, I've found the Creative Commons philosophy morally troubling in a way that the free software philosophy isn't, without being able to satisfactorily articulate precisely why.

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Radiohead Open Sources a Music Video

http://ostatic.com

The band has teamed up with Google to release the data for the promo as open source using a Creative Commons license. Take a gander at how it looks here--better than a lot of music videos in my opinion.

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Ubuntu community head tests music economics with open content

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"Ubuntu community manager Jono Bacon, an independent musician and prominent figure in the open source software community, is starting a new solo music project through which he aims to explore the challenges of distributing music under a Creative Commons license."

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10 000 albums on Jamendo

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Jamendo, the free music community, has reached 10000 albums.

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Approved for Free Cultural Works

http://creativecommons.org

"We’ve just added the seal you see at right to Creative Commons licenses that qualify as Free Culture Licenses according to the Definition of Free Cultural Works — Attribution and Attribution-ShareAlike. Public domain is not a license, but is an acceptable copyright status for free cultural works according to the Definition.

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"Big Buck Bunny" movie files released

http://www.bigbuckbunny.org

The shortfilm “Big Buck Bunny”, made with the Free Software program Blender is available for download. It is released under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 license.

Note that the files are in a rather high resolution. Please use BitTorrent for download.

There is also a game planned...

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