Here is a intelligent little interview with Mark Hosler of Negativland talking about the creation of the CC Sampling License. I forgot this license existed; it is not linked anywhere on the CC site as far as I can tell, and is not offered by the chooser tool. Mark also talks about his general disagreement with CC.

“Let’s be Positivland for a moment here…”

Also, this music video remake of Negativland’s Time Zones was linked from MeFi today. It’s amazing how well old Negativland stands the test of time.

Miguel Soares, who made this video, has done lots of other great video and blinky-light pieces.

Here is a simple and awesome piece called Do Robots Dream of Electric Art?

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Tagged: CreativeCommons , MiguelSoares , negativland

May, Shag, and I went to the Creative Commons 5-Year Birthday Party and got to hear Lawrence Lessig announce a new CC License, CC Zero. Licensing a work under CC0 is similar to placing it in the Public Domain, but CC0 is meant to work better internationally. Did you know Germany (and maybe other EU countries) don’t allow authors to dedicate their own works into the public domain? I’m glad smart people are working on this problem!

The CC 5-Year party was cool, but the sound system was turned down so low that it was hard to hear Lessig and Gilberto Gil. Fortunately, DJ Spooky turned up the sound for his set, but that caused others to complain that they could no longer talk over the music.

Here’s the press release and wiki page for CC0 (where I got the CC0 image above). The tool to generate the CC0 machine-readable license should be available on Jan 15.

Lawrence Lessig’s blog has a list of the amazing number of announcements at the CC 5-Year party.

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Tagged: CC0 , CCZero , CreativeCommons , lessig

I love this video. Jimmy Wales announces at the iCommons party that Wikipedia will become licensed under a Creative Commons ShareAlike license. The crowd, who has not been paying attention until now, goes nuts. Lawrence Lessig gets on the mic and and announces the third greatest thing to ever happen in his life.

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Tagged: CreativeCommons , iCommons , JimmyWales , lessig , ShareAlike , wikipedia

Shag and I are testing a netradio station, streaming CC ShareAlike-licensed tracks from archive.org. Give these a listen and let us know what you think!

Ambient Drone Electronic Folk Indie IDM Pop

Ambient:
Drone:
Electronic:
Folk:
Indie:
IDM:
Pop:

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Tagged: CreativeCommons , NetLabel , netradio , ShareAlike , streaming

Here are roughly 2000 albums, all licensed under a Creative Commons ShareAlike license. Tons of awesome stuff for you to listen to, all tagged by genre, artist, and label!

The code used to make the list of albums can be found at the NetLabelShareAlike wiki page.

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Tagged: CreativeCommons , NetLabel , ShareAlike