Curt Smith , best known for his work as one of the two lead vocalists in English pop band Tears for Fears , released his new album, Halfway, Pleased , this past Tuesday ( digitally and otherwise). Comprised of 15 hauntingly beautiful tracks (read a nice review here ), Smith has chosen to release the entire album under a CC BY-NC-SA license , allowing people to freely redistribute, reuse, and rework the songs legally. From Curt Smith :
In addition to joining the ranks of major artists releasing their work independently under their own banners, Smith is issuing “Halfway, pleased” under a Creative Commons license, which gives fans the right to copy, distribute and perform the album’s songs, so long as the uses are non-commercial and properly attributed to Smith. “Nothing would make me happier,” he insists, “than for my music to be heard by as many people as possible. If people like the album and its songs enough to put it on their website or share it ...
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Google Doctype, an Encyclopedia of the Open WebFrom: creativecommons.org
Post Date: 2008-05-22 11:22:34
Google recently launched Google Doctype , a wiki-style encyclopedia for web developers of the open web, a “web built on open standards: HTML, JavaScript, CSS, and more.” Anyone with a Google account can contribute and edit. Currently, the wiki consists of HOWTO articles on web security, DOM manipulation, CSS and style, tips and tricks—in addition to code for developers.
All articles, reference pages and other prose content is licensed CC BY . ...
more Creative Commons presents ccREL at Semantic Technology 2008From: creativecommons.org
Post Date: 2008-05-22 09:49:41
Ben Adida and myself are attending the Semantic Technology 2008 conference today where we presented on ccREL , the Creative Commons Rights Expression Language (slides) .
ccREL provides a framework for describing licenses and how they relate to creative works. In addition to the conceptual framework for describing licenses, ccREL also provides concrete recommendations for marking works using RDFa and XMP . Look for more announcements in the coming months about how weR...
more Joi Ito/Ryuichi Sakamoto/bb.tv 150From: creativecommons.org
Post Date: 2008-05-21 10:57:40
For the 150th episode of the fantastic Boing Boing tv , Xeni et al. have digi-traveled to Japan, visiting CC CEO Joi Ito to learn how to hunt for and prepare bamboo shoots. Accompanied by a wonderful score from Ryuichi Sakamoto , the video is CC BY-NC licensed and a soothing way to begin your day. You can read about how the whole project came to fruition on Joi’s blog , including a pretty amusing anecdote about finding CC-licensed music (I, for one, think Cornelius would ma...
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