After seven years of constant activity, Lawrence Lessig stops his blog. For an undetermined period no more posts or comments. A new child and a new job as director of Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics at Harvard are the main causes. From now Creative Commons fonder will communicate only by twitter, blip.tv and his podcast channel. Read more »

On July 14th, 2009, Giorgos Cheliotis, assistant professor of Communications and New Media at the National University of Singapore and a visitor researcher at the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University, has tried to answer the question how large and free are the Commons? during a talk called Mapping the Global Commons: A quantitative perspective on free cultural practice. Read more »

Vosotros presents: the years is the latest release from CC-friendly label Vosotros. Described as a “a musical journey through time”, the CC By-nc-sa licensed album is being released as a free download through out the month of July while simultaneously being sold through a variety of digital outlets. Read more »

After Yahoo!, on July 9th, Google officially launched the ability to filter search results using some rights reserved licenses inside their Image Search tool. It is now easy to restrict your Image Search results to find images in the public domain or published under Creative Commons or Gnu Free Documentation licenses, so that you can find content from across the web that you can share, use, and even modify. Read more »

From 22 to 24 June, 2009, in Amsterdam, approximately 70 people from around the world gathered to discuss the current state of affairs in open translation: open-source translation software, open and volunteer translation communities, openly licensed works – both translated and for translating, open databases for machine translation, and the intersection of translation with open education, open video, open business practices, and more. Read more »

Creative Commons has created an interesting plugin for WordPress that permits to easily choose a specific icense for your website and publish it in the footer. We are working for improving it. Read more »

Cadyou is a community launched by Tom Moor in late 2008 whose goal is to create an archive of free, high quality 3D and CAD files for everyone to use, available in the Public Domain and under Creative Commons licenses. Read more »

On May 26th, 2009, on Yahoo’s Search Blog, Polly Ng and Anuj Sahai announced the addition of CC license image filtering options to their image search and also explained why CC licenses are so important for finding images online. Read more »

The Bloomsbury Academic Press version of Lawrence Lessig last book, Remix, is now Creative Commons licensed (CC-BY-NC). You can download the book on the Bloomsbury Academic page. Read more »

A community vote is now underway, hopefully one of the final steps in the process the migration of Wikipedia (actually Wikipedias, as each language is its own site, and also other Wikimedia Foundation sites) to using Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike as its primary content license.

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