exljbris Font Foundry produces and shares high quality typography: Delicious, Fontin, Fontin Sans, Tallys, Fertigo Pro, Diavlo, Anivers, Museo, Museo Sans, Museo Slab & Calluna. Based in Arnhem in the Netherlands and founded by Jos Buivenga, Art Director and type designer, well-known for his quality free fonts. 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 »

Project el-ajo.ru has organized a free competition for designers, photographers, artists, creatives and generally anyone who is interested, for the design of the last Creative Commons album of the Russian musical band Электрогуманные уничтожители (ElektroHumans destroyers). 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 »

Some rights reserved music concert on the beach of Rome, by Sweet lead, Edena, Verdemela, and Rein as special guests. 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 »

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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Creative Commons is launching the second and final round of a survey intended to collect information on how people understand the term “noncommercial use”. As previously announced, this study is funded by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and we are fortunate to have the help of a distinguished group of advisors and colleagues.

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On 4th April 2009, WFMU celebrated the launch of its new website, The Free Music Archive, open to the public in its beta version.

From FMA’s Jason Sigal:

Every track [on the FMA] will be offered in high-quality without restrictions, registration, advertisements or fees. Many grant additional rights under Creative Commons agreements, making the FMA a valuable resource for podcasters, video producers, remix artists, and others in search of legal audio.  […] Radio has always offered free access to curated audio, and the Free Music Archive is a continuation of that purpose designed for the Internet era.

Since there is so much content on the site, the FMA is featuring particular curators such as WFMU, KEXP, and dublab.

So go register an account, and start downloading some of the 5,000 tracks already posted, or search by license type (special kudos to WFMU for incorporating some non-standard license search options here), and help one of the world’s greatest independent stations thrive on the net!