Deproduction, a Denver-based video production company, and Civic Pixel, an open-source web development group, have joined forces to become the Open Media Foundation. The two groups were previously affiliated through Denver Open Media where they taught local communities media production tools, producing unique and engaging content in the process. 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 »

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 »

The 14th of July has been declared the Italian national day for information freedom in and outside the Internet. A fundamental appointment for journalists, bloggers and the information world in general. You can subscribe the project on ning, write your opinion, share a logo design, a spot, an idea on this or future events.

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 »

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

In Italy, commercial shops can diffuse some music without paying collecting societies. Labels and services like Beatpick.com, Jamendo Pro, Liberius and Filozero offer free music, some right reserved licenses and consultancies for this scope. You can pay from zero to less than half you would have paid passing through collecting societies. 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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