This morning, the capital of culture 2007 was officially launched. Food and mood were good, even the sky was cyan, like the deer.
Luxembourg2007 is the main funding partner for Creative Commons Luxembourg, while we also get support from the National Culture fund and many others who help with work and organisation. Thanks!
Jedi from CC Taiwan annonced a neat tool today:
There is a FAQ entry “I used part of a Creative Commons-licensed work, which Creative Commons license can I relicense my work under?” CC HQ provides a matrix to show the compatibility of each CC license:
However, we found it not so easy for everybody to understand this matrix in our country. So that we’ve worked out a interactive-style matrix to help people to get the whole idea. What we done is based on “(Open Source) Licenses Wizard v3.0” – a product from our sister project, Open Source Software Foundry. We call it “Creative Commons Licenses Compatibility Wizard:”
http://creativecommons.org.tw/static/choose/license/licwiz
This wizard was first written in Traditional Chinese for our people. Later we made an English translation one for all of you:
http://creativecommons.org.tw/static/choose/license/licwizeng
You can play with it, download its source code, modify it if you like, and learn more about “(Open Source) Licenses Wizard v3.0” or “Open Source Software Foundry” project from links above.
Please note that this stuff is still quite rough — we know there are much to improve.
NO COPY – The Movie is a short animated film depicting the history of digital piracy and the rise of Free Culture. Beginning with the first hackers and crackers leading to the development of “the Scene”, through to file sharing, the entertainment wars and mass downloads, the movie tells the story of how industry mistakes created the need for a free culture movement.
You can stream the movie via the site, download it for free in SWF-Format or as self playing files for Windows or Mac. The original voice-over is in German with an English subtitled version available.
Inspired by Epic 2015, a rather dystopian vision of the internet in 2015, basically: personalised trash
Many more Films with a Free Culture theme are on Dave’s Soundblog.
This is the new Luxcommons blog.
Below here, you’ll find the old news copied from the old Luxcommons site, “the Plone site”.
Le premier film s’animation entièrement sous licence CC et produit exclusivement avec des outils logiciels libres.
Vous pouvez télécharger le film, les contenus bruts ainsi que les logiciels (libres) utilisés pour sa création et suivre les ouvrages dérivatifs sur http://orange.blender.org/
Aggregated, informative and beautifully animated statistical data from Hans Rosling, swedish development professor, from the gapminder.org project. Freely available data and visualisation tools allow new insights into, for example, the UN develpment reports.
Watch Hans Rosling’s excellent presentation video from TED.
Perfect arguments for the Science Commons project.
Microsoft and Creative Commons have teamed up to release the Creative Commons add-in for Microsoft Office, a copyright licensing tool that enables the easy addition of Creative Commons licenses to works created in popular Microsoft Office applications. The wizard-type add-in allows you to select a CC license directly from the File menu, the licence terms are embedded electronically and visually in Word, Excel and PowerPoint documents.
The add-in is available free of charge from Microsoft Office Online.
Jamendo storms Amsterdam and San Francisco
This week CC music company Jamendo is presenting at a raft of conferences. CTO Sylvain Zimmer is in Amsterdam presenting at “Holland Open Conference” and the “Digital Pioneers Academy.” His slides make interesting reading if you’re interested in CC music and related business models.
CEO Laurent Kratz and CFO Pierre Gérard are in the San Francisco bay area presenting at Under the Radar, SuperNova and the Internet Venture Fair and stopped by last night’s excellent CC Salon San Francisco.
Watch for some great features coming from Jamendo, and lots more great music.
Jamendo from Esch/Alzette has reached 1000 albums, licensed under Creative Commons! Laurent is breaking the news on his blog, they also have detailled (and quite beautiful) statistics. Congratulations!
mp3s available from Boston symposium.
On January 23-24, 2006, Intelligent Television hosted the Economics of Open Content symposium at MIT to bring together representatives from media industries, cultural and educational institutions, and legal and business minds to discuss how to make open content happen better and faster.
You can find the recordings of all the sessions here.
The British Library just announced digitising with Microsoft, who help out OCA, who in turn use Creative Commons licensing, as an instrument to help preserve author sovereignty for rights questions. Yahoo, Adobe and HP are other major partner.
Google now offers a “Usage Rights” category in their advanced search, which finds works that may either “allow some form of re-use” or “can be freely modified, adapted or built upon”. But they don’t mention CC, and it’d be interesting to know whether the see Open Content more generically, including the GNU FDL. But alas, Google says nothing, as usual.
Meanwhile, Yahoo (who has offered CC search for 15 months!) announced 60 million backlinks, pointing to 60 million CC licences on the internet.
Dear all,
Just one year after the launch, CC France organizes a General Assembly + Live Music party on Thursday November 17th, just 2 days before the event in Italy.
Programme:
The set will be encoded in real-time and the audience will receive the performance recording tagged with CC metadata on their usb key right after the set. Technology: Jamcorder (or similar free software by Framasoft)
Location: CIUP – Cité Internationale Universitaire de Paris Salon Honorat 17, boulevard Jourdan 75014 Paris VENIR between 6pm and 1 am thanks to the support of the European Conference on Complex Systems
We can unfortunately not propose any financial support for your travel and accomodation, but would be very happy to see you at this occasion. Please let me know if you plan to come.
Best,
Danièle, François & Melanie
On Saturday November 19th, 2005 (1)
CC Italia will hold in Turin the first
Italian National CC Meeting, CCIT2005.
Keynote address by Philippe Aigrain.
Three panels on:
-Multimedia (i.e., audiovisual);
-Book publishing;
-Music (including the president of the Italian Phonografic Industry Association).
-Wrap-up panel.
(if you’d like the OpenOffice source files, just let me know).
The meeting is co-organized with the Italian Documentarist Association.
The meeting will be webcast live (www.creativecommons.it/live).
In the evening, CC Party with CC live music, dj/vj, a documentation center on CC, etc.
After the event and before the party, we will hold a _mini-mini-CC-summit_ & dinner.
The CC Leads of France, Switzerland, Slovenia and Croatia will be present, together Paula and others. We will take this chance to discuss common issues and to plan for the future.
If you want to take this chance to visit Turin, please let me know.
We cannot offer any financial support, but I’ll be glad to help you to arrange your visit.
Best,
Juan Carlos
Juan Carlos De Martin
Lead Creative Commons Italia
Politecnico di Torino
(1) The last day of the Turin Film Festival.
Trois groupes représentés sur le site Jamendo se produiront à la Maroquinerie (Paris XXème, 23 rue Boyer, métro Ménilmontant) le vendredi 16 septembre 2005, de 19h à 23h. C’est un évènement unique à ne manquer sous aucun prétexte, le premier concert Creative Commons avec distribution du live sur clés USB ou lecteurs MP3 jamais organisé à Paris !
Le tarif est fixé à 15 € sur place et à 10 € en prévente.
The Open Source Development Labs (OSDL), a global consortium dedicated to accelerating the adoption of Linux®, today announced the appointment of Claude Beullens as director for Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA). Beullens brings nearly 30 years of experience in enterprise computing, sales and marketing to lead OSDL’s efforts and initiatives throughout the region.
Government interest, economic opportunity and the location of leading open source projects makes Europe a strategic priority for OSDL and its members. OSDL will work locally in Europe to support community and industry development of Linux, to accelerate deployments of Linux for business and government and to increase confidence in the use of Linux and open source software. Beullens will be centrally based in Luxembourg.
”There is a philosophical foundation in place throughout Europe that drives the adoption of Linux and open source technologies to achieve social and economic advancement,” said Stuart Cohen, CEO, Open Source Development Labs. ”OSDL can contribute to this environment by providing resources that will accelerate Linux deployments for local governments, local and international businesses and with European entrepreneurs. Claude’s extensive experience and leadership in the European software industry will significantly enhance this contribution.”
”OSDL’s new presence in Europe is the latest demonstration that Linux and open source technologies are vibrant and maturing around the world,” said Claude Beullens, director, EMEA, Open Source Development Labs. ”I look forward to collaborating with the development community, business and government to support Linux and advance innovation and economic growth around Linux and open source software.”
Beullens comes to OSDL after serving in product, engineering and sales and marketing management positions at AMC, Apollo Computer, Hewlett Packard and MC2. He is fluent in English, French, German, Dutch, and Luxembourgish.
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