The (business) world is looking for protection of ideas: patents, copyright, trade marks, licenses, rights management — legal instruments pretending to preserve the opportunity of exploitation to the original inventor, author, creator, giving them the opportunity to sue anybody taking — stealing! — intellectual property and turning it profitably into a business.
Is that how the [...]
he “Introduction to Ardour” FLOSS Manual is a free (gratis/libre) tutorial-style book, which introduces the program without expecting a vast knowledge of computers or sound editing from the reader. This FLOSS Manual was largely written by workshop participants learning the software themselves, over a one week period during a session led by Derek Holzer at [...]
Indaba Music launches audio clips library with over 8,000 CC-licensed samples and loops: http://www.indabamusic.com/clips
The clips database is searchable by musical key, tempo, tonality, time signature, license type and source.
SWR 2 (Südwest-Rundfunk, Germany) has a feature about the paradigm change and the notion of “free” at the beginning of the digital age.
From the liner notes:
(…) Denn die Vision einer freien digitalen Kultur rüttelt am Wertesystem, das sich auf den Buchdruck gründet und aus geistigen Werken besteht, die oft nur Einzelne besitzen. Sie verweist auf [...]
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As the World of Open is expanding beyond the borders of pure content designers in the Netherlands have gathered for the (Un)limited Design Contest. Numerous designs have been developed and published under a Creative Commons license*. On Friday, 23 October 2009, the lucky winners of the contest were announced at the Dutch Design Week in [...]
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How can a potential user determine if a work is actually in the public domain? What involves substantial detective work could become an easy task in the future, if some of the initiatives on certification and registration of works will come to fruition. A session at the 2008 Communia Workshop in Amsterdam discussed the need [...]
Al Jazeera has just published it’s Gaza coverage under a Creative Commons Attribution-Unported license. The news network states that “the ongoing war and crisis in Gaza, together with the scarcity of news footage available, make this repository a key resource for anyone producing content on the current situation.”
The license allows anybody to reuse the [...]
In depth interview with Wu Ming One (in English) and his presentation (in Italian) on the novel New Thing, plus Wu Ming One reading the beginning of the novel at los oXcars in Barcelona (together with Francesco Cusa).
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I use a few pages to find music for my podcasts:
Jamendo – of course. You can simply chose a license and search with that.
The Internet Archive
Musopen – Classical music, all public domain though.
ccMixter – Samples and music, search mainly on title
opsound – Gift economy
Royalty Free Music – All CC-By licenses
SoundClick – Genre-dropdown ….
Simuze – Dutch [...]
Los OXCARS, held on 28 october 2008 in Barcelona, is the major international event of free culture of all times — a not-for-profit gala open to everybody. Over 100 artists … a total of 16 activities … 7 hours non-stop of free culture.
With Simona Levi, Guillermo Zapata, Wu Ming One and Francesco Cusa, Platoniq, Jamendo, Orxata sound system, Leo Bassi, Brent Simon, Maquina de Touring and Filastine.
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