Tag Archive for the term: creative commons

This from the Creative Commons blog on the design contest winners from the Open Architecture Network school challenge:
On Monday, the 2009 Open Architecture Challenge announced the winning design for a sustainable classroom of the future, concluding a competition with over 1,000 registrants from 65 countries around the world. Of the 400 designs entered, the winning [...]

Esoteric indie band YACHT are doing mystical and amazing things with symbolism, song, ideologies, and ye olde inter web.
Check out information on their latest album See Mystery Lights and the music video for Psychic City in the earlier Indyish post, or head straight over to the Free Music Archive and download the full instrumentals, [...]

About a year ago, after reading an Indyish blog post by Tessa about a pretty low-fi song Jeff Edwards from The Desks had posted on the web under a Creative Commons license for remixing, myself and Matthew Hiscock jammed it out and layered it up and created our own adaptation. When we sent Jeff our [...]

European companies are innovating in the world of creative business models which merge openness and the pursuit of profit for artists. Newest on the scene, launched just today and only to sexy folks like us who got the promo code via email, making us feel special and admittedly a little biased in their favour, is [...]

Here are some great Griffintown pics i found on Flickr, all licensed: Creative Commons. Thought they might help in setting the mood for this Weekend’s Remembering Griffintown Event. It’s going to be 3 days of festivities, with our Griffintown Monthly Mess Show on Saturday the 13th, sandwiched smack-dab in between all the craziness. That’s just [...]

MUTEK2008: Friday, May 30th
Panel 3: Copyright VS Creativity
Covering such topics as sampling, piracy and copyright in general, the star of this panel was undoubtedly producer and Hyperdub label manager Kode 9, also known as Steve Goodman in real life. Starting with a few anecdotes about the Kafka-esque process of clearing samples with a major label, [...]

New Feature:
There’s a new feature available for all Indyish members that will let you set a Creative Commons License for the content you publish throughout this site. It does so by adding a new section to the Write/Edit Post pages (see first screenshot below). You can choose to create a different CC license for each [...]

Our friend Jeff (of the 20th project and The Desks) is inviting people to collaborate on a song he recorded in December. He’s posted an mp3 of the track here [ old link was here: http://thedesks.net/homeiswhere.html ] and stated,
If you can think of some good parts to add (eg drums, piano, vocals, tuba, etc) please [...]

Moby’s made some good tracks over the years, you gotta admit it, and yeah, he made money getting them in commercials like crazy, but now he’s done a cool license trick to give something back – over 70 of his tracks have recently been published on a section of his site called MobyGratis with a [...]

More from POp MOntreal 2007, on the POP and POlicy Conference.
Some people, when I’ve mentioned we’ve been covering this, have been surprised to hear there’s a POP-related conference going on. Others were surprised to find out that all the panels on the last day would be free, because maaaybe they wouldn’t have paid 50$ [...]