Revver & CC's Viral Video Fundraising Campaign

alex, November 28th, 2006

We’ve launched a new fundraising model and are raising money through online video sharing. We’ve uploaded several short videos to Revver, a video-sharing platform that uses Creative Commons licenses to help creators make money from their work. So, watch our videos (including our latest clip — “Wanna Work Together?”), check out the ads at the end, and help Creative Commons get paid!

CC Swag Photo Contest on Flickr

alex, November 28th, 2006

Use your photographic skills to show your support for Creative Commons! Take a cool, creative picture of your favorite CC swag (t-shirts, buttons, stickers, etc. — all available from the Support the Commons store) and upload it to your Flickr account. Two winners will have their photos used on Creative Commons’ informational postcards, which will be distributed internationally to promote CC and the winning photographers. Winners will receive 100 copies of the postcard with their photo. The winners will also be able to choose a Creative Commons board member to record a personalized outgoing voicemail announcement — that’s right, your friends can be greeted by Lawrence Lessig every time they call you!

GiftTrap

alex, November 28th, 2006

GiftTrap is a fun new board game based on predicting what gifts other players might like. It uses more than 600 cards that feature user-submitted photos of gifts – many of these images are Creative Commons-licensed and shot by Flickr photographers. The company behind GiftTrap has recently announced the GiftTRAP Experience, a contest where people can participate by suggesting gifts for future editions of the game, sumitting their own photos of gifts, and offering suggestions for new games that use GiftTrap’s cards. You can print out a CC-licensed sample version of the game and learn more about the contest at GiftTrap’s Web site.

BloodSpell

alex, November 28th, 2006

BloodSpell is a feature-length machinima movie written and directed by Hugh Hancock and produced by Strange Company. The fantasy film uses the game engine behind the popular RPG Neverwinter Nights and is currently being released in serial form, with short episodes hitting the Web every two weeks. BloodSpell is licensed under CC’s Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike license, so that people can share it and use it to create fan fiction, remixes, and other derivative works.

Cursive's "Bad Sects" Remix Contest

alex, November 28th, 2006

Omaha indie rock band Cursive is hosting the “Bad Sects” Remix Contest. Visit the contest site to download the CC-licensed audio stems for the song “Bad Sects” (from the group’s new album, Happy Hollow. Then use those tracks, along with your own music, to create a remix. Submit your best work to the band’s label, Saddle Creek, for a chance to have your remix used as the b-side of an upcoming Cursive single.

The Shakespeare Chronicles

alex, November 28th, 2006

James Boyle‘s new novel, The Shakespeare Chronicles, is a literary mystery about the true authorship of William Shakespeare’s works. The book is available as a CC-licensed download (for free in serial form or for $1.50 as an e-book), as well as in both hardback and paperback print editions from Lulu.

Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum's "The Concert"

alex, November 28th, 2006

Visit the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum’s website to download “The Concert,” a new classical music podcast offered under the Creative Commons Music Sharing license. The podcast features unreleased live performances by master musicians and talented young artists recorded from the museum’s Sunday Concert Series. “The Concert” includes music by Beethoven, Mozart, Schubert, and Chopin for solo piano, orchestra, string quartet, and voice. A new podcast will be posted on the 1st and 15th of every month; users can subscribe to receive free, automatic updates delivered directly to their computers or mp3 players. With “The Concert,” the Gardner Museum becomes the first art museum to encourage sharing and free distribution of its online programming by using a Creative Commons license.

Choose GOOD

alex, November 28th, 2006

GOOD magazine is a platform for talented writers and contributors to bring to the forefront issues and ideas that matter. Creative Commons is one of GOOD’s non-profit organizations for its CHOOSE GOOD campaign, an innovative subscription strategy in which 100% of GOOD’s charter subscription revenue will be given to organizations whose missions are in line with the publication’s. Subscribe to GOOD, choose Creative Commons as the nonprofit you want to support, and your entire one-year subscription fee of $20 will be given to CC.

Dropping Knowledge's Living Library

alex, November 28th, 2006

Dropping Knowledge will soon offer over 600 hours of audio-visual material from the recent Table of Free Voices event under a Creative Commons license. The Table of Free Voices took place in Berlin, Germany on September 9, 2006. At this historic gathering, more than 100 esteemed artists, academics, entrepreneurs, scientists, and activists gathered to answer questions about the state of the world. The recorded results will be published online as the Living Library and offered to the world under CC’s Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike license.

Photo © Dropping Knowledge. Used with permission.

Armed Madhouse Remix Contest

alex, November 28th, 2006

Enter the Armed Madhouse Remix Contest! Bestselling author Greg Palast is offering tracks from his recent audio book Armed Madhouse online under a Creative Commons BY-NC license, so that musicians and producers can use them in remixes. If you’re into sampling and mash-ups, download the audio, create a remix, and send your finished MP3 to [email protected]. All eligible entries will be posted online and voted on by the public. The producers of the five winning remixes will receive a prize package courtesy of Alternative Tentacles records, Palast Productions, Evil Twin Booking, and Air America Radio. The top five winners will also be featured on the next Greg Palast spoken word CD on Alternative Tentacles records.