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cc @ tina

elliott — Wed, 04 Oct 2006 20:35:34 -0500

Cooking pancakes and mixing sounds as part of Radio National’s Night Air program, performed live during Electrofringe. Photo by Nick Moraitis.

Elliott Bledsoe recently represented CC Australia at This is not Art festival. Held annually in Newcastle, TINA is comprised of five festivals including Electrofringe, National Young Writers’ Festival, National Student and Emerging Media Conference, Sound Summit, Critical Animals and Earthling.

CC was asked to speak on three panels exploring CC licensing as a tool for artists and creators. The first panel was Online Investigations, which focused on online content production, online audiences and the opportunities for independent media. Elliott spoke about CC as a way of promoting and distributing content.

On the DIY Publishing: the future panel about the future of independent and self-publishing Elliott spoke about CC as a promotion and distribution model and CC as a way of getting low-cost, and low-hassle content for use in independently produced content.

The final panel was Copyright, Copywrong, Copyleft Jam!. It aimed to explore the bounds of existing copyright laws and its affect on creativity. Elliott spoke about CC in Australia, its potential and some of the setbacks.

thisisnotart.org

doctorow @ ideas festival

elliott — Fri, 31 Mar 2006 21:09:55 -0600

last night cory doctorow, of boingboing and electronic frontier foundation fame, gave a public lecture right here in brisbane as part of the ideas festival. naturally he was going to talk about something tech/internet related. but despite the predictablity of topics, it was a very good lecture.

he gave a fantastic overview of drm and the horrific potential future should the large ip holders – companies, collecting societies and the likes – get their way.

he talked about the lastest swag of measures being pushed by major ip owners in the drm war: broadcast flags. this marks the broadening of the drm concept beyound the internet and into any form of digital content (ever wondered why the DTV push is on?). built-in restrictions that tell your digital technology what it will allow you to do. for example, some programs on DTV won’t be able to be stored on a hard disk, or will automatically delete after expiration of a defined period. doctorow even when to far as to say that some digital technology will shut itself off to ensure contravention does not occur. he cites a child’s first steps as an example, saying imagine your child is taking thier first steps across the lounge room. you’re recording with your digital camera and as you pan past the television the camera recognises a broadcast flag which restricts copying the images on screen, and the camera shuts itself off.”

so how much freedom will new technology really give us?

animation badges

elliott — Mon, 21 Nov 2005 17:01:23 -0600

you can now get badges from the (in)famous creative commons australia animation film featuring the crazy duo mayer and bettle.

get yours here

creative commons feature in desktop magazine

elliott — Thu, 27 Oct 2005 18:31:29 -0500

creative commons australia team member elliott bledsoe has published a three page feature in desktop magazine called “Creative Commons: copyright for the digital age.”

the feature includes an analysis of the online regulatory environment and creative commons as an alternative to that. it offers information about what creative commons offers and how to use it. it discusses the practical uses of the sampling licences (yet to be launched in australia) and offers places to find cc licenced content.

it also includes three case studies around design organisation Black brow (who produced the cc-au animation), online music distributors MoSound and online journal On Line Opinion.

“Creative Commons: copyright for the digital age” in desktop magazine, #211, november 2005, pp58-60

support cc

elliott — Thu, 06 Oct 2005 15:33:58 -0500

the first annual Creative Commons fundraising drive has started and CC needs your support. since inception the organisation has offered authors and creators simple tools to mark their content with the freedom they believe it should carry. these tools have helped build a movement. there are now over fifty-million objects on the web that link back to our licenses. there are hundreds of volunteers working to spread our free licenses across the globe (like us here in the cc-au office).

funding had traditionally come from the substantial support of major foundations. but now we need to show the world that our support reaches beyond foundation boardrooms.

we want to sustain our growth by building a core membership in CC. we need these members to help us to continue to offer free tools to enable a flexible range of protections and freedoms for artists, educators, scientists and writers. your contribution will make an important difference now (More about donations and deductions).

show your support

you can now also subscribe to lessig’s regular email to address all things cc

fancy yourself a bit of a VJ then gov'ner?

elliott — Thu, 08 Sep 2005 10:45:20 -0500

BBC Radio 1 and 1Xtra have today launched a competition for VJs to build a three minute mix from the BBC clips available on the BBC Creative Archive. Shouldn’t be too hard given that the Archive has hundreds of video clips to download!

The best mix will win £250 to spend on VJing equipment and the chance to VJ live to a mix of their choice on these radio stations.

more information about the competition here

[please note: the comp is UK only]

ccMixter goes open source

elliott — Wed, 31 Aug 2005 17:12:04 -0500

recently creative commons’ online music community, ccMixter switched over to the GPL-licensed ccHost codebase, with soruce now available from SourceForge.

Like all celebs, the site has had a face lift, and she’s looking hot. There are new features and better functionality based on careful studies of how it was being used in its first year.

And don’t worry, all the music, reviews and profile info is still there. for full details of the change over go to the forum post

now you can run your own remix contest (and remix context—ccHost tracks remix sources and derivatives) site out of the box.

BBC Creative Archive trial a success

elliott — Wed, 17 Aug 2005 19:02:12 -0500

The BBC Creative Archive started thier first trial with Radio 1 and Radio 1Xtra this week, opening its archives to make programme extracts available for download, manipulation and sharing under the terms of the Creative Archive Licence (based on the Creative Commons archive).

The footage is taken from a whole host of BBC programmes and includes a wealth of material covering natural history, wildlife, science, locations, art and more. Gems include shots of cityscapes, sunsets, seascapes and other stunning visuals with, importantly, many more clips to come over the next few months.

Unfortunately the content is limited only to the UK public. People within the UK can download this material now from the Radio 1 Superstar VJs site.