This is good news, the Wellcome Trust have just launched the Wellcome Images website, where a load of its images have been released under Creative Commons licenses (BY-NC and BY-NC-ND) – see their announcement and coverage on the Creative Commons blog. This is significant for two reasons. One, because they are one of the first [...]
The Creative Commons movement has become hugely influential over a short space of time – the fact that I’ve sat in meetings discussing the licences at work is testament to this. The BBC made big waves when it announced that it was going to open up access to some of its archives, but eventually ended [...]
I reported a couple of days ago about the BBC Creative Archive winning a BAFTA (you can see a photo of the award on Ben Metcalfe’s blog). Well since then, they’ve rolled out their latest project, which puts archive material on some of the ‘nations and regions’ sites. This is all well and good, however [...]
The BBC’s ‘Open Earth‘ Creative Archive project has won a BAFTA for ‘Interactive Innovation’. This is good news for the project, which released a load of nature-related video and audio clips under a Creative-Commons inspired license, and will hopefully act as a spur for the BBC to get on with releasing a far greater volume [...]
When a Spanish bar decided to get around the paying of music licensing fees by playing only Creative Commons licensed music, the Spanish collecting society Sociedad General de Autores y Editores (SGAE) tried to sue. Last month, the court ruled in favour of the bar, recognising for the first time that it’s possible to use [...]
The BBC’s Creative Archive is a project, announced yonks ago by Greg Dyke, in which BBC content would be made available to the public under a Creative Commons-esqe license, allowing redistribution and derivative works (in the UK). The site launched a couple of months ago, but so far the only material to have been released [...]
The clever people at Creative Commons have posted a great blog evalutating how many of last year’s resolutions their project, to encourage creative sharing and remixing of content, has fulfilled. It’s impressive stuff. I’ve wanted to build some Creative Commons stuff into Rare FM for a while. There’s a great opportunity there as you wouldn’t [...]