Category Archives: culture

CC on NPR

NPR’s Talk of the Nation featured an interview this afternoon with WIRED editor-in-chief Chris Anderson and Le Tigre’s Kathleen Hanna, discussing the WIRED CD. My favorite quote was from Kathleen, when asked what she thought of giving music away, she responded:
“We give a lot of stuff away for free anyway, so it’s nice to [...]

“Rip. Sample. Mash. Share.”

Check it out, Creative Commons is mentioned in today’s Wall Street Journal. Well, more than mentioned; there’s an entire article about our upcoming compilation CD.

Outfoxed, Out-licensed

Lessig reports that Robert Greenwald, Producer/Director of the anti-FOX News polemic (and damned fine film) Outfoxed, has released the original interview footage under a Creative Commons license. The footage is available for remix at the Internet Archive and on torrentacracy. Very cool.
Hopefully we’ll see more filmmakers, and especially documentary filmmakers, [...]

Irrational Exuberance

You may have heard that Apple released a new version of the iPod this week. How could you avoid it? They made the cover of Newsweek, in an election year, the week before the Democratic National Convention. Does anyone else question the relative importance of the iPod in the current news environment? [...]

Guggenheim Museum

Simply amazing. Living in the mid-west, I love visiting modern art museums when I travel. My visit to San Francisco’s MOMA was the highlight of my trip to Oracle World last year. Now the Guggenheim has placed large amounts of their collection online. How cool. (via

Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 United States
Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 United States