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A Place So Foreign and Eight More

Six of these stories were released electronically under a Creative Commons license.

Alexandre Oliva

In 2008, Oliva translated and produced "O Porco e a Caixa", a Brazilian Portuguese translation of "The Pig and the Box" - a Creative Commons-licensed book that teaches the perils of DRM to children.

Ariostralis nebulosa

This article incorporates CC-BY-2.0 text from the reference "Life Cycle of Renylaima capensis", by Sirgel, Artigas, Bargues & Mas-Coma, 2012.

Benjamin Rosenbaum

He released all seven stories under Creative Commons licenses, in the latter three cases allowing others to modify the work.

Billy Collins

In 2005, the CD was re-released under a Creative Commons license, allowing free, non-commercial distribution of the recording.

Brett Koonce

He attended the USC School of Cinema-Television, where he made a number of short films that were published under the Creative Commons license.

CcMixter

Instead major artists such as DJ Vadim, Bucky Jonson (The Black Eyed Peas' live backing band) and Trifonic have contributed the solo studio tracks (stems) to entire albums making them available under Creative Commons licenses that allowed remixes.

Charter for Innovation, Creativity and Access to Knowledge

Among the Charter's endorsers there are Jimmy Wales, Boaventura de Sousa Santos, Consumers International, Electronic Frontier Foundation, David Bollier, Students for Free Culture, European Digital Rights, Participatory Culture Foundation, La Quadrature du Net, Transnational Institute, Department of Digital Culture (Government of Brazil), Pirat Partie, Creative Commons España, La-EX, and Networked Politics.

Connect2

The tables below were compiled from a complete list of Connect2 projects available on the OpenStreetMap wiki under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0 license.

Fragmentos De Una Tarde Somnolienta

The EP was released under a Creative Commons license and until July 2007 was available for download on the band's website.

GroundReport

Contributors retain rights to their work, and can choose from a range of Creative Commons licenses.

India Nature Watch

The copyright of images hosted on the site remains with the photographer, although the site does encourage photographers to release photographs under more liberal licenses like Creative Commons.

Joline Blais

Entitled Distributed creativity, this system wove together correspondents from separate email lists based in California (Creative Commons), New York (Rhizome), Ireland (DATA), India (Sarai), and Australia (Fibreculture) in a global conversation on the future of creativity, intellectual property, and mobile media.

Jupiter Broadcasting

All shows are streamed live, and when shows are not being streamed there are usually reruns of past shows, The Computer Chronicles, movies, other podcasts (such as The No Agenda Show), or music licensed under Creative Commons licenses.

Kalyan Varma

An active evangelist of Free Software and Creative Commons, he is an expert on Application security and cryptography.

Kembrew McLeod

His book, Freedom of Expression, is available as a free PDF download with a Creative Commons license.

Language Atlas of China

The initial release (under Creative Commons v3.0 – Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike) contains only a draft of the first layer, representing maps A1–4 and marking language families and major Chinese dialect groups, but not individual non-Chinese languages or subgroups of Chinese dialects.

Lisa DeBenedictis

Since the release of a set of vocal samples on ccMixter under a Creative Commons license, her songs have been remixed and sampled extensively by several artists from different countries.

Mark Hosler

He has worked on alternative copyright practices with Creative Commons and also lobbied the United States Congress for Digital Freedom.

MiMi Records

It releases music thought the label's website for free in mp3 format and CD-R based on Creative Commons philosophy.

Miran Hladnik

Hladnik has also adopted the web as his publishing platform and has been publishing his academic and teaching material under the Creative Commons license on Wikisource and Wikiversity, while encouraging his students and his colleagues to do so themselves, too.

Montt Mardié

The track was released using the Creative Commons license the song was up freely to be remixed and re-appropriated and many interpretations was made by fans and other artists such as Shorthand Phonetics which included a radically different version on their Creative Commons release "Errors in Calculating Odds, Errors in Calculating Value".

Neil Leyton

He is also the founder of the Fading Ways record label, one of the first to use Creative Commons licenses.

New Zealand Electronic Text Centre

When original texts are out of copyright NZETC provides the digitised version under a Creative Commons Share-alike License (currently CC BY SA 3.0 NZ).

Now Get Busy

The song is licensed under the Creative Commons Noncommercial Sampling Plus license, allowing noncommercial file-sharing and noncommercial sampling.

Office of Public Diplomacy

This article uses content from the Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting (FAIR) article on Otto Reich under the terms of the CCL

Open gaming

The OOGL was used by two games before the authors of the OOGL ceased using it for their own work in late 2002 (and suggested that others do the same), in favor of the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License.

The most common open gaming license in use by commercial role-playing game publishers is the OGL, and the most popular noncommercial licenses are the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License and the GNU Free Documentation License.

Opsound

Lawrence Lessig has often mentioned Opsound when discussing Creative Commons, citing its structure and licensing as a positive aid to enhanced collaboration and communication between artists.

OSVehicle - Tabby

The project is released under Creative Commons BY-SA license and the CAD files can be downloaded from the official website.

Sarah Elizabeth Foster

Creative Commons allows people to remix Foster's songs and sync them to YouTube videos without asking permission.

Small Brain Records

Works can be downloaded free under an unspecified Creative Commons licenses.

Sounds Like Chicken

After their breakup, SLC released all their previous recordings under Creative Commons (by-nc-sa), for free online distribution.

Steve Eley

These podcasts are produced under a Creative Commons license by his company Escape Artists Inc and are supported by the private donations of their audiences.

Still Water

In 2004, Still Water co-organized the event Distributed Creativity with Eyebeam Atelier, which merged conversations during a six-week period from the email discussion lists Creative Commons (USA), Rhizome.org (USA), DATA (Ireland), Sarai (India), and Fibreculture (Australia).

Studio Trophis Production Company

All of the output from Studio Trophis available from their website is available for free download and is licensed under Creative Commons.

Tamara Barnett-Herrin

In connection with the Calendar Songs project, Barnett-Herrin made her a capella tracks and simple instrumental tracks available pursuant to Creative Commons licenses, permitting remixers to make non-commercial uses of her songs.

Her latest project is the Calendar Songs album, an internet-based collaborative Creative Commons-licensed project released in early 2008.

The Walt

Released under a Creative Commons License; Attribution-NonCommercial-Share Alike 2.5.

Released under a Creative Commons License; Attribution-NonCommercial-Share Alike 3.0.

Vincent Maher

These include the coverage for the local launch of Creative Commons and the 2005 National Arts Festival in Grahamstown.

VPRO Backlight

The organization released four documentaries in 2009 and 2010 under a Creative Commons license using the content distribution feature of the Mininova BitTorrent tracker.


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