Philippine Commons

We received word from Mr. Eugene Marfil that their New Born Audio.com website is now fully operational. Whether you are a music buff, whether an artist or a listener, feel free to register to this developing resource.

New Born Audio is “a website dedicated to the discovery of new talents in music thru our on-line submission of demos. This site showcases the latest works from up and coming artists from a wide range of musical genres. New Born Audio is the venue for creativity and entertainment whether you’re an upcoming talent, an industry player or just a regular audiophile in search of the latest trends, styles or music coming out of the ever dynamic underground music scene.” (http://www.newbornaudio.com/main/index.php)

• 19 November 2007
  • Linksvayer, Mike. “ccMixter: The Next Step”
  • Reeder, Melissa. “CC swag photo contest winner #1″
  • Reeder, Melissa. “The 50,000 friends challenge”
  • Linksvayer, Mike. “UK: Open Rights Group @ 2″
  • Yergler, Nathan. “OpenOffice.org Addin Updated”
• 20 November 2007
  • Thorne, Michelle. “German public broadcaster adopts CC license”
  • Linksvayer, Mike. “Firefox 3 Beta 1″
  • Linksvayer, Mike. “Newsweek suggests “Open Access for Dummies””
• 21 November 2007
  • Linksvayer, Mike. “Building a Rural Wireless Mesh Network”
• 23 November 2007
  • Linksvayer, Mike. “Australia: Radio program on Creative Commons”

Filipinos who are interested to join the “ACIA: International Workshop on Asia and Commons in the Information Age” in Taipei in mid-January, be aware that:

1. The programme will be finalized around early December. You may register at http://meeting.creativecommons.org.tw/people.
2. There is a visa requirement. Information about this can be found at http://www.boca.gov.tw/ct.asp?xItem=1422&ctNode=114&mp=2. You may also inquire at the Taipei Economic & Cultural Office in the Philippines.
3. Registration cost will be minimal. More information will be put on the wiki soon.

• 12 November 2007
  • Reeder, Melissa. “Commoner Letter #3 - Beth Kanter”
  • Parkins, Cameron. ““Bloodspell: The Rise of Machinima” Viewing and Panel”
  • Linksvayer, Mike. “Robots want to be free”
  • Parkins, Cameron. “TED Talks: Lawrence Lessig”
  • Parkins, Cameron. “River Rat Records”
  • Parkins, Cameron. “Alex Miroshnichenko and the Santiago Fires”
• 13 November 2007
  • Reeder, Melissa. “Let the 2nd annual CC swag photo contest begin!”
  • Parkins, Cameron. “Peter Gabriel, WITNESS, and The Hub”
• 14 November 2007
  • Thorne, Michelle. “Panda Punk Lab: Inauguration in Chile”
  • Yergler, Nathan. ” Integrated Licensing in OpenOffice.org”
• 15 November 2007
  • Thorne, Michelle. “ACIA: International Workshop on Asia and Commons in the Information Age”
  • Vollmer, Timothy. “CC In the Trenches: “A Great Concept I’ll Continue to Employ””
• 16 November 2007
  • Parkins, Cameron. “Reminder: SPARC Video Contest Deadline”
  • Parkins, Cameron. “Two New Academic Studies of CC”
  • Parkins, Cameron. “CC+ Video”
  • Linksvayer, Mike. “Making and marking public resources as such”
  • Parkins, Cameron. “Lawrence Lessig in xcd and on Boing Boing TV”
  • Linksvayer, Mike. “Report on CC and UK cultural heritage institutions”
  • Parkins, Cameron. “Anepsosis Uses CC for MMMORPG Character Art”

ACIA: International Workshop on Asia and Commons in the Information Age
Michelle Thorne, November 15th, 2007
Creative Commons: http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/7821

For those of you interested in the vibrant commons of the Asia Pacific region, mark January 19, 2008 on your calendars for the International Workshop on Asia and Commons in the Information Age (ACIA), hosted in Taipei, Taiwan.

The ACIA workshop (like ASIA, with a “C”), is the highly-anticipated, self-sponsored event organized by Creative Commons jurisdiction project teams and other commons-based initiatives, and they are inviting all interested parties to attend the workshop with a focus on the following objectives:

1. Strengthening the “Asia Commons” by bringing in more members and improving links to related organizations within the Asia Pacific region;
2. Promoting the commons in the region, and providing a forum to develop practical strategies for this promotion;
3. Providing a forum for industry engagement, and in particular identifying and presenting successful commercial uses of open content licensing within the region;
4. Providing a forum for discussion of topics of importance to the Asia Commons (e.g., the meaning of ‘open’ in our age, and the history and role of the commons in Asia).

Please visit the ACIA wiki to learn more and to enrich the event with your input and participation. For more background information, check out the original proposal and the iCommons’ article “What is Asia Commons?”

Thank you to Tyng-Ruey Chuang (CC in Taiwan), Jessica Coates (CC in Australia), and the other Asia Commoners for their dedication to this great initiative!

On November 13th, 2007, Melissa Reeder, wrote “Let the 2nd annual CC swag photo contest begin!” (http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/7791) at the Creative Commons website.

For other interesting ways to support Creative Commons, see the Spread the Word page of the same website.

• 5 November 2007
  • Linksvayer, Mike. ““Rock’n’Rebirth” Media Web Meet-up @ Songbird”
  • Linksvayer, Mike. “Is your art for the 21st century?”
• 6 November 2007
  • Thorne, Michelle. “Steal This Film (Part Two)”
  • Yip, Jennifer. “We are looking for PR help!”
• 7 November 2007
  • Thorne, Michelle. “CC Salon London”
  • Thaney, Kaitlin. “CC, Open Access, and moral rights”
  • Linksvayer, Mike. “Catherine Casserly on Open Educational Resources”
• 8 November 2007
  • Thorne, Michelle. “Netaudio Meet-up in Spain”
• 9 November 2007
  • Parkins, Cameron. “Cory Doctorow on How To Use CC-Licenses”
• 11 November 2007
  • Vollmer, Timothy. “Fedora 8 Aids CC-Search in Firefox”

Melissa Reeder wrote:

We will be launching the 2007 CC Swag Photo Contest later this week. Last year we received over 50 entries and we’re hoping that will double this year. This contest is an easy and creative way to support CC.

1. Creatively photograph your CC Swag
2. Upload your photos to Flickr. Join the group CCSwagphotocontest2007 and post your pics there.

Each week, CC Staff will announce that weeks’ winner. The first winner will be announced this Monday, November 12th. The final weekly winner will be announced on Monday, December 10th. The two overall winners will be chosen from the weekly winners and will be announced on Dec. 17th.

The weekly winners will be posted on our blog and on our contest webpage for that week: http://support.creativecommons.org/contest. The two overall winners will receive 100 copies of postcards featuring their photo, properly attributed of course. These postcards will serve as CC promotional material for the next year, being distributed internationally. It’s a great way to get your work and your name out there.

• 29 October 2007
  • Reeder, Melissa. “Commoner Letter #2 - Cory Doctorow”
  • Parkins, Cameron. “Tracey: Re-Fragmented”
  • Stone, Victor. “Which one is Bucky?”
• 31 October 2007
  • Reeder, Melissa. “Red Hat Shares the Love”
  • Linksvayer, Mike. “The Web is Agreement”
• 1 November 2007
  • Reeder, Melissa. “Wear “I ? CC” on your sidebar”
• 2 November 2007
  • Parkins, Cameron. “Featured Commoner: Jamglue”
  • Linksvayer, Mike. “Postsingular”
• 3 November 2007
  • Vollmer, Timothy. “HLibriVox Releases 1,000th Public Domain Audio Book”
• 4 November 2007
  • Ito, Joi. “CC China Photo Contest”