Hi Creative Commoners! We’re back with the first episode of Open Minds … from Creative Commons in 2022. In this episode, CC’s Ony Anukem sits down for a conversation with Hessel van Oorschot, founder and “Chief of Noise” of the online music business Tribe of Noise. Tribe of Noise is a music community that connects …Read More“Open Minds Podcast: Hessel van Oorschot of Tribe of Noise & Free Music Archive”
The Free Music Archive, a long-running Creative Commons music platform, is running its first-ever fundraising drive. It will run from mid-November until mid-December 2015, and is offering donors shirts and stickers at various pledge levels. The Free Music Archive has existed for many years and has provided millions of users with curated, ‘some rights reserved’ …Read More“Free Music Archive launches 2015 fundraising drive”
In celebration of Creative Commons’ tenth anniversary, we asked various friends of CC to write about their favorite CC-licensed works. Today, Jason Sigal tells the story of how Chris Zabriskie started licensing his music under CC BY and, in the process, opened new professional doors in his music career. Happy 10th, CC! From the Free …Read More“#cc10 Featured Content: Jason Sigal on Chris Zabriskie”
The latest addition to our guest curation series at the Free Music Archive comes from Spark, “a weekly audio blog of smart and unexpected trendwatching” from CBC (Canadian Broadcasting Centre). Dan Misener, one of Spark’s producers, helmed the mix, providing context as to why Spark uses CC-licensed music on its podcast – you can listen …Read More“FMA Guest Curator: Spark”
FLOSS手册，名副其实，为自由软件应用程序生产手册。这些手册本身是免费授权的，通常以书籍形式编写。今年1月，作为柏林跨媒体节的一部分，FLOSS手册尝试了它的第一个非手工书籍冲刺——一个相当困难的任务，因为没有隐含结构。Only the book title, …Read More“Collaborative² Futures”
FLOSS手册，名副其实，为自由软件应用程序生产手册。这些手册本身是免费授权的，通常以书籍形式编写。今年1月，作为柏林跨媒体节的一部分，FLOSS手册尝试了它的第一个非手工书籍冲刺——一个相当困难的任务，因为没有隐含结构。Only the book title, …Read More“Collaborative² Futures”
Continuing our guest curation series at the Free Music Archive is Machtdose, a German podcaster with an incredible ear for CC-licensed music. A feature in Phlow Magazine gives some welcome background on the Machtdose team, framing the influences – musically and otherwise – at work in their mix. Check it out at our Free Music …Read More“FMA Guest Curator: Machtdose”
Late last year we began reaching out to those working to expose and support CC-licensed music for help with our curator portal at the Free Music Archive. Our first guest curator was ccMixter admin Victor Stone, whose mix highlighted the talent of the ccMixter community. Now, we are happy to present the second mix in …Read More“FMA Guest Curator: Catching The Waves”
This Monday, we began a guest curation series at our Free Music Archive portal. Rather than attempt to distill the vast landscape of CC-licensed music on our own, we thought it better to reach out to those on the ground working to support and expose these type of artists in their given communities. What better …Read More“ccMixter Curation at the Free Music Archive”
It has been just over four months since the Free Music Archive launched as a destination for high-quality, freely licensed music. Since that time, the site has developed an avid community and grown to include a number of fantastic curators all while expanding upon the site’s initial catalog to host over 11,000 tracks. All told, …Read More“CC on the Free Music Archive”
