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Venture Communism is a proposed investment model and mode of production that is designed to allow labour to capture the value it creates.

This project aims to create an archive of user contributed clip art that can be freely used. All graphics submitted to the project should be placed into the Public Domain

Wi publishes the latest in Canadian mobilities research, encompassing disciplines such as design, engineering, computer science, communications and media studies.

This page highlights images and charts that the Wikimedia community considers particularly valuable.

Textop will be a set of projects, managed by a strong collaboration among a global group of scholars, with the aim of organizing the information contained in books, dictionaries, opinionated essays, and news articles--and perhaps other sources--into a sin

“Cactuses” is a feature-length movie made entirely by a group of Central Valley youth, with ages ranging from 14 to 21, and funded exclusively by a youth-targeted non-profit organization.

Open source documentary of a trip across America, CC-licensed, plans to Annodex all the media.

William Neal Reynolds Professor of Law and co-founder of the Center for the Study of the Public Domain at Duke Law School.

A Swarm of Angels is a new way to create cult media. The project is a giant new media experiment to gather 50,000 people paying £25 each to create a new type of movie.

The largest machinima film ever created, released under a Creative Commons license that allows derivatives.

Complete recordings of The Economics of Open Content Symposium held at MIT in January 2006.

On March 11-12, 2006, Stanford Law School's Center for Internet and Society will host a symposium to explore the development and expansion of the metaphor of "cultural environmentalism."

Researcher at Helsinki Institute for Information Technology and at Lappeenranta University of Technology where he teaches Information and Technology law. He is also leader of the Finnish Creative Commons.

The primary goal of the Creative Commons Developer Community (CCDC) is to build a community of developers around the development of tools facilitating Creative Commons' licenses and standards.

The call for this new regulation is being led by the United States government and the European Commission, pushed by highly paid lobbyists for a trade association that includes Yahoo, Microsoft, AOL, Real Networks and a handful of other companies.

The treaty would give broadcasters 50 years of copyright-like control over the content of their broadcasts, even when they have no copyright in what they show. A TV channel broadcasting your Creative Commons-licensed movie could legally demand that no one

The Freesound Project is a collaborative database of Creative Commons licensed sounds.

Nearly a million programmes are catalogued, with descriptions, contributor details and annotations drawn from a wonderfully detailed controlled vocabulary.

Schizoid Arts offers a unique, entirely free web-hosting service to musicians and artists willing to publish some of their work under Creative Commons.

Panel Junction combines the graphic novel with forms of shared authorship that have been made possible by the Internet.

The Blender Foundation and the Netherlands Media Art Institute, Montevideo/Time Based Arts, have agreed on producing a 3D Animated Movie Short, to be created with the Open Source 3D suite Blender and other OS tools.

"Get the ownership system out of the way so that we can all add our voices to the choir, even if that means pasting our singing on top of the Mormon Tabernacle and sending the output to a friend?"

"Firms in publishing, music, film, television, gaming, software, and hardware are increasingly understanding that much of the most exciting media work in the world today is being... facilitated by the creative wisdom of information or library science."

A lengthy, informative account of the early history of Nupedia and Wikipedia, including some cogent observations on project management, online legitimacy, dealing with trolls, and other hazards of running a large, collaborative project over the Internet.

Licensing structures like the CC help copyright catch up with today's faster moving, smaller-scale and more intricate network of information exchange, not by 'freeing' it, but by describing it as intellectual property more efficiently.

We are building a free and open-source desktop television application tentatively known as DTV. Subscribe to a channel and video will download in the background.

Another route, the one I'm interested in, is "stopping" piracy by better enabling these actions to be an integral part of the act of content creation itself.

The rights and freedoms enjoyed by those who work expertly with words (fair use, the ability to comment, pull apart and reassemble the words of others) must be extended to those who work with images and sounds, because the second group is the larger.

Free Cinema is an experiment with two goals: 1) To introduce independent filmmakers to the ideas behind the burgeoning free-culture movement. 2) To see if applying those ideas to feature filmmaking will result in something new and interesting.

Common Content is a catalog of works licensed in the Creative Commons, available to anyone for copying or creative re-use.

Open Source Cinema is a film project dedicated to creating movies in ways inspired by the free software and free culture movements. The goal is for filmmakers to be able to collaboratively create film works.

Fourthwall brings filmmakers and audiences closer together in two ways: first, by distributing films via its online independent multiplex, and second, by giving audiences access to films' raw materials so they can re-edit and re-create with them.

The problems that documentary filmmakers face in getting and controlling rights for their creative work--and the consequences for cultural creativity--are the focus of this research project.

The Center for Social Media showcases and analyzes strategies to use media as creative tools for public knowledge and action.

This project provides a central repository for free images, music, sound & video clips and, possibly, texts and spoken texts, used in pages of any Wikimedia project.

This is a community music sharing site featuring songs and remixes and mashups licensed under Creative Commons.

Concentrate on what you can get from users, and use whatever protocol can maximize their voluntary contributions. That seems to be where the greatest promise lies for the new kinds of collaborative environments.

A desktop, drag-and-drop application that licenses audio and video files, and sends them to the Internet Archive for free hosting.

This article provides the results of a dynamic simulation of the publishing industry in the United States from 1800 to 2100, and tests the impact of different protection schemes on the development of authorship, the publishing industry, and reader access.

MusicBrainz aims to create a music information commons where the community creates and maintains a public database of information about music.

Web service APIs which can be used to integrate the Creative Commons licensing engine into third party applications.

A manifesto about software for collaboration -- why the world's future depends on it, why the current crop of tools isn't good enough, and what programmers can and must do about it.

A technology-neutral trust federation that is continually seeking out emerging technologies to enhance its open global trust network.

Python classes which allow developers to easily parse and manipulate Creative Commons licensing metadata.