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Thu - June 1, 2006 09:11 PMCChitsCCHits is a web site tracking popular music
released under Creative Commons licenses.
It appears to be fairly new (and so there's not
much depth yet), but give it time. The idea is that users submit music and vote
for their favorites. Over time the best stuff should float to the top. It also
supports tagging, so you can look for music by genre as well as
popularity.
Posted at 09:11 PM | Permalink | | Wed - May 24, 2006 11:36 AMPublic Domain Images from Old BooksLiam's Pictures from Old Books has hundreds and
hundreds of high resolution scans from out-of-copyright books, made available in
the public domain.
This is full of old-fashioned goodness, for any
project which needs that Victorian engraving
look.
You could even mash them up with some of those NASA resources from a couple weeks ago for some truly head-snapping public domain anachronism. Posted at 11:36 AM | Permalink | | Thu - May 11, 2006 01:48 PMCreative Commons MusicIn yesterday's post, I said I was particularly
looking for a good place to find public domain or Creative Commons
music.
Well, I found it: Jamendo has
over a thousand CC-licensed albums for free download, the ability to search by
license type (so if you're looking for stuff for your podcast, you can search
for music which allows you to create derivative works), and even a mechanism for
paying for the music if you like it.
Cool!
Unfortunately I'm traveling today, so I don't have good Internet access and I haven't had a chance to listen to anything. But let's face it: there are an awful lot of talented musicians who don't have recording contracts, so I won't be surprised to find some really good stuff. Posted at 01:48 PM | Permalink | | Wed - May 10, 2006 01:40 PMPublic Domain Outer-Space StuffIt can be very frustrating trying to be a good
citizen in the Internet age, since our tangle of intellectual property laws were
created in a time when individuals didn't generally publish their creative works
to a worldwide audience. If you want to copy or mash up an image, audio, or
video clip, it can sometimes be difficult or impossible to tell if the resource
you want to use is copyrighted, and who the copyright holder might
be.
The opposite problem can be just as frustrating.
If you're creating a podcast or video blog and want some nice background music,
how can you be a good citizen and find something which is not
copyrighted?
So I'm creating this new category, Freesources, where I'm going to compile places to get copyright-friendly multimedia resources. By "copyright friendly," I mean that the images, audio, and video are usable for noncommercial purposes without permission. Public domain is best, but certain Creative Commons licenses are also good. I'm mainly doing this for my own benefit, but I hope others find it useful, too. Also, if you have a good suggestion (I'm especially interested music), pass it along and I'll post it for everyone's benefit. To kick things off with a bang, my first entry is NASA. Public Domain Multimedia from NASA Most material produced by the federal government is in the public domain (state governments are a different matter), and this is true of nearly everything on NASA's web site. Just about the only restriction is that you can't do anything to imply that NASA or any astronaut endorses any commercial product or service. They also want a "courtesy call" for some commercial use. The wonderful thing is that NASA's web site is an amazing labyrinth of material covering just about everything outer space (and some things aviation). Nearly all of it is in the public domain, and many images are available free for download in high resolution formats suitable for high quality work. For example, here's a page full of illustrations of hypothetical space colonies (thanks to my brother-in-law for the link). High quality artwork in the public domain. Here's a gallery of NASA movies on various space-related topics. Download and mash up at will. High resolution images from Hubble, with a helpful letter officially placing the images in the public domain (just in case anyone ever questions you). You could spend quite a bit of time just exploring material on NASA's home page, but that's just scratching the surface. As befits a pork-barrel agency, NASA has branches and centers all over the place, and many of those have extensive online resources as well. Not all of this is well-linked, but if it's on nasa.gov, it's probably public domain. Posted at 01:40 PM | Permalink | | |
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