[cc-community] PRESS RELEASE: Creative Commons LiveContent 2.0 Demonstrates Autocuration of Open Content

Timothy Vollmer tim at creativecommons.org
Sun Mar 9 17:08:23 EDT 2008


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San Francisco, CA -- March 10, 2008

Creative Commons today announced the release of LiveContent 2.0, a LiveDVD
full of Creative Commons-licensed multimedia content and free and open
source software. LiveContent allows users to explore open content such as
music, video, photography, books, and educational materials that can be
freely used, copied, and built upon. LiveContent boots directly from the
LiveDVD, making it easy for users to interact with Creative Commons-licensed
content and test-drive open source software. The LiveDVD is built upon
Fedora 8, a Linux-based operating system, and the disc includes a number of
open source software applications like OpenOffice, The Gimp, Inkscape, and
Firefox.

The LiveContent project draws CC-licensed multimedia content from a variety
of diverse projects aiming to share creativity and culture more openly.
Included are photographs from Flickr.com and Wikimedia Commons, music from
Jamendo.com and Simuze.nl, videos from Make Magazine, Boing Boing TV and
others, books from Manybooks.net, and open educational resources from MIT's
OpenCourseWare initiative.

For version 2.0, LiveContent transitions from a LiveCD to a LiveDVD
platform, providing more space for open content and software. Beginning with
the popular photo-sharing website Flickr.com, LiveContent 2.0 demonstrates a
unique content "autocuration" process. This technique manipulates web
services provided by Flickr and automatically compiles photos onto the
LiveDVD build. With the success of the Flickr autocuration process, Creative
Commons aims to push for further standardization of CC content syndication
feeds and APIs.

Creative Commons calls for increased community participation in curating
open content and developing technologies that spread CC-licensed content.
"Creative Commons doesn't maintain a centralized repository of the work
published under the suite of CC licenses," said Jon Phillips, Business and
Community Development Manager at Creative Commons. "But our Content
Directories project has been a useful tool for organizations to list their
CC-powered projects. It's important that we develop a standardized process
for the community to be able to learn about and reuse open content."

LiveContent is a product of collaboration across a number of organizations
including Red Hat (http://www.redhat.com), Worldlabel.com (
http://www.worldlabel.com) and various CC content providers.
LiveContent 2.0is now available for free download at
http://spins.fedoraproject.org. A pre-burned disc may be purchased at
http://www.on-disk.com.

For more information visit http://creativecommons.org/projects/livecontent

About Creative Commons

Creative Commons is a not-for-profit organization, founded in 2001, that
promotes the creative re-use of intellectual and artistic works, whether
owned or in the public domain. Through its free copyright licenses, Creative
Commons offers authors, artists, scientists, and educators the choice of a
flexible range of protections and freedoms that build upon the "all rights
reserved" concept of traditional copyright to enable a voluntary "some
rights reserved" approach. Creative Commons was built with and is sustained
by the generous support of organizations including the Center for the Public
Domain, the Omidyar Network, The Rockefeller Foundation, The John D. and
Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, and The William and Flora Hewlett
Foundation, as well as members of the public. For more information about
Creative Commons, visit http://creativecommons.org.

Contact

Jon Phillips
Business + Community Development Manager
jon at creativecommons.org
+86 1-360-282-8624
Creative Commons
www.creativecommons.org

Press Kit

http://creativecommons.org/presskit








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Timothy Vollmer
tim at creativecommons.org
cell: +1.608.698.2403

Business Development Assistant
Creative Commons
www.creativecommons.org
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