[cc-devel] PRESS RELEASE: Creative Commons and Fedora Team Up To Deliver LiveContent Distribution

Timothy Vollmer tvollmer at umich.edu
Mon Aug 6 14:16:01 EDT 2007


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San Francisco, CA — August 6, 2007

Creative Commons today announced the release of LiveContent, a collaborative
initiative to showcase free, open source software and  dynamic, Creative
Commons-licensed multimedia content. Red Hat's Fedora 7 will serve as the
platform for Creative Commons LiveContent CD.  The first LiveContent CD is
now available at the Creative Commons and Fedora booths at the LinuxWorld
Conference and Expo in San Francisco.

The Fedora Project is a Red Hat-sponsored, community-based open source
collaboration that provides the best of next-generation open source
technologies.  Its latest distribution, Fedora 7, features a new build
capacity that allows for the creation of custom distributions and individual
appliances.

"Fedora 7 features a completely open source build process that greatly
simplifies the creation of appliances," said Jack Aboutboul, community
engineer for Fedora at Red Hat.  "We encourage Fedora 7 users to create
custom distributions that fit their individual needs and are excited that
Creative Commons is making use of this capability within Fedora 7 to enable
the liberation of content and provide free licensed software to all.  This
is the first step in bringing Red Hat's open source community and Creative
Commons' "share, reuse, remix" initiative together. Our communities have
always been talking about a common vision of free software and free content
– today we have both decided that it's time to start bridging those gaps."

The Fedora 7 operating system boots directly from the LiveContent CD, making
use of the open source tools found in the latest Fedora distribution like
Revisor, Pungi and more.  The CD features a variety of Creative
Commons-licensed content including audio, video, image, text and educational
resources. From the desktop, users can explore free and open content and
learn more about businesses like Jamendo, Blip.tv, Flickr and others
supporting creative communities through aggregation and search tools.

Also included are a number of open source software applications including
OpenOffice, The Gimp, Inkscape, Firefox, multimedia viewers, open document
templates and others.  The LiveContent CD is a product of collaboration
across a number of organizations – Red Hat is providing in-kind engineering
support via Fedora 7 and many open source community members collaborated on
the included software applications.  Worldlabel.com, member of  the Open
Document Format Alliance, is supplying ongoing support for the development
and distribution of the LiveContent CD.

"When we decided to explore LiveContent, we knew we would need a reliable,
community-driven platform on which to base our content," said Jon Phillips,
community and business developer at Creative Commons.  "We had a previous
relationship with some of the engineers at Red Hat and knew the Company's
solutions to be valuable, well-developed and reliable.  We envision
LiveContent to be a stepping stone to dynamic distribution of open content.
Forthcoming versions of LiveContent aim to support autocurated packaging of
Creative Commons-licensed content, allowing for the most up-to-date,
'living' content distribution.  For this to happen, we're calling on
community members and content curators to join the effort to help spread
open media."

For more information on Fedora, to download or to join this community
effort, please visit: http://fedoraproject.org.  Visit
http://creativecommons.org/project/livecontent to learn more about the
project and get involved with future versions of LiveContent.  To obtain a
copy of the LiveContent CD, visit the Fedora and Creative Commons booths at
the LinuxWorld Conference and Expo in San Francisco.

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. Creative Commons licences provide a flexible
range of protections and freedoms for authors, artists, and educators that
build upon the "all rights reserved" concept of traditional copyright to
offer a voluntary "some rights reserved" approach. It is sustained by the
generous support of various organizations including the John D. and
Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, Omidyar Network, the Hewlett Foundation,
and the Rockefeller Foundation as well as members of the public. For general
information, visit http://creativecommons.org.

About Red Hat, Inc.
Red Hat, the world's leading open source solutions provider, is
headquartered in Raleigh, NC with over 50 satellite offices spanning the
globe. CIOs have ranked Red Hat first for value in Enterprise Software for
three consecutive years in the CIO Insight Magazine Vendor Value study. Red
Hat provides high-quality, low-cost technology with its operating system
platform, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, together with applications, management
and Services Oriented Architecture (SOA) solutions, including the JBoss
Enterprise Middleware Suite. Red Hat also offers support, training and
consulting services to its customers worldwide. Learn more:
http://www.redhat.com.

Contact

Jon Phillips
Community + Business Developer
Creative Commons
(415) 369-8486
jon at creativecommons.org

Kerri Catallozzi
Red Hat
(919) 754-4268
kcatallo at redhat.com

Press Kit

http://creativecommons.org/presskit





-- 
Timothy Vollmer
Creative Commons
Community + Media Development

Master's Candidate, 2008
School of Information
University of Michigan
tvollmer at umich.edu
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