Everything I publish here is covered under the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial license. Basically this means anyone is free to use it, share it, or adapt it as they like, as long as they credit me for the original work and don’t use it commercially. I bring this up because I had a plagiarism issue arise recently.

Severed Fifth, a metal solo project born in the heart of FLOSS community was launched today under a Creative Commons Attribution ShareAlike license. "[...]This will allow anyone to download, listen to, share and re-mix the songs freely, with the only condition that suitable attribution and credit is placed."

Good luck Jono!

After having released his professional game art 'for free' for years, Daniel Cook made the usage terms clear once and for all, by selecting an attribution license, published by Creative Commons, for his works.

Now these precious 2D images can be used by open source (game) projects without ever fearing Debian's lawyers asking about DFSG compatability!

"Recently, the Wikimedia Foundation proposed that the copyright licensing terms on its wikis be changed to include a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike license in addition to its longstanding GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL). The proposal was approved by a 75 percent majority of community voters as announced this week..."

"We’ve just added the seal you see at right to Creative Commons licenses that qualify as Free Culture Licenses according to the Definition of Free Cultural Works — Attribution and Attribution-ShareAlike. Public domain is not a license, but is an acceptable copyright status for free cultural works according to the Definition.

"Ars Technica are reporting that Trent Reznor has released his latest NIN (Nine Inch Nails) album under a Creative Commons license. He has released Ghost I-IV under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial Share Alike license..." -- http://ghosts.nin.com/main/faq -- via dogmazic: http://blog.dogmazic.net/2008/03/nin-publie-ghosts-i-iv-en-cc-by-nc-sa

"David Bollier will discuss the rise of the commons paradigm in the digital environment, the subject of his new book, Viral Spiral: How the Commoners Built a Digital Republic of Their Own (New Press). The book traces the origins of free software, the Creative Commons licenses and the online “sharing economy” ..."

I am proud to announce the final release of the debut Severed Fifth album Denied By Reign. You can go and download it in its entirety here.............The full album is available under a Creative Commons Attribution ShareAlike license - you are free to copy, share, remix and sell the album if you like

"Last week the Wikimedia Foundation board took an important step toward giving Wikipedia the right to choose to migrate to a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike license. Credit goes to the Wikimedia Foundation and Free Software Foundation for having the wisdom and foresight to enable this progress. However, the real work has just begun..."