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Featured Commoners
Featured creators, tools, and works.
Colin Mutchler
Cameron Parkins, October 6th, 2008
Colin Mutchler is one of the original CC success stories. Back in 2003, he posted his song, My Life, to Opsound under a CC BY-SA license. A month later a violinist name Nora Beth added a violin track, calling the new work My Life Changed. It was one of the first instances of CC facilitating [...]
Brad Sucks
Cameron Parkins, September 29th, 2008
Brad Sucks, a CC license using pop/rock musician, recently released his latest album Out Of It for free online and under a CC BY-SA license. Brad is one of the most remixed artists over at ccMixter, runs an active blog, interacts with fans directly, and was recently interview by the Featured Commoners behind The Indie [...]
The Indie Band Survival Guide
Cameron Parkins, September 24th, 2008
Randy Chertkow and Jason Feehan are true polymaths - founders of the pop band Beatnik Turtle, authors of The Indie Band Survival Guide, and a computer engineer and attorney respectively, they continuously have their hands in a bevy of different projects. Their most recent project, the wide publication of The Indie Band Survival Guide - [...]
Richard Stevens
Cameron Parkins, September 9th, 2008
Richard Stevens, known to many as simply rstevens, has been a major presence in webcomics for the better part of a decade, gaining notoriety through his popular webcomic Diesel Sweeties. In March of this year, he chose to release the entire archive for DS (nearly 2,000 comics) under a CC BY-NC license, opening up a [...]
Epic Fu
Cameron Parkins, August 4th, 2008
Epic Fu is a web-based show that focuses on “the coolest art, tech, and music from the online and offline world”. Formerly known as JETSET, Epic Fu is the brainchild of Zadi Diaz and Steve Woolf - they post new episodes every Tuesday and Thursday released under a CC BY-NC-SA license. We recently caught up [...]
CASH Music
Cameron Parkins, July 29th, 2008
CASH Music, an acronym for ‘Coalition of Artists and Stakeholders’, has been an impressive member of the CC community since they debuted late last year. Part music label, part creative community, CASH Music has major plans to change the landscape of contemporary artistic output with a particular focus on the dialogue between content creators and [...]
Jamison Young
Cameron Parkins, July 25th, 2008
Jamison Young is a musician who records endlessly and plays live as often as he can. Young releases all his music under a CC licence, some through ‘fairplay’ label (and former Featured Commoner) Beatpick, who helped get Young’s track “Memories Child” into the soundtrack for new feature film “The X-Files: I Want to Believe“. We [...]
Curt Smith
Cameron Parkins, July 15th, 2008
Curt Smith, solo-artist and co-founder of Tears for Fears, presented at the most recent CC Salon LA on why he chose to release his new album, “Halfway, pleased“, under a CC license. He spoke so eloquently we wanted to commit his words to text - as such, we bring you the latest in our Featured [...]
LegalTorrents
Cameron Parkins, July 10th, 2008
LegalTorrents, “an online community created to discover and distribute Creative Commons licensed digital mediaâ€, recently revamped their website to include a stronger community focus as well as a more fluid user experience. We caught up with Jonathan Dugan to find out more about what LegalTorrents can offer those in the CC-community and why CC-using content [...]
Behance
Cameron Parkins, July 8th, 2008
Behance is many things - a creative network, an online magazine, a producer of creative tools, an index of creative professionals, and a purveyor of methodology for getting creative projects done. Perhaps it is better to think of Behance then as an organization that, in their own words, “designs products and services that empower [...]
