If you look way down to the footer of this website you'll find a little icon with two 'c's in a circle. If you're not paying particular attention you may disregard this to be a typical copyright indication and think nothing more of it. That extra 'c' within the circle makes a whole lot of difference. It's there to encourage our visitors to take the content found on this site, copy it, distribute it, and transmit it in any way they see fit. More than that, we have no problem if our content is remixed, mashed-up, or otherwise reinterpreted into forms that we have not yet fathomed. There is the stipulation that attribution should be given, but other than that, content generated here is open to the public domain. Our Creative Commons license helps demonstrates our organization's value of transparency and community.

Although we hope that the information published here will reach the widest range of people possible, the creative possibilities mashing-up Calgary Arts Development are admittedly limited. Now what if a renowned Canadian director released his latest movie under a Creative Commons license and encouraged everyone to have their own go at it. That's exactly what Bruce McDonald has done with The Tracey Fragments and he's even giving prizes for outstanding reedits, the best of which will appear on the movie's offical DVD release. The score of the movie by Broken Social Scene is also included under the CC license.

I blogged previously about another CC licensed film project: A Swarm of Angles which is well underway and is another great example of a project that is using community and technology in innovative ways.

via Creative Commons Blog