Open Service and Media Hosting with Creative Commons software

ccHost: Open Service and Media Hosting with Creative Commons software
Creative Commons (www.creativecommons.org) offers more than just licenses. It also develops software and standards to support the six primary Creative Commons licenses. This presentation specifically discusses ccHost (http://wiki.creativecommons.org/cchost), a web-based media sharing software akin to mediawiki and wordpress, whose primary focus is to encourage proper licensing, sharing and remix of many types of media (video, audio, text, image). This software is notably used in the web 2.0-friendly, ccMixter.org, the web's legal music remix website with over 6000 CC-licensed audio tracks. It is also now used by freedesktop-affiliated Open Clip Art Library (www.openclipart.org), a public domain collection of vector-based clip art (10,000+ clip art images).

This presentation discusses how ccHost helps to free media through employing its open services and by using Creative Commons licenses. Also, an overview of how to connect with the Creative Commons Developer Community (CCDC, http://developer.creativecommons.org/) is discussed.