Do you remember back when CCMixter did the contest with Chuck D. feat Fine Arts Militia? I just found my entry, and since I did I thought that I would post it.

TDB’s CCMixter Chuck D Track

So I wanted to do some design this afternoon, but not a website design since that is all I seem to be doing lately – sooooo I whipped a cool ( imho ) new desktop wallpaper and named it Grunge Girl.

Like most things that I do like this I am releasing this under the Creative Commons Attribution ShareAlike License.

Back in the day, when I had time on my side, I used to dabble in creating original production music that I would let folks download. Lately I have not had much time for such trival pursuits but I do still have the MP3′s.

So, without any more self serving ramblings, I am happy to provide another of these older MP3′s – this one is called CruiseChase ‘cauze I always thought that this MP3 sounded like it should be the soundtrack for a car scene, crusing or chasing as it were. Okay so there was some more rambling…

So download this free production music type MP3, and do with it what you will but please respect the Creative Commons Attribution ShareAlike License.

Allright, I know what you are thinking: If I just had a kick ass, tribal flavored, orange and black wallpaper for my computer my life would be complete.

But seriously folks, here is another creative commons based wallpaper that we are making available for download. Believe it if you need it, if you don’t just pass it on…

Have you ever made your own DVD? Did you make your own menu? Did you use the crappy graphics that came with your software? Well, now you don’t have to – feel free to use this graphic for your next DVD background, or for whatever else you want to use it for – but please respect the Creative Commons Attribution ShareAlike License.

Okay, here is an MP3 that we made a long time ago called Big Bad Bosstones (775 kb :45 ). JP requested that we post it again. It is some cool digital bossanova, no really, click it…

We are transitioning a number of our websites and will eventually post all of this kind of stuff here at This Damn Blog as we try and reduce the sheer number of websites. Feel free to use this MP3 as you see fit as long as you respect the Creative Commons Attribution ShareAlike License.

As most of you guys know we have been creating some Themes for WordPress that we are giving away under a Creative Commons License. Here’s a quick update on the response that we have had.

1. GreenRiver/ 10082
2. GinsengCoffee/ 8328
3. PaintedDesert/ 7442
4. GinsengCoffee/feed/ 1277
5. GinsengCoffee/word-press-themes/ 1075
6. sarchasm/ 897
7. blogs/themes/GinsengCoffee.zip 844
8. blogs/themes/GreenRiver.zip 778
9. blogs/themes/PaintedDesert.zip 761

Green River looks like a winner. Contact us today if you want to commission a WordPress Theme.

I’ve been a fan of the Creative Commons for a while now, and have even published some creative commons content over the past few years. It looks the like the license is picking up steam these days, what with the Yahoo Creative Commons Search as well as all of the press that it has been getting.

For those of you uninitiated Creative Commons is a non profit organization that offers a variety of licenses with “some rights reserved”. Basically is is built to allow artists to legally share their work without losing copyright protection over it – it allows for intellectual-property licenses to become much more flexible then with our current system of copyright, or even the GPL or the public domain.

Creative Commons’ first project, in December 2002, was the release of a set of copyright licenses free for public use. Taking inspiration in part from the Free Software Foundation’s GNU General Public License (GNU GPL), Creative Commons has developed a Web application that helps people dedicate their creative works to the public domain — or retain their copyright while licensing them as free for certain uses, on certain conditions.

Creative Commons was founded in 2001 with the generous support of the Center for the Public Domain. It is led by a Board of Directors that includes cyberlaw and intellectual property experts James Boyle, Michael Carroll, Molly Shaffer Van Houweling, and Lawrence Lessig, MIT computer science professor Hal Abelson, lawyer-turned-documentary filmmaker-turned-cyberlaw expert Eric Saltzman, renowned documentary filmmaker Davis Guggenheim, noted Japanese entrepreneur Joi Ito, and public domain web publisher Eric Eldred.

There’s a lot of great music out there licensed under one of the CC licenses, and even entire record labels built on the concept.

Soundclick has a list of songs that have been released under a cc license, dmusic offers Creative Commons licenses for artists hosting their music, and opsound.com is an interesting place to submit your own cc licensed music.

There are entire “albums” that have been released under a cc license such as Frame Independent, Loved Like a Milkshake – A Tribute to Wesley Willis, People Like Us and Kenny G, Subatomicglue, and the Wired CD.

Artists like The Phoenix Trap, Erik Ostrom, Black Ink, Scott Andrew, and Horton’s Choice are releasing some of their music under a cc license.

The portions of this post in italics are from the Creative Commons about page.