… musical group, Tryad, today announced that its four members formed a virtual band across the ocean through the copyright reform organizationfrom 24-7PressRelease.com (press release) – USA

… The BEASTIE BOYS, CHUCK D, LE TIGRE and MY MORNING JACKET are among the artists being sampled for Creative Commons’ and Wired’s “The Finefrom Rolling Stone – USA

Creative Commons has launched a new site, and a new contest. … Mash. Share., which contains sixteen tracks licensed under Creative Commonsfrom Youth Media Network – New York,NY,USA

Wired Magazine has teamed up with Creative Commons to launch “The Fine Art Of Sampling Contest” — a contest to sample tracks from Wired Magazine’sfrom SoundSlam.com – USA

On Saturday, Creative Commons, a nonprofit dedicated to offering flexible copyrights for creative works, launched Science Commons, designed to easefrom Stanford Daily – USA

Creative Commons and Wired Magazine have launched “The Fine Art of Sampling” contest, encouraging fans to sample works from such well known acts asfrom AllHipHop – USA

Topics for discussion include Creative Commons, P2P, and music sampling. The folks at LinuxNews.pl report that prof. Lessig will spend three daysfrom OpenP2P.com – CA,USA

… Meanwhile, academics are examining how creative commons licences — which allow people and organisations such as schools to re-use imagesfrom Sunday Herald – Glasgow,Scotland,UK

Inc has capped a flurry of announcements this week by revealing that it will now be providing a search engine in collaboration with Creative Commons,from Earthtimes.org – USA

… today unveiled its new Creative Commons Search Beta where you can find content you can “use for commercial purposes” or content that you canfrom Search Engine Guide – Houston,TX,USA