Alex Due

Today moby announced the release of his new album “Destroyed” which will come out around the middle of may. He describes it as broken down melodic electronic music for empty cities at 2 a.m.

In addition he released a three track EP called “Be The One” as a free download. A confirmation e-mail with the download link will be sent to your e-mail address … like it seems to be common usage when commercial artists give away some of their music for free.

For each of the three tracks from the EP, moby made a video clip consisting of shots me made with a little camcorder while traveling. All are linked in his blog post. One of them is here:

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Valentine by Kina Grannis on YouTube

Amazing video clip! The song is available as a free download at Buzznet.

You can download the new single for free from their website. But only for 48 hours which probably started sometime on Feburary 9th. So be quick.

You have to leave a valid e-mail address because the download link will be sent to it. Moreover you have to enter a date of birth and a country.

Only a few minutes ago I found this mix by “Death To The Throne“. He took part in Metric’s remix contest and won the Grand Prize for his remix of “Twilight Galaxy“. Awesome!

He put his mix on SoundCloud where you can download it.

I found another cool track on SoundCloud. It’s not Creative Commons licensed, but available for download anyway.

You can download the song “Gimme Sympathy” by the Canadian indie rock band “Metric” from their website. Leave your e-mail address and they’ll send you the link. To be honest, I’ve never heard of them before. But I like this song! Maybe I’ll even buy the album “Fantasies”.

The website openculture.com lists a hugh number of freely available audio books. The list contains read books by Jane Austen, Charles Dickens, Ernest Hemmingway, George Orwell, Edgar Allen Poe, William Shakespeare, Mark Twain, Oscar Wilde and lots of other well known authors.

They recently added “Alice in Wonderland” read by Canadian blogger, author and activist Cory Doctorow.

I just had the idea to create a little graphic that expresses my feelings to Creative Commons licenses. This is the result:

This was quite simple. I downloaded the Creative Commons logo and this graphic of a heart. Then I opened both files using the free vector graphics editor Inkscape, replaced the circle with the heart and made the outline of the heart a bit thicker.

As the graphics of the heart and the Creative Commons logo do not have the threshold of originality, they are in the public domain. The same probably applies to my combination of both. So feel free to use. Be aware, that the Creative Commons logo may be subject to trademark laws. But as one would only use it to promote Creative Commons, I can’t imagine that they would be offended.

Download the SVG vector graphic here. You can use it to export the graphic in any size.

Update February 10th

People from Creative Commons asked me to make a clarification.

The Creative Commons logo is protected by trademark law. Therefore the originality threshold does not apply and the logo is not in the public domain! That is to say, I was not allowed to modify and publish it without explicit permission of Creative Commons. Luckily they seem to like the modified logo and gave me permission to use and share it on my website.

It is import to understand that using the “I love Creative Commons” logo is not suitable to make any work Creative Commons licensed. To license your work you must exactly state under which of the several licenses your work is licensed. The best and easiest way to do this is to use the license chooser on the Creative Commons website.