[FC-discuss] Free Culture Forum?

[Mike Linksvayer]

On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 5:44 AM, Brian Russell<brinerustle at gmail.com> wrote:
> Is there a database or search engine for Free culture in the US?

The web. [Free] culture is broad, so no single database will suffice.
Creative Commons has gathered some searches that allow filtering on
license at http://search.creativecommons.org

There are some lists of directories and notable works on the CC wiki
at http://wiki.creativecommons.org/Content_Directories and
http://wiki.creativecommons.org/Books and
http://wiki.creativecommons.org/Film and
http://creativecommons.org/Case_Studies and there are some similar
lists and categories on Wikipedias.

Please help curate existing lists, create more databases, more
discovery mechanisms, and for artifacts that are packaged in a media
file blob, upload a copy to archive.org for safe keeping.

> Are
> there some kinds of awards like grammys or emmys or oscars for
> creative commons stuff?

I'm glad to hear the Oxcars were excellent. There's definitely room
for more free culture awards entrepreneurs, offline and online.
Community curation such as Picture of the Year on Wikimedia Commons
and various featured article / featured media mechanisms on various
Wikipedias and sister sites are hugely important.  The idea of a "digg
for free culture" has occurred to many people but never been seriously
pursued, though someone ought to.  Libre.fm is potentially important,
in fact their "Top 40 libre artists" cloud at http://alpha.libre.fm/
is already a good place to start discovering free music...

> Where do artists go in the US to promote their
> CC art if they are interested in sharing it?

The web, such as sites above. "In the US" is not really an interesting
qualifier. :)

Mike