NewsForge: Media Sharing with ccHost

"At ccMixter, musicians and DJs are using Creative Commons licensing to share music content and build a community of artists, thanks to the open source back-end system ccHost, an infrastructure designed to facilitate storage, tracking, and sharing of multimedia content.

"The Creative Commons opened its doors in 2002 with the goal of fostering a modern, flexible understanding of copyright, including educating the public about how copyright can help them and encouraging people to create and share their own original creations under Creative Commons licenses..."

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