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You can catch the new season of the hilarious animated series Odd Job Jack — about a a temp worker's myriad employment misadventures — on the Comedy Network in Canada. Better yet, make your own version of the hit cartoon! Odd Job Jack's creators recently launched a site called Free Jack, in which the master Flash files and bitmaps of every piece of art used in this season of the show are being released under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike license. Share, reuse, and remix the files to your heart's content!

Launching this September, GOOD magazine will serve as a platform for talented writers and contributors to bring to the forefront issues and ideas that matter. Creative Commons is one of GOOD's non-profit organizations for its CHOOSE GOOD campaign, an innovative subscription strategy in which 100% of GOOD's charter subscription revenue will be given to organizations whose missions are in line with the publication's. Subscribe to GOOD, choose Creative Commons as the nonprofit you want to support, and your entire one-year subscription fee of $20 will be given to CC.

Creative Commons Add-in for Microsoft^® Office

Microsoft and Creative Commons have teamed up to release the Creative Commons Add-in for Microsoft Office, a copyright licensing tool that enables the easy addition of Creative Commons licenses to works created in popular Microsoft Office applications. The software is available free of charge at Microsoft Office Online and will enable the 400 million users of Microsoft Office Word, Microsoft Office Excel, and Microsoft Office PowerPoint to easily select Creative Commons licenses from directly within the application they are working in. The first document to be CC-licensed using this tool is the text of Brazilian Minister of Culture Gilberto Gil's iSummit keynote speech in English and Portuguese.

Creative Commons and the Fedora Project have teamed up for the Open Video Contest taking place now through August 20, 2006. To participate, submit a video that explores freedom and openness. Entries should be 30 seconds or less, in Ogg Theora format, and be released under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.5 license. The winner will receive Fedora-branded Sony Camcorder and the first 150 submissions will receive a pair of handsome Fedora flip flops.

Scoopt, the world's first commercial citizen journalism photography agency, has just launched ScooptWords to help bloggers sell their content to newspapers and magazines. Within the Scoopt interface, you can easily add a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial license to your blog right alongside a Scoopt commercial badge. Use the CC license to tell people how your work can be used non-commercially; use the ScooptWords badge to let editors know that your writing can be purchased for commercial use. There's so much great blog content being created every day -- it'll be very exciting to see how it helps change the way newspapers and magazines are created.

Pearl Jam's "Life Wasted" Video

The new music video for Pearl Jam's "Life Wasted" was released under the Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial-NoDerivs license, so that people anywhere can legally copy, distribute, and share the clip. This is the first Pearl Jam video to be released in eight years and the first video produced by a major label to be CC-licensed. You can download the video for free from several Web sites, and via BitTorrent by using the torrent file hosted by LegalTorrents.

Photo © Danny Clinch. Used with permission.

Remix My Life in the Bush of Ghosts

David Byrne and Brian Eno's landmark sampling album My Life in the Bush of Ghosts was recently remastered and reissued with extensive liner notes, photos, and previously unreleased bonus tracks. To celebrate the release, Byrne and Eno launched bush-of-ghosts.com where the audio source files from two of the classic tracks from Bush of Ghosts — "A Secret Life" and "Help Me Somebody" — are offered under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.5 license, so you can (subject to the download terms of use) use them to make remixes. The site allows uploads and user ratings, as well as the ability to share videos you make for music on Bush of Ghosts.