1. Use CC
   Use 5 CC licensed works.
2. Grow CC
   License 5 new works.
3. Spread CC
   Feature this online campaign on your blog or podcast to help us reach new audiences.
   Send CC Staff your story of why you support CC so we can compile and share them with the world (CC licensed of course).
4. Connect CC
   Introduce 5 new people to Creative Commons.
5. Sustain CC
   By giving 50% more than your previous gift to this campaign, you will help us sustain CC’s core functioning for the next year.

Following the campaign we have already put the Support Creative Commons Button up in our sidebar. Next step was this blog post. Now, let’s go out an tell the people about CC!

The idea for this came about after I’d been doing a lot of reading, mostly of freely distributable texts such as Free Software, Free Society by Richard Stallman and Free Culture by Lawrence Lessig: I really felt strongly that these were important issues and was going to forward some copies to my MP. I then started to take the idea a bit further, and after being inspired by the iPods for Senators campaign in America, I decided to put together a DVD with loads of examples of Free Culture to show exactly what has ALREADY been achieved. What better way to promote Free Culture than to show off its achievements?

You can download the files via bittorrent or get a copy for cost of postage and materials. The DVD is an atempt to raise awareness of the Free Culture Movement, the issues that surround it, and the potential value it has for our society. Nice idea, get free licences out of the net to let you experience its possibilities. Sounds familiar, doesn’t it?

via Antischokke

We are supporters of the idea of Creative Commons, a non-profit organisation, which is committed to offer artists the opportunity of simply granting public rights to their works. By loosening copyright regulations, Creative Commons enables liberal usage of works according to their credo “some rights reserved” instead of “all rights reserved”.

To put it in a nutshell, this means that works which are published under a Creative Commons licence may be re-used and re-mixed. And this pool of creative works offers new material for others to build upon and create new works. There are entire philosophies based on this idea by now, concerning free exchange of music, pictures, texts and videos in the internet. Our aim is to transfer this philosophy back into real life and make it perceptible and understandable for a wider public. Following the motto of the Open Music Contest which is hosted by the AStA of the University of Marburg and where artists present music licenced under CC, we’d like to attract the public’s attention. We are intending to reach this aim by a wide variety of events like actions, campaigns and exhibitions – detached from internet and detached from computers.

It is important to mention that “we” is not meant to be seen as an elected committee, which designs and accomplishes the events mentioned above. Currently “we” are bloggers, interested parties and internet activists, who share their belief in the liberal usage of digital contents. That means that everyone who identifies with the philosophy of Creative Commons, Open Access or Open Source and who likes to initiate own events to let others experience and touch on this philosophy is invited to participate. Apart from specific events, our very aim is to raise awareness of Creative Commons and like-minded organisations in order to attain acceptance and encouragement for the philosophy we share.

Our weblog offers the opportunity for you to keep track of current events, to organise own events, to provide necessary assistance and to bring together like-minded people, which might help you organising events in your own city. We also have in mind to spread the message among Creative Commons newbies and get them informed about topics like Open Source and Open Access.

To get all these things done, we need every helping hand! Due to this, here’s our appeal: If you think there’s anything you can do for us, don’t hesitate to get in touch with us!

We have already started planning our first exhibition of CC licensed pictures and photographies in Cologne (Germany). Further details will follow soon. Venue and date are not set yet. And again: Your help is more than welcome!

Currently we’re looking for:

We’re also offering a Twitter-Group (http://twitter.com/zeitgeisty/) to keep you up to date!
Just one more thing: Feel free to blog about Zeitgeisty and to spread the message!

Notice: zeitgeisty ist not related to or founded by Creative Commons

We look forward to your assistance.

We’re currently working on an English translation of this weblog – unfortunately everything needs its time…