On y va pour les vacances. Pour ceux et celles d’entre vous qui sont un peu fatigué de la musique traditionelle du saison, on vous offre un spécial fin d’année de web radio P45.

“C’est un grand moment pour toute l’équipe, où tous y vont de palmarès et de réflexions à propos de l’année 2005. J’ai envie de vous faire l’accolade, et de vous cuisiner un petit gâteau aux fruits dont vous me donnerez des nouvelles… L’excès de sentiments, Noël, c’est fait pour ça.”

Même si leur site web n’est pas complêtement sous contrat Creative Commons, ils ont choissi un contrat Paternité – Pas D’Utilisation Commerciale – Pas de Modification 2.0 Canada pour faciliter la distribution de leur programme radio. Félicitations à P45 et joyeux vacances de la part de Creative Commons Canada.

Before leaving for the holidays, let us offer a final Featured Work of the year. For those of you sick and tired of smaltzy Christmas music P45, a Montreal-based webzine, offers a festive MP3 holiday special licensed under an Attribution-Noncommerical-Sharealike 2.0 Canada Licence.

Keep posted in the New Year as we roll-out version 2.5 of our licences and increase our efforts to showcase some of the best Creative Commons licensed works that Canada has to offer. Season’s greetings from the staff at Creative Commons Canada.

As the year comes to an end, Creative Commons licences have never been more popular. We’d like to thank the thousands of Canadians who have chosen to share their creative works under our licences as well as all the people who’s time, money, and effort has made Creative Commons a phenomenon spanning 26 countries with one of the Internet’s most dominant brands.

Our request for french-language content was met with an unprecedented response including music, photography, and more blogs that we could possibly count. In turn, we’ll be dedicating January and February to a multimedia exhibition of French-Canadian works. The licences have come a long way, but Creative Commons is only just getting started.

They say that “anything worth doing is worth doing to excess.” So it is that Blogaholics.ca presents fifteen different blogs under such diverse themes as coffee shops and blogging advice. Imagine the diversity of the Internet and the consistency of a newspaper in a single source. Now imagine that its all produced by one couple from Vancouver.

Ianiv Schweber and Arieanna Foley are the couple behind Blogaholics. They’re the lens through which the content of the world is being filtered and reposted. Being passionate about a hobby is one thing, but making money is even better. They’ve turned their interest in blogging into a full-blown blogging business including consulting, blog development, media sales, and event blogging. To share their prolific postings accross the web, they’ve chosen to license their work under the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Sharealike 2.0 contract. Only one question remains: why stop at fifteen?

The Open Content Alliance (OCA) represents the collaborative efforts of a group of cultural, technology, nonprofit, and governmental organizations from around the world that will help build a permanent archive of multilingual digitized text and multimedia content. Content in the OCA archive will be accessible soon through this website and through Yahoo!

The OCA will encourage the greatest possible degree of access to and reuse of collections in the archive, while respecting the content owners and contributors. Visit the OCA website to learn more.