licensing

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Creative Hardware

More Synth Makers Are Opening Up Firmware — Part II of the Platform Story

Four vendor moves since our original firmware-communities piece: Erica Synths quietly opened the LXR's Eurorack sibling, Behringer open-sourced the IGNITE sequencer before it even shipped, Behringer teased an open SP-1200 clone, and Akai teased a keyboard it still won't confirm is open at all.

Oct 30, 9:15 AM · 5 min read

Collaboration Agreement Tutorial: Getting Started on Credit, Ownership and Who Can Say Yes

Oct 27, 8:40 AM · 5 min read

Creative Hardware

Hardware as Platforms, and the Rise of Firmware Communities

Oct 26, 9:30 AM · 15 min read

AI & Creative Tools

NVIDIA Put 2,575 OpenUSD Assets Under CC BY 4.0 — and Hugging Face Shows the Licence as Blank

Oct 26, 6:10 AM · 6 min read

Digital Artists

1,342 AI-Generated 3D Assets Under CC BY 4.0 — With a SHA-256 Hash for Every Input and Output

Oct 25, 5:55 AM · 5 min read

Digital Artists

Canva Trained an Image Model on Its Own Templates — and Unlike Most, It Can Say Who Got Paid

Oct 24, 5:55 AM · 5 min read

AI & Creative Tools

Only One of Gradium's Seven Phonon Voices Is Apache-2.0 — and It's the One Everybody Downloaded

Oct 24, 5:40 AM · 6 min read

Research & Innovation

Can You Actually Use This Model? A Licence and Availability Checklist

Oct 23, 9:50 AM · 6 min read

Creative Hardware

RoboParty's RP1 Humanoid Really Is Open — We Counted All 71 Repos

Oct 23, 6:55 AM · 5 min read

Creative Coding

GameMaker's New Runtime Goes Free for Commercial Use, With Source Access on Every Tier

Oct 23, 6:40 AM · 4 min read

Digital Artists

Getty Images Files for Chapter 11 While Selling AI Trained on "Permissioned Content"

Oct 23, 6:25 AM · 4 min read

AI & Creative Tools

Bria's FIBO 2.0 Is Trained on 100% Licensed Data — and You Still Can't Use It Commercially

Oct 23, 6:10 AM · 5 min read

Creative Coding

AI Decompilation Arrived and Game Preservation Got Years of Work Done in Days

Oct 15, 5:25 AM · 7 min read

Open-Sourcing Your Art Project: Getting Started With the Licence, the README and What to Leave Out

Oct 14, 9:25 AM · 5 min read

Creative Coding

The Audio Plugin Market Is Being Flooded, and a Trade Editor Just Said What It's Doing to Coverage

Oct 12, 3:15 PM · 4 min read

Research & Innovation

Hugging Face Datasets Tutorial: Publishing Your Own Archive So It's Actually Usable

Oct 10, 8:25 AM · 7 min read

AI & Creative Tools

BandLab Buys Aiode, an AI Music Studio Built Entirely on Licensed, Traceable Audio

Jul 23, 1:00 PM · 2 min read