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We’ve created a site solely for the Open Data Commons project. This is the continuation of all of the work we’ve been doing over here at opencontentlawyer.
I’ve crossposted below the announcement of the new set of legal tools on the Open Data Commons site. The original post is here.
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The new Open Data Commons set of [...]

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Today is the celebration of 5 years of Creative Commons licences. Creative Commons was created in 2001 by a group of legal academics with a goal of making a set of easy-to-use licences for content. The end result in December of 2002 was the launch of the first set of CC licences.
The licences first [...]

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As promised, a new draft of the Open Data Commons is forthcoming. I can’t say just what yet, but this weekend an announcement will be made in regards to the Open Data Commons licences. We will be introducing the changes we’ve made, as well as the reasons why.
Stay tuned.

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The work we’ve been doing on open data would be a nice fit at this event:
COMMUNIA Workshop: “Technology and the public domain” (18/01/2008)
Organized by the NEXA Center for Internet & Society of
the Politecnico di Torino (Italy) this event takes aim
at the international debate about the “digital commons” and the
complex relationship between technological innovation and today’s
mass [...]

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Details below:
Open Knowledge (OKCon) 2008: LSE, London, 15th March 2008
OKCon 2008 - ‘Open Knowledge: Applications, Tools and Services’
where: London School of Economics, London, UK
when: 15th March 2008 (1030-1830)
www: http://www.okfn.org/okcon/
register: http://www.okfn.org/okcon/register/
wiki: http://www.okfn.org/wiki/okcon2008/
Following on from the success of our inaugural conference last year,
we’re pleased to announce that the second Open Knowledge conference
(OKCon) will take place on Saturday [...]

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Wikipedia is currently under the GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL), a licence that causes incompatibility problems with the content also being released under Creative Commons licenses. At a party in San Francisco on Friday, Jimmmy Wales announced that the Wikimedia Foundation, the organisation behind Wikipedia, supports a solution created by the Free Software Foundation and [...]

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