Monthly Archives: January 2008

UK IPO links to Creative Commons licences

Posted on 29 January 2008 by Jordan

I’m doing some research for a course on entrepreneurship and IP, and so I’m reviewing the materials available on the UK Intellectual Property Office (UK IPO). Their short and sweet description of copyright licensing includes a link to Creative Commons: … Continue reading →

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Free Knowledge, Free Technology Conference

Posted on 28 January 2008 by Jordan

Free Knowledge, Free Technology: Education for a free information society SELF International Conference 2008 July 15-17, 2008 Barcelona, Spain http://fkft.eu This looks really interesting. I won’t post the whole conference description, but in relevant part: The programme consists of an … Continue reading →

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Creative Business in the Digital Era | 17-19 March 2008

Posted on 28 January 2008 by Jordan

I’ve been working on the legal materials for the seminar, which has a introduction to open content licences.  If you are in the UK, consider going. Besides, it’s free as in beer! Free seminar with UK’s leading social media expert … Continue reading →

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OCLN | Open content legal news – 25 January 2008

Posted on 25 January 2008 by Jordan

OCLN — Open content legal news, a worldwide selection of news and events about open content with a focus on the legal side of things from Jordan Hatcher, legal consultant. ACIA in Taiwan People are posting about the meeting on … Continue reading →

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OCLN | Open content legal news – 18 January 2008

Posted on 18 January 2008 by Jordan

This is the inaugural issue of OCLN — Open content legal news, a worldwide selection of news and events about open content with a focus on the legal side of things from Jordan Hatcher, legal consultant. CCZero legal tools and … Continue reading →

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Dissecting CCZero

Posted on 16 January 2008 by Jordan

Creative Commons has just launched a new legal tool for discussion known as CCZero, and I’m going to go through the current version and comment. Cool scalpel pic from Wikipedia and in the public domain. As readers will know, I … Continue reading →

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Legal models for online content enforcement

Posted on 15 January 2008 by Jordan

In December, I gave a talk in London for Screen South entitled “Creative Commons Legal Models” for a group of content producers, mostly film/video, internet content, authors, and computer game creatives. In it, I made this basic point: Look at … Continue reading →

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Creative Commons against copyright?

Posted on 9 January 2008 by Jordan

Yesterday I was at the British Library at the launch of the UK Intellectual Property Office’s new consultation “Taking forward the Gowers Review of Intellectual Property: Proposed changes to copyright exceptions” (thoughts here). I happened to sit next to the … Continue reading →

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