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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:
Some people prefer to allow limited access to their work without charge. One way to do [...]

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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 elegant mix between keynote speakers, panel discussions and parallel tracks on topics such as Social implications of Free Knowledge [...]

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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 for artists and creative entrepreneurs
Are you a writer, musician, film maker or visual artist? Or maybe [...]

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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 the 19-20 in Taiwan of ACIA: the International Workshop on Asia and Commons in the Information Age, [...]

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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 text launched.
Creative Commons launched its new tool, CCZero (BETA) for comment.
Detailed commentary:
Dissecting CCZero - [...]

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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 was the primary drafter, together with Dr. Charlotte Waelde, on a Talis-funded project that produced the [...]

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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 your copyright in terms of your overall strategy
Not a particularly groundbreaking insight but an important one [...]

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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 legal counsel for the Motion Picture Association in Europe. We chatted for a moment, and [...]

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