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iCommons received core grant funding:
2008 also marks the start of a five-year grant by two new trusts: Kusuma Trust and IETSI (International Electronic Trade and Services [...]

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FYI, IMPACT has posted a legal guide to CC licences.

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(Via Creative Commons » CC News.)
1st CC Korea International Conference: “‘Open Culture in CC’ is the theme of the first CC Korea International Conference, a day-long event to be held on Friday, March 14th at the National Museum of Korea (map).
The CC Korea team, lead by Chief Project Lead Jongsoo Yoon, have organized the conference [...]

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I just wanted to highlight quickly that music group R.E.M. has released content apparently under the Artistic License 2.0, a Open Source Initiative and Free Software Foundation approved license, meant to cover software, for 11 videos for the first song of their new album.
Coverage: Read Write Web | CNET | o’reilly
To get access to [...]

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New CC licences
Puerto Rico launched their Creative Commons ports today, making PR the 44th port of the CC set of licences. CC announcement. CC Puerto Rico site.
Two new jurisdiction specific CC licences on their way as Norwegian and Ecuadorian draft Creative Commons licences are now available for comment. Ecuador. Norway. CC Announcement.
Queensland to use [...]

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I have a new article out that I’ve written for the Open Source Business Resource, which is now available in the February issue.
Implementing Open Data: The Open Data Commons Project
In it, I explain the brief history of the Open Data Commons project and the Public Domain Dedication and Licence, which should be released soon [...]

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The BBC reports on a new use for iris scanning technology: online copyright enforcement. Iris scanning and recognition technology is being used for biometric identification, such as the IRIS — Iris Image Recognition Immigration Service used by the UK Home Office for immigration purposes. A picture of the iris is made and used much like [...]

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New US case law resource launched, already using CCZero beta.
Lessig announced this week on his blog that the public US caselaw resources that Public Resource has been working towards has now gone live:
As announced at public.resource.org, CC and public.resource.org have announced the first release of material to support our free law project. After raising a [...]

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Reported at techcrunch (HT to Trademark Blog), Gum Gum is a new platform for licensing images:
Attributor, a Silicon Valley startup, helps content owners track their intellectual property to find examples of infringement. But until now, no one has really thought about a better way to license content on the Internet, so that both large and [...]

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Alan Toner notes on his blog that when releasing Steal This Film 2, that having English Subtitles enabled the film to be translated into multiple languages almost immediately, thus increasing its worldwide distribution:
English subtitles were made available for the film on its release, a gambit which has paid off as almost immediately people began translating [...]

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