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Just a quick note that the Copyright History conference and launch event of the new online resource will take place tomorrow at Stationers’ Hall. More events up on the site - copyrighthistory. I’ll be there tomorrow, but not Thursday — feel free to grab me for a chat if you are attending.

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Just to highlight for opencontentlawyer.com readers, that we released the final version of the Public Domain Dedication and Licence over at Open Data Commons this past weekend. I will post more about the process and the final result when I return to full posting strength in April.

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Quick note — the COMMUNIA project is having an academic conference on the public domain from 30 June to 1 July in Belgium. The call for papers is up and proposals are due on 30 March.
Conference homepage: COMMUNIA conference on Public Domain in the Digital Age.
Call for papers.

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I’m a little late in posting this, but the Open Definition now has an advisory council, and at Rufus Pollock’s very kind suggestion, I’ve accepted the role of Chair of the Council.
The members are:
Paul Jacobson, iCommons
Paul Miller, Talis
Peter Murray-Rust, Cambridge University
Rufus Pollock, Open Knowledge Foundation & Cambridge University
Rob Styles, Talis
Peter Suber, Scholarly Publishing and [...]

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Implementing Open Data: The Open Data Commons project - Oxford Internet Institute Crossposted at Open Data Commons.

Location: Oxford Internet Institute, 1 St Giles, Oxford, OX1 3JS. This event is open to the public. If you would like to attend please email your name and affiliation, if any, to: events@oii.ox.ac.uk
Perhaps surprisingly for some, data and databases [...]

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Hi everyone — I’m going to have a reduced posting schedule for the month of March due to personal getting married and professional commitments having to get all my work done before I leave to get married, but I will return in April to a regular posting schedule.

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