A quick note to say that the University of Amsterdam’s Institute for Information Law (IViR) is hiring for a junior researcher on open content licensing:
The Institute has a position available for a (junior) researcher to work on an ongoing research project on Open Content licensing. IViR is legal partner of Creative Commons NL, which has [...]
Entries from July 2008
Research post on open content licensing at IViR
July 7th, 2008 · No Comments
Tags: Europe · Licensing · Open content orgs
Money to develop with UK public data
July 4th, 2008 · No Comments
As part of a trend for opening up publicly funded data, the Cabinet Office’s Power of Information Taskforce has set up a competition to fund projects using public data: Show us a better way. From the site:
The Power of Information Taskforce is helping government become more open, transparent and effective through better use of [...]
Tags: Licensing · Open content
Online registration for copyright in the US now open
July 3rd, 2008 · No Comments
Just a quick note to say that as of 1 July the US Copyright Office is allowing online registration. From the Library of Congress NewsNet:
Beginning July 1, 2008, the Copyright Office is offering online registration of claims to copyright. Online registration through the electronic Copyright Office (eCO) is the preferred way to register basic claims [...]
Tags: Copyright law
