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So no surprise I’ve been thinking more and more about semantic web technologies and the law, given my recent trips and talks on open data. This represents some of my early-stage thinking about how copyright plays into the coming framework.
For those not familiar with this area, my big picture layman’s summary of the semantic web [...]

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Legal and Social Frameworks for Sharing Data on the Web

Sunday 25 October 2009, Washington, DC
I’m really pleased to be participating in an open data tutorial at this year’s International Semantic Web Conference in Washington DC, together with Leigh and Tom from Talis and Kaitlin from Science Commons. Thanks to Talis for helping get me over [...]

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I’m liveblogging the 4th annual Gikii conference, kindly hosted by IViR in Amsterdam. (Gikii Programme).
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Luddism 2.0, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Web
Andrés Guadamuz
Andres starts out with the traditional apology.
Destroying machines and the history of luddism – at one point there were more british soldiers fighting luddites than fighting in the [...]

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I’m liveblogging the 4th annual Gikii conference, kindly hosted by IViR in Amsterdam. (Gikii Programme)
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Incentives and Constraints for Dutch Public Broadcasters to Adopt Creative Commons Licensing
Maarten Brinkerink and Inge van Beekum
Review of the (really neat and amazing) Images for the Future project. http://www.beeldenvoordetoekomst.nl/en
Using CC-BY-SA as preferred license. Also only publicly showing images / [...]

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Day two
I’m liveblogging the 4th annual Gikii conference, kindly hosted by IViR in Amsterdam. (Gikii Programme)
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Intended Data Beneficiaries
Andrea Matwyshyn
(apologies both to Andrea and to readers – the Gikii dinner took its toll and as a result was a bit late to the first session. I did manage to catch the end of the talk [...]

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I’m liveblogging the 4th annual Gikii conference, kindly hosted by IViR in Amsterdam. (Gikii Programme)
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The Googlification of Copyright: The Google Books Settlement and its consequences for Europe
Bernt Hugenholtz
Google Book Settlement = GBS
Factors
- (practical) monopoly of google
- privacy
- practical licensing
- open content licensing short-circuited
- orphan works should be settled by legislature and not private ordering
GBS was [...]

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I’m liveblogging the 4th annual Gikii conference, kindly hosted by IViR in Amsterdam. (Gikii Programme)
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EAT ME
Miranda Mowbray & Burkhard Schaffer
Memory spot mico computers.
Medical microbots – selfassembling stomach bots and you. Molecular computing can speed up computing – data as DNA strings. Molecular computing scales better than conventional computing.
We are DNA robots.
Data protection [...]

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I’m liveblogging the 4th annual Gikii conference, kindly hosted by IViR in Amsterdam. (Gikii Programme)
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Death on the web
Lilian Edwards
What to do with web accounts, email, business accounts (eBay), profiles and everything else online when dead? The legal norm is that there is no norm. Every site has a different rule/ToS, no code of practice, [...]

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I’m at the 4th annual Gikii conference, kindly hosted by ivir in Amsterdam. Not presenting this year, but thinking I should have. This is my 4/4 conferences, though I did miss SoGikii earlier this year. Thanks again to Joris and everyone at Ivir , and Lilian, Andres, and Ian for setting up [...]

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I’m off today to the 1st London Linked Data Meetup (Meetup.com registration) at the Hammersmith Club in London. I’m hoping to speak on Open Data Commons as well as see my friends from Talis including catching up with Talis alum and linked data powerplayer Paul Miller.
Also a heads up that I’m really pleased to be [...]

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