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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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Today is the celebration of 5 years of Creative Commons licences. Creative Commons was created in 2001 by a group of legal academics with a goal of making a set of easy-to-use licences for content. The end result in December of 2002 was the launch of the first set of CC licences.
The licences first [...]

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The work we’ve been doing on open data would be a nice fit at this event:
COMMUNIA Workshop: “Technology and the public domain” (18/01/2008)
Organized by the NEXA Center for Internet & Society of
the Politecnico di Torino (Italy) this event takes aim
at the international debate about the “digital commons” and the
complex relationship between technological innovation and today’s
mass [...]

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Details below:
Open Knowledge (OKCon) 2008: LSE, London, 15th March 2008
OKCon 2008 - ‘Open Knowledge: Applications, Tools and Services’
where: London School of Economics, London, UK
when: 15th March 2008 (1030-1830)
www: http://www.okfn.org/okcon/
register: http://www.okfn.org/okcon/register/
wiki: http://www.okfn.org/wiki/okcon2008/
Following on from the success of our inaugural conference last year,
we’re pleased to announce that the second Open Knowledge conference
(OKCon) will take place on Saturday [...]

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On 20 November, I spoke at the London CC Salon about the results of the report on open content licences and the UK cultural heritage sector. Special thanks to Tim for setting up the event, and for the small but well informed crowd who attended.
Snapshot study on the use of open content licences in the [...]

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I gave a talk on the 23rd of November on database rights and open data, as mentioned earlier on this blog. I’ve uploaded the handout and presentation from my talk last week on open data and database licensing for the digital curation community in Glasgow. Thanks again to the organisers of the event and to [...]

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Just a reminder, I’ll be heading to London for the CC Salon to speak about my recent report, funded by Eduserv, on open content and the cultural heritage sector in the United Kingdom.
The report and appendices are available here.
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CC-Salon London returns with our final event of 2007, for more discussion and debate on the subjects [...]

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I’ll be speaking on open data and legal issues such as copyright and the European sui generis database right in Glasgow on Friday, the 23rd of November.
Full details:
Joint DCC and SCRIPTed Workshop on the Legal Environment of Digital Curation
23 November 2007
Location: Charles Wilson Building, University of Glasgow
URL: http://www.dcc.ac.uk/events/legal-env-dig-cur-2007
This one-day workshop will provide a useful overview [...]

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On 20 November, I will be speaking at the next London CC Salon about the results of the report on open content licences and the UK cultural heritage sector:
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CC-Salon London returns with our final event of 2007, for more discussion and debate on the subjects of art, technology, copyright and free culture.
This time round we’ll [...]

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