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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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As I mentioned in my last post, this is an appendix I wrote for a report looking at the use of Creative Commons licenses for (mostly) public sector organisations in the UK from back in 2005. It outlines some of the issues present with the use of the term in the CC licences. As [...]

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Creative Commons is doing a survey on the term “non-commercial” that ends on the 14th.
http://ur1.ca/y41
This survey is very important as people have a difference of opinion on some of the boundaries of what non-commercial means. For a public licence, such as Creative Commons licences, having community input on the meaning of more ambiguous [...]

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Via the Creative Commons blog, Diane Peters CC’s General Counsel has introduced the latest draft of their public domain licensing / dedication tool CC0:
We are pleased to release for public comment the next beta draft of CC0 Waiver, which comes several months after the last draft of CC0 was published in April. You can [...]

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The Society for Computers and the Law (SCL) is having a conference on 1 May on information governance:
Information Governance Conference 2008
Information governance has rapidly become an integral part of organisational strategy in both the public and private sector. Organisations of all types and size are generating ever greater volumes of sensitive data and that [...]

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

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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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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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I’m doing some research for a course on entrepreneurship and IP, and so I’m reviewing the materials available on the UK Intellectual Property Office (UK IPO). Their short and sweet description of copyright licensing includes a link to Creative Commons:
Some people prefer to allow limited access to their work without charge. One way to do [...]

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Creative Commons has just launched a new legal tool for discussion known as CCZero, and I’m going to go through the current version and comment. Cool scalpel pic from Wikipedia and in the public domain.
As readers will know, I was the primary drafter, together with Dr. Charlotte Waelde, on a Talis-funded project that produced the [...]

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