Category Archives: Creative Commons

Legal models for online content enforcement

Posted on 15 January 2008 by Jordan

In December, I gave a talk in London for Screen South entitled “Creative Commons Legal Models” for a group of content producers, mostly film/video, internet content, authors, and computer game creatives. In it, I made this basic point: Look at … Continue reading →

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Creative Commons against copyright?

Posted on 9 January 2008 by Jordan

Yesterday I was at the British Library at the launch of the UK Intellectual Property Office’s new consultation “Taking forward the Gowers Review of Intellectual Property: Proposed changes to copyright exceptions” (thoughts here). I happened to sit next to the … Continue reading →

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New Open Data Commons site

Posted on 17 December 2007 by Jordan

We’ve created a site solely for the Open Data Commons project. This is the continuation of all of the work we’ve been doing over here at opencontentlawyer. I’ve crossposted below the announcement of the new set of legal tools on … Continue reading →

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Happy birthday Creative Commons

Posted on 15 December 2007 by Jordan

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 … Continue reading →

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Wikipedia to support migration to CC-BY-SA licensing

Posted on 3 December 2007 by Jordan

Wikipedia is currently under the GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL), a licence that causes incompatibility problems with the content also being released under Creative Commons licenses. At a party in San Francisco on Friday, Jimmmy Wales announced that the Wikimedia … Continue reading →

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'CC-0': A new Creative Commons licence in the works

Posted on 26 November 2007 by Jordan

Hidden in an announcement about Public.Resource.org releasing US federal court opinions on its site (these works are not in copyright), Creative Commons and the Public.Resource.org press release mentions “CC-0″: The cases will be marked with a new Creative Commons mark … Continue reading →

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