Category Archives: Europe

Research post on open content licensing at IViR

Posted on 7 July 2008 by Jordan

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 … Continue reading →

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Free Knowledge, Free Technology Conference

Posted on 28 January 2008 by Jordan

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 … Continue reading →

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COMMUNIA Public Domain event 18 January 2008

Posted on 12 December 2007 by Jordan

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 … Continue reading →

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COMMUNIA

Posted on 2 November 2007 by Jordan

This is a little belated, but I wanted to make sure that everyone was aware of COMMUNIA, a new European project on content and IPRs. From the CC site: COMMUNIA, the European Thematic Network on the Public Domain in the … Continue reading →

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