Category Archives: Licensing

Thanks for your support at SoTM

Posted on 5 August 2009 by Jordan

Thanks for all the donations to come to Amsterdam to speak at State of the Map. By mgilbir – CC-BY at http://www.flickr.com/photos/mgilbir/3716465898/ I had a great time and really enjoyed getting to meet many of you. We raised 175 pounds … Continue reading →

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Wikipediai loves art: Open content and the V&A

Posted on 23 December 2008 by Jordan

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WLA@V%26A Wikipedia Loves Art at the Victoria and Albert Museum is a free content photography contest organised by the Victoria and Albert Museum, Wikimedia UK and other Wikipedians. It is due to take place in February 2009 and is part … Continue reading →

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"Non-commercial" survey by CC

Posted on 10 December 2008 by Jordan

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 … Continue reading →

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New CC0 beta draft

Posted on 5 September 2008 by Jordan

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 … Continue reading →

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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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Money to develop with UK public data

Posted on 4 July 2008 by Jordan

As part of a trend for opening up publicly funded data, the Cabinet Office’s Power of Information Taskforce has set up a competition to fund projects using public data: Show us a better way. From the site: The Power of … Continue reading →

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Speaking – State of the Map 12-13 July

Posted on 18 April 2008 by Jordan

Just a quick note to say that I’ll be speaking on open data, law, and licensing at State of the Map on 12-13 July in Limerick, Ireland. UPDATE 2 July – will be unable to make it this year due … Continue reading →

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PDDL released

Posted on 18 March 2008 by Jordan

Just to highlight for opencontentlawyer.com readers, that we released the final version of the Public Domain Dedication and Licence over at Open Data Commons this past weekend. I will post more about the process and the final result when I … Continue reading →

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REM uses Artistic License 2.0 for video content

Posted on 28 February 2008 by Jordan

I just wanted to highlight quickly that music group R.E.M. has released content apparently under the Artistic License 2.0, a Open Source Initiative and Free Software Foundation approved license, meant to cover software, for 11 videos for the first song … Continue reading →

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Gum Gum image licensing

Posted on 15 February 2008 by Jordan

Reported at techcrunch (HT to Trademark Blog), Gum Gum is a new platform for licensing images: Attributor, a Silicon Valley startup, helps content owners track their intellectual property to find examples of infringement. But until now, no one has really … Continue reading →

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