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Thanks for your support at SoTM

August 5th, 2009 · No Comments

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 and my total expenses ended up being:

€124 for return train travel Reading, UK to Amsterdam (savings [...]

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Tags: Conferences · Licensing · Open data

Wikipediai loves art: Open content and the V&A

December 23rd, 2008 · No Comments

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 of the wider Wikipedia Loves Art project that month.
The objective for the V&A is to [...]

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Tags: Copyright law · Cultural heritage · Licensing · Open content

“Non-commercial” survey by CC

December 10th, 2008 · No Comments

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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Tags: Creative Commons · Licensing · Open content

New CC0 beta draft

September 5th, 2008 · No Comments

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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Tags: Creative Commons · Licensing · Open data

Research post on open content licensing at IViR

July 7th, 2008 · No Comments

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 research project on Open Content licensing. IViR is legal partner of Creative Commons NL, which has [...]

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Tags: Europe · Licensing · Open content orgs

Money to develop with UK public data

July 4th, 2008 · No Comments

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 Information Taskforce is helping government become more open, transparent and effective through better use of [...]

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Tags: Licensing · Open content

Speaking – State of the Map 12-13 July

April 18th, 2008 · No Comments

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 to a schedule conflict. My apologies….
State of the Map is the annual conference for Open [...]

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Tags: Conferences · Licensing · Open data

PDDL released

March 18th, 2008 · No Comments

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 return to full posting strength in April.

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Tags: Licensing · Open data · Science Commons

REM uses Artistic License 2.0 for video content

February 28th, 2008 · 1 Comment

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 of their new album.
Coverage: Read Write Web | CNET | o’reilly
To get access to [...]

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Tags: Licensing · Open content

Gum Gum image licensing

February 15th, 2008 · No Comments

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 thought about a better way to license content on the Internet, so that both large and [...]

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Tags: Licensing · Online content models

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