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Category Archives: Licensing
Thanks for your support at SoTM
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
Wikipediai loves art: Open content and the V&A
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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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