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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. State of the Map is the annual conference for Open Street Map.
Registration is now open.

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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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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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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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Alan Toner notes on his blog that when releasing Steal This Film 2, that having English Subtitles enabled the film to be translated into multiple languages almost immediately, thus increasing its worldwide distribution:
English subtitles were made available for the film on its release, a gambit which has paid off as almost immediately people began translating […]

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Duncan Bucknell in Grand (IP) Strategy discusses the need for integrating IP strategy with other aspects of a business:
In the IP Strategy context, ‘Strategy’ is the way you use intellectual property to maximise commercial objectives.
‘Grand Strategy’ uses all elements (HR, Marketing, PR, Sales, Manufacturing, Legal, IP, Business Development, Distribution, etc, etc) to the same end.
An […]

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I’m currently doing work developing content on IP and entrepreneurship, and I’ve been working on some diagrams that I thought I’d share about the different types of licences that are out there, and place open content licensing in context.
To start with, a licence (or license depending on your US/UK perspective) is permission you give someone […]

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I’m doing some research for a course on entrepreneurship and IP, and so I’m reviewing the materials available on the UK Intellectual Property Office (UK IPO). Their short and sweet description of copyright licensing includes a link to Creative Commons:
Some people prefer to allow limited access to their work without charge. One way to do […]

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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 elegant mix between keynote speakers, panel discussions and parallel tracks on topics such as Social implications of Free Knowledge […]

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Creative Commons has just launched a new legal tool for discussion known as CCZero, and I’m going to go through the current version and comment. Cool scalpel pic from Wikipedia and in the public domain.
As readers will know, I was the primary drafter, together with Dr. Charlotte Waelde, on a Talis-funded project that produced the […]

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