Category Archives: Licensing

English subs, worldwide audiences, anime, and open content

Posted on 14 February 2008 by Jordan

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 … Continue reading →

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Grand strategy and open content licences

Posted on 13 February 2008 by Jordan

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 … Continue reading →

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Types of licences

Posted on 7 February 2008 by Jordan

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 … Continue reading →

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UK IPO links to Creative Commons licences

Posted on 29 January 2008 by Jordan

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: … 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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Dissecting CCZero

Posted on 16 January 2008 by Jordan

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 … Continue reading →

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Creative Commons against copyright?

Posted on 9 January 2008 by Jordan

Yesterday I was at the British Library at the launch of the UK Intellectual Property Office’s new consultation “Taking forward the Gowers Review of Intellectual Property: Proposed changes to copyright exceptions” (thoughts here). I happened to sit next to the … Continue reading →

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New Open Data Commons site

Posted on 17 December 2007 by Jordan

We’ve created a site solely for the Open Data Commons project. This is the continuation of all of the work we’ve been doing over here at opencontentlawyer. I’ve crossposted below the announcement of the new set of legal tools on … Continue reading →

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Happy birthday Creative Commons

Posted on 15 December 2007 by Jordan

Today is the celebration of 5 years of Creative Commons licences. Creative Commons was created in 2001 by a group of legal academics with a goal of making a set of easy-to-use licences for content. The end result in December … Continue reading →

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Forthcoming announcement on open data

Posted on 13 December 2007 by Jordan

As promised, a new draft of the Open Data Commons is forthcoming. I can’t say just what yet, but this weekend an announcement will be made in regards to the Open Data Commons licences. We will be introducing the changes … Continue reading →

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