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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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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 legal counsel for the Motion Picture Association in Europe. We chatted for a moment, and [...]

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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 the Open Data Commons site. The original post is here.
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The new Open Data Commons set of [...]

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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 of 2002 was the launch of the first set of CC licences.
The licences first [...]

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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 we’ve made, as well as the reasons why.
Stay tuned.

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Wikipedia is currently under the GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL), a licence that causes incompatibility problems with the content also being released under Creative Commons licenses. At a party in San Francisco on Friday, Jimmmy Wales announced that the Wikimedia Foundation, the organisation behind Wikipedia, supports a solution created by the Free Software Foundation and [...]

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I gave a talk on the 23rd of November on database rights and open data, as mentioned earlier on this blog. I’ve uploaded the handout and presentation from my talk last week on open data and database licensing for the digital curation community in Glasgow. Thanks again to the organisers of the event and to [...]

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Hidden in an announcement about Public.Resource.org releasing US federal court opinions on its site (these works are not in copyright), Creative Commons and the Public.Resource.org press release mentions “CC-0″:
The cases will be marked with a new Creative Commons mark — CC-Ø — that signals that there are no copyrights or other related rights attached to [...]

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See the survey site for the report, appendices will be posted shortly.
Snapshot study on the use of open content licences in the UK cultural heritage sector
http://www.eduserv.org.uk/foundation/studies/cc2007
The survey was funded and supported by Eduserv, and special thanks to Ed Barker, Andy Powell and Pete Johnston from Eduserv for providing guidance and feedback at various stages during [...]

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