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OCLN — Open content legal news, a worldwide selection of news and events about open content with a focus on the legal side of things from Jordan Hatcher, legal consultant.
iCommons received core grant funding:
2008 also marks the start of a five-year grant by two new trusts: Kusuma Trust and IETSI (International Electronic Trade and Services [...]

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New CC licences
Puerto Rico launched their Creative Commons ports today, making PR the 44th port of the CC set of licences. CC announcement. CC Puerto Rico site.
Two new jurisdiction specific CC licences on their way as Norwegian and Ecuadorian draft Creative Commons licences are now available for comment. Ecuador. Norway. CC Announcement.
Queensland to use [...]

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New US case law resource launched, already using CCZero beta.
Lessig announced this week on his blog that the public US caselaw resources that Public Resource has been working towards has now gone live:
As announced at public.resource.org, CC and public.resource.org have announced the first release of material to support our free law project. After raising a [...]

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OCLN — Open content legal news, a worldwide selection of news and events about open content with a focus on the legal side of things from Jordan Hatcher, legal consultant.
Report on Ordnance Survey licensing practices. Free Our Data covers in this post the report from the Commons Select Committee on Communities and Local Government looking [...]

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OCLN — Open content legal news, a worldwide selection of news and events about open content with a focus on the legal side of things from Jordan Hatcher, legal consultant.
EU Public Licence. On the software side of things, Technollama reports on the new European Union Public Licnece, said to be GPL compatible.
Ford releases photos [...]

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OCLN — Open content legal news, a worldwide selection of news and events about open content with a focus on the legal side of things from Jordan Hatcher, legal consultant.
ACIA in Taiwan
People are posting about the meeting on the 19-20 in Taiwan of ACIA: the International Workshop on Asia and Commons in the Information Age, [...]

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This is the inaugural issue of OCLN — Open content legal news, a worldwide selection of news and events about open content with a focus on the legal side of things from Jordan Hatcher, legal consultant.
CCZero legal tools and text launched.
Creative Commons launched its new tool, CCZero (BETA) for comment.
Detailed commentary:
Dissecting CCZero – [...]

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