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OKF needs your support

June 16th, 2009 · No Comments

I recently joined the board of the Open Knowledge Foundation, which is five years old this month. Here is a recent email from fellow OKF boardmember Rufus Pollock, which I completely echo. Please consider supporting us either financially or by just getting involved in OKF activities.
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This month the Open Knowledge Foundation is five years [...]

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Research post on open content licensing at IViR

July 7th, 2008 · No Comments

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 research project on Open Content licensing. IViR is legal partner of Creative Commons NL, which has [...]

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Tags: Europe · Licensing · Open content orgs

30 April – Open Knowledge London group meeting

April 9th, 2008 · No Comments

The inaugural meeting of the London area Open Knowledge London meetup will be on Wednesday, 30 April from 19:00 to 21:00 at the London Knowledge Lab on 23-29 Emerald Street, London, WC1N 3QS. The event will be informal — just a way for interested people to meet and discuss open knowledge issues.
Full details at the [...]

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Tags: Conferences · Open content · Open content orgs

OKCon follow up

April 3rd, 2008 · No Comments

I am back and plowing through email, and wanted to flag up some follow up OKCon details:
### Post-Event Information
We’re pleased to announce that audio, images and slides from OKCon 2008 are now available at the Post-Event Information page:
http://okfn.org/okcon/2008/after
If you’ve blogged the event or have pictures or the like, please let us know [...]

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New Open Data Commons site

December 17th, 2007 · 1 Comment

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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Tags: Creative Commons · Licensing · Open content orgs · Open data · Science Commons

Happy birthday Creative Commons

December 15th, 2007 · No Comments

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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Tags: Conferences · Creative Commons · Licensing · Open content orgs

COMMUNIA Public Domain event 18 January 2008

December 12th, 2007 · No Comments

The work we’ve been doing on open data would be a nice fit at this event:
COMMUNIA Workshop: “Technology and the public domain” (18/01/2008)
Organized by the NEXA Center for Internet & Society of
the Politecnico di Torino (Italy) this event takes aim
at the international debate about the “digital commons” and the
complex relationship between technological innovation and today’s
mass [...]

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Tags: Academic research · Conferences · Europe · Open content orgs · Open data

Open Knowledge (OKCon) 2008: LSE, London, 15th March 2008

December 6th, 2007 · No Comments

Details below:
Open Knowledge (OKCon) 2008: LSE, London, 15th March 2008
OKCon 2008 – ‘Open Knowledge: Applications, Tools and Services’
where: London School of Economics, London, UK
when: 15th March 2008 (1030-1830)
www: http://www.okfn.org/okcon/
register: http://www.okfn.org/okcon/register/
wiki: http://www.okfn.org/wiki/okcon2008/
Following on from the success of our inaugural conference last year,
we’re pleased to announce that the second Open Knowledge conference
(OKCon) will take place on Saturday [...]

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Wikipedia to support migration to CC-BY-SA licensing

December 3rd, 2007 · No Comments

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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Tags: Creative Commons · GFDL · Licensing · Open content orgs

‘CC-0′: A new Creative Commons licence in the works

November 26th, 2007 · Comments Off

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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Tags: Creative Commons · Licensing · Open content · Open content orgs

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