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Category Archives: Open content orgs
OKF needs your support
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 … Continue reading
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Research post on open content licensing at IViR
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 … Continue reading
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30 April – Open Knowledge London group meeting
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 … Continue reading
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OKCon follow up
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: … Continue reading
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New Open Data Commons site
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
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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COMMUNIA Public Domain event 18 January 2008
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 … Continue reading
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Open Knowledge (OKCon) 2008: LSE, London, 15th March 2008
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 … Continue reading
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Wikipedia to support migration to CC-BY-SA licensing
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 … Continue reading
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'CC-0': A new Creative Commons licence in the works
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 … Continue reading
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