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Wikipediai loves art: Open content and the V&A

December 23rd, 2008 · No Comments

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WLA@V%26A
Wikipedia Loves Art at the Victoria and Albert Museum is a free content photography contest organised by the Victoria and Albert Museum, Wikimedia UK and other Wikipedians. It is due to take place in February 2009 and is part of the wider Wikipedia Loves Art project that month.
The objective for the V&A is to [...]

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Tags: Copyright law · Cultural heritage · Licensing · Open content

Non-commercial in CC licenses

December 12th, 2008 · 1 Comment

As I mentioned in my last post, this is an appendix I wrote for a report looking at the use of Creative Commons licenses for (mostly) public sector organisations in the UK from back in 2005. It outlines some of the issues present with the use of the term in the CC licences. As [...]

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Tags: Copyright law · Creative Commons · Open content

“Non-commercial” survey by CC

December 10th, 2008 · No Comments

Creative Commons is doing a survey on the term “non-commercial” that ends on the 14th.
http://ur1.ca/y41
This survey is very important as people have a difference of opinion on some of the boundaries of what non-commercial means. For a public licence, such as Creative Commons licences, having community input on the meaning of more ambiguous [...]

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Tags: Creative Commons · Licensing · Open content

v1.0 of the JISC-PoWR Report released

November 11th, 2008 · No Comments

The JISC project on Preservation of Web Resources (JISC-PoWR) project, of which I’ve contributed some of the legal work, has just released v1.0 of the Handbook at: http://jiscpowr.jiscinvolve.org/handbook/. A DOI or URI will likely be on its way, but until then you can always get the latest version at that URL.
I’m really pleased with [...]

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Tags: Downloads · Open content

Draft PoWR Handbook

October 7th, 2008 · No Comments

Quick note to say that you can have a look at the draft PoWR handbook, for which I contributed on the legal materials, at the PoWR blog site:
http://jiscpowr.jiscinvolve.org/handbook/
It includes sections and information on open content and open data, as well as some of the general legal issues around preservation on the web.
Any comments on the [...]

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Tags: Downloads · Open content

Money to develop with UK public data

July 4th, 2008 · No Comments

As part of a trend for opening up publicly funded data, the Cabinet Office’s Power of Information Taskforce has set up a competition to fund projects using public data: Show us a better way. From the site:
The Power of Information Taskforce is helping government become more open, transparent and effective through better use of [...]

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Tags: Licensing · Open content

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

REM uses Artistic License 2.0 for video content

February 28th, 2008 · 1 Comment

I just wanted to highlight quickly that music group R.E.M. has released content apparently under the Artistic License 2.0, a Open Source Initiative and Free Software Foundation approved license, meant to cover software, for 11 videos for the first song of their new album.
Coverage: Read Write Web | CNET | o’reilly
To get access to [...]

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Tags: Licensing · Open content

Types of licences

February 7th, 2008 · No Comments

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 start with, a licence (or license depending on your US/UK perspective) is permission you give someone [...]

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Tags: Licensing · Open content

Oxford Geek Night 5

February 7th, 2008 · No Comments

I’ve been a little slow on posting this week, but I’ve been running around the Southeast of England on various work-related projects. I did however make it up to Oxford last night to see Rufus Pollock of the Open Knowledge Foundation give a keynote entitled “Open Knowledge and Componentization” at Oxford Geek Night 5. [...]

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Tags: Conferences · Open content

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