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Category Archives: Open content
Wikipediai loves art: Open content and the V&A
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 … Continue reading
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Non-commercial in CC licenses
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 … Continue reading
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"Non-commercial" survey by CC
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 … Continue reading
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v1.0 of the JISC-PoWR Report released
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 … Continue reading
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Draft PoWR Handbook
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, … Continue reading
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Money to develop with UK public data
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 … 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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REM uses Artistic License 2.0 for video content
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 … Continue reading
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Types of licences
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 … Continue reading
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Oxford Geek Night 5
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 … Continue reading
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