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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.
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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
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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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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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Free Knowledge, Free Technology: Education for a free information society SELF International Conference 2008
July 15-17, 2008 Barcelona, Spain
http://fkft.eu
This looks really interesting. I won’t post the whole conference description, but in relevant part:
The programme consists of an elegant mix between keynote speakers, panel discussions and parallel tracks on topics such as Social implications of Free Knowledge […]

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I’ve been working on the legal materials for the seminar, which has a introduction to open content licences.  If you are in the UK, consider going. Besides, it’s free as in beer!
Free seminar with UK’s leading social media expert for artists and creative entrepreneurs
Are you a writer, musician, film maker or visual artist? Or maybe […]

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Creative Commons has just launched a new legal tool for discussion known as CCZero, and I’m going to go through the current version and comment. Cool scalpel pic from Wikipedia and in the public domain.
As readers will know, I was the primary drafter, together with Dr. Charlotte Waelde, on a Talis-funded project that produced the […]

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In December, I gave a talk in London for Screen South entitled “Creative Commons Legal Models” for a group of content producers, mostly film/video, internet content, authors, and computer game creatives. In it, I made this basic point:
Look at your copyright in terms of your overall strategy
Not a particularly groundbreaking insight but an important one […]

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Yesterday I was at the British Library at the launch of the UK Intellectual Property Office’s new consultation “Taking forward the Gowers Review of Intellectual Property: Proposed changes to copyright exceptions” (thoughts here). I happened to sit next to the legal counsel for the Motion Picture Association in Europe. We chatted for a moment, and […]

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On 20 November, I spoke at the London CC Salon about the results of the report on open content licences and the UK cultural heritage sector. Special thanks to Tim for setting up the event, and for the small but well informed crowd who attended.
Snapshot study on the use of open content licences in the […]

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