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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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Thanks to all who have blogged about the new report, supported and funded by Eduserv, on the use of open content licences such as Creative Commons and Creative Archive in the UK cultural heritage sector.
The report is available here;
Snapshot study on the use of open content licences in the UK cultural heritage sector
http://www.eduserv.org.uk/foundation/studies/cc2007
We are building [...]

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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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Just a reminder, I’ll be heading to London for the CC Salon to speak about my recent report, funded by Eduserv, on open content and the cultural heritage sector in the United Kingdom.
The report and appendices are available here.
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CC-Salon London returns with our final event of 2007, for more discussion and debate on the subjects [...]

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See the survey site for the report, appendices will be posted shortly.
Snapshot study on the use of open content licences in the UK cultural heritage sector
http://www.eduserv.org.uk/foundation/studies/cc2007
The survey was funded and supported by Eduserv, and special thanks to Ed Barker, Andy Powell and Pete Johnston from Eduserv for providing guidance and feedback at various stages during [...]

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On 20 November, I will be speaking at the next London CC Salon about the results of the report on open content licences and the UK cultural heritage sector:
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CC-Salon London returns with our final event of 2007, for more discussion and debate on the subjects of art, technology, copyright and free culture.
This time round we’ll [...]

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I have received word from Eduserv that after going through some internal (to Eduserv) review that the report on the use of open content licences and the UK cultural heritage study will be out on the 16th of November.
It will be available on the study’s website:
http://www.eduserv.org.uk/foundation/studies/cc2007

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I know many of you are eagerly awaiting the forthcoming report on the use of open content licensing in the UK cultural heritage sector. The report, funded and supported by Eduserv, is complete and is going through a final internal review before release, which will hopefully be within the next 10 days or so.

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This is a little belated, but I wanted to make sure that everyone was aware of COMMUNIA, a new European project on content and IPRs. From the CC site:
COMMUNIA, the European Thematic Network on the Public Domain in the Digital Age, held its kick-off meeting in Turin, Italy on September 28, 2007. The network consists [...]

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Just 8 months after CC versioned up to 3.0, Creative Commons has announced a new round of public comments for a 3.01. The big change is to clarify the language in the unported version of the licence in regards to moral rights. Moral rights include the right to object to derogatory treatment and [...]

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