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Category Archives: Open content
Free Knowledge, Free Technology Conference
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 … Continue reading
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Creative Business in the Digital Era | 17-19 March 2008
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 … Continue reading
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Dissecting CCZero
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 … Continue reading
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Tagged cczero, copyright, Open content, public domain, unfair competition, us copyright law, waiver
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Legal models for online content enforcement
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 … Continue reading
Creative Commons against copyright?
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 … Continue reading
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New upload – CC Salon presentation
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 … Continue reading
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Thanks for blogging about the new Snapshot Study
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; … 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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Speaking tonight – CC Salon
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. … Continue reading
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Report now out!
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 … Continue reading
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