Category Archives: Open content

Speaking at London CC Salon about open content study

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: __________ CC-Salon London returns with our final event of 2007, for … Continue reading

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Open content licences report out 16th November

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 … Continue reading

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Cultural heritage report out soon

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 … Continue reading

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COMMUNIA

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 … Continue reading

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Update process for a 3.01 Creative Commons licence launched

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 … Continue reading

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Survey analysis: What would you like to see?

As I mentioned on the 3rd, the survey about the use of open content licences by the UK cultural heritage community is now closed. We’ve now entered into the analysis phase, and should have the list of applicable respondents finalized … Continue reading

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Cultural heritage and open content licensing survey now closed

The survey is now closed. Thank you very much for everyone that participated, and the prize giveaway for the iPod Shuffles will take place very soon. We will be writing up the report and analyzing the data over the next … Continue reading

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TRIP project – Traditional Music and Intellectual Property

At this year’s Gikii conference, Richard Jones of Liverpool John Moores University (where he is a Reader in Law and IT) has a new project. He together with RA Roksana Ghaffrinik, are looking in to traditional music and IP. The … Continue reading

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Cultural heritage survey – 60+ respondents and counting

Quick update. The survey on open content licensing and UK cultural heritage organisations has over 60 respondents. We have extended the survey, and hope to gain 100 or more respondents in total. I gave a talk at Eduserv last Friday … Continue reading

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TV unFestival

Not much to recap at the moment, but today I’m at the BBC Backstage’s TV unFestival. I presented on Creative Commons and had some lively discussion as a result. Kevin Anderson has a post that recaps some of the morning’s … Continue reading

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