opencontentlawyer.com

I mentioned my involvement on the legal aspects of this project in an earlier post — the project is having its first event on the 27th of June. For more see below:
The JISC-sponsored Preservation of Web Resources project (JISC-PoWR) will be running its first workshop in London. The aim of the series of workshops is [...]

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Implementing Open Data: The Open Data Commons project – Oxford Internet Institute Crossposted at Open Data Commons.

Location: Oxford Internet Institute, 1 St Giles, Oxford, OX1 3JS. This event is open to the public. If you would like to attend please email your name and affiliation, if any, to: events@oii.ox.ac.uk
Perhaps surprisingly for some, data and databases [...]

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One of the areas that I will be posting on in the next couple of weeks is open data. My latest project is to re-draft an existing open data licence into a format for worldwide use, much in the same vein of Creative Commons.
If you have an interest in open data, please contact me. [...]

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(Via TechnoLlama.)

“One more case in the ongoing battle in Spain between SGAE and small bars over copyleft music. Derecho de Internet reports on this latest appeal by the SGAE against a bar in Madrid called ‘Buenavistilla Social Club’. The collecting society initially lost the case and therefore appealed to have the ruling reversed. In the [...]

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Cross posted at twitchgamer.net

**New survey on open content licences**
Use of open content licences by cultural heritage organisations
The Eduserv Foundation is funding a study into the use of Creative Archive, Creative Commons and similar open content licences by cultural heritage organisations in the United Kingdom. The study is being led by legal consultant Jordan Hatcher of [...]

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This is my new blog/website. The goal will be to discuss issues of copyright and content, with a focus on open content (broadly defined) and licences such as Creative Commons, Creative Archive, and many others.

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