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Trey Ratcliff is an extremely successful photographer, who specializes in HDR photography. His blog Stuck in Customs is the top travel p...

Creative Commons (CC) has been with us for nearly a decade, so you would have thought people might understand it by now. Apparently not, ...

There have been a number of stories on Techdirt recently about governments diminishing the public domain - not just by extending copyrigh...

For many years, Brazil has been a shining beacon of how to do it right when it came to openness and sharing. For example, in the field of o...

As has been noted many times before, the Internet is essentially a global, digital copier. Anything that is placed online is, by definition...

Talking of commons, I was reading David Bollier's Viral Spiral recently, probably the best book about the rise of the commons as a new...

Here's a variety of "sharing" I'd not come across before: private label rights. This is what Wikipedia has to say on the...

As readers of this blog will doubtless know, Richard Stallman's great stroke of genius at the founding of the GNU project was to use cop...

Well, of course you can – free software is the primary demonstration of that. But that doesn't mean it's trivial to turn free into f...

The Australian government is emerging as one of the leaders in the sphere of open government. It has now published a draft report of the G...

One of the vexed issues in the world of Creative Commons licensing is what, exactly, is meant by "non-commercial" use. In an atte...

... surprises , that is: So my blog turns seven today. On August 20, 2002, while hiding north of San Francisco working on the Eldred appeal,...

I'm a big fan of the Creative Commons movement. But it has a big problem: few people have heard of it according to a survey conducted ...

As RMS emphasises again and again, at the heart of free software lies an ethical vision of sharing and mutual respect. Although open source...

Welcome the Al Jazeera Creative Commons Repository On this site you will find select broadcast quality footage that Al Jazeera has released ...

Of course, no danger of any of this dangerous "21st century" openness cropping up here in the UK: President-elect Obama has champ...

Regular readers of this blog will know that I am not a fan of the term “intellectual property”, and that I prefer the more technically corre...

I wrote below about the distinction between digital and analogue objects, but that was just a crude statement of the situation, which is in ...

Here's a fine open access initiative , but unusually, it's for books: Bloomsbury Academic is a radically new scholarly imprint launc...

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