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creative commons
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08 August 2008
He that Filches From Me My Good Name
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Danny O'Brien has an interesting meditation on the difference between controlling who copies something, and controlling who claims to h...
30 May 2008
Blender's Big Buck Bunny
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Is out : As a follow-up to the successful project Orange’s “Elephants Dream”, the Blender Foundation initiated another open movie project. A...
21 May 2008
Putting the Public Domain in the Public Eye
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The public domain - that strange, no man's land "owned" by no one - doesn't really get the respect it deserves, partly bec...
08 March 2008
Mad About MIDI
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MIDI files are a real throwback to an earlier era, when passing around Mbytes of data was not an option. Sleek MIDI files - typically a few...
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03 March 2008
What Planet Are They On?
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First there were RSS feeds, but that soon became too messy. So people have bundled up similar feeds into planets - clever. Here's one ...
18 December 2007
New Creative Commons Licences
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I mentioned en passant the new CCZero licence, but here's news of yet another: CC+ is a protocol to enable a simple way for users to ...
17 November 2007
Creative Commons Discovers Dual Licensing
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I missed this before: This is the CC+ project. An artist, for example, can release her work under a CC Attribution-Noncommercial license, b...
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12 October 2007
Creative Commons in the Agora
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If the Creative Commons licences are all Greek to you, try this .
04 September 2007
Note to SELF: Free Educational Material
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Hot off tomorrow's press - the launch of Science, Education and Learning in Freedom ( SELF ): SELF is an international project aiming to...
12 June 2007
Do Your SELF a Favour
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Interesting : The SELF Platform aims to be the central platform with high quality educational and training materials about Free Software and...
06 June 2007
RMS Supports CC
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One of the unfortunate schisms in the open world has just been healed. The Creative Commons' decision to drop the Developing Nations l...
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04 June 2007
Open Access Trumps Developing Nations Licence
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In a significant announcement , the Creative Commons organisation has said that it is retiring the Developing Nations licence: The Developin...
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03 April 2007
Cultivating the (Oz) Commons
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Aside from its intrinsic interest, there is a good reason for observing closely what happens to content in Australia. Because of the Free T...
01 January 2007
Free Thinking about Free Culture
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So the Free Culture Foundation has launched . That sounds good, but I can't really tell from the site what it's doing: the philoso...
23 December 2006
Kind of Blue
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One of the less well-known benefits of creating a commons is that it allows people to experiment with those resources in an unfettered way. ...
15 December 2006
Hold the Front Page
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This is rather impressive in its way: The TAB is owned by GateHouse Media, a newspaper conglomerate that owns 75 daily and 231 weekly newsp...
06 December 2006
Set My Libri Free
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Everybody knows about Project Gutenberg , which aims to provide texts of as many public domain books as possible. One freedom that is avail...
14 November 2006
Google: Is That the Sound of Crying?
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Google search is useful - my day revolves around it. But you'd be hard-pushed to claim it was cool anymore. On the contrary, it's ...
Is Sun Trying Too Hard to Be Good?
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Not content with GPL'ing Java (for which they have my unalloyed admiration), Sun has now also given some dosh to Creative Commons. What...
11 November 2006
Legal Commons vs. Social Commons
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Interesting distinction , fascinating examples.
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