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Techdirt has published a number of posts that explore the issue of whether art organizations can stop people sharing images of works in ...

Far too few people know about LibriVox : LibriVox volunteers record chapters of books in the public domain and release the audio files back ...

How did I miss this amazing project ? The expansion of Free Software has brought together a continually growing global community of develope...

What do you do after Inventing the Web? That's not a question most of us have to face, but it is for Sir Tim Berners-Lee. Heading up the...

One of the most exciting developments in the last few years has been the application of some of the core ideas of free software and open sou...

As you may have noticed, there's a bit of a virtual shindig going on in celebration of GNU's 25th birthday (including Stephen Fry...

This is moving in the right direction - towards *all* knowledge, freely online for *everyone* to use in *any* way - rather like free softwa...

Well, there's this call for affordable textbooks, including open textbooks: One thousand professors from over 300 colleges in all 50 st...

Interesting: KDE e.V and Wikimedia Deutschland have opened a shared office in Frankfurt, Germany. As two organizations that share similar go...

Definitions matter. If you want to see why, compare the worlds of open source and open access. The very specific definition of what is ope...

Larry Lessig's The Future of Ideas is one of the key books of the open content world, so it's particularly appropriate that it shou...

On Open Enterprise blog .

Independently of the fact that it's probably the best single intro to open content currently available, how could anyone resist a public...

One of the big advantages of open content is that there are no problems with indexing it - unlike proprietary stuff, where owners can get un...

After modular books , now this : Google may soon begin to offer users the ability to create customized, printed magazines from Internet cont...

Modularisation is one of the key elements of open processes: so why can't we have modular books? Well, we can, up to a point : On Wedne...

Flickr has reached its two billionth picture : and that's just the beginning....

One of the things I really like about Matt Asay's blog is its total candour, which extends to handing out what most companies would rega...

And about time too: LiveContent is an umbrella idea which aims to connect and expand Creative Commons and open source communities. LiveConte...

Interesting : Magnatune, a record label that uses a CC BY-NC-SA license for all releases (Magnatune founder John Buckman is also on the CC b...