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There are dozens of free software and open source licences -- many would argue rather too many. Different licenses impose different condi...

Copyright is sometimes described as a bargain between two parties: creators and their public. In return for receiving a government-backe...

The Beatles remain the iconic pop group, so news on VVN/Music that their very first single has now entered the public domain is something...

A recent Techdirt post reminded us that thanks to its crazy copyright laws, the US won't be seeing anything new in the public domain...

The Royal Society calls itself "a Fellowship of the world's most eminent scientists and... the oldest scientific academy in con...

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

I've never written an obituary before in these pages. Happily, that's because the people who are driving the new wave of openness...

There's considerable excitement about an announcement from the British Library and Google detailing a wonderful gift to the world: The ...

A few months ago, Musopen ran a fundraiser on Kickstarter: Musopen is a non-profit dedicated to providing copyright free music content: mus...

Part of the quid pro quo of copyright is that works are supposed to enter the public domain after a limited period of monopoly protection. ...

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

For the last half-century or so, there has been an implicit acceptance that the more intellectual monopolies we have, the better (even if it...

The European Commission has published a review of the Europeana digital library (remember that?). There's one critically important se...

A few weeks ago, Leo Babauta published a great post entitled "Feel the Fear and Do It Anyway (or, the Privatization of the English Lan...

...er, yesterday : It is January 1st, which means that this morning at midnight a batch more “life-plus” copyrights expired in those countri...

Over on the Open Enterprise blog, I have been extolling the virtues of James Boyle's new book, The Public Domain . I still urge you to...

As I read about the incredible riches of content stored on the Internet, one thing worries me increasingly: who's doing the off-site bac...

If this is true, it's outrageous : Dell has applied for a trademark on the term cloud computing. The opposition period has already passe...

Here's an interesting confluence of trends: The Wellcome Trust has awarded £4.7 million [€5.8 million] to EMBL's European Bioinform...

The public domain - that strange, no man's land "owned" by no one - doesn't really get the respect it deserves, partly bec...