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My favorite
CC has just celebrated its 6th birthday in San Francisco. I’m sad I couldn’t make it. Jetlag had me asleep at 6pm. But this photo of Lessig at the party makes up for it. Pic: Happy 6th Birthday...
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Viral Spiral: How the Commoners Built a Digital Republic of their Own
I just received a copy of David Bollier’s new book which goes out for sale today. I had the pleasure of meeting David on a few occasions where he asked all the right questions about the commons...
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Training on digital copyright and access for the heritage industry
We had such great interest from our iHeritage seminar attendees on a digital copyright course, that we’ve decided to hold an intensive full-day course in Joburg, Durban and Cape Town. The course is...
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Industries that survive and thrive without copyright protection
I met Johanna Blakeley in LA a while back and when we heard about her project about sharing in the fashion industry, Ready to share, we invited her to talk at the iCommons Summit in Sapporo, Japan in...
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What I’m doing at the Electronic Frontier Foundation
Illustration by Tsevis CC BY-SA GB At the beginning of the year I applied to work with the EFF via the Google Policy Fellowship. Inspired by Google’s Summer of Code, the Google Policy Fellowship is a...
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“WIPO needs a ‘blue sky commission’,” says Lessig
I’m at home catching up on WIPO and copyright news with the copyright committee convening next week to discuss – among other things – exceptions and limitations to copyright. It looks like Lawrence...
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Creative Commons critiques
Question Mark Phoenix by Roy Blumenthal on Flickr CC BY SA It still amazes me when I read academic papers where it is clear that the author hasn’t read any critiques of Creative Commons – not...
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Has Creative Commons become ‘inevitable’?
(This is Part I of a series I’m drafting as I organise my thoughts around this topic) Campbell's Soup Cans by Andy Warhol, 1962. Displayed in Museum of Modern Art in New York. Source: Wikipedia I...
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Does Creative Commons preserve copyright?
Ok, I really should be doing my statistics assignment right now but I’m just bursting after discovering the most juicy back-and-forth on the question of whether ‘Creative Commons preserves copyright’...
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February 2013: The Openness Edition
First published on ethnographymatters.net. Last month on Ethnography Matters, we started a monthly thematic focus where each of the EM contributing editors would elicit posts about a particular theme....
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