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Creative Commons License on SeoBook and Berners-Lee sites

Aaron Wall has applied the Creative Commons Attribution license to his entire Seobook blog . We also noticed that an older version of the license is at the very bottom of the piece mentioned yesterday on the Giant Global Graph written by web-founder Sir Tim Berners-Lee on the MIT website that is now being cited on numerous websites around the world, with varied perspectives. For those unfamiliar with the Creative Commons License or to just read a bit about what's happened with the project... Read Full Story

What is Creative Commons?

The Creative Commons (CC) is a non-profit organization devoted to expanding the range of creative work available for others legally to build upon and share. The organization has released several copyright licenses known as Creative Commons licenses. These licenses, depending on the one chosen, restrict only certain rights (or none) of the work. Read Full Story

Episode 020: Net Neutrality

Welcome to Rules for the Revolution. Click on this link to listen to Episode 020 or subscribe and listen through iTunes . SHOW NOTES Host: Colette Vogele Guest: Alex Curtis , Director of Policy and New Media at Public Knowledge Alex is Public Knowledge’s Director of Policy and New Media. Before his position with PK, Alex developed an interest in public policy early in college. He interned for United States Senate Senator Mike DeWine — making DeWine the second U.S. Senator on the... Read Full Story

CC science fiction novel on the iPhone (Addict 3D)

Josh sez, “I wrote a sci-fi novel called “Roo’d” and released it under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 License. Bookmark to: Original post by Yahoo! News Search Results for iphone and software by Elliott Back Bookmark to: This entry was posted on Sunday, November 18th, 2007 at 5:18 pm and is filed under iPhone News . You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response , or trackback from your own... Read Full Story

Episode 019: New Media Insurance

Welcome to Rules for the Revolution. Click on this link to listen to Episode 019 or subscribe and listen through iTunes (Please note: the iTunes subscription is being updated. I’ll strike this note once it’s working again. Thanks for your patience!) SHOW NOTES Host: Colette Vogele Guest: Jerome Guerard, Vice President, National Entertainment Insurance at Charles River Brokerage . Topics: Risk management and insurance for new media production and distribution can be a tricky. Learn... Read Full Story

FAIR USE - video of Disney clips illustrating fair use of copyrighted material

from LazlosBasement.com The following video by the Media Education Foundation is used in some of the U.S.’s top -rated law schools to teach future lawyers about the concept of Fair Use of copyrighted material. We know this because their students sent it to us. According to U.S. Copyright Law , purposes including criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, and research are all included as legitimate and allowable reasons for the broadcasting of copyrighted material. Be sure to... Read Full Story

Year: 2007 Week: 48 Number: 85 Extra

From:  en.wikizine.org
Policy Most projects of the Wikimedia family, like Wikipedia, Wikibooks, Wikisource, Wiktionary, Wikispecies and Wikiversity, are using the GNU Free Documentation License. The GNU Free Documentation License was originally chosen because that was the available license when the first project, Wikipedia, started. The GNU FDL is not the most practical licence to use mainly because it is not designed for what the WMF projects are using it for. An alternative for the GNU Free Documentation License... Read Full Story

Brainwashed - Free Music

From:  brainwashed.com
A place where the artists of Brainwashed give free music away under the protection of Creative Commons: This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike2.5 License. In some cases, some of the artists will post a place to make donations either to the artist or a cause of their choice. Download all you want so long as you listen! Read Full Story

Episode 018: Northern Rules for the Revolution

Welcome to Rules for the Revolution. Click on this link to listen to Episode 018 or subscribe and listen through iTunes SHOW NOTES Host: Colette Vogele Guests: Andy Kaplan-Myrth and Kathleen Simmons, Co-Authors of The Podcasting Legal Guide for Canada, from University of Ottawa, Law and Technology Program . Topics: Creative Commons Canada recently released The Podcasting Legal Guide for Canada: Northern Rules for the Revolution . Colette discusses the origins of the guide, the... Read Full Story

Creative Commons Content

We’ve always intended Wikipages’ content to be distributed under a Free license, and spent some time looking at various options, including GFDL and the family of Creative Commons licenses. We wanted to make sure that information on Wikipages would be compatible with content from other similar sites (like Wikitravel and the Wikipedia ), but unfortunately their licenses are slightly incompatible with each other. Wikitravel’s copyright page made a strong case for the use of the CC-BY-SA... Read Full Story
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