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Web Search & CC Licenses
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Francis Deblauwe · Jun 09th, 2008 · 1 comment
How many web search engines actually allow to filter for Creative Commons-licensed materials? How many websites allow you to search for CC-licensed images only? How about videos and audio materials? I did a quick survey of a number of (English-language) websites.CC licenses and their accompanying symbols basically announce that a text/image/video/audio material is in the public... [more]
Open Source vs. Copyright vs. Creative Commons vs. Open Access vs. Copyleft
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Francis Deblauwe · Aug 21st, 2008 · 3 comments
The free Google Trends tool offers many possibilities. Let's compare the related concepts that concern us all at iCommons. What do we see when facing off "open source," "copyright," "Creative Commons," "open access" and "copyleft"? Googlers go for "open source" followed by "copyright." The remaining three concepts are relatively unknown. In other words, the Open Access movement... [more]
Podcast Interview with CoFounder of SecondLife
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Kiruba Shankar · Jun 27th, 2007 · no comments made
Cory is co-founder and Chief Technology Officer of Linden Lab, the company behind the insanely successful SecondLife.You can listen to the podcast interview here.
SecondLife is a 3D virtual world that has nearly 7 million residents who design, build and live their own lives. It even has its own currency, the Linden Dollar. Cory calls it virtual real estate and as in the... [more]
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BISA Copyright Review
Daniela Faris · paper · Jun 09th, 2009 · 16 votesThe BISA Copyright Review was a project funded by the Ford Foundation, with the task of outlining the intersection of copyright and public interest in... [more]
iSummit Interviews on dotSUB
JC · film/video · Jul 09th, 2007 · 39 votesCheck out these iSummit interviews from dotSUB, that have been captioned.
Heather Ford, iCommons Executive Director talks about CC and film in South... [more]
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The Public Voice &OECD Ministerial Meeting on the Future of the Internet Economy
InternationalEngage the community in the public policy discussion of the OECD Ministerial Meeting on the Future of the Internet Economy & other OECD related meetings.
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Stories Stones and Stations,Future Generations,Stories Of The Railway,
York (Canada)Using GPS technology these Stories Stones and Stations can be accessed using Google maps and yahoo geocities .
Adding universal templates to locate time and place content. [more]
In this iCommons podcast episode the staff talk about how they came to work at iCommons, what they have achieved so far, and what their vision is for the future is.
