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Olympic Ideals & Trademark Practice
Francis Deblauwe, Saratoga, CA (United States) · Oct 06th, 2008 2:15 am · 17 votes · 1 comment
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The International Olympic Committee (IOC) organizes the Summer and Winter Olympic Games. That also entails promoting the Olympic ideals of international co-operation and the like. Lately, these competitions have become gigantic in scale and expense. While there were only 241 participants (14 countries) in the first Olympics in Athens (1896), the Beijing Summer Olympics had 10,500... [ read ]
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The Art Happens Here
Paddy Johnson, New York (United States) · Jun 15th, 2007 5:29 pm · 38 votes · 3 comments
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Opens 15 June @ 21h30, Croatian time
Lazareti Art Workshop, Dubrovnik Croatia
Simulcast to Annenberg Island in SL, 12h30 PDT
Second Life
The Art Happens Here is a contemporary art exhibition and presentation at the iCommons Summit 2007, resulting from an ongoing artist in residence programme. Six international artists and a critic were invited to produce physical and virtual... [ read ]
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Telling stories, the location-based digital way
Steve Vosloo, San Francisco (United States) · May 14th, 2007 4:23 pm · 24 votes · no comments made
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Location-based digital storytelling overlays a physical landscape with a digital one in a way that enhances the experience of the physical with additional sights, sounds and stories. Think of a Google Map of your home town with your grandmother's stories pinned to it here and there: to the open field where once a flea market bustled on Saturday mornings, or the old movie theatre... [ read ]
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Bring 'n Braai video - check it out
JC, Johannesburg (South Africa) · May 14th, 2007 3:05 pm · 24 votes · no comments made
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Check out this video, courtesy of Missinglink, of the successful Bring n Braai ccSalon that was held in Cape Town featuring guest speakers, Creative Commons CEO, Prof Lawrence Lessig and Wikipedia founder, Jimmy Wales.
Music by the winners of the ccMixter SafroBrazil Remix Competition Whispa (SA) and Lucio K (Brazil).
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Why a fair use exception is probably not such a good idea
Tobias Schonwetter, Cape Town (South Africa) · May 07th, 2007 2:00 pm · 35 votes · 2 comments
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This month, iCommons' resident copyright columnist, Tobias Schonwetter, explains what troubles him about the fair use doctrine and why the doctrine is less user-friendly than commonly assumed.
At a recent conference in the Caribbean, I was given the opportunity to express some of my views on copyright-related matters. Naturally, a lively discussion took place and subsequently... [ read ]
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All you need to know about the iSummit '08
Daniela Faris, Johannesburg (South Africa) · Apr 07th, 2008 5:58 pm · 26 votes · no comments made
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The upcoming iSummit '08 promises to be an event that will bring together leaders in digital innovation from around the world to talk about, and mobilise themselves around developing and sustaining free culture on the Internet.
This six minute video shows you where the iSummit has been hosted around the world, and how it has evolved into a three-day, action-packed meet-up in... [ read ]
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Web 2.0 in Brazil: The Overmundo Case
Paula Martini, Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) · Dec 20th, 2007 1:34 pm · 40 votes · 1 comment
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Many “web 2.0” websites are focused on technology. They use collaboration tools to talk about technology itself. Digg and Slashdot are two very visible and successful examples. However, how about using collaboration tools, but to talk about culture instead? That is the challenge proposed by the Overmundo project in Brazil: a site not for geeks, but for anyone interested in disseminating... [ read ]
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Accessing the Commons
alli.fish, Tucson/Irvine/Bangalore (India) (United States) · Nov 24th, 2007 12:02 am · 28 votes · no comments made
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Despite its ubiquity and apparent familiarity, particularly to my anticipated audience, the commons is a multi-faceted concept that is difficult to define. In part, this difficulty stems from a mismatch between theory and practice. On the one hand, from an activist perspective, the idealised commons is a romanticised space accessible to interested parties who also manage this resource... [ read ]
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A few old lessons (and some new ones) for Open Education in India
Prashant (India) · Nov 16th, 2007 3:14 am · 50 votes · no comments made
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“My own education has been entirely controversial: that is why I know what I am writing about; and appear eccentric to dogmatically educated Old School Ties whose heads are stuffed with obsolete shibboleths.”
George Bernard Shaw
“If textbooks are treated as a vehicle for education, the living world of the teacher has very little value. A teacher who teaches from textbooks... [ read ]
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Sharing their stories, raising their voices
Renata Avila, Guatemala (Guatemala) · Mar 01st, 2008 8:13 pm · 32 votes · 3 comments
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What will be the result of bringing together cultures that have preserved their memory, languages and traditions in spite of repression and poverty?
Thanks to Rising Voices, enthusiastic youth and volunteers are discovering new media and sharing their stories with the world.
2008 is The Year of the Preservation of Endangered Languages, as proclaimed by UNESCO, and projects... [ read ]
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A key change at iCommons
If you're not part of the iCommons mailing list, take a look at the letter that Heather Ford, Executive Director of iCommons, sent to the list yesterday:
Dear friends,
At the 2 August iCommons Board Meeting, the board decided to make some difficult but necessary changes at iCommons. It has become clear over the past months that our vision for iCommons is different from the... more
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