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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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What measures for success?
Eve Gray, Cape Town (South Africa) · Jun 16th, 2007 11:14 pm · 17 votes · no comments made
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What to expect from the opening plenary of a conference that is essentially about copyright? Only a few years ago it would have been a stuffy hall at the London Book Fair, in the dingy surrounds of Olympia on a rainy Saturday in April. The experts in their suits would drone on, assuming the reassuring earnestness of a doctor's bedside manner to tell us how successful they had been... [ read ]
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Open Education Showcase Projects - NEALS and more
delia (Australia) · Jun 16th, 2007 4:44 am · 17 votes · no comments made
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Explaining the new Australian National Education Access Licence for Schools in 5 minutes in a speed dating routine to 9 groups in sweltering heat is no mean feat.
NEALS is an unique agreement between all Australian Departments of Education government, Catholic and independent schools that allow all Australian Schools to copy and communicate each other's admin and non commercial... [ read ]
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New Year, New Commons
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January 1 2007, was a big day for those of us in the Commons, as we welcomed the digital version of a New Year's baby to the family - a brand new commons group in the Arabic speaking world.
The Arab Digital Commons (ADC) initiative was launched to promote and support the creation of works in Arabic that are licenced under Creative Commons.
The powerhouse behind the project... [ read ]
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The Art of Free Software
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The "Why artists don't use more free software" panel was a strange beast. Swinging between polarised positions and shared understanding it left me feeling little progress had been made. There was the usual free software righteousness and artistic stubbornness. "I just want it to work" people would complain, "you have to make it work" the geeks would reply. And yes it should work... [ read ]
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My world through my camera phone
Steve Vosloo, San Francisco (United States) · Oct 09th, 2007 6:59 pm · 36 votes · 3 comments
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Today's teenagers are hooked on their cellphones. While for some, MySpace or FaceBook are essential elements of their communication tool set, the vast majority of youth around the world rely primarily on their cellphones for staying in touch. According to research from the MobilED (for “mobile education”) initiative, the average South African teen cannot imagine life without a cellphone:... [ read ]
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Art Intercom: Featuring Art Blogger Paddy Johnson
n stern, Dublin (Ireland) · Jun 14th, 2007 10:03 pm · 18 votes · no comments made
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Known for her uncanny ability to be concise and catty while still maintaining a level of depth (if not, at least, substantiated criticism), Art Fag City's Paddy Johnson has become an oft-looked to voice in the blogosphere, for news, gossip and criticism of contemporary art, digital and net.art, pop culture, and the general gallery scene in Chelsea, NY. If you don't know it or her,... [ read ]
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Global ecosystems - piracy and inequality
Eve Gray, Cape Town (South Africa) · Jun 23rd, 2007 4:23 am · 56 votes · 4 comments
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A panel that contains both Bodo Balazs and Lawrence Liang was bound to be lively. They did not disappoint in the closing plenary of the iCommons. Both had a similar message – that the 'pirates' are harbingers of future trends in the face of market inefficiencies and failures. Balazs made a compelling case in a historical survey of repeated resistance to monopolistic tendencies in... [ read ]
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Copyright as a Western Concept
Tobias Schonwetter, Cape Town (South Africa) · Mar 07th, 2007 9:20 am · 35 votes · no comments made
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This month, iCommons' resident copyright expert, Tobias Schonwetter, discusses the antinomy between copyright law and culture in many regions of the world.
'Much of what we took for granted in our system and had grown to assume to be human nature was not nature at all, but culture.'
(Alan Greenspan, former Chairman of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve of the... [ read ]
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Art Intercom: featuring Nathaniel Stern (part 2)
Paddy Johnson, New York (United States) · Jun 05th, 2007 5:53 am · 15 votes · no comments made
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I think the discussion right now is in the wrong arena – copyright or CC, Fair Use or piracy, this is what big companies should worry about, not artists. Artists should raise questions around if you release the full high-resolution or lower-resolution under CC, or whether you allow people to exhibit the video or do you sell the exhibition rights separately - I think these are the... [ 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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