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Grassroots Publishing Through Open Source and Web 2.0
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When it comes to making print media, the number of options available to grassroots organisations and informal groups can be daunting. Indeed, with the rise of open source software packages, web 2.0 publishing tools, and crowd sourcing sites where one can hire designers for very low prices, the number of options is only increasing. What is exciting about these tools, however, is... [ read ]
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OA Academia in Repose
Francis Deblauwe, Saratoga, CA (United States) · Sep 04th, 2008 5:42 pm · 20 votes · no comments made
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Seven Academic Open-Access Repositories Compared
Scientists and academics in general are more and more becoming convinced that research results should be shared rapidly and made easily accessible in order to allow for fruitful exchange of ideas and collaboration. Only this way can modern scholarly disciplines thrive. What's the lay of the field in practice however? I made a quick... [ read ]
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open education track up and running
philipp (South Africa) · Jun 15th, 2007 9:06 pm · 22 votes · 2 comments
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While the other tracks are still debating the really important and interesting legal subtleties around free and open licenses (yaaaawwwwwnn .... sorry!) , the open education track decided to get started right away.
Lisa and Amee from ISKME used their draft case-study framework to let participants analyse and speak about their projects. It was great to see that not only did we... [ read ]
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Open Source vs. Copyright vs. Creative Commons vs. Open Access vs. Copyleft
Francis Deblauwe, Saratoga, CA (United States) · Aug 21st, 2008 9:55 pm · 35 votes · 1 comment
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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... [ read ]
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Why do I need to CC?
anas (United Kingdom) · Mar 17th, 2008 11:48 pm · 26 votes · 1 comment
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This has typically been the ending question for any Creative Commons-related conversation in the Middle East that I have been involved in. While drawing on others' experiences and telling success stories from other parts of the world would seem a very appealing answer, there is always the “but here, it does not work like that” aspect of the argument. Well, today I think we have... [ read ]
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Buma Stemra Art Pirates
Jamison, Oslo (Norway) · Nov 19th, 2007 2:00 am · 25 votes · 3 comments
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Recently I called up Buma/Stemra (Dutch collection society) to find out more information about the Creative Commons pilot project. Read the press release here. The project was initiated by the Creative Commons team in the Netherlands, this mail thread explains more.
What I understood after the conversation was this: its as difficult to change what a commercial use is for art... [ read ]
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Mainstream media and copyright
Paul Jacobson, Johannesburg Gauteng (South Africa) · Jan 03rd, 2008 9:31 pm · 18 votes · 3 comments
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For the most part the media publishes content with all rights reserved. This is hardly surprising. The media's content is its stock in trade, its livelihood. The question I would like to explore in this article is whether there is a clear benefit to the media to explore an alternative to such a strict approach to the publication of its content. Obviously an option I would like... [ read ]
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Television Will Not Be Revolutionized: Reinventing The Language of New Media
lemos, Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) · Jan 29th, 2008 5:59 am · 39 votes · 2 comments
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You are young and you have a TV network in your own hands. You also have all the equipment you need – professional cameras and editing equipment, and a production staff. Plus, there is no commercial pressure: everything you produce will be broadcasted, reaching most of the country's TVs. This is the perfect scenario for innovation, right? Wrong.
A quick look at university channels... [ read ]
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Comparing Copies in the Indian Context: Thoughts on Plagiarism
alli.fish, Tucson/Irvine/Bangalore (India) (United States) · Jan 07th, 2008 11:35 pm · 36 votes · 4 comments
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This article explores contemporary debates regarding the ownership and control of creative works by examining the different values attached to the act of copying in two types of knowledge making activities. Specifically, the following will address the construction of ethics surrounding
(1) The public reaction in 2006 to Kaavya Viswanathan’s plagiarism in her fictional account,... [ read ]
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Ancient Righting: Archaeologists & Copyright
Francis Deblauwe, Saratoga, CA (United States) · Jul 07th, 2008 4:59 pm · 37 votes · no comments made
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From 6-8 June, I was lucky enough to be able to attend a scholarly symposium at UCLA in sunny Southern California: the UCLA/Getty Storage Symposium. Preservation and Access to Archaeological Materials. I live blogged it on the IW&A Blog. Of course, the papers were very specialised and/or technical, and normally only interesting for archaeologists and conservators. However, one issue... [ 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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