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Colombian ruling on copyright: Without profit there is no criminal offence
In a landmark ruling, the Supreme Court of Colombia, the highest criminal judicial tribunal and Cassation Court (deals with the Cassation procedures also known in other juridical traditions as right of appeal on points of law), determined that in order to establish a criminal violation of copyright, it is necessary to find if the criminal conduct is for profit-making, if it causes... [more]
The Hague Declaration calls for global commitment to open standards
The founders of the Digital Standards Organization recently convened in The Hague to develop a declaration that calls on governments to further the Universal Declaration of Human Rights with a commitment to the adoption of open standards.The declaration calls for a consideration of "a society in which full and effective participation in government and society, and access to... [more]
The Demise of Old-Fashioned Scholarly Journals?
Recently I attended a debate called Intellectual Property Rights: Wrong for Developing Countries?" at the National Academies in Washington, D.C. The two speakers were Bruce Lehman, Chairman of the International Intellectual Property Institute, and John Wilbanks, Vice President of Science Commons. I had sort of hoped for entertainment purposes that one of them would have take the... [more]
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iSummit 2008 Planning Workshop -
Rebecca Kahn, iCommons reporter · MP3 · Jan 29th, 2008 · 14 votesOne of the discussions that we had at the end of the iSummit planning workshop in Johannesburg was an evaluation of what we need, in terms of people and... [more]
ICT Policy: A Beginner's Handbook
fredericknoronha · text (PDF) · Mar 01st, 2008 · 14 votesInformation and communications are at the heart of human life and social development. People have always worked together by sharing information and knowledge... [more]
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Pan-Commonwealth Forum 5
London (United Kingdom) · Jul 13th to Jul 17th · no comments madeThe Pan-Commonwealth Forum (PCF5) is for practitioners, researchers, planners and policy makers in the fields of open and distance learning and development.... [more]
EURAM Conference 2008, Call for paper - CREATING VALUE THROUGH DIGITAL COMMONS
Ljubljana (Slovenia) · May 15th to May 17th · no comments madeCALL FOR PAPER
TRACK WITHIN THE EURAM Conference 2008
CREATING VALUE THROUGH DIGITAL COMMONS.
How collective management of IPRs, open innovation models,... [more]
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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]
Preserving audiovisual cultural heritage
Amsterdam (Netherlands)1) Collaboratively develop a list (or paper) of best and worst practices
2) Collaboratively draft a strategy for involving online communities in digitization projects [more]
In this iCommons podcast episode we'll answer all your questions about the Summit, ranging from the programme, to accommodation to volunteering.
