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Facebook is a nuisance … but it does not “steal” your content!
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Tobias Schonwetter · Nov 05th, 2007 · 1 comment
This month, iCommons’ resident copyright columnist, Tobias Schonwetter, discusses his ambivalent relationship with Facebook.Personally, I don’t like Facebook. And that’s put nicely. What once may have started as a useful tool to stay in contact with people over great distances has, in my opinion, become an often imbecile and time-killing application for the exchange of trivialities... [more]
governing the ungovernable ...
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philipp · Jul 16th, 2007 · 5 comments
The Open Courseware Consortium is a network of (mostly) universities who are committed to publishing and using open courseware, and who have so far released over 4200 university level courses under free and open licenses. Until now MIT has hosted and incubated the consortium, but it’s time to grow up, and we need a structure that can deal with a diversifying membership, sustainability... [more]
No one needs to die of HIV/Aids any more – in theory
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Tobias Schonwetter · Feb 11th, 2008 · 2 comments
This month, iCommons’ resident copyright columnist, Tobias Schonwetter, deals with the interrelation between access to medicine and HIV/Aids. He argues that patent law appears to be the crucial area of law in this respect but suggests that the role of copyright law should not be underestimated.South Africa has clearly become a home-away-from-home for me over the last couple... [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 07 presentations
JC · presentation · Jul 09th, 2007 · 20 votesFor all of you who weren't able to attend the keynote sessions or some of the other interesting presentations that were held in the main hall, you'll be... [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.
