iCommons Summit 06 Roundup

By: Heather Ford

What makes a ‘great’ conference? Is it a ‘great’ conference when people like Cory Doctorow say: ‘I’ve been to a lot of conferences and this was truly amazing’? Is it a ‘great’ conference when the event makes the front page of the New York Times Arts and Culture section and when the local media print too many stories to count? Is it a ‘great’ conference when you hear people saying that ‘all their heroes are here’ and that they are having way too much fun to call this ‘work’? Is it a ‘great [...]

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Oscar Montezuma

Organization:
CC Peru

Country:
Peru

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Reports

Asia Commons: from the iSummit and beyond

July 5th, 2006 by Daniela Faris

After the success of the Asia Commons Conference from 6-8 June in Bangkok, the iCommons Summit served as a meeting space for further discussions amongst Asia Commons rep [...]

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iCommons/Education: for Sidonie?s Generation

June 26th, 2006 by Judy Breck

Shown in the picture here is the lovely daughter of iSummit Artist in Residence Nathaniel Stern, four-week-old South African Sidonie.   Her generation will the first to experience fully 21st century education. The Sunday morning Education Commons panel looked at what Sidonie and her contem [...]

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Audio/Video NGO-in-a-box and a New iCommons Collaboration Launched at the iCommons Summit

July 13th, 2006 by Daniela Faris

By: Andrew Lowenthal

The Audio and Video edition of NGO-in-a-box is a toolkit of Free and Open Source Software documentation and tutorials for NGOs, non-profits and media activists. Produced by Tactical Tech in c [...]

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Punk commons...

June 29th, 2006 by Andrew Garton

The iSummit has attracted former filmmakers, television producers, lawyers, IT specialists, remix artists and amongst the many more vocations declared here, we even had a “I was once a punk rocker” in our midst. They showed us photos of themselves in dreadlocks just to prove it. A few ho [...]

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Blogs

Journal: Law on IT

May 14th, 2008

lawjournalphIT02 - Upload a doc Read this doc on Scribd: lawjournalphIT02 3 ENCOURAGING THE ECOLOGY OF CREATIVITY 8 CHALLENGES IN CULTIVATING A SHARING CULTURE 9 CREATIVE COMMONS VERSION 3.0 LICENSES - A BRIEF EXPLANATION 15 THE PORTING PROCESS 16 PORTED LICENSE MODIFICATIONS 20 CREATIVE COMMONS PHILIPPINE JURISDICTIONAL LICENSE SAMPLE (CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 PH) 23 PROMOTING THE COMMONS LOCALLY 24 ISUMMIT 2007 26 DEVELOPING A PHILIPPINE COMMONS 27 CC-PH SET TO PARTICIPATE IN THE ACIA: INTERNATIONAL

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April 7th, 2008

Exit Lessig, enter ItoCreative Commons is undergoing exciting and possibly dramatic changes. There's been an atmosphere of "where now" since Lessig made his announcement that he was going to work less on CC and copyright and more on corruption issues. Related indeed, and not *completely* leaving, but still. This week, CC announced Ito as the new CEO, with James Boyle replacing him as chairman. Since I started working as a journalist in this field, Ito has been one of those "up there" guys, and g

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AV_BR Experimentación audiovisual y cultura libre en Brasil ∙ ARCO’08 Brasil

February 12th, 2008

AV_BR Experimentación audiovisual y cultura libre en Brasil ∙ ARCO’08 Brasil February 12th, 2008 AV_BR Experimentación audiovisual y cultura libre en Brasil ∙ ARCO’08 Brasil 14 y 16 febrero _ 19:00h Comisario: Daniel González. Con la colaboración del Centro Cultural de España en São Paulo En el marco de la participación de Brasil como país invitado en ARCO 2008, MedialabPrado presenta AV_BR Experimentación audiovisual y cultura libre en∙ Brasil ∙ ARCO’08 Brasil, dos jornadas de actividade

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