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articles · The Cape Town Declaration on Open Education
26/1/2008 23:33 · 49 votes · no comments
Teachers, Students, Web Gurus, and Foundations Launch Campaign to Transform Education
A coalition of educators, foundations, and internet pioneers today urged governments and publishers to make publicly-funded educational materials available freely over the internet.
The Cape Town Open Education Declaration, launched today, is part of a dynamic effort to make learning and...
blogs · iSummit session on Philosophy of the Commons
appears in Commons Philosophy
29/6/2007 21:24 · no comments
Tom Chance organised a session on the Philosophy of the Commons which was one the liveliest and most interesting session of the conference in my not especially humble opinion.
One of the panelists; Benjamin Mako Hill argued that its necessary for iCommons to define Free Culture, as he has done in A Definition of Free Cultural Works.
The session prompted a number of articles...
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articles · The Cape Town Declaration on Open Education
by Andrew Rens · voted on 25/1/2008 18:17 · 49 votes · no comments
Teachers, Students, Web Gurus, and Foundations Launch Campaign to Transform Education
A coalition of educators, foundations, and internet pioneers today urged governments and publishers to make publicly-funded educational materials available freely over the internet.
The Cape Town Open Education Declaration, launched today, is part of a dynamic effort to make learning and...
articles · Do photographers really hate Creative Commons licenses?
by Paul Jacobson · voted on 15/1/2008 21:49 · 70 votes · 2 comments
Brianna linked to a post on Black Star Rising titled "Why Photographers Hate Creative Commons" which raises a number of important issues and highlights a number of misconceptions about CC licenses.
At the risk of repeating much of what I posted the other day on the topic of the mainstream media and copyright, I thought I would repeat much of my comment on the Black Star Rising...
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articles · The Growth of Arab Commons
by anas · commented on 9/11/2007 15:34 · 39 votes · 3 comments
Ten months after its official launch, a quick reflection may shed some light on the Arab Commons project and its growth over the year. Arab Commons went live on 1 January 2007 with the ambitious aim of promoting the development of open content in the Arabic language and to educate creative workers in the Arab world about the philosophy of Creative Commons and the benefits they can...
articles · State of Piracy in the Philippines
by Sara Jane · commented on 26/10/2007 21:00 · 41 votes · 17 comments
Not many of us in law school would deny owning a copy or two of pirated media, be it a VCD, DVD, or a song downloaded from Limewire or BitTorrent. In a survey conducted among 100 law students, 44 responded in the affirmative when asked if it’s the cheap price alone that motivates them to patronise piracy. Other factors include the competitive quality of pirated discs, availability,...
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