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iCommons Website Terms of Use

Effective: May 25th, 2007

iCommons is an organisation working to develop a united global commons front by collaborating with open content, access to knowledge, open access publishing and free culture communities around the world. As a community focused organization, iCommons welcomes and values your contributions to our site, wikis and other discussion fora (“iCommons sites”). To make sure that everyone enjoys these fora and that the information posted is useful and constructive, we ask that everyone who contributes reviews and agrees to the basic rules set out in this policy.

We urge our Users to communicate freely about open sharing tools, practices and policies. We ask individuals to share their opinions on these matters through articles, blogs, wikis, and mailing list contributions. We hope that our Website will become a place where such opinion can be discussed and debated in a genuine and respectful manner, but we do not intend that the result shall be uniformity of opinion. Understand, therefore, the views that are expressed by individual contributors do not necessarily represent an official views of iCommons Ltd. or its staff.

Rules when posting to the iCommons sites:

1. You agree to only post material that is relevant to the topic being discussed or the information being sought.

2. In all your contributions, you agree to respect and adhere to the iCommons Code of Conduct, the iCommons Core Values and to all other policies that iCommons may apply to users of the iCommons sites.

3. You agree not to post any material that you do not have the right to post, for example, under intellectual property, confidentiality, privacy or other applicable laws.

4. You agree that your posted contributions will be licensed under the Creative Commons license applicable to the forum where you post your material.

5. You must not post any unsolicited or unauthorized materials, including advertising or promotional materials, “junk mail,” “spam,” “chain letters,” “pyramid schemes,” or any other form of unsolicited or unwelcome solicitation or advertising.

6. You may not post any material that contains software viruses or any other computer code, files or programs designed to interrupt, destroy or limit the functionality of any computer software or hardware or telecommunications equipment or otherwise interfere with or disrupt the iCommons site or servers or networks connected to the iCommons site, or that disobeys any requirements, procedures, policies or regulations of networks connected to the iCommons site.

iCommons does not regularly monitor the iCommons sites but does reserve the right delete any content and to block any contributor who, in our judgment violates the law, is in breach of these rules, or otherwise fails to respect other members of the iCommons community. iCommons also reserves the right take any other action as may be appropriate in the circumstances.

Rules when using the iCommons sites:

By using the iCommons sites, you represent that you understand that all information and content made available at or submitted to the iCommons sites is the sole responsibility of the person from which such content originated. You also acknowledge that iCommons does not make any representations or warranties, including without limitation, about the accuracy, integrity or quality of the content and information made available at the instigation of users of the iCommons sites.

Under no circumstances is iCommons liable in any way for any content, including, but not limited to: any infringing content, any errors or omissions in content, or for any loss or damage of any kind incurred as a result of the use of any content posted, emailed, transmitted or otherwise made available via the iCommons sites.

You agree that you must evaluate, and bear all risks associated with, the use of any content, including any reliance on the accuracy, completeness, or reliability of such content. In this regard, you acknowledge that you may not rely on any content not created by us or submitted to us, including without limitation information in any parts of the iCommons site.

You further agree that, while iCommons makes every effort to ensure that the content made available at the iCommons sites is legal, non-infringing and that the use of it in accordance with these rules and iCommons other applicable policies, iCommons cannot guarantee that all content made available at this site does not infringe the rights of any third party.

iCommons reserves the right to change these Terms of Use at any time. Notice of a change will be announced on this page. Any revisions will include the date that they become effective.

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Lessig on Digital Barbarism

Lawrence Lessig has posted a review of David Halperin's recent book, Digital Barbarism.

Halperin, who authored the (in)famous New York Times article calling for perpetual copyright, has now compiled his ideas into a book. Lessig offers a much-needed critique, including citing misconceptions about Creative Commons (Halperin conflates it not only with "freeware" with software... more

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