http://www.icommons.org/ 2008-5-16T07:52:39Z http://www.icommons.org/images/i_commons_01.gif http://www.icommons.org/ 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... http://www.icommons.org/articles/colombian-ruling-on-copyright-without-profit-there-is-no-criminal-offence 2008-5-15T17:24:58Z The Social Web (aka Web 2.0) is about three things: listening, conversing and sharing. Of the three, sharing is perhaps the most relevant in the context of the Commons in part because it is about sharing content, something that is almost taken for granted these days. Anyone who is active on the Social Web is familiar with a myriad content sharing sites ranging from Flickr (photo... http://www.icommons.org/articles/sharing-on-the-social-web 2008-4-14T17:59:10Z <br /> “The creative act is not performed by the artist alone the spectator brings the work in contact with the external world by deciphering and interpreting its inner qualifications and thus adds his contribution to the creative act. This becomes even more obvious when posterity gives a final verdict and sometimes rehabilitates forgotten artists.” <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> -Marcel Duchamp,... http://www.icommons.org/articles/why-you-must-be-legally-licensed-to-host-fun-on-the-internet 2008-4-21T14:46:45Z Commoners are, on the whole, a thoughtful bunch, and we like to read and think about important stuff, like intellectual property and democracy and the global commons and global policy and beer and, you know, stuff. <br /> So this month, we’ve decided to give you a list of five websites, which offer new, challenging and interesting perspectives on these issues. There is an enormous amount... http://www.icommons.org/articles/5-of-the-best-places-to-learn-something-new-about-the-world 2008-4-14T18:56:20Z Dwelling or Database Tony Curzon Price June 13 2007 &#059; <br /> <br /> Free Culture: Dwelling or Database? <br /> <br /> The philosophy panelists - Tom Chance, Dave Berry and Benjamin Mako Hill - brought to the open some of the rumblings set off by Lessig'&#059;s keynote definition of what iC and CC are for. Dave Berry set up the opposition of the dwelling, in the sense of the sort of... http://www.icommons.org/articles/icommons-dwelling-or-database 2007-6-17T20:33:10Z I've had a feeling that a movement is afoot for a while. This feeling was confirmed in spades yesterday during Day Zero of the iSummit Open Education Track.<br /> <br /> People around the world are working on ways to open source educational materials, and even education itself. But these people rarely connect to swap stories and figure out ways to move their ideas forward. The idea behind... http://www.icommons.org/articles/a-movement-is-afoot 2007-6-15T21:06:10Z 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... http://www.icommons.org/articles/the-demise-of-old-fashioned-scholarly-journals 2007-7-30T17:28:14Z Check out the great video of the first Wikipedia Academy in Africa at CIDA City Campus. Thanks to the Wikimedia Foundation and Mann Made Media for supporting this project. http://www.icommons.org/articles/the-cida-city-campus-wikipedia-academy-1 2007-11-26T16:47:26Z Emma Carroll and Jessica Coates<br /> <br /> It’s Friday afternoon. That one drink at lunch turned into more than a couple, resulting in an emergency nap under your desk back at the office. The boss need never know… but unfortunately for you it’s 2007, the digital age. Someone in the office that day had a camera, and unbeknownst to you that photograph of you snoring under the computer... http://www.icommons.org/articles/virgin-mobile-asleep-on-the-job 2007-8-03T15:35:56Z <br /> <br /> This month we speak to Jimmy Wales, founder of Wikipedia, president of the Wikimedia Foundation, and member of the iCommons board. We chat about the ins and outs of Wikipedia, and find out about his favourite toothpaste. Is his dental hygiene the same as yours? Keep reading...<br /> <br /> 1. What inspired the idea to start Wikipedia using a 'read/write' web, especially when at the time,... http://www.icommons.org/articles/commoner-profile-10-questions-for-jimmy-wales 2006-12-14T11:33:39Z This is the first episode in a new podcast series called News From the Nodes, where we'll be featuring a different node every month, and chat to the administrator of that node.<br /> <br /> In this first episode, we speak to the Queen of the Node, Kerryn McKay, who administers the Local Context, Global Commons node, one of the most active nodes on iCommons.org<br /> <br /> http://www.icommons.org/articles/the-icommons-podcast-news-from-the-nodes 2007-10-29T17:19:42Z When media in Australia uses works licensed with a Creative Commons Attribution licences the media is given no rebate by the rights organisation. My view is that if commercial media did get a reduction when they used open content, that the market would be more efficient. More local self published content would be used and publishers might take their ears out of their pockets.<br /> <br /> My... http://www.icommons.org/articles/artists-rights-to-distribute 2008-1-25T20:48:48Z January, 9, 2007 was a curious day for the Internet. At the same time that "net neutrality" was reintroduced in the US Congress with the Internet Freedom Preservation Act, in Brazil, the São Paulo State Court of Appeals (TJ-SP) was blocking YouTube, issuing an injunction requiring all the backbones in the country to block the video website. During those days, more than 5 million... http://www.icommons.org/articles/my-privacy-is-bigger-than-yours-the-cicarelli-vs-youtube-case 2007-10-18T19:21:34Z Finally! At this year’s iCommons Summit we educators get our very own track. The commons for education has grown a great deal, and while we may not always be as good at getting attention as musicians and artists (this year’s conference t-shirt says “The Art Happens Here”, for example) no one can say that being able to remix curricula isn’t as important as remixing music.<br /> <br /> We... http://www.icommons.org/articles/education-happens-here-too 2007-6-16T17:51:07Z John Buckman talks about why the film industry should use CC licensing. http://www.icommons.org/articles/john-buckman-the-film-industry-should-use-cc 2007-6-16T23:15:01Z It's great to finally be in Dubrovnik. I am ready for what promises to be a great iSummit, including an amazing track specifically on open source education. Gunner's most recent blurb on the track is ...<br /> <br /> "There is a rich array of burgeoning and compelling creative commons communities. No matter what they focus on -- music, science, visual art -- these communities offer great... http://www.icommons.org/articles/psyched-for-the-isummit-open-education-track 2007-6-14T22:03:12Z What is authentic? What is original? What is fake? What is a replica? Can you answer those questions? Ever since an exhibition in a Hamburg museum, which featured eight real terracotta warrior statues from the world famous tomb of China’s emperor Qin, was closed down in December, these questions are not purely academic any more.<br /> <br /> Emperor Qin<br /> <br /> Qin Shi Huangdi was China’s first... http://www.icommons.org/articles/hamburg-humbug-chinese-terracottas-authenticity-and-exhibitions 2008-2-07T00:35:11Z More and more museums and other cultural heritage organizations are offering online access to their holdings. These initiatives are varied in scope, depth and target audience. They also take different approaches to copyright and open access, esp. regarding photos of art and artifacts in their care.<br /> <br /> Sample<br /> <br /> For this limited investigation, I selected a more or less random sample... http://www.icommons.org/articles/collating-online-collections-study-of-13-cultural-heritage-collections-online 2008-5-05T19:52:23Z Here is a demonstration, captured at the iCommons Summit... <br /> <br /> As Simon Dingle and Bjorn Wijers pointed out in their article, This be Cat Country, cats were one of the key identifying features of Dubrovnik - they were everywhere!<br /> <br /> To all those cat-loving commoners - enjoy this show!<br /> http://www.icommons.org/articles/olpcs-are-cat-proof 2007-7-18T17:45:18Z <br /> <br /> 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... http://www.icommons.org/articles/icommons-summit-06-roundup 1999-11-30T00:00:00Z txtBusca http://www.icommons.org/home/busca.php Search in iCommons.org