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blogs · Revisioning iCommons
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24/7/2008 23:54 · 3 comments
In 2005, iCommons was established as an outgrowth of Creative Commons with an objective to ‘advance the wider dissemination of non-commercial sharing of scientific, creative and other intellectual works by the general public’. Creative Commons was the sole member, guarantor and sponsor of the charity, providing organisational and financial support.
Today, iCommons has a small,...
blogs · Sign the Cape Town Open Education Declaration
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23/1/2008 18:59 · no comments
Yesterday, the Cape Town Open Education Declaration was launched with a list of about 500 signatures of individuals and organizations around the world (including iCommons) calling for a new way of looking at education as an empowering tool that relies on openness for quality and accessibility. Andrew Rens has put up the press release here, but you can make your mark by signing the...
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articles · Build your own Freedom Toaster at the Summit
4/4/2006 06:13 · no comments
The Freedom Toaster is a vending machine-like 'Bring 'n Burn' facility that started life with The Shuttleworth Foundation (TSF) in Cape Town as a way to overcome expensive and slow internet costs associated with 'toasting' Linux distributions (including theworld-famous ' Ubuntu' product also from the astronaut's stable). The Toaster is located in schools, universities, shopping...
articles · King Alex
29/3/2006 19:11 · no comments
Ladies and gentlemen. I want to take this opportunity to thank the man who made it all happen: Alex Roberts, Creative Commons Graphic Designer par excellence who:
a) put up with my incessant nagging;
b) didn't even cough when we announced the inhumane deadline;
c) went beyond the call of duty to build us a beautiful logo and an even more fabulous website for us:...
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articles · Olympic Ideals & Trademark Practice
by Francis Deblauwe · voted on 6/10/2008 02:15 · 27 votes · 1 comment
The International Olympic Committee (IOC) organizes the Summer and Winter Olympic Games. That also entails promoting the Olympic ideals of international co-operation and the like. Lately, these competitions have become gigantic in scale and expense. While there were only 241 participants (14 countries) in the first Olympics in Athens (1896), the Beijing Summer Olympics had 10,500...
articles · Why you must be legally licensed to host fun™ on the internet
by Prashant · voted on 22/4/2008 23:34 · 40 votes · no comments
“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.”
-Marcel Duchamp,...
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articles · Olympic Ideals & Trademark Practice
by Francis Deblauwe · commented on 2/10/2008 15:21 · 27 votes · 1 comment
The International Olympic Committee (IOC) organizes the Summer and Winter Olympic Games. That also entails promoting the Olympic ideals of international co-operation and the like. Lately, these competitions have become gigantic in scale and expense. While there were only 241 participants (14 countries) in the first Olympics in Athens (1896), the Beijing Summer Olympics had 10,500...
calendar· CC@5 Birthday Parties around the Globe
by Michelle Thorne · commented on 11/12/2007 17:44 · 10 votes · 5 comments
A birthday party for Creative Commons for all of the friends, users, developers, and soon-to-be friends of Creative Commons - a continuous birthday celebration and synchronization to light up the blogosphere, explore CC-licensed content, and to meet up with friends.
If you're not able to make it one of these global birthday bashes, then don't fret. You can still:
* catch...
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