Archive for the ‘creative commons’ Category
Sunday, October 28th, 2007
A hearty congratulations to the Aotearoa New Zealand Creative Commons folk who announced yesterday that they've successfully ported the Creative Commons licenses to the Aotearoa New Zealand legal system!
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Friday, October 19th, 2007
The 2007 Creative Commons Fundraising Drive is under way, so if you're concerned about ensuring that extreme copyright doesn't kill creativity, please consider donating. For me, ensuring that copyright laws don't lock away creative potential for the average person is incredibly important and I still think that Creative Commons is one of ...
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Monday, October 1st, 2007
As readers of this blog will know, I spent Friday at the Australian Blogging Conference at QUT's Creative Industries Precinct in Brisbane. It was a fabulous, stimulating and intellectually rich conference and a great end to Tama's-month-o-conferencing. I was the facilitator for the 'Blogging and Education' session ...
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Thursday, September 27th, 2007
The Australian Blogging Conference is tomorrow (Friday) in Brisbane. I'm flying out tonight and will be in the thick of it all tomorrow. I'll definitely be at the Blogging in Education session, as I'll be the facilitator for that session, and I'm looking forward to all the other blogging ...
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Sunday, September 23rd, 2007
A couple of months ago I wrote about Virgin Mobile's controversial use of CC-Licensed images from Flickr in one of their advertising campaigns. Things have now taken an odd twist, with on of the teenagers features in the photos suing not just Virgin but Creative Commons as well! As the Sydney ...
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Wednesday, August 29th, 2007
The big news of the day is that The Australian Blogging Conference, a fabulous-looking free one-day event exploring everything about blogging in Australia (including education and Creative Commons!) now has a date: Friday, 28 September 2007 in sunny Brisbane! All of the details are here. I'd write more, ...
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Friday, July 27th, 2007
On the back of a lot of really interesting work and events last year, Creative Commons Australia have released their "Unlocking the Potential Through Creative Commons" report which examines the role (and potential roles) of Creative Commons licensing in Australia. It's an easy read and has lots of examples, so ...
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Monday, March 12th, 2007
Creative Commons Australia announced today the release of Open Content Licensing: Cultivating the Creative Commons, a book collecting a number of essays about copyright and open content licensing in teh Australian context. It's edited by Brian Fitzgerarld, who leads Australia's CC project. It draws on a 2005 conference, ...
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