Free licenses hold up in (U.S.) court
It’s official: Free licenses like Creative Commons (CC) hold up in court. Larry Lessig, founder of Creative Commons has the (obviously biased, but good) background: So for non-lawgeeks,…
Category: commons
Social cooperation & music distribution
In the Commons Research wiki, I stumbled upon this Free Culture paper (PDF abstract). In the paper, Yochai Benkler (Harvard Law School, author of The Wealth of Networks…
LegalTorrents gives you… legal torrents
Filesharing – legal or illegal – is here to stay. While many users are confused about the legality of filesharing platforms and protocols like BitTorrent, here’s an alternative…
Global map of Open Educational Resources
Heather Fond (blog), director of iCommons, created this map of Open Educational Resources (OER) and the most notable activists and organizations in the field. This is pretty awesome…
Widgets Are Your Friend
Tony Hirst, author of this neat RSS manifesto and edupunk extraordinaire, produced this little gem of a pro-remix, pro-sharing, pro-widget rant: changes everything we don’t care where it…
Creative Commons for German Public TV Could Save Costs, Archives
German public TV and the Some Rights Reserved content licenses by Creative Commons don’t seem to be a natural mix. Then again, maybe they do. As NDR, one…
The Relevance of Weblogs for the Work of Political Journalists: My Masters Thesis is Online
I just received news that my masters thesis has been graded (1.0 = “very good”), which also means I’m now allowed to publish it online. For the thesis,…