November 2010
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(This is Part I of a series I’m drafting as I organise my thoughts around this topic) I remember sitting in a Creative Commons staff meeting as a volunteer in late 2003 hearing Lawrence Lessig say that CC should be like Campbell’s Soup: we should make every possible type of license that people want. But…
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It still amazes me when I read academic papers where it is clear that the author hasn’t read any critiques of Creative Commons – not necessarily critiques from the content industry declaring that Creative Commons is opposed to copyright (I don’t think those exist in academic form but please let me know if you find…
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I woke up this morning to some disappointing news. After a push by developing countries at WIPO’s copyright meeting to include a substantive discussion on exceptions and limitations (E&Ls) to copyright for education, Group B (EU, US) has dropped any reference to education being covered in future meetings. The work plan does refer to E&Ls…
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I’m at home catching up on WIPO and copyright news with the copyright committee convening next week to discuss – among other things – exceptions and limitations to copyright. It looks like Lawrence Lessig was invited to WIPO to keynote at their ‘Facilitating Access to Culture in the Digital Age’ event on Thursday and Friday…
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