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  • Is the Web really dead?

    I’ve really enjoyed this semester’s web architecture class taught by seasoned web geek, Erik Wilde. With lectures and assignments on everything from geolocation in html5, to the possibilities offered by offline storage, to security…

  • Does Creative Commons preserve copyright?

    Ok, I really should be doing my statistics assignment right now but I’m just bursting after discovering the most juicy back-and-forth on the question of whether ‘Creative Commons preserves copyright’ between David Wiley and…

  • Has Creative Commons become ‘inevitable’?

    (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…

  • Creative Commons critiques

    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…

  • GroupB at WIPO drops education from the workplan at #SCCR21

    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…

  • “WIPO needs a ‘blue sky commission’,” says Lessig

    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…

  • Tools for coordinating community events

    n Sunday morning, I woke up with the germ of an idea. I had been doing a lot of soul searching about what to do for my final project and I realised that a…

  • A vision of the next GeekRetreat

    Back in May/June this year, over a few beers at Andy Hadfield’s house, I announced my idea for the next GeekRetreat: Geeks in Action. I’ve always been excited about the idea that the best…

  • What I’m doing at the Electronic Frontier Foundation

    At the beginning of the year I applied to work with the EFF via the Google Policy Fellowship. Inspired by Google’s Summer of Code, the Google Policy Fellowship is a similar program aimed at…

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