Support Creative Commons (Campaign)
As you might know, I’m a big fan of Creative Commons (CC), a very easy way to share your content online and thus contribute to an ever-growing pool of freely available body of text, picture, videos and music to work with. It’s not a replacement to copyright, but an addition that gives the content creators [...]
Arduino and Makers at atoms&bits
Today I made an LED blink by pushing a button.
You might ask youself: Err, what? Why are you blogging this?
No, I haven’t turned crazy or bored, so no worries. What happened is that I eventually got around to getting out my Arduino:
Arduino is an open-source electronics prototyping platform based on flexible, easy-to-use hardware [...]
New license for this blog (now CC by licensed)
I just watched RIP – A Remix Manifesto at a screening at NYU and was stoked, and more importantly, realized once more how important it is to share your stuff as freely as possible. So I decided to put this blog (so far under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial Share-Alike license) under the even less [...]
A Second Layer for Commercial Use of Creative Commons Content?
Update: In her comment, Nicole pointed me to CCPlus, which seems to solve most of the problems laid out in this post. Thanks!
An open question: Would it make sense to add a layer of licensing (or rather: meta-licensing) to Creative Commons that would allow easier (speak: quicker) use of CC-licensed content for commercial use?
As [...]
Changing to German ported version of CC (by-nc-sa) 3.0
Since I don’t believe in restricting the flow of information, or in DRM, this blog has been published under a Creative Commons license all along. And I’ve been absolutely happy with the way it went. The web is built on sharing and remixing, and that’s exactly what Creative Commons licenses allow for, easily:
This license lets [...]
A Swarm of Angels: Worlds Will Shatter
Ground-breaking collaborative film project A Swarm of Angels just released the first video trailer, and boy, I can’t wait to see more:
Worlds Will Shatter – The Unfold trailer from Nine Orders on Vimeo.
I’ve been a proud member of the Swarm for a while. And while it’s not always easy to find a good way to [...]
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, this won’t seem important. But trust me, this is huge.
I am very proud to report today that the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (THE “IP” court [...]
Creative Commons explained by Lawrence Lessig
Larry Lessig’s talk at the iCommons Summit 08 gives you a nice overview of the history of Creative Commons:
Check out Larry Lessig’s Blip page for more videos
(via Netzpolitik.org)
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 that only serves legal content. LegalTorrents features movies, music, games, books, audio books, whatever you’re looking for. Obviously not the same range as less restrictive platforms, but [...]
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 – check it out:
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I just added Creative Commons International – who else is missing? If you know any organization or activist, please add them to [...]
