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06/15/2004 12:12 AMThe Information Commons - A Public
Policy Report
The Information Commons - A Public
Policy Report
06/14/2004 05:15 AMThe Information Commons - A Public Policy Report by Nancy
Kranichhttp://www.fepproject.org/policyreports/infocommons.contentsex
sum.html
http://www.fepproject.org/policyreports/InformationCommons.pdfThe Internet offers unprecedented possibilities for human
creativity, global communication, and access to information. Yet
digital technology also invites new forms of information enclosure. In
the last decade, mass media companies have developed methods of
control that undermine the public's traditional rights to use, share,
and reproduce information and ideas. These technologies, combined with
dramatic consolidation in the media industry and new laws that
increase its control over intellectual products, threaten to undermine
the political discourse, free speech, and creativity needed for a
healthy democracy.
In response to the crisis, librarians,
cyber-activists, and other public interest advocates have sought ways
to expand access to the wealth of resources that the Internet
promises, and have begun to build online communities, or "commons,"
for producing and sharing information, creative works, and democratic
discussion. This report documents the information commons movement,
explains its importance, and outlines the theories and "best
practices" that have developed to assist its growth.
Science Commons | Creative Commons
Science Commons | Creative Commons
12/31/2004 05:09 PMCreative Commons announces the Science Commons project .. patents and
scientific publishing .. scientific CC
license
science.creativecommons.org
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Updated Guides for Mapping Types of
Information and Information Systems to
Security Categories
Updated Guides for Mapping Types of
Information and Information Systems to
Security Categories
12/30/2003 01:39 AMThe Necessity for Information Space
Mapping for Information Retrieval on the
Semantic Web
The Necessity for Information Space
Mapping for Information Retrieval on the
Semantic Web
08/13/2002 10:03 AMInformation Design Processes: Developing
Accessible and Understandable
Information
Information Design Processes: Developing
Accessible and Understandable
Information
09/16/2002 06:39 AMInformation Technology: Trojan Horse of
Information Overload
Information Technology: Trojan Horse of
Information Overload
10/01/2002 09:17 AMInformation Technology Information
Library (ITIL)
Information Technology Information
Library (ITIL)
05/03/2004 11:39 PMAd - http://www.itilsurvival.com May 4 2004 4:39AM GMT
A Press Pass to Cosmetic Surgery
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Porn Commons
Porn Commons
02/10/2004 02:51 AMThe Porn Commons - New York Times
Via Mimi
Creative Commons
Creative Commons
06/12/2004 06:10 AMSparked by the copyright discussion raging
elsewhere in this blog, I decided to license the content of
this weblog under a
Creative Commons
Attribution - Share Alike license. In essence, what this means:
You are free:
- to copy, distribute, display, and perform the work
- to make derivative works
- to make commercial use of the work
Under the following conditions:
- Attribution. You must give the original author credit.
- Share Alike. If you alter, transform, or build upon this work,
you may distribute the resulting work only under a license identical
to this one.
- For any reuse or distribution, you must make clear to others the
license terms of this work.
For the full text of the license, click here
for the English version, or in Finnish - the Finnish version being the legally valid one,
since this blog is physically located in Finland and written by a
Finnish citizen.
Note that this license does not affect whatever rights you have under
the law - it's still completely okay to quote this blog without
relicensing under CC, for example.
Subcription Commons
Subcription Commons
01/09/2004 09:55 PMI have always believed its best to share what you read. Since the
early days of my blog I have made my subscription list transparent as
my blogroll. What I read is a time commitment, a real reflection of
my...
Creative Commons at the W3C
Creative Commons at the W3C
03/06/2004 01:53 AMBen
Adida, one of our tech advisors, will attend the
Semantic
Web portion of the
World Wide Web
Consortium Plenary Session this Thursday and Friday in Cannes,
France.
RDF,
the technology we chose 18 months ago to build our machine-readable
licenses,
recently became a
finalized W3C recommendation.
State of the Commons
State of the Commons
06/20/2004 02:23 PM
Revivin
g the Commons. The commons are the range of resources that the
American public collectively owns, but which are often mismanaged by
government or privatized ("enclosed") by corporations. An
excellent report on
"T
he State of the Commons 2003/04" (PDF) was prepared for the
Friends of the Commons
by the
Tomales Bay
Institute. The principle of the commons in Western common law was
first
codified
in the Magna Carta, and was previously discussed on MeFi
here.
[Via I-Merge.] Science Commons
Science Commons
12/31/2004 04:33 AMScience Commons aims
to encourage scientific innovation by making it easier for scientists,
universities, and industries to use literature, data, and other
scientific intellectual property and to share their knowledge with
others. Science Commons works within current copyright and patent law
to promote legal and technical mechanisms that remove barriers to
sharing.
Identity Commons
Identity Commons
09/09/2004 05:25 AMIdentity Commonshttp://www.idcommons.net/* you could navigate the Web using one easy-to-remember
password?
* you could enter your personal data once and use it on
many Web sites?
* you had a simple way of determining how
information about you is used and disclosed by others?
* you
could ensure that your personal information and identity was
controlled by one person -- you?
At Identity Commons, they
are striving to make this possible by creating the framework for
trusted electronic communications. These tools will make your
communications simple and convenient, secure yet verifiable.
Individuals will be able to decide just how persistent, portable and
private their online identity is, relationship by relationship;
organizations that support this form of communication will derive
greater value from their customer/member relationships while enhancing
their reputation with customers. Serving as the backbone for this new
technology are data sharing agreements that establish the parameters
for the exchange and use of personal information between users. This
has been added to
eCommerce Resources
Subject Tracer™ Information Blog.
Workzen Commons
Workzen Commons
01/06/2004 11:48 AMWorkzen Commons Website
UK take on Creative Commons
UK take on Creative Commons
09/21/2004 06:23 AM
Cory Doctorow:
Becky sez, "My piece on Larry Lessig and the BBC Creative Archive was
published in the New Media Guardian today. The in-depth article
discusses copyright in the digital age and the Creative Commons
project.
"Unfortunately, to read the article you need to register."
Reg Req'd Link, use
"feeshfeeshfeesh@hotmail.com/feeshfeesh"
(Thanks, Becky!)
commons-bl0g
commons-bl0g
03/17/2005 03:26 AMcommons-bloghttp://www.info-com
mons.org/blog/index.htmlcommons-blog is an American
Library Association-sponsored site collecting news, discussion, and
commentary related to the information commons in theory and practice,
along with announcements of updates to the info-commons.org main site.
commons-blog is edited by Frederick Emrich, who posts with the byline
info-commons.
Creative Commons 2.0
Creative Commons 2.0
05/26/2004 04:43 PMAfter considering a lot of the feedback and statistics from the
original Creative Commons licenses, we (I personally was only a small
part of this) have launched the 2.0 licenses which I think make them
easier to use and easier to understand. Congratulations and thanks to
the team for all the work and an excellent step forward.
The details
are on the Creative Commons page.
Enforcing the Creative Commons
Enforcing the Creative Commons
05/26/2004 12:11 PMThe Creative Commons is a good thing. It allows people near and far to
share creative work. It's easy to... (596 words)
Creative Commons Deed
Creative Commons Deed
04/25/2004 04:49 PMexcellent use of the Creative Commons License .. Condiciones de copia
y distribucin .. Attribution-NoDerivs-NonCommercial .. most
restrictive license .. Rights Reserved .. CC 2000-2003 .. Good Rule II
.. cc
creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd-nc/1.0
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Creative Commons For Science
Creative Commons For Science
12/29/2004 11:48 AMEight held after Commons protest
Eight held after Commons protest
09/15/2004 07:46 PMPolice investigate how five protesters were able to burst into the
Commons as MPs debated a ban on hunting.
Identity Commons: I signed up
Identity Commons: I signed up
12/19/2004 03:02 PMJust after I completed my Digital ID World audio chat, now online at
IT Conversations, with Owen Davis of Identity Commons, I signed up for
my own iName: =ScottMace. Of course, it will be a while before I
abandon the...
Support Creative Commons
Support Creative Commons
12/19/2004 02:55 PMFriends of Creative Commons,
As 2004 draws to a close, Creative Commons is strong. In the past
two
years since Creative Commons licenses have been available, we've taken
our first large first steps with you--building some of the essential
tools, adding critical pieces of infrastructure and assembling a
vibrant
community.
In 2004, Glenn, Larry, and the legal team made huge improvements
and
released version 2.0 of the main Creative Commons licenses. These new
versions added many needed features while at the same time they
reduced
the complexity of the licenses for our users. Christine, Roland and
all
of the iCommons volunteers worldwide took that work, and have ported
Creative Commons licenses to 12 countries. We expect to add another
dozen countries early next year, and we're in conversation with more
than 70.
We've found more than 5,000,000 pages with content and links back
to our
licenses. But the commons is about more than simply putting the work
out
there. So, Mike, Neeru, Matt, and Nutch.org have collaborated to
develop
and debut a metadata search engine that makes it easy to find content
marked with Creative Commons licenses. As if that were not enough,
that
search functionality now ships with the amazing Firefox browser from
mozilla.org.
Neeru and the tech team have also worked with other software
developers
to make it easy to integrate Creative Commons licenses. The list is
long, and includes Flickr, Moveable Type, Squarespace, Manila,
Archive.org, WinkSite, plus DMusic, Soundclick, Garageband.com, and
others I'm sure I've forgotten.
We're nearer to making worry-free sampling and re-creativity
mainstream.
What better place to start than the cover of WIRED magazine? The WIRED
CD contains sixteen sampling-friendly tunes -- and includes the
Beastie
Boys, David Byrne, Gilberto Gil, Chuck D and more.
In 2005 we will continue to build our worldwide community of
contributors to free culture. We will continue to enable more images,
music, films and text, and we'll start to work on the Science Commons.
We'll have much more to tell you about it at the start of the
year.
ou can help make Creative Commons and "some rights reserved"
household
phrases. Visit http://creativecommons.org/
support/ and you'll find out
how you can make your contribution via PayPal, Amazon's Honor
System, or by sending a check to Creative Commons at 543 Howard
Street,
5th Floor, San Francisco, CA 94105.
Thank you for your support. It's not the commons without you.
Mark Resch, CEO
Creative Commons
Creative Commons a not-for-profit 501(c)(3) organization.
Contributions
are tax-deductible in the U.S. to the extent allowed by law.
Thought River Commons
Thought River Commons
11/13/2003 09:00 AMThought River Commons 2003.11.13-beta Released
Science Commons Interview
Science Commons Interview
12/22/2004 01:09 AMOpen Access Now's current feature is an interview with Science Commons
executive director John
Wilbanks.
Digital Library of the Commons (DLC)
Digital Library of the Commons (DLC)
04/17/2004 06:05 AMDigital Library of the Commons (DLC)http://dlc.dlib.indiana.edu/The Digital Library of the Commons (DLC) provides free
access to an archive of international literature on the commons,
common-pool resources and common property. Features for authors and
readers include advanced searching; browsing by region, sector, and
author name; an author submission portal for uploading a variety of
document formats; and a service that uses email to alert subscribers
to new documents in their area of interest. This will be added to
Academic Resources
2004 Internet MiniGuide.
SGAE y Creative Commons
SGAE y Creative Commons
04/16/2005 03:17 PMBBC to use Creative Commons licenses
BBC to use Creative Commons licenses
05/26/2004 06:16 PMDigital Lifestyles is reporting that Larry Lessig has been named to a
BBC advisory board and that the BBC's Creative Archive project (which
aims to put the BBC's archives online for non-commercial re-use) will
use Creative Commons licenses:
Professor Lawrence Lessig, chair of the Creative Commons project was
clearly excited: "The announcement by the BBC of its intent to develop
a Creative Archive has been the single most important event in getting
people to understand the potential for digital creativity, and to see
how such potential actually supports artists and artistic creativity."
He went to enthuse "If the vision proves a reality, Britain will
become a centre for digital creativity, and will drive the many
markets – in broadband deployment and technology – that
digital creativity will support."
Link
(
Thanks, Simon!)
"Creative Commons License"
"Creative Commons License"
12/19/2003 11:55 AMCreative Commons Milestone
Creative Commons Milestone
12/15/2003 10:33 PMIt's a 7 meg flash file .. great new stuff .. 7MB Flash Link ..
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Creative Commons and The Plains
Creative Commons and The Plains
08/06/2004 05:00 PMThere's a been good discussion about music and Creative Commons
licenses happening on the pho
list the last day or so. The most novel post comes from Jim Griffin:
Here's an example from my new reality: In our neighborhood (The
Plains, VA,
population 266) and in our region there are many people who adopt for
their
land a conservation easement, essentially signing away (sometimes with
certain modifications) their right and any future owner's right to
develop
the land outside some fairly restrictive parameters.
On a strictly financial basis, it makes little sense. The dramatic
reduction
in the land's value does bring lower property taxes, but this pales by
comparison to the lost right to develop the land. And make no mistake
about
it: The Washington area sprawls, especially so with the restriction on
the
height of buildings in the city. Northern Virginia is a hotbed of real
estate development, and plots of land of 30 or more acres go for a
massive
premium to builders ready to sell about 40 houses per acre. It is the
OBS,
the One Big Score, rivaling a hit album, or a string of them, in the
financial payday it delivers.
Put simply, you'd be an irresponsible fiduciary to adopt a
conservation
easement on your land.
On the other hand, it is not uncommon for an owner to choose to do
so.
Why?
They have a long-term perspective on their role in the community.
They know
they at most use the land during their lifetime, and they want to
preserve
its place in the "commons" that surround us.
The move to The Plains has been a journey from ME to WE, from the
ego-sphere
of Hollywood to the community grain silo, the volunteer fire
department and
a wave of the hand to and from the neighbors who share this valley. I
can't
remember my neighbors in Los Angeles; already I cannot forget those
who
share this place between the mountains.
So I guess I get the Creative Commons. Or I hope to. Or there is
hope that I
might, and that some of it may rub off on our son. And as I write
this, as
the fading twilight of The Plains reflects off the pond, Creative
Commons
makes sense. These songs, like this land, are ours for a time, and
there
comes a time we should pass them on to the community.
The Creative Commons story has many altruistic and pragmatic
readings. Jim's story above adds one of the former. In the same
thread Lucas Gonze adds an insightful
rendition of the latter:
My own perspective on CC is that it doesn't matter whether licenses
declare that files are redistributable or anything else in particular.
What matters is that there is legal metadata.
A big part of the current impasse is caused by the need to automate
clearances. We need to be able to write programs which look up
rights, or at the least have a computer assisted method for looking
them up by hand.
About the plains, conservationism and altruism, I personally don't
see open media (or code) that way. Making your media more open gives
you certain practical benefits, and if it isn't the selfish thing to
do then you shouldn't do it.
Either, or, neither? Make up your own story. Keep those ideas
around for the next contest. (None planned at the moment!)
Text by Jim Griffin and Lucas Gonze above copied from
pho-list postings with permission.
Somebody please tell Bjork about
Creative Commons
Somebody please tell Bjork about
Creative Commons
08/27/2004 02:01 PMHere's
why. Another reason: she's cool. It's ok to give her our phone
number. Thanks.
(Via Xeni @ BoingBoing.)
Creative Commons in Europe
Creative Commons in Europe
02/11/2004 07:13 PMNeeru Paharia, our assistant director, will be in Holland over the
next few days to attend the Third Zwolle
Conference, entitled "Optimal management of copyright: Making it
happen," on February 13 and 14. Neeru will also be checking in with
friends of CC in Holland.
Meanwhile, iCommons coordinator Christiane Asschenfeldt will be
visiting Switzerland over the next couple of days to speak about
Creative Commons at the CERN Workshop
Series on Innovation in Scholarly Communication.
If you're at either event or nearby and would like to meet up with
Neeru or Christiane, let us
know.
Wyman on DRM and Creative Commons
Wyman on DRM and Creative Commons
03/25/2005 03:47 PMFrom the Atom Working Group mailing list, some
remarks from Bob Wyman that are
both educational and sobering on what Creative Commons licenses do and
don’t do; and yet more gloom and doom about the whole DRM
train-wreck.
Apache Jakarta Commons
Apache Jakarta Commons
06/05/2005 11:56 PM"Blair hit during Commons protest"
"Blair hit during Commons protest"
05/20/2004 11:30 AMGrok Description matches for The Information Commons
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