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Creative Commons licensing is the smart way to distribute local or national news content when the goal is maximum impact and outreach. 
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Aaron Swartz was one of the pioneers in the struggle to tear down that wall in academia. And the job he did so much to help start is now nearing completion.
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The SocialCapital plugin is a key piece for the promotion of GNU social as an operating system for cities.
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Patterns of Commoning is arguably the most accessible and broad-ranging survey of contemporary commons in print.
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The idea of POC21 is to invent inexpensive, modular household devices, farm tools and energy systems that can be replicated cheaply and shared by anyone.
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What would it look like if commoners could invent their own types of law, consistent with state law, to reliably protect their commons?
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Over the past fifteen or twenty years, the monoculture narrative of IP has been attacked by a variety of cultures and users of digital technologies.
jean lievens's insight:
This entry was posted on Wednesday, May 13th, 2015 at 12:00 pm and is filed under Commons, Commons Transition, Copyright/IP, Featured Book, Original Content, P2P Books, Sharing. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackbackfrom your own site.
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“It’s not a new idea. People have been adapting and building on each other’s work for centuries. Musicians sample beats from each other’s music. Artists create entirely new works from other people’s images. Teachers borrow each other’s activities and lesson plans. Scientists build off of each other’s results to make new discoveries.
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Our friend Nadia EL-Imam , from Edgeryders has alerted us to this important campaign. Please read the article below and add your signature to the petition.
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In the decade and a half since Napster first emerged, forever changing the face of digital culture, the claim that “internet pirates killed the music industry” has become so ubiquitous that it is treated as common knowledge. Piracy is a scourge on legitimate businesses and hard-working artists, we are told, a “cybercrime” similar to identity fraud or even terrorism.
RACHEL BETTS's curator insight,
August 13, 2014 12:16 AM
Piracy: Copyright laws are not on your side. This is not a rebirth of Napster and the law is coming to get you! 
JustTheBeginning's curator insight,
February 9, 2016 9:54 PM
A great thing I could take away from this book has to be the way it throughly describes how ruthless the industry is becoming. The effort people are going to breakaway these restrictions ins't something that should just be overlooked no more how minor the issue seems to us as people who just inherently choice to abide the laws which are broken these are a big concern to us in a way as well.
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3Scale Founder Steven Willmott and API Evangelist Kin Lane have launched a non-commercial service today called API Commons, a mechanism for the copyright-free sharing and collaborative design of API specifications, interfaces and data models.
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Blockchain based distributed applications, Commons based licenses, network effects and antitrust legislation and much more in this David Bollier interview.
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This is an article in the amazing Pirate Book! Marie Lechner explains: “Liang claims that piracy makes cultural products otherwise inaccessible to most of the population available to the greatest number of users, but also offers the possibility of an “infrastructure for cultural production.” The case of the parallel film industry based in Malegaon is …
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Creative Commons allows people to grant others freedom, but with very specific and often mutually exclusive conditions. And that’s only sort of freedom.
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A summary from the Commons Strategies Group recent event in Berlin featuring videos with David Bollier, Michel Bauwens and Silke Helfrich
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Le Temps des Communes, surely the largest festival of the commons ever, is about to get underway!
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In the still-ongoing debate over sharing it's paramount to realize that sharing and copying was always the natural state, and that restricting of copying is an arbitrary restriction of property rights.
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The goal of seed sharing is to preserve and promote genetic diversity by having people grow tons of different plants all over the place.
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Work on developing Commons Based Reciprocity Licenses (or CBRLs, for short) continues apace here at the P2P Foundation. When speaking of the types of licenses, we often find it hard to explain how they fill a niche in the alt. license spectrum, falling somewhere between the straight up copyleft and the popular Creative Commons Non-Commercial License.
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“Over the past few years The Pirate Bay has had to deal with its fair share of censorship, mostly through court-ordered blockades.
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It's always heartening to come across new ideas for ways to make creations more widely available to the public while allowing artists to benefit. Here's one from the German film director Fred Breinersdorfer, probably best known for his film "Sophie Scholl". In an article that appeared recently on the newspaper site Süddeutsche.de (original in German), he complains about the fact that searching online for his film throws up plenty of unauthorized versions, but precious few authorized ones.
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