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South African Copyright - A Brief History
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Introduction
South Africa, like many other developing countries, inherited its intellectual property system from its colonial rulers, namely Great Britain and Holland. It is difficult to know what forms of “ownership” of ideas and knowledge existed in South African before the arrival of European settlers because little of these systems was recorded, and the copyright systems that... [ read ]
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A (very) brief history of Copyright Development in India
Prashant (India) · Oct 08th, 2008 11:47 pm · 20 votes · no comments made
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Modern copyright law developed in India gradually, in what we may identify roughly as three distinct phases spanning more than 150 years (1). This article attempts to briefly navigate through the major changes brought in by each successive wave of copyright amendment which have cumulatively resulted in the way Indian Copyright law stands today.(2)
Phase I: East India Company... [ read ]
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Olympic Ideals & Trademark Practice
Francis Deblauwe, Saratoga, CA (United States) · Oct 06th, 2008 2:15 am · 27 votes · 1 comment
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The International Olympic Committee (IOC) organizes the Summer and Winter Olympic Games. That also entails promoting the Olympic ideals of international co-operation and the like. Lately, these competitions have become gigantic in scale and expense. While there were only 241 participants (14 countries) in the first Olympics in Athens (1896), the Beijing Summer Olympics had 10,500... [ read ]
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Open Source vs. Copyright vs. Creative Commons vs. Open Access vs. Copyleft
Francis Deblauwe, Saratoga, CA (United States) · Aug 21st, 2008 9:55 pm · 36 votes · 2 comments
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The free Google Trends tool offers many possibilities. Let's compare the related concepts that concern us all at iCommons. What do we see when facing off "open source," "copyright," "Creative Commons," "open access" and "copyleft"? Googlers go for "open source" followed by "copyright." The remaining three concepts are relatively unknown. In other words, the Open Access movement... [ read ]
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Whipping your Community into Shape
dean (United States) · Jun 17th, 2007 2:17 am · 30 votes · 1 comment
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Here's a familiar scenario: you have an amazing idea, a core of eager participants (from all over the place), and some ideas for a collaborative web space. The Community Building panel discussed how to take the aforementioned ingredients and shape them into a salient community.
SJ Klein, who has experience developing communities for both Wikipedia and One Laptop Per Child (OLPC),... [ read ]
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The Asian Privateer
alli.fish, Tucson/Irvine/Bangalore (India) (United States) · Sep 14th, 2007 4:26 pm · 20 votes · 1 comment
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As Prashant notes in this month’s article for the Local Contexts, Global Commons node, Lawrence Lessig, the prolific scholar-champion of the commons and supporter of the capitalist order, distinguishes between two types of piracy. Simplistically speaking this division constructs a beneficial piracy (taking) that operates in contrast to a negative piracy (Piracy I). On the one hand,... [ read ]
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Commons 2.0
Paul Jacobson, Johannesburg Gauteng (South Africa) · Nov 20th, 2007 12:24 am · 42 votes · 3 comments
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When I think about the concept of the “Commons”, I think about a marketplace of ideas and content being exchanged by willing (and often passionate) participants. The emphasis is on collaboration and the use of shared resources. There are sometimes rainbows and tie-dye involved in my daydreams of the Commons. It is all very Woodstock and conducive to a culture of true sharing and... [ read ]
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iCommons needs you!
Heather Ford, Johannesburg (South Africa) · Apr 25th, 2007 12:02 pm · 22 votes · no comments made
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Calling all companies to support the upcoming iCommons Summit in Dubrovnik! Take a look at the sponsorship packages for this year's event and help us raise the $93,000 we still need to run our Summit.
We're looking for companies or foundations or communities who may be interested in either being general sponsors (platinum, gold, silver or bronze) or funding individual elements... [ read ]
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Joining the Dots: Introducing the iCommons iCurriculum
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iCommons, an organisation created to help coordinate and support global efforts to share educational content on the Internet, is launching an online project to try to learn what makes such efforts succeed. The new project, called iCommons iCurriculum, is intended to support a growing movement to share educational content on the Internet. Open education goes beyond posting textbooks... [ read ]
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Schmatler and Waldhead's last laugh
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Applying open source collaboration models to other creative endeavours
As we sit down to pen this final article in our series on “why people share their creative works” we can't help but get misty-eyed while we look back on our achievements over the past months (although this could also be due to the squinting caused by a new pair of bifocals Schmatler recently purchased). In... [ read ]
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A key change at iCommons
If you're not part of the iCommons mailing list, take a look at the letter that Heather Ford, Executive Director of iCommons, sent to the list yesterday:
Dear friends,
At the 2 August iCommons Board Meeting, the board decided to make some difficult but necessary changes at iCommons. It has become clear over the past months that our vision for iCommons is different from the... more
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