articles
subscribe to articles feed
Olympic Ideals & Trademark Practice
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... [more]
A (very) brief history of Copyright Development in India
Modern copyright law developed in India gradually, in what we may identify roughly as three distinct phases spanning more than 150 years. 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. Phase I: East India Company Statute
Copyright... [more]
Scholars, Looters and Stewardship of the Past
At a brunch gathering I attended recently, a guest casually mentioned that they were reading a book about Heinrich Schliemann, the German excavator at Troy, who removed archaeological treasures from Turkey in the late 19th century. There were nods and chuckles as people recalled the (probably fictitious) story of Schliemann “saving” what he named “Priam’s Treasure” by whisking the... [more]
resources
subscribe to resources feed
Communicating Disasters: Building on the Tsunami Experience...
fredericknoronha · text (PDF) · Feb 24th, 2008 · 21 votesA new Asian book published this month takes a critical look at the communication lessons of the Indian Ocean tsunami of December 2004, and explores the... [more]
David Bollier: iSummit '08 keynote address
Daniela Faris · video (MPEG) · Sep 12th, 2008 · 21 votesSocial Movements on the Commons
The Commons is one of many social movements active in the world today. Many of them share characteristics with the Commons,... [more]
calendar
subscribe to calendar feed
Dealing with Intellectual Property Challenges in the United States - seminar
Washington (United States) · Dec 01st to Dec 05th · no comments madeThis seminar is intended for practitioners from the public and private sectors involved in negotiating intellectual property agreements. The course covers... [more]
The Internet Governance Forum 2008
Hyderabad (India) · Dec 03rd to Dec 06th · no comments madeFrom the invitation letter by the Under-Secretary-General, Sha Zukang:
"Following broad-based consultations through the Multi-stakeholder Advisory Group... [more]
nodes
subscribe to nodes feed
The Public Voice &OECD Ministerial Meeting on the Future of the Internet Economy
InternationalEngage the community in the public policy discussion of the OECD Ministerial Meeting on the Future of the Internet Economy & other OECD related meetings.
[more]
Stories Stones and Stations,Future Generations,Stories Of The Railway,
York (Canada)Using GPS technology these Stories Stones and Stations can be accessed using Google maps and yahoo geocities .
Adding universal templates to locate time and place content. [more]
In this iCommons podcast episode the staff talk about how they came to work at iCommons, what they have achieved so far, and what their vision is for the future is.
