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Colombian ruling on copyright: Without profit there is no criminal offence
In a landmark ruling, the Supreme Court of Colombia, the highest criminal judicial tribunal and Cassation Court (deals with the Cassation procedures also known in other juridical traditions as right of appeal on points of law), determined that in order to establish a criminal violation of copyright, it is necessary to find if the criminal conduct is for profit-making, if it causes... [more]
The Hague Declaration calls for global commitment to open standards
The founders of the Digital Standards Organization recently convened in The Hague to develop a declaration that calls on governments to further the Universal Declaration of Human Rights with a commitment to the adoption of open standards.The declaration calls for a consideration of "a society in which full and effective participation in government and society, and access to... [more]
Sharing on the Social Web
The Social Web (aka Web 2.0) is about three things: listening, conversing and sharing. Of the three, sharing is perhaps the most relevant in the context of the Commons in part because it is about sharing content, something that is almost taken for granted these days. Anyone who is active on the Social Web is familiar with a myriad content sharing sites ranging from Flickr (photo... [more]
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The iSummit 2008 in Sapporo: presentation by CC Japan (pdf format)
Daniela Faris · text (PDF) · Feb 08th, 2008 · 17 votesAt the iSummit 2008 planning workshop held in Johannesburg on 17 and 18 January, Yuko Noguchi presented 'The iSummit 2008 in Sapporo', which outlined the... [more]
The African Digital Commons - A Participant's Guide
JC · Jan 14th, 2008 · 14 votesDownload the guide below:
FRENCH, .doc
FRENCH, .PDF
ENGLISH, .doc
ENGLISH, .PDF
One of the goals of the Commons-sense Project is to conduct research... [more]
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EURAM Conference 2008, Call for paper - CREATING VALUE THROUGH DIGITAL COMMONS
Ljubljana (Slovenia) · May 15th to May 17th · no comments madeCALL FOR PAPER
TRACK WITHIN THE EURAM Conference 2008
CREATING VALUE THROUGH DIGITAL COMMONS.
How collective management of IPRs, open innovation models,... [more]
Access to Knowledge Conference (A2K3), Geneva 8 -10 Sept 2008
Switzerland · Sep 08th to Sep 10th · no comments madePlease save the date for the third annual Access to Knowledge Conference
(A2K3) on September 8-10, 2008.
In a departure from precedent, please note... [more]
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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]
Preserving audiovisual cultural heritage
Amsterdam (Netherlands)1) Collaboratively develop a list (or paper) of best and worst practices
2) Collaboratively draft a strategy for involving online communities in digitization projects [more]
In this iCommons podcast episode we'll answer all your questions about the Summit, ranging from the programme, to accommodation to volunteering.
