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articles · Sharing on the Social Web
14/4/2008 17:59 · 29 votes · 3 comments
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...
articles · The tragedy of the Commons in the developing world
21/2/2008 17:38 · 37 votes · 1 comment
When we come together on this site to celebrate our creativity we perhaps tend to take advantage of certain other everyday necessities that are more commonplace, and yet also included in this thing we call the "Commons". One of these things is electricity. Another is our connection to the Internet. For the most part these two utilities enable much of the sharing we do online and...
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articles · Changing mindsets in the music industry
9/5/2008 07:06 · no comments
There is a constant tension between activists who agitate for a relaxation of copyright and a reduction (or even elimination) of copyright terms in the interests of open access to knowledge as well as cultural and artistic expression and the music industry, broadly speaking, which has a vested interest in controlling the content it holds rights to with a view to exploiting that...
articles · Baby steps
12/7/2007 04:41 · 4 comments
It frustrates me to no end that in this age of the iPod and a number of other portable audio devices that it is still technically illegal for a person who buys a CD to rip that music to his computer and then transfer that music to his iPod (or other portable device) to listen to the music on the go. I'm not talking about a person who distributes that music to half a million of...
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articles · Public Broadcasters Opt for CC
by Michelle Thorne · voted on 25/1/2008 01:32 · 49 votes · 2 comments
Public broadcasters often ask themselves: how do we better enable tax payers to access the works that they have paid for? This was the question that the BBC, the public broadcaster for the United Kingdom, addressed in 2004 during the debate over its charter renewal. The result of their deliberations was a year-long pilot, the Creative Archive Licensing Group project, launched in...
articles · Wikipedia: of the people, by the people and for the people
by Sir Nicholas de Mimsy-Porpington · voted on 21/1/2008 03:21 · 36 votes · 3 comments
“Wikipedia is a contract… between those who are living, those who are dead, and those who are to be born.“
Information, knowledge, and culture are central to human freedom and development. The dynamism of the Internet as a medium, and the radical changes that it has undergone in the past few years bear testimony to the significance of these elements in the life of individuals,...
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articles · Sharing on the Social Web
by Paul Jacobson · commented on 15/5/2008 17:51 · 29 votes · 3 comments
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...
articles · Public Broadcasters Opt for CC
by Michelle Thorne · commented on 25/1/2008 01:32 · 49 votes · 2 comments
Public broadcasters often ask themselves: how do we better enable tax payers to access the works that they have paid for? This was the question that the BBC, the public broadcaster for the United Kingdom, addressed in 2004 during the debate over its charter renewal. The result of their deliberations was a year-long pilot, the Creative Archive Licensing Group project, launched in...
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