http://www.icommons.org/index.php?autor=744 2013-5-18T17:53:07Z http://www.icommons.org/images/i_commons_01.gif http://www.icommons.org/index.php?autor=744 The BISA Copyright Review was a project funded by the Ford Foundation, with the task of outlining the intersection of copyright and public interest in Brazil, India and South Africa, respectively.<br /> <br /> Representatives from three organisations: The African Commons Project in South Africa, The Alternative Law Forum in India, and The Center for Technology and Society (CTS/FGV), part... http://www.icommons.org/culture_database/bisa-copyright-review 2009-6-09T18:55:29Z The South African media has never been particularly techno-savvy. Outside of the handful of specialised, niche publications, technology generally gets short shrift when it comes to column inches. Squashed into a couple of back pages, in-between the business and the sports sections, technology stories usually focus on gadgets, environmental stories and the continuing battles between... http://www.icommons.org/articles/pirates-are-terrorists-who-knew 2007-12-16T07:49:23Z A panel that contains both Bodo Balazs and Lawrence Liang was bound to be lively. They did not disappoint in the closing plenary of the iCommons. Both had a similar message – that the 'pirates' are harbingers of future trends in the face of market inefficiencies and failures. Balazs made a compelling case in a historical survey of repeated resistance to monopolistic tendencies in... http://www.icommons.org/articles/global-ecosystems-piracy-and-inequality 2007-6-23T04:23:36Z One of the many fantastic things about the social media (r)evolution is that it makes it so easy to upload and share videos, photos and our typed thoughts. We can connect to people anywhere in the world where there is an Internet connection and we can begin to create a media rich archive of our lives and our culture. In other words, social media makes it possible to capture our... http://www.icommons.org/articles/socially-responsible-media 2007-9-03T16:11:39Z This week the Colombian blogosphere has been both revolutionised and united due to the misuse by El Pais (a newspaper from Cali) when they took a photo from Flickr. The photo is in Mariacecita´s Flickr gallery licensed under a Creative Commons (Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 2.0 licence) and was included in one of the newspaper´s journals. The original photo was edited... http://www.icommons.org/articles/using-flickr-photos-in-the-traditional-media 2007-12-16T05:58:35Z A 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 role of good communications before, during and after disasters.<br /> <br /> Titled 'Communicating Disasters: An Asia Pacific Resource Book', the multi-author book discusses how information, education and communication can help create disaster... http://www.icommons.org/culture_database/communicating-disasters-building-on-the-tsunami-experience-1 2008-2-24T22:16:50Z Free Culture and Free Speech: Why strong and vibrant free culture communities are important for freedom of expression<br /> <br /> In the democracies of today freedom of expression is often taken for granted when it is particularly fragile. It is a right that needs to be continually exercised, because if it isn't, the space that society provides for it shrinks until the next time someone... http://www.icommons.org/culture_database/rebecca-mackinnon-isummit-08-keynote-address 2008-9-15T17:49:14Z Open content, according to the largest open content project Wikipedia, describes "any kind of creative work published in a format that explicitly allows copying and modifying," by anyone and not just by a single organization or individual. With the explosive growth in open content over recent years, organizations such as Creative Commons have invested a great deal of energy in "cultivating... http://www.icommons.org/articles/translating-the-commons-negotiating-openness-and-difference 2008-7-26T02:32:46Z a simple argument:<br /> <br /> - you need a community to build a web site<br /> - but a hidden cost of CC licensing is community dispersion<br /> - solutions<br /> <br /> ===<br /> <br /> The condition of modernity is to find one’s identity in the communities we choose to belong to<br /> <br /> Hannah Arendt<br /> <br /> making sense<br /> making cents<br /> <br /> =====<br /> <br /> the crisis of credibility<br /> <br /> - from globalisation - “(We must not) underestimate... http://www.icommons.org/culture_database/tony-curzon-price-presentation-to-2007-isummit-business-models-stream 2007-6-20T20:08:13Z It's Story Time at iCommons<br /> <br /> This month, we're telling stories. At a recent organisational planning meeting, the iCommons staffers told each other stories - about how we came to work at iCommons, what we're doing, and what our hopes and plans are for the future. Our new iCommons fellow Anna Berthold even Skyped in from LA for the session. This is your chance to hear what really... http://www.icommons.org/articles/the-icommons-podcast-june-2008 2008-6-13T20:54:37Z Social networking, blogging, tagging, recommender systems, and other collaborative technologies have changed the face of the Internet, and life as we know it. For sociologists, anthropologists, and even physicists and mathematicians, such services have provided a constant stream of data and information about the lives of millions of people. Like anyone who has observed a visualised... http://www.icommons.org/articles/open-visualisation-in-a-deluge-of-data 2008-6-13T20:54:44Z This article is an introduction to the BISA Copyright Review project, a comparative project being run by FGV, The Alternative Law Forum and iCommons.<br /> <br /> An Introduction<br /> By Lawrence Liang<br /> <br /> Any study that attempts to investigate three of the most important countries from Asia, Latin America and Africa has a rather heavy representational burden placed on it. Before embarking on... http://www.icommons.org/articles/comparative-study-of-copyright-in-brazil-india-and-south-africa 2008-6-13T20:54:26Z How many web search engines actually allow to filter for Creative Commons-licensed materials? How many websites allow you to search for CC-licensed images only? How about videos and audio materials? I did a quick survey of a number of (English-language) websites.<br /> <br /> <br /> CC licenses and their accompanying symbols basically announce that a text/image/video/audio material is in the public... http://www.icommons.org/articles/web-search-cc-licenses 2008-6-09T16:27:17Z In early May 2008 the Delhi High Court, through an opinion authored by Justice Sanjay Kishan Kaul, issued a decision in a case involving a nude painting by the renowned artist Maqbool Fidaq Husain (best known as MF Husain). Born in 1915 to a Muslim family in the state of Maharashtra, MF Husain is a highly acclaimed artist who many consider to be the father of modern Indian art and... http://www.icommons.org/articles/freedom-of-expression-in-mother-india-part-1-the-work-of-mf-husain 2008-6-04T16:38:21Z A group called Public Resource is protesting the actions of American Smithsonian Institute, which at the site SmithsonianImages.SI.Edu asserts copyright to over 6000 historical photographs, many of which are in the public domain according to the activists.<br /> <br /> The group has downloaded low quality scans available for free (high quality versions have to be bought from the Smithsonian)... http://www.icommons.org/articles/freeing-the-public-domain-by-cc-licensing 2007-6-01T09:15:11Z 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... http://www.icommons.org/articles/colombian-ruling-on-copyright-without-profit-there-is-no-criminal-offence 2008-5-15T17:24:58Z Cory Doctrow, discussing strategies for activism, recounted that some of his best allies in the copyfight included such diverse figures as the distinguished “400-year old immortal vampire senators” and the Society for Biblical Literature.<br /> <br /> The discussion, part of a larger panel on “A Culture Enviromentalist Movement And Beyond,” moderated by John Wilbanks of Science Commons, featured... http://www.icommons.org/articles/cory-doctrow-recounts-alliance-with-immortals 2007-6-16T23:14:48Z This is the story of the tropical reinvention of "Captain Copyright", a cartoon superhero who was supposed to devoted his life to teaching children the virtues of copyright. Captain Copyright was the brainchild<br /> of Access Copyright, a Canadian collecting society, and the campaign appeared at the end of 2006, "Captain Copyright" was usually portrayed flying in at the scene of a "crime"... http://www.icommons.org/articles/captain-copyright-reappears-in-colombia 2008-4-01T00:33:40Z This has typically been the ending question for any Creative Commons-related conversation in the Middle East that I have been involved in. While drawing on others' experiences and telling success stories from other parts of the world would seem a very appealing answer, there is always the “but here, it does not work like that” aspect of the argument. Well, today I think we have... http://www.icommons.org/articles/why-do-i-need-to-cc 2008-3-17T23:48:47Z txtBusca http://www.icommons.org/home/busca.php Search in iCommons.org