http://www.icommons.org/ 2012-5-16T15:19:54Z http://www.icommons.org/images/i_commons_01.gif http://www.icommons.org/ As part of the celebrations around Heritage Day in September 2007, iCommons has just launched a project called iHeritage. The aim is simple – to build an online repository of South African culture and heritage – as lived in the day-to-day lives of ordinary South Africans, to be added to the growing collection of indigenous content on Wikimedia Commons.<br /> <br /> Find out more about the... http://www.icommons.org/calendar/iheritage 2007-9-21T16:11:54Z With the increased use of digital technologies for the creation and distribution of artistic works, writers, composers, musicians and artists interested in distributing their work to a wider audience are being presented with new challenges. How do you effectively promote your work on the one hand whilst still protecting it and maintaining revenue streams? Is there scope for traditional... http://www.icommons.org/calendar/copyleft-or-copyright-alternative-licensing-models-in-the-digital-era 2008-9-12T15:40:52Z This seminar is intended for practitioners from the public and private sectors involved in negotiating intellectual property agreements. The course covers intellectual property enforcement in the United States, and describes methods of avoiding intellectual property right challenges, as well as discussing the international IP agreements to which the United States is a party. <br /> <br /> More... http://www.icommons.org/calendar/dealing-with-intellectual-property-challenges-in-the-united-states-seminar 2008-9-12T15:40:49Z From the invitation letter by the Under-Secretary-General, Sha Zukang:<br /> <br /> "Following broad-based consultations through the Multi-stakeholder Advisory Group (MAG), the proposed agenda for the Third Meeting of the IGF will be as follows:<br /> <br /> * Reaching the next billion&#059;<br /> * Promoting cyber-security and trust&#059;<br /> * Managing critical Internet resources&#059;<br /> *... http://www.icommons.org/calendar/the-internet-governance-forum-2008 2008-9-10T19:37:22Z FSCONS 2008 is the first among many Free Society conferences that bridges the gap between free software and cultural freedom. Co-arranged by Free Software Foundation Europe, Creative Commons and Wikimedia Sverige, FSCONS 2008 is already a landmark event in bringing the different movements working for digital freedom together. <br /> <br /> Register here. <br /> http://www.icommons.org/calendar/free-society-conference-and-nordic-summit-2008 2008-9-09T16:43:27Z Libre Accès: Free access, freedom is access<br /> <br /> <br /> Organized by Bellinux, Dogmazic, Lonah and Ralamax Prod, organizations promoting free creation and free culture, inspired by internet and free software.<br /> With participation and support of Copyleft Attitude, Parinux, Macaq, T.R.A.C.E.S., In Libro Veritas, Framasoft, Venividilibri & le Ministère de la Crise du Logement, ...<br /> <br /> <br /> Since... http://www.icommons.org/calendar/libre-acces-free-culture-event 2008-5-28T16:02:15Z NewMusicSA is proud to present their 2nd Unyazi festival, Fear of the Known, a festival of “extreme listening.” <br /> <br /> Curated by James Webb, co-produced by Pro Helvetia Cape Town and the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation, and supported by the Goethe Institute, Institut Français d'Afrique du Sud, the Embassy of France, the Danish Arts Council, the Embassy of the Kingdom... http://www.icommons.org/calendar/an-invitation-to-unyazi-2-fear-of-the-known-1 2008-3-10T16:31:28Z “Open Culture in CC” is the theme of the first CC Korea International Conference, a day-long event to be held on Friday, March 14th.<br /> <br /> The CC Korea team, lead by Chief Project Lead Jongsoo Yoon, have organized the conference not only to celebrate the 3rd birthday of CC Korea and its localized CC licenses, but as a platform to promote Open Culture in Korea, both qualitatively and... http://www.icommons.org/calendar/1st-cc-korea-international-conference 2008-3-03T16:27:06Z CALL FOR PAPER<br /> TRACK WITHIN THE EURAM Conference 2008<br /> CREATING VALUE THROUGH DIGITAL COMMONS.<br /> How collective management of IPRs, open innovation models, and digital <br /> communities shape the industrial dynamics in the XXI century.<br /> <br /> <br /> TRACK CHAIRS:<br /> Cristina Rossi, Politecnico di Milano, cristina1.rossi@polimi.it<br /> Lorenzo Benussi, University of Turin, lorenzo.benussi@unito.it<br /> Jean... http://www.icommons.org/calendar/euram-conference-2008-call-for-paper-creating-value-through-digital-commons 2008-2-22T19:35:29Z The Free Knowledge, Free Technology Conference (FKFT) is the first<br /> international event which will centre on the production and sharing of<br /> educational and training materials in the field of Free Software and<br /> Open Standards.<br /> <br /> Free Software, as opposed to proprietary software, can<br /> be copied, studied, modified and redistributed without restrictions.<br /> Moreover, open standards,... http://www.icommons.org/calendar/free-knowledge-free-technology-conference-2008-1 2008-2-21T22:25:11Z "Asia and Commons in the Information Age (ACIA) is a self-sponsored workshop organised by people interested in the commons in the Asia Pacific region. These people, for example, are from the Creative Commons jurisdiction project teams, are engaged in commons-based projects, or are academics doing research on Asia and/or the commons."<br /> <br /> Above information from the ACIA website. <br /> <br /> Registration... http://www.icommons.org/calendar/acia-asia-and-commons-in-the-information-age 2008-1-14T16:08:37Z COMMUNIA organizes it's first workshop on Technology and the Public Domain in Torino (Italy), on 18 January 2008.<br /> <br /> Digital technologies have enabled new ways to appropriate public goods as well as emerging and innovative methods to create, share and use them. Therefore, it is no surprise that technology occupies a prominent role in the international debate about the "digital commons".... http://www.icommons.org/calendar/communia-workshop-technology-and-the-public-domain 2007-12-17T21:56:40Z A birthday party for Creative Commons for all of the friends, users, developers, and soon-to-be friends of Creative Commons - a continuous birthday celebration and synchronization to light up the blogosphere, explore CC-licensed content, and to meet up with friends.<br /> <br /> If you're not able to make it one of these global birthday bashes, then don't fret. You can still:<br /> <br /> * catch... http://www.icommons.org/calendar/cc5-birthday-parties-around-the-globe 2007-12-10T05:38:06Z Join CCau staff & friends of Creative Commons a for champagne, snags & soy at the Australian celebrations of the CC 5th birthday at the Birthday BBQ Bash. <br /> <br /> We're tag-teaming with Berlin's party on the 14th to keep the CC celebrations going all weekend. http://www.icommons.org/calendar/ccau-birthday-bbq-bash 2007-12-09T07:56:59Z Bloodspell: The rise of machinima<br /> Viewing and panel<br /> <br /> Bloodspell is the world's first feature-length machinima, and it is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.5 License. Bloodspell "is a story of a world where men and women carry magic in their blood, and spilling it can unleash terrible power."<br /> <br /> This event is organised by the London Metropolitan... http://www.icommons.org/calendar/bloodspell-and-the-raise-of-machinima 2007-11-05T16:53:14Z This is a day to celebrate how the Internet affects our lives. It's about gathering together a global constituency who really care about how the Internet will develop in the future. As stated on the OneWebDay site: " The essence of OneWebDay is to create a global constituency that thinks of itself as responsible for the future of the internet, so that when negative things happen... http://www.icommons.org/calendar/onewebday 2007-8-27T10:06:29Z This event brings together bloggers inside and outside Cambodia who blog about issues relating to Cambodia. Panels and speakers take on topics like blogging for non-profits, social software and education, wiki based collaboration, photoblogging and podcasting etc. http://www.icommons.org/calendar/cambodia-bloggers-summit 2007-8-27T10:06:26Z This event is being held to commemorate Women's Day on 8 August, a South African national holiday. The Women in Arts Festival will feature music, art, dance, poetry, gender debates, theatre, craft, social events and much more!<br /> <br /> View this video clip by The Times multimedia crew, for a sneak preview: http://multimedia.thetimes.co.za/view_video.php?viewkey=b8d27a1d8f8c7b78b433 http://www.icommons.org/calendar/women-in-arts-festival 2007-7-30T20:14:31Z CC Serbia will be hosting the first CC Salon in Belgrade on March 7th - 10th. The program features many fantastic local projects, including CCBit, the first Creative Commons-licensed music CD compilation in Serbia, and Freedom Toaster, a device/interface for individual file-sharing in public spaces. The CC Salon Belgrade also welcomes guest speakers from Brazil, Sweden, and Croatia... http://www.icommons.org/calendar/cc-salon-belgrade-festival-of-free-culture 2008-3-06T21:46:12Z Software Freedom Day is a global, grassroots effort to educate the public about the importance of software freedom and the virtues and availability of Free and Open Source Software. Local teams from all over the world organise events on the third Saturday in September. http://www.icommons.org/calendar/software-freedom-day-2007 2007-9-14T17:31:26Z txtBusca http://www.icommons.org/home/busca.php Search in iCommons.org